[AlAhram] Those evacuated will be screened both in Afghanistan and upon arrival in Denmark where they will undergo `a security interview with the immigration authorities and other relevant Danish authorities'.
Danish politicians have agreed to evacuate 45 Afghan citizens who worked for Denmark's government in Afghanistan and to offer them residency in the European country for two years.
What happens after that?
The plan approved Wednesday applies to people who worked at the Danish Embassy in Kabul and as interpreters for Danish troops. Demark, like other Western nations including the U.S., recently pulled its remaining troops out of Afghanistan. Denmark opened its embassy in Kabul in 2006.
Current and former embassy employees from within the past two years are eligible for evacuation along with their spouses and children. The effort to get them out of Afghanistan must begin as soon as possible but be carried out gradually 'so that the embassy still can function,'' according to a foreign ministry statement.
News breaking: A reliable source says that tonight, in a telephone conversation with Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, the US Secretary of State & Secretary of Defense asked him to resign in order to allow a ceasefire & the formation of a transitional government. #Afghanistan@indypersian
[RUDAW.NET] A Taliban ...Arabic for students... spokesperson told Rudaw on Thursday that their rule in Afghanistan will not be violent mostly peaceful, adding that they will treat women as per the Islamic law.
When asked about the videos circulated on social media, purportedly showing Taliban fighters mistreating people, Zabiullah Mujahid told Rudaw’s Shaho Amin late Thursday that, "when someone is in a fight with the enemy, they will be violent mostly peaceful with them."
"However, denial ain't just a river in Egypt... we will not be violent mostly peaceful with our people. Did you know that we have taken control of 13 states within the country in seven days, and we have established our rule in those 13 states. This means that we are not violent mostly peaceful. People want us and they ask us to be with them. Everyone supports us, and we will give them all the rights specified in the Islamic sharia. We are committed to this," he added.
Taliban has made new advances in government-held areas recently.
The Pentagon decided on Thursday to deploy around 3,000 troops to Kabul immediately in order to evacuate the US embassy employees, according to Defense Department front man John Kirby.
Mujahid also talked about the discussions between Taliban and Afghani political parties in Doha, claiming that these parties are not united when it comes to making a deal with Taliban.
"So, we cannot wait for them but take serious steps in order to end war in this country, return security to his country and Afghanis."
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Given what is deemed acceptable by the Taliban. Like cutting off a persons head in the streets for perceived religious offenses.
I would have asked a more pointed question like,
"Like what do you consider Violent".
#9
By the way: Afghanistan has about $9.5 billion in international reserves (cash, gold, dancing girls, that kind of thing). Who gets that loot? I understand Congress spends that much before breakfast, but why give the Taliban a bigger war chest than they already have?
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The people of Afghanistan are going to lose everything they have worked for, says Pashtana Durrani, the executive director of an NGO for girls' education.
#2
Lady It is/was your country... and you and yours have had at least a decade to defend it...
No surprise here after the US and its Allies spent thousands of our countryman's lives and 4.3 Trillion Dollars working with Your Countrymen to give them a Backbone, Army, Air Force, Supplies, Intelligence Organizations and Knowledge to defend you...
#3
what exactly have the Afghan pp worked for? Girls going to school? How about taking back your country so you want be stoned to death for talking to a male who isn't a family member. At some point put up or shut up. You know like say the YPG.
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08/13/2021 10:19 Comments ||
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"And dammit, I got this office and a nice job, and now I'm gonna hafta find another scam to run!"
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#5
I guess the people there should have joined the fight instead of worrying about the calls to prayer.
It would be a shame if the people in other countries missed obvious wake-up calls.
#6
"Lost' more like it. I think we largely accomplished what we needed to by '02. Remaining after they had been severely punished was just stupid.
That said we also told them what they needed to know in terms of our will to victory. A husky appetite for revenge is something they could respect. Or, why isn't the scary Tora Bora mountain complex the new Tora Bora Reservoir. THAT would not require translation.
#Tunisia: President Kais Saied, on Thursday, appointed Samir Abdellaoui as governor of #Bizerte under Presidential Decree No. 103 issued in the Official Gazette and dismissed former governor Mohamed Gouider under decree No. 102, said @TnPresidency. #TAP_Enpic.twitter.com/eBhTZe5UIQ
[GREATERKASHMIR] The Congress Party on Thursday alleged that the party's official Twitter account as well as that of a large number of its leaders and workers have been blocked by the microblogging site.
This comes close on the heels of the blocking of party leader Rahul Gandhi's Twitter account after he shared pictures of the family of the nine-year-old alleged rape and murder victim last week in violation of the law.
Congress social media department head Rohan Gupta said the party's official Twitter account and around 5,000 accounts of its top leaders and workers have been blocked by Twitter.
He alleged that Twitter is acting against Congress leaders under pressure from the government.
"Twitter is clearly acting under government's pressure, as it did not remove the same pictures shared by the Twitter accounts of National Commission for Scheduled Castes for a few days," Gupta said.
The Twitter accounts of AICC general secretaries Randeep Surjewala, K C Venugopal, Ajay Maken, party's whip in Lok Sabha Manickam Tagore, Assam in-charge and former Union minister Jitendra Singh and Mahila Congress president Sushmita Dev have also been locked, the party said.
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All India Christian Council, an alliance of Christian denominations, mission agencies, institutions, federations and Christian lay leaders in India.
[IsraelTimes] Rights group condemns Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, for attacks on Israeli civilian areas during May conflict, confirms some rockets killed Gazooks when falling short in northern section of coastal enclave.
Of the over 4,360 unguided rockets and mortar shells fired toward Israeli population centers between May 10 and 21, approximately 680 failed and fell short in the Gaza Strip, according to the Israel Defense Forces.
Deadly rocket and mortar fire on Israeli towns by Paleostinian terror groups during May’s conflict in Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... constituted war crimes, Human Rights Watch charged Thursday.
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BREAKING: Foreign Minister @yairlapid: I agreed with my Moroccan counterpart Nasser Bourita that we will upgrade our relations to full diplomatic relations and open embassies in Israel and Morocco in two months
[BenarNews] Five years after bombings killed four people and injured more than 30 in tourist hotspots in southern Thailand, authorities have arrested only three of 11 suspects from the insurgency-stricken Deep South in connection with the attacks, and convicted only one, sources told BenarNews.
A lawyer representing the suspects said one of the three men arrested had served his sentence, another was acquitted in May and a third is scheduled to return to court in September.
"[T]he spread of COVID-19 caused postponements beginning last year," Sitthipong Chantawiroj, a lawyer with the Moslem Attorney Center Foundation, told BenarNews on Wednesday.
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[Jpost] The large-scale network was built with the help of North Korea and is much larger than Hamas' 'metro' network in Gaza.
A new report released by the ALMA Center has exposed a large-scale inter-regional tunnel network belonging to Hezbollah, stretching across Lebanon and designed to allow the group to move personnel and weapons.The report, titled “Land of tunnels” was released on Thursday by the center which researches security challenges facing Israel on its northern front.
According to the report authored by Major (res.) Tal Beeri, Hezbollah began its tunnel project after the Second Lebanon War in 2006 with the help of the North Koreans and Iranians and “is much larger than the Hamas ‘metro’ project in the Gaza Strip.”
The network supposedly connects the Beirut area, Hezbollah’s central headquarters, the Beqaa area used by the group as its logistical operational rear base, to Southern Lebanon. According to the report they allow for “hundreds of combatants, fully equipped, to pass stealthily and rapidly underground.”
The tunnels are also large enough for motorcycles, ATVs, and other small vehicles to move through them to allow for troops to maneuver from place to place “for the purpose of reinforcing defense positions or for carrying out an attack in a safe, protected, and invisible manner.”
The cumulative length of the network can be in the hundreds of kilometers and in one area stretches some 45 kilometers, connecting the area of Sidon to the Beqaa.
“According to our findings, it seems that part of the project was conducted in the geographical area of the Jensnaya Wadi’s - the valley between al- Hasania and Wadi el Leymoun - Barti – al-Sfenta (between Sniyeh and Bouslaiya) - Mizra Kafra - south Zhalta. In addition, in the geographical area of al-Tswuan– al -Roummaneh– Jabal Toura (radar) – Louaizeh – Sejoud – Mizra’a al-Zaghrine – al-Aishia – al-Qotrani- al- Sriri - Bracha Jabour - Meidoun - continuing to the western Beqaa,” the report read.
Like Hamas, the tunnels contain underground command and control rooms, weapons and supply depots, field clinics, and specified designated shafts used to fire missiles of all types (rockets, surface-to-surface missiles, anti-tank missiles, and anti-aircraft missiles).
Beeri wrote that the tunnels are also used for artillery attacks, with the shafts opening for a short period of time before being immediately shut. These shafts are hidden and camouflaged and cannot be detected above ground.
The tunnels in Lebanon, which do not cross the border with Israel, are the same as the tunnels in North Korea.
The report stated that Hezbollah’s tunnel network was built with the assistance of a North Korean company called “the Korea Mining Development Trading Corporation,” a company that specializes in the development of underground infrastructure. The actual construction of the tunnels was done by Hezbollah’s Jihad Construction Foundation.
In 2018 the IDF launched Operation Northern Shield to discover and destroy all cross-border tunnels dug by Hezbollah into northern Israel. Though the military said that it has found and destroyed six such tunnels.
The destruction of their cross-border tunnels was a significant hit to the group, and according to the IDF, they haven’t tried to rebuild them since.
#1
It's hard to imagine such construction going on without notice. The tailings must go somewhere. Since the IDF is releasing such findings they are likely sending a message.
#2
The IDF sees you when you’re sleeping
They know when you’re awake
They know if you’ve been bad or good...
Begun in 2006? No doubt depth bomb targets were calculated long since. When the time comes, the secondaries will be glorious and the sinkholes numerous.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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