08-31-2021, 12:22 PM (This post was last modified: 08-31-2021, 12:23 PM by BIAD.)
It's all going swimmingly -as they say in Afghanistan!
It might be prudent to watch the movie 'The Jewel Of The Nile', at the section where the 'Rock Show' Promoter
played by Daniel Peacock, shows the tyrannical Arab ruler (Omar) how to sell yourself to a modern world.
Just sayin'.
Quote:WE'RE IN CHARGE NOW Chilling picture shows Taliban extremists posing in ex-British HQ as the West leaves Afghanistan in their hands
'Taliban zealots pose with their weapons yesterday — telling the world they now rule Afghanistan.
The chillingly symbolic snap was taken in the former British police training HQ in Kabul.
On the table were a bobby’s helmet and a state trooper’s hat that had been left as gifts to police trainees by their
British and American mentors.
Backstreet's back alright!
Last night leaked US files appeared to blame Britain for the death of 13 of its soldiers in a suicide blast at Kabul airport’s
Abbey Gate on Thursday. Security sources said they begged to shut down Abbey Gate but Britain wanted it kept open to
continue its evacuation campaign.
Six hours later a suicide bomber killed 170 people and 13 US soldiers. The MoD declined to comment.
The last Allied troops left in time to beat today’s August 31 Taliban deadline to withdraw from the war-torn country.
The Taliban celebrated the US exit by firing weapons and fireworks into the skies above Kabul after the last American soldier
was pictured leaving the country.
Photos from today show Taliban fighters inside the Kabul airport inspecting equipment including Chinook helicopters that were
left behind by the US military. Afghanistan's future and that of its desperate population -including many hundred Brits -lies in
the militia’s hands.
In the final hours, the US launched an airstrike on a suspected suicide bomber killing ten members of the same family. Ex-British
Army officer Colonel Richard Kemp said that for 20 years the West had stopped terrorist attacks being launched from Afghanistan.
But President Biden’s withdrawal of forces from the country “betrayed all the efforts made by UK and US troops”. He said: “It makes
the threat from Afghanistan the greatest it’s ever been.”
The Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan is complete as the last US troops at Kabul airport beat their final retreat today. The last US take-off
ends a trillion-dollar, 20-year war that has cost hundreds of thousands of lives and finishes as it began, with the Taliban in power.
The hardline religious zealots have already been flexing their muscles, banning co-education and welcoming wanted terrorists to meetings
in the capital. And as the Taliban united, the allies were divided in retreat.
Meanwhile, it has emerged that ten family members including six children were killed in a US drone strike on a vehicle in Kabul.
The Americans were targeting a suspected IS suicide bomber in a residential area of Afghanistan’s capital on Sunday.
US military chiefs said the target posed an imminent threat to the airport, with one official saying a car was “loaded up and ready to go”.
The youngest innocent victim was a two-year-old girl, according to a brother of one of those killed. The Taliban condemned the strike.
It came as their secretive leader Mullah Haibatullah was expected to mark today’s withdrawal with a rare public appearance in Kandahar.
Taliban officials have signalled they want to rule differently from his one-eyed predecessor Mullah Omar.
He outlawed music and television, banned girls’ education, hosted al-Qaeda and had women stoned to death for adultery before he was
toppled in 2001.
'INCLUSIVE GOVERNMENT'
According to their public statements, the Taliban has promised to form an inclusive government and they want good diplomatic relations
with the world. Most of the movement’s foot soldiers are too young to remember 9/11, the al-Qaeda attacks that were plotted in Afghanistan
and triggered the US-led invasion.
In the past ten days, The Sun has witnessed dozens of Taliban fighters from different parts of the country now garrisoning Kabul.
Some have Pakistani mobile numbers -a tell-tale sign of the time in madrassas on the far side of the lawless borders.
Others speak fluent Arabic, while some have a smattering of English learned in Afghan schools, paid for by western aid money. Noorullah,
a low-level commander of 25 men and who studied Arabic literature in Kabul, said: “People say we come from the mountains but it isn’t
true any more.”
Meanwhile, Shahazada Malikzai, 20, studied economics at a private university.
He joined the Taliban as a teenager to avenge what he saw as abuses by the foreign troops who had occupied his country for as long as
he could remember. He said: “We were children when they came. We didn’t know why they were here.
“But they came into our houses, they killed our families.” He said he had an uncle in California who had lived there for years working as
a security guard and a brother who served in the Afghan army until it collapsed.
He added: “Of course we were worried about killing each other.”
The Taliban have vowed to forgive their former enemies and offered soldiers and police an amnesty.
'WE HAVEN'T LOOTED ANYTHING'
But the exodus at Kabul airport that saw more than 125,000 refugees evacuated from the country in the space of two weeks is proof
that people do not believe them. Qasi Ali, a senior commander who had commandeered the Afghan Police Academy in the eastern
outskirts of Kabul, said: “I don’t know why people are scared. The Taliban have brought security.
“Look at this office. We haven’t looted anything.”
He pointed to the computer, still showing the feeds from the CCTV cameras, and fridges and office furniture that could all have found
homes in Kabul’s black market.
But the objects he was most proud of were a British policeman’s helmet and an American state police Stetson, which looked like gifts
from bygone mentors. He also claims the Taliban has “done women a favour”. He said:
“In the rest of the world women have to fend for their families, they have to find their own food.
“We value them so much that we work for them and they can just relax at home.” Tens of thousands of women were too scared to leave
their homes when the Taliban first took Kabul.
FREE TO LEAVE
Only a fraction are venturing out — but they include extraordinarily brave female journalists and women’s rights campaigners who marched
with Afghan flags in defiance of the Taliban four days after they arrived.
Qasi Ali was adamant women would be able to continue working. He said: “We need female doctors, we need female police officers,
female lawyers, female teachers.” But he insisted they will have to wear a hijab.
Taliban guards have already encroached on parts of Kabul airport.
They have insisted that Afghans and foreign nationals will be free to leave if they have the correct papers when the airport reopens to
commercial flights. But at least 150 British nationals and 1,000 at-risk Afghans who were unable to get to the airport before the last
mercy flight remain.
The Foreign Office is scrambling to work out who was left behind. It vowed to help anyone relocate if they had been approved for a place
on an RAF flight. Brits have also been warned to prepare for a heightened terror risk as the chaotic withdrawal creates space for extremist groups...'
08-31-2021, 12:50 PM (This post was last modified: 08-31-2021, 12:51 PM by Ninurta.)
(08-31-2021, 12:22 PM)BIAD Wrote: It's all going swimmingly -as they say in Afghanistan!
It might be prudent to watch the movie 'The Jewel Of The Nile', at the section where the 'Rock Show' Promoter
played by Daniel Peacock, shows the tyrannical Arab ruler (Omar) how to sell yourself to a modern world.
Just sayin'.
Taliban thinks they are in charge now? Well that's just too cute! Lets wait a month or two and see how well that goes for 'em!
Shameful for the US to try to blame the bombing on the UK. ISIS-K did the bombing, not the UK, and they would never have had an opportunity if Biden hadn't tucked his tail between his legs and ran off like a scalded dog.
This one is squarely in the lap of the US Oval Office. Own it, motherfuckers!
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
08-31-2021, 01:15 PM (This post was last modified: 08-31-2021, 01:16 PM by BIAD.)
(08-31-2021, 12:50 PM)Ninurta Wrote: Taliban thinks they are in charge now? Well that's just too cute! Lets wait a month or two and see how well that goes for 'em!
It seems so!
The Taliban are taking the piss. The west being owned!
Quote:After US exit, Taliban fly American chopper with body hanging from rope | Video
N'ew video has emerged in which a US Black Hawk helicopter can be seen flying over Kandahar in
Afghanistan with a body hanging from a rope below. Several journalists have shared the video on Twitter
claiming the brutal Taliban have killed a man and hung him from the US military helicopter they took out
to patrol the Kandahar province.
A scene from the movie 'Air America' too?!
The footage purportedly shows a man dangling from the US military chopper as the Taliban fly it above
the Kandahar province. The video shot from the ground doesn’t clearly show if the man tied to the chopper
is alive, but reports have claimed that the Talibs had tied the body of a man they had killed.
However, the footage shared by the Talib Times, a Twitter account claiming to be affiliated with the Taliban,
said, “Our Air Force! At this time, the Islamic Emirate’s air force helicopters are flying over Kandahar city
and patrolling the city.”..'
'Our Air Force...? Nice.
'The Daily Mail has said that the US had supplied at least 7 Black Hawk choppers to Afghanistan last month,
in addition to the inventory it had built over the 20 years. All the defence equipment now remain abandoned
in Afghanistan.
Soon after their hasty exit on Tuesday, the US military said that it has disabled 73 aircraft, 27 Humvees, weapons
systems and other high-tech defence equipment before boarding the final flight. Within hours of the withdrawal of
the US troops from Kabul airport, the Taliban entered the premises and examined the Chinook choppers and other
defence equipment left behind by the US Army. Videos showed the Badri 313 Battalion fighters examining the
helicopters.
Later, after the Taliban fighters took control of the Kabul airport, videos emerged showing the Talibs racing cars
and other vehicles on the Kabul airport runway. The Taliban leaders symbolically walked on the runway to declare
victory after the 20 years of war in Afghanistan.
Another video shared by news agency AFP showed scores of US military choppers, aircraft and other defence
systems lying idle in the hangars of the Kabul airport as the Badri 313 fighters walk around.
Before dawn broke, heavily armed Taliban fighters walked through hangars, passing some of the seven CH-46
helicopters the US State Department used in its evacuations before rendering them unflyable.
The Taliban are now in full control of Kabul's international airport after the last US plane left its runway, marking
the end of America's longest war...'
Quote:After US exit, Taliban fly American chopper with body hanging from rope | Video
N'ew video has emerged in which a US Black Hawk helicopter can be seen flying over Kandahar in
Afghanistan with a body hanging from a rope below. Several journalists have shared the video on Twitter
claiming the brutal Taliban have killed a man and hung him from the US military helicopter they took out
to patrol the Kandahar province.
Your friendly neighborhood Taliban 2.0 - inventing new and stunning ways to torture and kill folk since 1994!
I watched the video a couple of times, and it does appear that the guy's arms are pinioned and tied behind his back. On a side note, that chopper is flying low enough that a Stinger could take it right out... just a thought...
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Boom 16 US service men dead 30 injured
