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2023-08-26 Afghanistan
Taliban Says Huawei to Install Cameras to Locate Militants
[Bloomberg] Afghanistan’s Taliban
...Arabic for students...
-led government is working with Huawei Technologies to install a wide-ranging surveillance system across the country in an effort to identify and target bully boyz or terrorism activities, according to a person familiar with the discussions.

Representatives of the Shenzhen-headquartered tech company met with Interior Ministry officials on Aug. 14, the person said, and a verbal agreement was reached regarding the contract.

The Interior Ministry initially posted images and details of the meeting on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. In one post, front man Mufti Abdul Mateen Qani said the advanced camera system was being considered "in every province of Afghanistan."

The posts, which were later deleted, included comments from Abdullah Mukhtar, the deputy minister of the ministry. "We are willing to accept projects that are better in terms of quality and price," he said.

"Reports on this meeting are factually incorrect. No plans or agreements were discussed," Huawei said in an emailed statement. Spokesmen for the Taliban did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The person familiar with the meeting, who asked not to be identified to discuss the agreement, said the system was largely meant to track down members of ISIS in Afghanistan, as well as other holy warriors.

The local affiliate of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
of Syria and Iraq is considered to be one of the Taliban’s biggest security threats and responsible for last year’s deadly attack on the Russian embassy in Kabul.

The group also struck a hotel in Afghanistan’s capital often frequented by Chinese nationals, and had threatened to target the Chinese, Indian and Iranian embassies in the country, according to a recent United Nations
...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense...
report.
Posted by trailing wife 2023-08-26 00:22|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ]  Top
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#1 And who will pay for it? Do you have a guess?
Posted by Grom the Kindly 2023-08-26 06:02||   2023-08-26 06:02|| Front Page Top

#2 As a side benefit, it will also take note of any chinese foreign workers performance.
Posted by ed in texas 2023-08-26 11:52||   2023-08-26 11:52|| Front Page Top

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