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U.S. — After the men's national team was dealt a crushing 1-3 loss by the Netherlands, the United States expressed deep relief to no longer have to go on pretending to like soccer.
"Hoo-boy, I didn't think I could keep that up another day," said local man Aaron Bronson. "Thank God for the Dutch!"
After twelve grueling days of trying to get excited about a ball mostly being passed backward, celebrations broke out across America as its World Cup run came to a close. "I know we only have to fake being soccer fans every four years, but it's been a brutal couple of weeks," said local bar owner Greg Jaster. "We scored three goals in SIX HOURS of soccer! And I have it on good authority from a Brazilian buddy of mine that our last goal was actually an accident. I'm trying to be a good patriot and cheer for our team, but come on."
According to people who watch soccer, the U.S. team actually looked better while losing during this World Cup. "The Americans really didn't get outplayed, they just made awful mistakes in all the big moments," said England native Sean O'Houlihan. "They created wide-open shots, and then completely whiffed. They would play excellent defense against the best strikers in the world - but then would totally forget to mark a mediocre player. It's really rather tragic."
At publishing time, no one had understood a word Mr. O'Houlihan had said and switched the channel over to real football.
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Perhaps tht is not the only reason for the increasing calls for an audit?
Grain of salt, it is Nigeria, but still:
"Weapons supplied to Ukraine from Western countries are "starting to flow" into the Lake Chad basin region, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari warned this week."
Last month, Finnish police said that some of the "huge quantities" of weapons being shipped to Ukraine had made their way to Finland, where "three of the world’s largest motorcycle gangs" now operate, including Bandidos MC, which "has a branch in every major city in Ukraine."
In August, an American news outlet unmasked that a shockingly large amount of weaponry heading for Ukraine was untraceable. "Like 30% of it reaches its final destination,"
...the U.S. government’s Bureau of Labor Statistics...
has a single, laser-focused political agenda - not to spoil the political climate at a time when Democrats just lost control of the House as somehow both construction (+20K) and manufacturing (+14K) added jobs according to the BLS, when even ADP now reports that these two sectors combined shed more than 100,000 workers in November.
Alas, there is only so much the Department of Labor can hide under the rug because when looking at the abovementioned gap between the Household and Establishment surveys which we have been pounding the table on since the summer, it just blew out by a whopping 401K as a result of the 263K increase in the number of nonfarm payrolls (tracked by the Household survey) offset by a perplexing plunge in the number of people actually employed which tumbled by 138K (tracked by Household survey). Furthermore, as shown in the next chart, since March the number of employed workers has declined on 4 of the past 8 months, while the much more gamed nonfarm payrolls (goalseeked by the Establishment survey) have been up every single month.
What is even more perplexing, is that despite the continued rise in nonfarm payrolls, the Household survey continues to telegraph growing weakness, and as of Nov 30, the gap that opened in March has since grown to a whopping 2.7 million "workers" which may or may not exist anywhere besides the spreadsheet model of some BLS (or is that BLM) political activist. In fact, one look at the chart below confirms all one needs to know about BLS "data integrity."
I am under the impression that the BLS only tracks employment at large and some medium size companies. Could the difference be explained by an increasing number of small companies, and/or many small companies increasing their employee numbers by a few each, all flying under the official radar?
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6-7 years ago my daughter had a part time job at Panera during college break. There was a young man there who worked 3 different part time jobs with 3 different social security numbers.
The implications of these documents becomes more serious once the Biden campaign became the Biden administration. These documents show a back channel existed with President Biden’s campaign officials, but those same back channels appear to have continued to be used by Biden administration officials. If so, that would be when Twitter may have gone from a campaign ally to a surrogate for state censorship. As I have previously written, the administration cannot censor critics and cannot use agents for that purpose under the First Amendment.
That is precisely what Musk is now alleging. As the documents were being released, he tweeted, "Twitter acting by itself to suppress free speech is not a 1st amendment violation, but acting under orders from the government to suppress free speech, with no judicial review, is."
The incoming Republican House majority has pledged to investigate — and Musk has made that process far easier by making good on his pledge of full transparency.
Washington has fully mobilized in its all-out war against Musk. Yet, with a record number of users signing up with Twitter, it seems clear the public is not buying censorship. They want more, not less, free speech.
That may be why political figures such as Hillary Clinton have enlisted foreign governments to compel the censoring of fellow citizens: If Twitter can’t be counted on to censor, perhaps the European Union will be the ideal surrogate to rid social media of these meddlesome posters.
The release of these documents has produced a level of exposure rarely seen in Washington, where such matters usually are simply "handled." The political and media establishments generally are unstoppable forces — but they may have met their first immovable object in Musk.
Jonathan Turley
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Musk is in real danger now and he may very well be assassinated soon. This is a real challenge to the power of the deep state.
Just imagine if we could see their real documents, the ones that can't be read by a new owner.
[Tablet] All national declines ebb and flow. The street violence and chaos of the summer of 2020 marked the moment the curtain was pulled back, the country’s true psychic state revealed for a single season before the curtain fell once more—President Biden entered office, the pandemic subsided, normalcy seemed to return.
In the two years since that summer, I’ve considered the specific series of events that might trigger our final national fragmentation, often in Tablet, and it now seems clear to me that America’s demise will be inaugurated by what has become our country’s pastime: a contested election. In two years from now, both parties will declare themselves the electoral victor, with neither presidential candidate conceding defeat; state electors will ratify two different presidents, according to their preferred narrative or conspiracy theory; the country will then fracture, legally and institutionally, along red and blue lines.
According to recent polling, more than 50% of Americans expect a new civil war in the "next couple of years." It’s a pathetic scenario more fitting for a semi-authoritarian backwater than the world’s beacon of democracy. National breakup efforts will be coming and, if we’re being honest, they’re behind schedule.
Since 2000, the U.S. has witnessed three contested presidential elections, with one side labeling the results illegitimate. In 2000’s Bush v. Gore, the Supreme Court shut down vote recounts and delivered the election to the son of a former president, a man whose family, at various points, maintained that the 1992 election itself was "stolen" by the querulous Ross Perot and the meddling "liberal media."
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As they continue to win, retain the power of lawful government and escape consequences both political and legal, their boldness increases. The mythic creation of "white supremacist conspiracy" and "sedition" is setting the prerequisite context for the ruthless crackdown once they finally trigger civil unrest by their tyrannical abuse of power. The Covid interregnum and emergency powers neutered reaction for far too long, and now, after two iterations of voter fraud, they have become overtly smug about dynastic, imperial status for the new world order aristocracy they believe they have established.
Today former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, President Obama’s fellow traveler and wingman in the fundamental change process, stated his belief the progressive movement and Biden administration has adequately prepared the nation to “absorb” the political violence that may surface as the result of an arrest of former President Donald Trump.
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...the problem starts when their muscle that go home at night don't show up the next day, then increases across the land. The bureaucracy starts to become overwhelm. It's like the inner city now, they can't get anyone to talk, to point fingers. There's enough protection for the top eaters, but from there on down it become harder and harder to provide the front guys down below with similar protection.
[OneIndia] The US has added four top Islamic turbans operating in Afghanistan and Pakistain to its list of 'global terrorists' but is that enough in current war on Islamist terror?
In a significant development, the United States State department has now added four top Islamic turbans operating in Afghanistan and Pakistain to its list of 'global terrorists'.
Observers say the US announcement follows the decision of the Tehrik-e-Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... Pakistain (TTP) to end its ceasefire with the government in Islamabad and resume targeting the security forces across the country. As such this may help, partially at least, Islamabad in combating a resurgence of TTP-generated violence in Pakistain. The bad boy leaders, designed as "global terrorists" belong to the Pak Taliban and an al-Qaeda branch in South Asia. Both bad boy groups operate from Afghanistan. They have hideouts in Pakistain's mountainous north-west and elsewhere as well.
The State Department's decision, however, offers little hope in terms of fighting the current global war on Islamist terror. One of the root causes of Islamist terror across the world is the Moslem Brüderbund. It has been a key ideological source of terror against the cherished values of modern civilization. By its very nature, it poses a threat to the United States and its values. al-Qaeda and most of the other leading terrorist groups have been connected with it. But the United States is still soft to the Moslem Brüderbund.
Moslem Brüderbund propagandist Bahgat Saber is based in New York City. He calls for jihad both in the United States and abroad. He often streams live videos from Times Square. He incites terrorism against Egypt, Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century... and the United Arab Emirates. In a March 2020 video, he urged his followers to engage in bio-terrorism in the US and Egypt. In another video the same year, he pressed them to search the internet for manuals on how to manufacture explosives.
Ahmed Andel Basit Mohammed, one of Saber's associates in New York, was sentenced to death in Egypt for his role in deadly terrorist attacks there. Basit has admitted his involvement in jihadist riots in Cairo in 2013 that led to the deaths of 210 people and the wounding of 296 others.
Akram Kassab, New York City-based Moslem Brüderbund theologian and member of the Moslem Brüderbund's International Union of Moslem Scholars, delivers sermons at the Moslem American Society Youth Center in Brooklyn. In a fatwa in May 2015, he said that it was a "religious duty, a necessity, and revolutionary dream" to "get rid" of judges and officials who support the Egyptian government. After Kassab's fatwa, Egypt's leading prosecutor Hisham Barakat was assassinated .
Given the lack of appropriate response by its intelligence and security agencies to the activities of such notorious Moslem Brüderbund elements in the very land of the United States, it is immensely clear that Washington is hardly serious about combating Islamist terror.
Jagdish N. Singh is a senior journalist based in New Delhi. He is also Senior Distinguished Fellow at the Gatestone Institute, New York
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Since the 1990s the CIA has fought any attempt to eliminate the Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwan al-Muslimeen) influence in the USA. Throughout that time the Muslim Student Association of the USA was in direct opposition to US Middle East policy. Although complaints were made to it, the FBI basically wanted no role in forming a policy to confront the growing Islamist movement. Thus, 9/11 was absolutely no surprise to analysts who were following Middle East developments.
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...On the one hand, she would have been gorgeous, and she was already one of the most elegant warships afloat (only the USN's Lexington class CVs came close).
On the other hand, mechanically they may not have been able to do much for her no matter what, and the best case is that she would have ended up like blessed Warspite - worn out, partially decommissioned, and with just enough crew to get her underway, handle safely, and fire the guns.
And just thought of this - if she had been in the Med when the Luftwaffe started throwing around the first anti-ship missiles, she would have been in deadly peril.
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It looks cheesy now, but the "Battle of the Denmark Strait" scene in the 1960 movie Sink the Bismarck was incredibly dramatic, at least to my younger self: I didn't know the Hood was going to sink. I was shocked.
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Dr Andrew Huff, the former vice president of EcoHealth Alliance, has claimed that SARS-CoV-2 was genetically engineered and leaked from a facility in China
Huff said he has no proof that the leak was deliberate however does claim in his explosive tell-all book that biosecurity at the Chinese facility was compromised
EcoHealth Alliance had been studying different coronaviruses in bats for more than ten years with funding from the National Institutes of Health
Led by Dr Peter Daszak - there were concerns about the ties between Wuhan and EcoHealth Alliance - there most recent grant came in September 2021
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Why do I get the feeling that as the Chinese plague returns karmically to kill them, they're going to need to blame America for it? And this 'whistleblower' plays right into it?
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There is a particular group of Americans that deserve part of the blame. They have been in government for decades. Accountability would require four dry horse and some chains. A running hose wouldn’t hurt to have as well.
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Davron Abdullayev
[REGNUM] The Doha Agreement emphasized the fight against IS and Al-Qaeda. According to a number of experts, the agreement also included some secret clauses or verbal agreements.
The arrival of the Taliban to power in Afghanistan and the situation that is developing there are very ambiguous processes, and much is still hidden from the general public. Further, one of the aspects of these events will be considered - the actions of the United States in relation to terrorism in Afghanistan in comparison with the approach of Russia and a number of states in the region, developed at the Moscow Consultative Meeting on Afghanistan, held in November of this year. The meeting will be discussed below.
I decided not to mention the appeal of the US Congress, because the Doha Agreement (February 29, 2020) between the US and the Taliban was developed and signed during the Trump presidency.
The fact that the collective West and, above all, the United States has double standards on almost the entire agenda of international politics has long been no secret. The same is true with approaches to the fight against terrorism. A good example is Syria, where terrorists of all stripes were divided into "bloody radicals" and "fighters" against the no less "bloody" regime of Bashar al-Assad.
Now, it seems, the mentioned standards have begun to be applied to Afghanistan, however, in a slightly different version. In Afghanistan, the Americans did not divide terrorists into “good” and “bad”, but simply “forgotten” those who, in their opinion, do not pose a potential threat to the United States itself and, moreover, can be useful to them. Moreover, already in the Doha Agreement of February 29, 2020 between the United States and the Taliban, only the Islamic State and Al-Qaeda were mentioned among the terrorist groups."
The first statements about the “strengthening” of the positions and growth of the potential of the “Islamic State” and Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan were made by the American military, and retired, the current summer. The skirmishers were former heads of US Central Command Kenneth Mackenzie and David Petraeus. The latter also managed to work for a short time as director of the CIA. Further, the baton was picked up by Republican parliamentarians, such as Senator Johnny Ernest and Rep. Mike Waltz. Although the congressmen focused not so much on the growth of terrorist threats as on its cause - the shameful flight from Afghanistan, their statements again featured only ISIS and Al-Qaeda (an organization
WHAT ARE ISIS, AL-QAEDA AND OTHER GROUPS TODAY?
"Al-Qaeda," created in 1988, after the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan, directed the spearhead of the fight against the United States, the countries of the so-called "Western world" and their supporters in Islamic countries. The goal of the organization is to overthrow the secular regimes in these countries and create a "Great Islamic Caliphate."
Experts distinguish five periods in the history of Al-Qaeda: emergence (late 1980s), "wild" period (1990-1996), heyday (1996-2001), periods of existence in the form of a network (2001-2005) and fragmentation (after 2005). A sign of the organization’s decline is the fact that its head, Ayman al-Zawahiri, took an “oath of allegiance” to the leaders of the Taliban - Mullah Akhtar Mansur (2013-2016) and Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada (since 2016) . It is no coincidence that Zawahiri, after the Taliban came to power, took refuge in Kabul.
The "Islamic State" aims to establish a caliphate , similar to the one that existed in the Middle Ages. ISIS seeks to extend its power first to Jordan, Palestine and Lebanon (the countries of the Levant) and, finally, to the entire Islamic world. IS took the creation of the caliphate literally, in contrast to the Muslim Brotherhood" of Egypt and Al-Qaeda, for which the caliphate is either a spiritual idea or a goal for the distant future.
Because of the ruthless violence, all major Muslim theologians condemned ISIS as heretics. The "Islamic State" does not recognize state borders and only allows peace agreements for up to ten years. Support for the "Islamic State" by the Taliban is impossible in principle - in the structure of the "Caliphate" of the IS there is no place for an independent "Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan."
The American media, citing former member of the Afghan parliament Nahid Farid, cited a fantastic figure of 4,500 IS fighters operating in Afghanistan. I wonder where the former parliamentarian, who fled the country more than a year ago and even during the republican period did not have access to any significant secrets, got such specific information? Nevertheless, American politicians and biased media, such as the Afghanistan International TV channel (which has offices in London and Washington), only mention these two terrorist organizations in all their statements and broadcasts, completely "forgetting" about other radical organizations that are no less dangerous, if not for the world as a whole, then for the region. These include the following.
"Lashkar-e-Taiba" (lit. "Army of the Clean" or "Army of the Righteous") is one of the largest and the most active terrorist organizations in South Asia.
It was founded in 1989 with the financial support of Osama bin Laden. The goal is the liberation of Kashmir, based in Pakistan and Afghanistan, operates in Kashmir and India. Some of her attacks were carried out in Pakistan. The organization has been designated a terrorist organization and banned in India, Pakistan, the United States, the United Kingdom, the EU, Russia and Australia.
"Jaish-e-Muhammad" ("Army of Mohammed ", abbreviated as JeM) is a Pakistani jihadist group operating in Kashmir. Established in 2000. The main goal is to separate Kashmir from India and unite it with Pakistan. After the liberation of Kashmir, she intends to carry "jihad" to other parts of India with the intention of expelling Hindus and other non-Muslims from the Indian subcontinent.
Maintains close relations with the Taliban and Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. Experts claim that JeM was created with the support of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence , which uses it to fight in Kashmir and elsewhere. Jaishe-Muhammad has been banned in Pakistan since 2002, but has reappeared under different names. Designated as a terrorist organization by Pakistan, Russia, Australia, Canada, India, UAE, UK, US and UN.
Tehreek-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is a radical Islamist militant organization. Established in 2007, based in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas , has a number of strongholds in Afghanistan. Represents an association of most (not all) Pakistani groups based on common goals: resistance to the "pro-Western" Pakistani government, the establishment of direct (unconstitutional, undemocratic) Sharia in Pakistan , Muslim India , resistance to NATO troops in the territories of Pakistan and Afghanistan (until 2021). The TTP is not united with the Afghan Taliban, however, these groups cooperate closely, which was especially evident during the Afghan war of 2001-2021. They differ in their history, slightly in purpose. Pashtuns dominate the active part of both organizations .
"Islamic Movement of East Turkestan" (also - " Turkestan Islamic Party" , "Turkestan Islamic Movement") - Uighur an illegal armed group whose goal is to create an independent Islamic (Sharia) state in East Turkestan and convert the entire Chinese people to Islam. Sometimes erroneously called "Al-Qaeda in China," which is unlikely, since Al-Qaeda” is a Salafi group, and ETIM is a Sufi group .
The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan is an Islamist terrorist organization created in 1996 by former members of a number of political parties and movements banned in Uzbekistan . The goal is to overthrow secular power in Uzbekistan and establish a Sharia state. Considered as a terrorist organization by many countries of the world, including Russia and the United States .
Jamaat Ansarullah is a Tajik terrorist organization. It sets as its goal the creation of a Sharia state in Tajikistan. According to some reports, the Taliban transferred five districts bordering Tajikistan in the province of Badakhshan under the control of the group and provided assistance with weapons and ammunition.
In total, according to various estimates, from 20 to 50 different terrorist groups operate in Afghanistan. Above are the largest and most active.
THE SITUATION WITH ISIS AND AL-QAEDA AFTER THE US WITHDRAWAL FROM AFGHANISTAN
Against the "Islamic State," more precisely, its branches in Afghanistan and Pakistan - "Velayat Khorasan," the Taliban actually carried out several, albeit not very large, operations, but war was declared. The reaction of the former allies in the fight against US troops was not long in coming - in response, the Taliban received a number of bloody suicide attacks, mainly in Hazara areas, and widespread reaction on social networks due to the fact that the Taliban is not able to ensure the safety of the population.
Moreover, recently the ISIS switched to attacks on the Taliban army - for example, an attack on the transport of the 205th army corps in Herat, when 14 soldiers of the Islamic Emirate army were killed. At present, the conflict has taken on a protracted character with minor actions on both sides.
With Al-Qaeda, the situation was somewhat different. The Taliban simply "didn't raise their hand" against their longtime ally from the memorable times of cooperation and friendship between bin Laden and Mullah Omar. In addition, Ayman al-Zawahiri renewed the “oath of allegiance” to Mullah Haybatullah Akhundzad. The answer of the Americans was not long in coming: on July 31, an American drone eliminated Zawahiri in Kabul.
A small digression is needed here. In November last year, "humanitarian aid" in cash from the "international community" began to arrive in Afghanistan in the amount of 32 million US dollars a week (subsequently, the size of "aid" packages increased to 40 million). The Taliban cheerfully reported that the money that arrived was being transferred to one of the commercial banks. It is even ridiculous to assume that any of the Afghan banks tried to dispose of at least one dollar of these funds without the knowledge of the Taliban.
To date, the total cash flow has exceeded $1.4 billion. Neither the United States, nor the "international community", nor the Taliban themselves gave a clear explanation of the origin and methods of using these funds. The indistinct muttering of high-ranking UN officials once again informed the world that Afghanistan is in the gravest humanitarian crisis that needs to be fought, and this requires money, a lot of money. They probably forgot that the United States has a tidy sum of $7 billion of frozen assets in Afghanistan, half of which the Americans want to transfer to the families of the victims of September 11, and the other half to the fund they created in Switzerland, allegedly designed to "provide humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan, bypassing the Taliban.
The first "result" is obvious - Afghan banknotes were printed in Poland and handed over to the Taliban.
So, after the assassination of Zawahiri, this flow slowed down somewhat, the American generals proudly announced that, despite the fact that the Americans do not have a physical presence in the country, they are able to destroy any target in Afghanistan, read - any of the Taliban leadership.
No wonder Sirajuddin Haqqani, the head of the Haqqani Network and the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Taliban government, immediately left Kabul and took refuge in the region where he has the greatest influence - in the province Kunar in the east of the country.
But the “stick” was followed by a “carrot” – US Special Representative for Afghanistan Tom West visited Afghanistan; in Qatar with American officials, including the same West, met the Minister of Defense of the government of the Taliban Mullah Mohammad Yakub (the son of the founder of the movement of the one-eyed Mullah Omar), and as an apotheosis - a meeting in Doha of the head of intelligence of the Taliban with the deputy director of the CIA.
It is not known what they agreed on, but the amount of cash flowing into Afghanistan increased dramatically - in the first week of November alone, 4 packages of $40 million arrived. Shortly before this, a number of sources confirmed that the Taliban deployed over 400 militants and commanders of the ETIM, the IMU and "Jamaat Ansarullah."
With Pakistan, things were much more complicated. Firstly, the prime minister there was Imran Khan, who tried to pursue an independent foreign policy. Without hesitation, the Americans applied the old tried and tested method - they simply dumped the "obstinate" prime minister.
Three months later, Pakistan provided its territory and airspace for an attack on Zawahiri. Of course, the Pakistani authorities disowned this, but it is not necessary to be a great specialist to understand: the drone could only fly from the territory of Pakistan.
Iran, for well-known reasons, disappears immediately, UAVs simply could not fly from the territory of the states of Central Asia, from US bases and aircraft carriers in the Indian Ocean - too. The Taliban were indignant for appearances, but things did not go further than this. And then, after a couple of weeks,
WHAT IS HIDDEN BEHIND THE "SELECTIVITY" OF AMERICANS?
The Moscow Consultative Meeting on Afghanistan was attended by representatives of Russia, China, Pakistan, Iran, India, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Turkey. The final statement states that the participating countries "want a peaceful, unified, independent Afghanistan free of terrorism and drug trafficking, and calls on the Taliban to take serious measures to fulfill their obligations to eradicate terrorism and drug trafficking and fight them resolutely to ensure that Afghanistan never again becomes a safe haven or a source for the spread of terrorism. The participants also declared their readiness to help Afghanistan in this area. Note that the statement does not indicate specific terrorist groups, but speaks of terrorism as a phenomenon.
As mentioned above, the Doha Agreement emphasized the fight against IS and Al-Qaeda. According to a number of experts, the agreement also included some secret clauses or verbal agreements. Based on the foregoing, it can be assumed that it was meant to counteract the growth of the presence and financing of ISIS and Al-Qaeda (only these two organizations) in Afghanistan, with full ignoring and even promoting other groups that can be used for the following purposes:
— directly against China in Xinjiang (“Islamic Movement of East Turkestan”);
— indirectly against Russia - in the Central Asian states ("Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan", "Jamaat Ansarullah");
— as an instrument of influence on Pakistan and India (“Lashkare-Taiba,” “Jaishe-Muhammad,” “Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan,” whose activities are prohibited in the Russian Federation));
— to destabilize the situation in the region as a whole - as a pretext for military intervention.
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author states: "Al-Qaeda," created in 1988, after the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan..." That is not precisely true. Soviet withdraw started piecemeal in May 1988. Al Qaeda was founded at Khost, Afghanistan in August. Soviet withdrawal completed April 1989.
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
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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[ZeroHedge] ... the BLS
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...
