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2021-09-18 Afghanistan

Lara Logan joins 'Tucker Carlson Today' with an in-depth analysis on the crisis in Afghanistan

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Posted by Besoeker 2021-09-18 05:06|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 I believe Logan is now married to a former US Army NCO, intelligence community contractor and grey man. I believe the company he worked for has gone Tango Uniform.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-09-18 08:35|| 2021-09-18 08:35|| Front Page Top

#2 After what happened to Logan in Egypt I would have thought she chose another career path by now.

Posted by Chris 2021-09-18 09:42|| 2021-09-18 09:42|| Front Page Top

#3 ^ She's a smart attractive and articulate lady. Perhaps she's not gonna back down. I like her

Posted by Frank G 2021-09-18 10:16|| 2021-09-18 10:16|| Front Page Top

#4 That was worth every second of watching, and sent me to look up the multiple shuras Ms Logan mentions, which led me to a Herald Dawn (Pakistan) article from a few years ago:

Over the years, despite maintaining its ideological coherence, the insurgency has fragmented as its loci of operations have expanded from the south and the east into northern and western Afghanistan. This ‘fragmentation’ has manifested itself in the shape of disputes over the makeup of the central leadership (Quetta Shura), creation of separate governance and control structures and different viewpoints over negotiations with Kabul. Decentralisation and differences of opinion have always existed but the public acknowledgement of Mullah Omer’s death has accentuated the broader fragmentation dynamic, especially along regional lines.

According to a recent report, the insurgency has four main shuras (Quetta Shura, Mashhad Shura, Shura of the North and the Rasool Shura) — a form of leadership council that presides over and controls different Taliban organisations. The ‘old guard’ is based out of the Quetta Shura that has authority over the Miranshah Shura (primarily the Haqqani Network) and the Peshawar Shura. A first source of factionalism can be identified in the divergence of opinions and the emergence of dissidents within this arrangement.

In 2007, the Miranshah Shura declared independence from the Quetta Shura and in 2009 the Peshawar Shura followed suit. The Peshawar Shura, beleaguered by financial difficulties without the support of the central leadership, re-joined in 2016. The Haqqanis re-joined in 2015, only after Sirajuddin Haqqani was promised the role of deputy leader within the Quetta Shura. As of 2017, there seemed to be an ongoing struggle for monopolising control of the Quetta Shura between Haibatullah Akhundzada, his predecessor’s cousin Obaidullah Ishaqzai, and the increasingly dominant Sirajudin Haqqani.

Antonio Giustozzi (who has had access to the leadership of the various shuras and authored the report mentioned earlier), reported that Haibatullah was willing to negotiate with the government and expand non-military activities. On the other hand, hardliners Sirajudin and Obaidullah opposed reconciliation with Kabul and held opposition to attempts by some to open up to Iran.

A second and more prominent feature of the fragmentation is the increasing regional autonomy between the various shuras. At the leadership level, none of the other shuras recognise the authority of the Quetta Shura completely. The Shura of the North only occasionally consults and cooperates with the Quetta Shura and usually only for large-scale military manoeuvres. It cooperates much more readily with the Mashhad Shura. Between 2015 and 2017 the Rasool Shura (that refuses allegiance to Quetta Shura’s leadership) and the Quetta Shura engaged in armed clashes against one another.

The Quetta Shura blamed the Rasool Shura of being pro-negotiations. In an interview in 2015, then leader of the Rasool Shura, Mullah Rasool, stated that he was not opposed to negotiations with Kabul in principle, but was critical of the monopolisation of the peace process by the Quetta Shura and the levy this allowed to the Pakistani authorities. Furthermore, the governance structures the insurgency has employed have also been run separately by the respective shuras. For instance, the Quetta Shura, the Rasool Shura and the Shura of the North have their own respective military, justice and education commissions.

Posted by trailing wife 2021-09-18 12:55|| 2021-09-18 12:55|| Front Page Top

#5 totally agree frank

Posted by Chris 2021-09-18 13:10|| 2021-09-18 13:10|| Front Page Top

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