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    Conflict News
    Afghan government forces lost more than 200 officers and soldiers in fighting over the past three days as Taliban insurgents launched sustained attacks on four different fronts. - @fahimabed


    ANDSF base/Ghowrmach surrenders




    https://twitter.com/RisboLensky/stat...43906904813573




    https://twitter.com/RisboLensky/stat...81768866074624



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    The Associated Press
    BREAKING: Afghan officials say Taliban attack on checkpoint in northern Baghlan province kills 30 soldiers, police.


    https://twitter.com/NatsecPack/statu...94607224836096
    Leaked Images #IEA's taliban handed 100 of (Afgan soldiers) dead bodies which killed during clashes with #Taliban,
    And I must should to told you, about the latest updates of death toll,
    according to Pro Taliban sources at least 800 killed which affiliated to regime as Sec,forces




    https://twitter.com/RisboLensky/stat...31415674183680


    Captured Govt. soldiers in Ghowrmach


    https://twitter.com/RisboLensky/stat...34467143577601


    Qalat, capital of Zabul province


    https://twitter.com/RisboLensky/stat...96204375044101





    Kabul Suicide Attacks (another one today)





    https://twitter.com/RisboLensky/stat...98503977644033




    https://twitter.com/RisboLensky/stat...14525346557952


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    https://twitter.com/RisboLensky/stat...38887428681728


    https://twitter.com/RisboLensky/stat...95825898188807

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    Tajikistan border


    https://twitter.com/RisboLensky/stat...98962901999616





    Badghis Province (borders Turkmenistan)


    https://twitter.com/RisboLensky/stat...02391879729152





    Kabul Bombing Denial (mass civilian terror attack)




    (So.. the IAE (Taliban) denies any involvement with the carnage.
    Gee.... if not Taliban then who?

    Who U think pancho??
    I'll give U a hint: it was targeting Shiite neighborhood/school/women/children.
    The Afghan 'Officials' & the entire Western MSM now collectively ranting "the Taliban did it....."
    https://duckduckgo.com/?t=palemoon&q...r=news&ia=news

    yep. U gno who.
    In Syria they claimed 'chemical attack'.
    only difference: here they blame Taliban... in Syria they blamed Assad.
    the 'goal' remains the same: hegemony/occupation/military$$$
    Note:
    the 'shock' ops will INCREASE... the more the perps are getting their assses kicked (same as Syria)
    and right now.... the Taliban is kicking Western asss.
    children's bodies matter to hegemons in Kabul about as much as they matter in Yemen.
    It's the same people.)
    Last edited by goldenequity; 08-15-2018 at 06:59 PM.

  7. #35
    Quote Originally Posted by goldenequity View Post
    Kabul Bombing Denial (mass civilian terror attack)




    (So.. the IAE (Taliban) denies any involvement with the carnage.
    Gee.... if not Taliban then who?

    Who U think pancho??
    (Saudi/Hegemon) ISIS (finally) admits it.


    https://twitter.com/RisboLensky/stat...16983155306496


    https://twitter.com/RisboLensky/stat...24159848488960


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    The Associated Press
    The Latest: Police say gunmen besiege compound belonging to Afghan intelligence service in Kabul.

    https://twitter.com/RisboLensky/stat...79668026454016

    10 security personnel killed, 25 people wounded in IED attack in Gereshk Helmand Afghanistan



    ►(for almighty NATO... a complete disaster and utter humiliation )


    DRKNURPAKT
    Taliban Summary of Three Days Hold on #Ghazni :
    * 600+ Government Soldiers (Police,ANA,Commandos) killed
    * 150 Humvees/MotorBikes/FordRanger Pickups Siezed
    * 300 Prisoners Released

    Note : This All Happened When People thought Taliban will Runover Daesh in #Nangarhar #Afghanistan

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    https://twitter.com/RisboLensky/stat...86120703500289




    https://twitter.com/RisboLensky/stat...86996771987458
    Last edited by goldenequity; 08-16-2018 at 10:10 AM.

  8. #36
    Afghan "Viceroy"? Trump Mulling Blackwater Founder Erik Prince's Plan To Privatize Longest War
    https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-...ar-afghanistan


    17 years of nation building
    devolves to hired killers running a ruthless protection racket
    shielding a puppet government and ISIS dumping ground
    running poppies/uranium/weapons smuggling
    and covert proxy terror operations
    against Russia/China/Iran and Pakistan.

    ============

    Alexander the Great couldn't do it. Genghis Khan couldn't do it. Neither could the British Empire nor NATO and the US military machine. But Erik Prince thinks he can stabilize Afghanistan with his latest mercenary empire?

    “I think it will make Erik Prince billions of dollars while he loses the war for us,” a congressional aide told The Atlantic of the Blackwater founder's plan to privatize the war in Afghanistan.

    Prince has been shopping his plan all around Washington for the past year which calls for major draw down of Pentagon train and assist forces and their replacement by private contractors, but now it appears President Trump may actually be entertaining the idea.



    more
    https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-...ar-afghanistan
    Last edited by goldenequity; 08-19-2018 at 10:21 PM.

  9. #37
    Quote Originally Posted by goldenequity View Post
    Afghan "Viceroy"? Trump Mulling Blackwater Founder Erik Prince's Plan To Privatize Longest War
    https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-...ar-afghanistan


    17 years of nation building
    devolves to hired killers running a ruthless protection racket
    shielding a puppet government and ISIS dumping ground
    running poppies/uranium/weapons smuggling
    and covert proxy terror operations
    against Russia/China/Iran and Pakistan.

    ============

    Alexander the Great couldn't do it. Genghis Khan couldn't do it. Neither could the British Empire nor NATO and the US military machine. But Erik Prince thinks he can stabilize Afghanistan with his latest mercenary empire?

    “I think it will make Erik Prince billions of dollars while he loses the war for us,” a congressional aide told The Atlantic of the Blackwater founder's plan to privatize the war in Afghanistan.

    Prince has been shopping his plan all around Washington for the past year which calls for major draw down of Pentagon train and assist forces and their replacement by private contractors, but now it appears President Trump may actually be entertaining the idea.



    more
    https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-...ar-afghanistan
    If it is a step towards ending it entirely it may be better than nothing but it would be better to just leave.
    Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

    Robert Heinlein

    Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler

    Groucho Marx

    I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.

    Linus, from the Peanuts comic

    You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

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  10. #38
    Quote Originally Posted by goldenequity View Post
    Afghan "Viceroy"? Trump Mulling Blackwater Founder Erik Prince's Plan To Privatize Longest War
    https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-...ar-afghanistan

    The Intercept‏@theintercept · 1 min.
    Trump is reportedly considering Erik Prince’s idea to privatize the Afghan war. Read past reporting by @matthewacole and @Jeremyscahill on the Blackwater founder’s plans to provide a global, private spy network that would circumvent intelligence agencies.

    https://theintercept.com/2017/12/04/...state-enemies/

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    zerohedge‏ @zerohedge · 11 min.
    Taliban Is Said to Accept Russia Invitation to Attend Talks: WSJ


    https://twitter.com/GrayShadowTech/s...41998665297922

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    https://twitter.com/AmirAminiMD/stat...37514623299584
    Last edited by goldenequity; 08-21-2018 at 06:04 AM.

  11. #39
    Sputnik
    BREAKING: Russia records unknown planes, delivering arms to Afghan militants - Moscow
    https://sptnkne.ws/jvMu


    (one guess.)

  12. #40
    can we get a warm welcome for Gen. Nicholson Gen. Miller..... bdum tish.
    (nuther 'Resolute' commander)


    https://twitter.com/RisboLensky/stat...29097897631745


    muh poppies.


    Helicopter crashed today in Afghanistan. According local reports it belonged to the US merc company.

    https://twitter.com/RisboLensky/stat...19992847970304

    https://twitter.com/RisboLensky/stat...27235668635649

    https://twitter.com/RisboLensky/stat...27235668635649
    Last edited by goldenequity; 09-10-2018 at 08:49 AM.



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  14. #41
    Reuters Politics
    @ReutersPolitics

    Trump administration to take tough stance against International Criminal Court
    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...-idUSKCN1LQ076


    "The United States on Monday will adopt an aggressive posture against the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague,
    threatening sanctions against its judges
    if they proceed with an investigation
    into alleged war crimes committed by Americans in Afghanistan."



    "Who the hell this orange motherfuucker thinks he is?
    Unbelievable thuggism and mafia style policy of this piece of $#@! scumbag is really beyond imaginable!"
    hearts & minds

  15. #42
    Dozens of Afghan soldiers killed in Daimirdad clash
    https://www.pajhwok.com/en/2018/09/1...aimirdad-clash


    As many as 68 Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers have been killed during a clash with Taliban militants
    in the Daimirdad district of central Maidan Wardak province, a public representative said on Monday.

    (supposedly..) Taliban insurgents stormed the district police headquarters, but they were pushed back by ANA soldiers late Sunday night.

    However, 68 ANA personnel were killed in the overnight attack and currently their bodies were at Sardar Mohammad Daud Khan Military hospital in Kabul.

    Another PC member Sharifullah Hotak also the Daimirdad district had completely fallen into the hands of the Taliban after the attack.
    He said 41 Afghan Army personnel were killed.





    https://twitter.com/RisboLensky/stat...55491232985088


    "something like 400 American trained police and soldiers killed by Taliban in last 3 days...
    it's a slaughter I think the Taliban are ready to takeover the provincial capitals
    as all the soldiers have fled the districts and are hiding."

    (so after 17 years... the only thing 'we' actually 'control' is the WHITE portion on rt. side chart. nice.)




    How the U.S. Government
    Misleads the Public on Afghanistan
    https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...ghanistan.html


    "Seventeen years into the war in Afghanistan, American officials routinely issue inflated assessments of progress that contradict what is actually happening there."

  16. #43
    Former Afghan Taliban official Waheed Muzhda who remains in regular contact with the group says,
    "U.S. wants the Taliban to accept 2 military bases: Bagram and Shorabak. The Taliban are willing to accept NONE"
    #peacetalks
    https://www.voanews.com/a/us-afghan-peace/4569725.html



    GTFO

  17. #44
    A number of influential Afghan officials met in Kabul on Sept. 12 to ask the government to review the bilateral security agreement that governs the U.S. military presence in Afghanistan, Tolo News reported.

    More at: https://worldview.stratfor.com/situa...itary-presence
    Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

    Robert Heinlein

    Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler

    Groucho Marx

    I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.

    Linus, from the Peanuts comic

    You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

    Alexis de Torqueville

    Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
    Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it

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  18. #45
    Afghanistan




    https://twitter.com/TheArabSource/st...22101470404608

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    Quote Originally Posted by goldenequity View Post
    Former Afghan Taliban official Waheed Muzhda who remains in regular contact with the group says,
    "U.S. wants the Taliban to accept 2 military bases: Bagram and Shorabak. The Taliban are willing to accept NONE"
    #peacetalks
    https://www.voanews.com/a/us-afghan-peace/4569725.html

    GTFO

    Moscow To Host Meeting Between Afghan Officials And Taliban – Report
    https://southfront.org/moscow-to-hos...aliban-report/



    Taliban fighters inside Afghan military base

    On September 21, Afghan officials declared their readiness to meet with representatives of the Taliban in Moscow.
    According to Kabulov, the meeting composition is now being put together.

    “Kabul is determined to participate in the Moscow-hosted meeting. Now we are in the process of developing modalities for this participation. Currently, the main thing is not the date, but the content, so this is the part that we are working on,” the Russian news agency TASS quoted Kabulov as saying.

    A meeting between Afghan officials and the Taliban
    was supposed to take place in Moscow on September 4 as a part of a conference on the Afghan crisis.
    However, Kabul refused to attend the meeting only days before its date
    due to pressure from the U.S. government, according to Afghan sources.

    The exact date of the new meeting on Afghanistan is yet to become clear,
    but Kabulov’s positive statement indicates that we may see it happening soon.

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    Afghan officials have reacted angrily to speculation that foreign military contractors could take over training and advising the Afghan armed forces, following a renewed push by the founder of private military contractor Blackwater.

    Erik Prince, whose company came to prominence during the war in Iraq, has been lobbying officials about his proposal to privatize parts of U.S. military operations in Afghanistan for more than a year.
    On a recent visit to Kabul, he lobbied several Afghan political figures and gave interviews to media outlets including Tolo News, Afghanistan’s largest television station, as well as the New York Times, to discuss the plan.
    President Ashraf Ghani, approaching presidential elections in April, has repeatedly rejected the proposal and on Thursday his national security adviser issued a statement condemning what he called a “destructive and divisive debate”.
    “Under no circumstances will the Afghan government and people allow the counterterrorism fight to become a private, for-profit business,” the statement said.

    More at: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-a...KCN1MF0IH?il=0
    Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

    Robert Heinlein

    Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler

    Groucho Marx

    I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.

    Linus, from the Peanuts comic

    You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

    Alexis de Torqueville

    Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
    Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it

    A Zero Hedge comment

  24. #50
    The Taliban has ordered its fighters to attack authorities and security forces who are helping organize this month’s parliamentary elections in Afghanistan, denouncing the process as “fake” and “completely bogus.”
    The Islamist insurgency in a statement issued Monday called on candidates and voters to boycott the polls, insisting they are being held “for the sole purpose of legitimizing those stooges who are authorized by the occupying forces” in Afghanistan.
    While responding to the Taliban's first direct threat to disrupt the elections, a U.S. military spokesman noted the upcoming Afghan democratic process is moving ahead despite the challenge.
    "The enemies of Afghanistan pledging to kill people who want to participate in democracy. Encouraging to see the work being done to hold secure and inclusive balloting even with all the challenges," tweeted Colonel Day Butler (@USFOR_A)
    The enemies of Afghanistan pledging to kill people who want to participate in democracy. Encouraging to see the work being done to hold secure and inclusive balloting even with all the challenges. #Afghanistan https://t.co/0z1IHByPaL
    — USFOR-A Spokesman, Col Dave Butler (@USFOR_A) October 8, 2018


    The long-delayed elections are scheduled for October 20. More than 2,500 candidates, including 418 women, are competing for the 249 seats in the lower House of Parliament, the Wolesi Jirga.
    The Afghan government plans to deploy 54,000 soldiers and policemen to ensure voters’ safety on the polling day. Thousands of U.S-led NATO forces in the country have also vowed to assist Afghan authorities in holding the elections.
    “Those people who are trying to help in holding this process successfully by providing security, should be targeted and no stone should be left unturned for the prevention and failure of this malicious American conspiracy,” said the Taliban statement.

    More at: https://www.voanews.com/a/taliban-af...s/4603993.html
    Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

    Robert Heinlein

    Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler

    Groucho Marx

    I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.

    Linus, from the Peanuts comic

    You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

    Alexis de Torqueville

    Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
    Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it

    A Zero Hedge comment

  25. #51

  26. #52
    A suicide blast in southern Afghanistan has killed a parliamentary candidate along with nine supporters, a day after the Taliban insurgent group announced it would disrupt the upcoming national elections with violent attacks.
    An official said the bomber targeted a campaign office in Lashkargah, capital of the southern Helmand province. Provincial police spokesman Abdul Salam Afghan told VOA that the blast wounded at least 15 people. He identified the slain candidate as Saleh Mohammad Achakzai, who was contesting a seat in the lower house of parliament, the Wolesi Jirga.
    Witnesses expect the number of casualties to rise because the campaign office was crowed at the time of the attack.

    More at: https://www.voanews.com/a/suicide-bl...e/4605673.html
    Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

    Robert Heinlein

    Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler

    Groucho Marx

    I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.

    Linus, from the Peanuts comic

    You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

    Alexis de Torqueville

    Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
    Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it

    A Zero Hedge comment

  27. #53
    Quote Originally Posted by enhanced_deficit View Post
    He's last name is Khan but seems like not Pashtun.

    And pretty well connected with UK royalty.

    His first wife was Jemima Goldsmith, part of the Goldsmith banking family. She is 8 years his junior. They have two sons.




    And doesn't like Trump:



    Before Jemima, Imran had another relationship with another British woman, Sita White, which produced a daughter named Tyrian:



    Imran never acknowledged that Tyrian is his daughter.

    But before long she had begun a relationship with Imran Khan, whom she met in the Jermyn Street nightclub, Tramp. The Pakistani cricketer ended the affair after a few months, but after Sita moved permanently to Los Angeles in 1990 they spent one final night together. Sita later claimed she had asked Khan to father her child and that he had agreed.

    Until the result of this assignation, Tyrian, was three, Sita kept the identity of her daughter's father secret. So did Khan, informing his biographer, Ivo Tennant, that he knew Lord White but making no mention of Sita. Neither was White exactly supportive of his daughter. He did invite her to live with him in his Bel Air home during her pregnancy, but, according to Sita, when Tyrian was born his only words were "that is not a white child" and he never made any effort to see her again.


    When the news of Khan's paternity (which he has never publicly admitted) came out, he was by then married to Jemima Goldsmith, whose father Sir James was a friend of Gordy's. Campaigning for his own political party in Pakistan, Khan was attacked by opponents for violating the tenets of Islam. Sita promised "to do whatever it takes to prove him guilty" and later that year a California judge declared that Khan was the father after he failed to contest the paternity suit Sita filed.




    Jemima, his first wife, also takes care of Imran's illegitimate child, Tyrian.

    Despite all of this, Jemima maintains a relationship with Imran, especially due to their two sons, and still holds Pakistan citizenship and is still involved in Pakistan affairs.

    His second wife is also connected to British media elite and politics. She's a British-Pakistani journalist, Reham Khan:





    She wrote a tell-all book about their short less than a year marriage that was supposed to make Imran Khan lose the election. That obviously didn't work.

    His current wife, Bushra Maneka, is his Sufi spiritual mentor and she dresses a bit more modestly than his previous wives/girlfriends:

    Last edited by homahr; 10-09-2018 at 07:46 PM.

  28. #54
    "Let it not be said that we did nothing." - Dr. Ron Paul. "Stand up for what you believe in, even if you are standing alone." - Sophie Magdalena Scholl
    "War is the health of the State." - Randolph Bourne "Freedom is the answer. ... Now, what's the question?" - Ernie Hancock.

  29. #55
    At least 15 Police Killed' In Taliban Attack In Northern Afghanistan.
    https://www.rferl.org/a/afghanistan-.../29538172.html

    At least 15 members of the Afghan security forces have been killed in a Taliban assault in the northern province of Kunduz, reports say,
    as the militants escalate their offensive ahead of this month’s general elections.
    A member of the provincial council, Amruddin Wali, said 15 members of the paramilitary border police were killed w
    hen Taliban fighters attacked a checkpoint in the Qala-e Zal district on October 11.
    Another member of the provincial council, Sayed Assadullah Sadat, also put the death toll at 15, but added that 13 border police were also wounded.
    The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.



    https://twitter.com/RisboLensky/stat...68381038284801

  30. #56
    Drexl Spivey
    https://twitter.com/RisboLensky/stat...07045229600768
    Widespread clashes and airstrikes reported across Afghanistan in past 24 hrs.


    Taliban ravaged Govt. held CP in Janikhel district Paktika Afghanistan


    CP overran near Kushamand in western Paktika Afghanistan


    Yesterday the CP in Sarobi district also fell in IEA insurgent's hands Paktika Afghanistan


    2 policemen defected to IEA in Zabul Afghanistan
    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DpXk8zOXoAA6SF7.jpg
    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DpXk8zfWkAAtyRt.jpg

    Several CP's fell to Taliban in Dara i Suf district of Samangan The province recently saw the sharp increase in violence Afghanistan


    USA and IEA representatives reportedly met in Qatar according to pro Govt. media

    Drexl Spivey
    IEA officially confirmed the meeting with USA representatives in Doha Qatar. Americans still considers Taliban a terrorist organization, but obviously the things are changing


    Previously on Quagmire...
    the US and IEA met and the Taliban 'position' was rock solid: L-E-A-V-E.
    Maddog and Centcom entourage want to 'keep' 2 .mil bases.
    Taliban sez you can 'keep' N-O-N-E. GO.



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  32. #57
    Afghanistan



    https://twitter.com/RisboLensky/stat...72449168805888

    IEA flag on CP in Kashamand Paktika Afghanistan



    https://twitter.com/RisboLensky/stat...54752649859073

    SouthFront
    Taliban Ambushes Afghan And NATO Forces In Helmand
    http://dlvr.it/QnHJPR
    Last edited by goldenequity; 10-18-2018 at 07:22 AM.

  33. #58
    Previously on 'Quagmire'....


    The Yemenite Post @TheYemenitePost
    4 hod.
    The United States has agreed to discuss the withdrawal of its troops from Afghanistan
    in a direct meeting with Taliban representatives in Qatar, officials from the armed group said.


    sure.

    Sept. 13...
    Former Afghan Taliban official Waheed Muzhda who remains in regular contact with the group says,
    "U.S. wants the Taliban to accept 2 military bases: Bagram and Shorabak. The Taliban are willing to accept NONE"
    #peacetalks
    https://www.voanews.com/a/us-afghan-peace/4569725.html

    I doubt much has changed since this ^^^

    'withdrawal of its troops' is for the media... a sound bite. There WILL be 'boots' on the ground/mercs/security forces.
    Trump wants to plunder Afghan resources... he feels 'they owe us big time' for 17 years of 'protection'.
    The 'meeting' with Taliban is to cut them in on the plunder. Bet on it.
    but
    IEA are no fools. nope.
    They see Kabul as traitors... collaborators with the 'enemy'.
    Russia and China will 'cut them in' on developing their National resources too... so why lick Trump's boots?

  34. #59
    as we approach 'elections' another thrilling episode on 'Quagmire'...



    Kandahar

    Mujib Mashal
    @MujMash
    ►Gen. Abdul Raziq, the police chief of Kandahar and a giant presence in the south,
    ►as well as the governor of Kandahar
    ►and the NDS chief of the province
    all killed in shootings, officials confirm.

    That's just wiping out the entire provincial leadership.


    https://mobile.twitter.com/MujMash/s...95608607002626

    Huge news if true,,, the entire American backed Afghan military leadership wiped out...
    expect a massive Taliban offensive offensive to capture Kandahar to happen now.

    =========

    Conflict News‏ @Conflicts · 2 min.
    BREAKING: Kandahar police chief, governor, and intelligence chief have all been killed in a shooting in the Kandahar governor's compound - @FrudBezhan

    Stunning results of NATO military operations as its armies bumbling around for 18th year. Go home, NATO. You're drunk...

    =======

    Looks like it was insider attack, directly from the ranks of the bodyguards...


    Bashir Ahmad Gwakh‏@bashirgwakh · 28
    Update: A high ranking official confirmed to @Mashaalradio that Kandahar police chief & strongman General Abdul Raziq, Kandahar NDS Chief & Kandahar governor killed. The gunfire took place after a meeting between @Commander_RS & Afghan officials. Miller is unhurt. #Afghanistan

    Bashir Ahmad Gwakh‏@bashirgwakh · 22 min
    Update: Raziq had escaped 12 suicide attempts. He was very careful in choosing his guards. It is uncleared whether the man who fired at the high ranking officials was Raziq's or governor's bodyguard. Nonetheless Taliban take responsibility for the attack. #Afghanistan

    =======

    NATO says American troops wounded in the Kandahar attack -
    @AP

    No doubt America will blame Russia or Pakistan as they always do in Afghanistan. Just two days before the Afghan elections it's going to be a bloodbath as the Taliban are planning mass attacks on poll stations and major cities.
    Last edited by goldenequity; 10-18-2018 at 07:30 AM.

  35. #60
    I want to give some historical background on Afghanistan and Pakistan. The country currently known as Pakistan was basically split at one time between the Afghan Durrani Empire and the Sikh Empire. The Durrani Empire ruled the northern parts of Pakistan and Balochistan (at one time they ruled all of Pakistan). The Sikh Empire ruled the other parts of Pakistan and some parts of modern day India, basically all of Punjab and Kashmir.

    The British were already making incursions into the Indian subcontinent through various means. They initially started this in 1620 or so when setting up trading posts. They also bribed local strongmen, hired local mercenaries to fight their battles and gain political and economic influence. However, it needs to emphasized that the British did not overthrow or lead to the downfall of the Mughal Empire, it was the Hindu empire, Marathas, who did politically and militarily defeated the Mughals.

    The British allied with the Sikh Empire to push the Afghan Durranis back. As a result of that conflict, the modern-day-state of Afghanistan was created with its current borders which bordered British India back then and Pakistan today. The Afghans of course still remember this and this is why they don't really recognize their border with Pakistan as a legitimate international border.

    The British then went on to defeat and destroy the Sikh Empire. The Sikhs never recovered from that humiliation and treachery of the British and from now on are basically under Hindu rule/control. They never got their own country back. The British then destroyed the Hindu Maratha Empire, Mysore Empire (another Muslim kingdom in South India), Oudh State (a Shia Muslim kingdom in Northern India) and other smaller princeley states to formally control all of the subcontinent. All of this of course took centuries.

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