Afghanistan

Taliban Militants Equipped With US High-Tech Combat Gear – Reports

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– Taliban Militants Equipped With US High-Tech Combat Gear – Reports:

US high-tech combat equipment intended for use by the special forces of Afghanistan reportedly flows into the hands of militants of the radical Taliban group, a US-based media outlet revealed Sunday.

Pentagon officials believe that the militants are stealing equipment or buying it on the black market, the New York Times reported.

It is also possible that the equipment, which got into the hands of the Taliban, later goes to the militants of other terrorist groups and is used in conflict zones outside of Afghanistan, the sources said.

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Pentagon Admits Billions In US Funds Disappeared in Afghanistan To “Fraud, Waste And Abuse”

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– Pentagon Admits Billions In US Funds Disappeared in Afghanistan To “Fraud, Waste And Abuse”:

…more than $3.1 billion in taxpayer funds provided to the Afghan Armed Forces was “grossly mismanaged.”

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‘Peanuts’…

– $21 Trillion Of Unauthorized Spending – Trillions Of Taxpayer Dollars Gone Missing – The Pentagon “lost” $6.5 TRILLION in 2015 and nobody cares – Army Fudged Its Accounts By Trillions Of Dollars

– $21 TRILLION of unauthorized spending by US govt discovered by economics professor

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Pakistan Is Building a Wall to Keep Out Terrorists: ‘Simplest Solution in the History of the World’

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– Pakistan Is Building a Wall to Keep Out Terrorists: ‘Simplest Solution in the History of the World’:

NORTH WAZIRISTAN, PAKISTAN — Pakistan is building a border wall with Afghanistan, after decades of unsuccessfully controlling the flow of terrorists and criminals who quietly slip back and forth across the porous 1,500-mile border between the two countries, evading capture.

The wall is not concrete, but consists of a comprehensive border system that includes two layers of 12-feet-tall barbed-wire fencing, surveillance cameras, solar lights, an intrusion detection system, and hundreds of manned forts and thousands of observation posts. It is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2019.

Last week, Breitbart News and two other news outlets were escorted by the Pakistan military into the country’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) to one fort along the border near the Pakistani village of Miran Shah and just about 20 miles from Khost, Afghanistan – once considered a terrorist hotbed.

There, shiny double-layered fencing could be seen zigzagging the hilly terrain for miles between observation posts, spaced two to three miles apart. They are currently being manned by the Pakistan Army Frontier Corps.

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H/t reader kevin a.

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Mixed reactions to Afghan offer of Taliban recognition

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– Mixed reactions to Afghan offer of Taliban recognition:

The armed group has yet to respond to the request – which would pave the way for them to eventually be recognised as a political party. But not all Afghans are happy for Ghani to pursue peace at any cost.

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H/t reader Squodgy:

“But what about the heroine?

Last time the Taliban were in charge, the drug trade dried up.”

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US Afghan Operation is an ‘Unwinable’ War, Scholar Explains Why

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– US Afghan Operation is an ‘Unwinable’ War, Scholar Explains Why:

According to a report by the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, a record number of Afghan civilians were killed or wounded during attacks in 2017. While the majority of victims were killed or wounded by anti-government insurgents, international troops were responsible for 20 percent of the civilian casualties.

Sputnik discussed this with Dr. Amalendu Misra, Senior Lecturer in Politics, Philosophy and Religion at Lancaster University in the UK.

Sputnik: The report indicates that 20 percent of the casualties was caused by aerial strikes, and the US is the only country known to carry out these attacks in Afghanistan. What is your take on Washington’s role in the conflict?

Amalendu Misra: The nature of warfare in Afghanistan has changed considerably. What we realize is that the coalition forces are afraid to go to the ground, they’re afraid to put boots on the ground, so to speak, so they are fighting the war from a distance. Drone warfare, aerial bombing and so on and so forth, because as it has been realized after almost 17 years of military operations, you simply can’t win the war on the ground, so if we have this increased number of casualties, it’s a direct outcome of this new warfare.

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Heroin Addiction in America Spearheaded by the US-led War on Afghanistan

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– Heroin Addiction in America Spearheaded by the US-led War on Afghanistan:

Trump’s Hypocritical Concern

By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
In his 2018 State of the Union Address, president Trump expresses concern regarding both the opioid crisis as well as the dramatic increase in heroin addiction in America, without analyzing the underlying causes.

Trump State of Union Address: 

…”In 2016, we lost 64,000 Americans to drug overdoses:  174 deaths per day.  Seven per hour.  We must get much tougher on drug dealers and pushers if we are going to succeed in stopping this scourge.

My Administration is committed to fighting the drug epidemic and helping get treatment for those in need.  The struggle will be long and difficult — but, as Americans always do, we will prevail.” (Trump State of the Union, emphasis added)

Trump brings to the forefront the story of the Holets family of New Mexico:

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‘It’s about time the US realized it needs to get out of Afghanistan’

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– ‘It’s about time the US realized it needs to get out of Afghanistan’:

The US has no business in Afghanistan but it loves war and could be there for another 17 years, killing hundreds of thousands more people, according to Lew Rockwell, chairman of the Ludwig von Mises Institute.

The US State Department confirmed Tuesday that several Americans were among the victims in Saturday’s attack on a hotel in the Afghan capital, Kabul, where 22 people died in the overnight siege by Taliban militants, local officials said. On Wednesday, a suicide attacker detonated a car bomb next to the office of the humanitarian group Save the Children in Jalalabad.

Read more‘It’s about time the US realized it needs to get out of Afghanistan’

‘ISIS/Daesh Want to Give the Impression That Nowhere is Safe’ – Afghan Journalist

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– ‘Daesh Want to Give the Impression That Nowhere is Safe’ – Afghan Journalist:

Daesh has claimed responsibility for an attack on the offices of the international non-profit organisation, Save the Children. The attack has killed at least three people, and wounded upward of twenty five others. Sputnik spoke to Ali Latifi, an Afghanistan-based journalist, to find out more about Daesh’s presence in the war-torn country.

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H/t reader squodgy:

“So, tell me again, did America get rid of ISIS as they promised?”

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At Least 40 Killed In ISIS Suicide Bombings Of Kabul Cultural Center, News Organization

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– At Least 40 Killed In ISIS Suicide Bombings Of Kabul Cultural Center, News Organization:

For the second time in a month, fighters loyal to the Islamic State have conducted a deadly suicide bombing that killed at least 40 people at a Shiite cultural center and news organization in the Afghanistan capital.

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ISIS has over 10,000 fighters in Afghanistan, more arriving from Syria & Iraq – Moscow

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– ISIS has over 10,000 fighters in Afghanistan, more arriving from Syria & Iraq – Moscow:

The terrorist group Islamic State has over 10,000 loyal fighters in Afghanistan, and Moscow believes the US may be underestimating their threat, Russia’s special envoy says.

Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) was pushed out of their home base in Syria and Iraq this year by separate military operations of a US-led coalition, and the Syrian Army backed by Russia. Many of the IS fighters who fled those countries ended up in Afghanistan, where the terrorist group has as many as 10,000 troops at the moment, Zamir Kabulov, the head of the Middle East department in the Russian Foreign Ministry, said.

“Russia was among the first nations to ring alarm about the expansion of IS into Afghanistan,” he told RIA Novosti. “Lately IS has boosted its presence in the country. Our estimate is that their force there is stronger than 10,000 troops and is continuing to grow. That includes new fighters with combat experience received in Syria and Iraq.”

Read moreISIS has over 10,000 fighters in Afghanistan, more arriving from Syria & Iraq – Moscow

Pentagon Wants to Keep Report on Afghan Child Sex Abuse Classified

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Related info:

– Fighting for Pedophilia – It’s Official U.S. Government Policy to Allow Afghan “Allies” to Rape Little Boys

– US Soldiers Told To Ignore Rape Of Little Boys By Afghan Allies

– Afghanistan’s Dirty Little Secret: Destroying The Lives Of Thousands Upon Thousands Of Little Boys Who Are Victims Of Serial Rape Over Many Years

– State Department: Sexual Abuse Of Boys On The Rise In Afghanistan

– Murder, Mayhem and Rape in Afghanistan: Made in the U.S.A.

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– Pentagon Wants to Keep Report on Afghan Child Sex Abuse Classified:

Earlier this month, a Pentagon inspector general reported that several troops had been told to “ignore” any signs of Afghan security forces sexually abusing children, though the report insisted this was not a “formal guidance” from the Pentagon leadership.

A far more specific report from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), however, will not see the light of day at all if the Pentagon has anything to say about it, with the military leadership saying it needs to remain classified.

Senate officials, who requested the SIGAR inquiry in the first place, noted that the military was very opposed to having a second inquiry going separate from the internal inspector general probe. That’s unsurprising, as the Pentagon tends to be unhappy with SIGAR’s vocal criticism of the military’s misdeeds.

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The Saudi Purge And The Rothschild NWO And The Saudi Oil (Video)

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The Saudi Royal Family were Khazars, just like the Rothschilds.

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– The Saudi Purge and the Rothschild NWO and the Saudi Oil:

https://youtu.be/KmO8Lff1uqk

https://youtu.be/b1_FQxM3zeg

https://youtu.be/Umxs6Do8TwU

https://youtu.be/AWbe0d4_FJw

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Russia: ‘Unidentified Helicopters’ Transfering ISIS Members And Weapons In Afghanistan

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– Russia: ‘Unidentified Helicopters’ Transfering ISIS Members And Weapons In Afghanistan

H/t reader Squodgy:

“Sneaky.
More & more snippets are just helping to damn America’s credibility.”

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US Military Dropped 751 Bombs in Afghanistan in September

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– US Military Dropped 751 Bombs in Afghanistan in September:

The United States military has dropped a total of 751 bombs on Afghanistan in September, the highest monthly number in the past seven years, according to data by the US Air Forces Central Command.

The figure indicated a 50-percent increase from August (503 bombs), which the command attributed to President Donald Trump’s so-called “strategy to more proactively target extremist groups” in the country.

Since 2010, the highest number of bombs dropped on Afghanistan by the US military was 589 in August 2012, still over 150 less than September 2017.

The US has dropped a total 3,238 bombs in Afghanistan between January and September this year, more than two times the 1,337 dropped the year before.

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ISIL Seeking to Get into Russia Using Foothold in Afghanistan

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– ISIL Seeking to Get into Russia Using Foothold in Afghanistan:

TEHRAN (FNA)- Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) Director Alexander Bortnikov said on Wednesday that the ISIL (Daesh) has given up the idea of establishing a caliphate in the Middle East and now is trying to create a global terrorist network using their foothold in Afghanistan to plot attacks in many states, including Russia.

“The bandits are most actively moving (from Syria and Iraq) to the territory of Afghanistan, where ISIL’s positions have already been established, from where they receive the opportunity to infiltrate into Central Asia, Iran, China, and India. Using the Afghan foothold, the terrorists are also attempting to carry out attacks against Russia,” Bortnikov said at a meeting of Russia’s special services chiefs in the city of Krasnodar, Sputnik reported.

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Afghanistan pull-out would be ‘to our ultimate peril’: Mattis

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– Afghanistan pull-out would be ‘to our ultimate peril’: Mattis:

US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has warned that an American withdrawal from Afghanistan would be “to our ultimate peril,” weeks after President Donald Trump announced to prolong the Afghan war, which he once described as a “complete waste.”

“Based on intelligence community analysis and my own evaluation, I am convinced we would absent ourselves from this region at our peril,” Mattis said on Tuesday while briefing the US Congress on plans to increase American troop levels in the South Asian country.

The Trump administration recently announced plans to send an additional 3,000 troops to Afghanistan where the US already has 11,000 forces.

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H/t reader squodgy:

“OF COURSE IT WILL.”

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Cynthia McKinney: So much for draining the swamp and an end to regime change wars….

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Donald and the Clintons are not only very good friends, they are also distant cousins….

“Both the real estate tycoon and former Secretary of State are the direct descendants of 14th century 1st Duke of Lancaster John of Gaunt and his third wife Katherine Swynford, according to the ancestry site MyHeritage.com.

Clinton claims the lineage to her 18th great-grandparents through the Rodham family of her father’s side while Trump is related to her through his mother Mary Anne Macleod, who was born in Scotland. 

The common relative means that the Democrat and Republican are 19th cousins. “

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