[ToloNews] At least 650 US troops are expected to remain in Afghanistan to provide security for diplomats following the completion of the American force withdrawal from the country, The News Agency that Dare Not be Named reported on Thursday, quoting US officials.
This comes amidst a sharp rise in Taliban ...Arabic for students... attacks on Afghan forces that have led to the fall of many districts to the group. But, on the other hand, thousands of Afghans have taken up arms to support the security forces in the fight against the Taliban.
US officials who spoke on condition of anonymity said that overall, the US expects to have American and coalition military command, its leadership and most troops out by July Fourth, or shortly after that, meeting an aspirational deadline that commanders developed months ago.
The News Agency that Dare Not be Named quotes US officials as saying that says that several hundred additional US troops will remain at the Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ...One of the more egregious mistakes of the post 9-11 era... International Airport in Kabul, potentially until September, as a temporary move until a more formal The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... -led security operation is in place.
Quoted by The News Agency that Dare Not be Named the US officials who spoke on condition of anonymity said that overall, the US expects to have American and coalition military command, its leadership and most troops out by July Fourth, or shortly after that, meeting an aspirational deadline that commanders developed months ago.
This comes as US Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday met with President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money... , Abdullah Abdullah ...the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against both Karzai and Ghani. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun. He also held the meaningless salaried sop position as CEO of Afghanistan, while Ghani was president... Chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation and other Afghan officials who accompany the president in his two-day visit to the United States.
In the meeting with President Ghani at the Capitol, McConnell said he hopes President Joe Biden ...... 46th president of the U.S. We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created ... by the — you know — you know, the thing...... will delay the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan.
"As President Ghani and the Afghan people know, the threats we face from terrorism and tyranny have not been defeated," he said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth ordered the entire 614th quadrant searched. The Green Lensman must be found!... US Senator Jim Risch, ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, in a meeting with Afghan leaders also expressed his concerns about the situation in Afghanistan and said "there are options in-between departing Afghanistan entirely or remaining there forever."
"I am concerned this decision severely hampers any chances of a negotiated peace, and puts our hard-fought counterterrorism gains at risk," Risch said.
US and coalition forces started withdrawal from Afghanistan in May. According to US Central Command, over 50 percent of the withdrawal has been completed.
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just the usual bullshit. goddamn I'm tired of reading the same bullshit year after year on different subjects that have the same outcome. I bought an F-15 this morning,anyone got a nuke to go with it?
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erent subjects that have the same outcome. I bought an F-15 this morning
What colour is yours, Chris? I was thinking of going old school, maybe turquoise or lime green.
#9
^ It takes trillions. Imagine investing that into cures for disease or getting to outer space or AI. Anything that payed even the modest dividend of learning something.
#12
The individuals on the ground have been amazing. There was never really any imperative for leadership and lords to, to use a quaint olde world term, win.
It is amazing the amount of good will and enthusiasm absolutely fugged away in 20 years.
#13
The Baby Boomers missed the part where we bombed the f*ed out of the Germans and Japanese before engaging in 'nation building' as an afterthought. There was no sanctuary base of operations in any neighboring states.
#14
the poetry ...
"When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains.
Just roll to your rifle and blow out your brains.
And go to your g-d like a soldier."
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Tw, I got it in candy apple read. I'm getting chrome rims on it as we speak. Curb feelers are next.
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#13, don't blame us Baby Boomers. We were the cannon fodder. The O-5's on up and the politicians were WW2 and KW holdovers. It was on them. They forgot about winning and keeping or controlling the spoils.
#18
^ Exactly. And the Dims are leaving 600 of our kids in a shit hole without a mission or a plan other than Biden getting his kicks of being over the military now and our young people are wondering what the hell are they doing there.
#20
Candy apple red, Chris? A classic! But you know that makes it look like it’s going faster at every speed — take care you don’t get pulled over. Curb feelers are new to me, car fancification not being an interest of mine, but it seems a thing Mr. Wife might have found useful for me, once upon a time.
And go to your g-d like a soldier."
Is there ever a time when Kipling is not appropriate, irish rage boy?
#22
I've been a bad boy today, after reading that Chris & Tw both were ordering F-15s, Isplurged a bit today and bought 3 in my favorite colors, red, yellow and orange; and the organge one came with a free load of ordnance ---wow how luck can a guy get.
Yeah, I'm showing off the buy, hope you are not jealous.
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I fixed that second link, Gerthudion Smiter of the Bunions1743. You pasted the URL next to the placeholder http: instead of on top of it, so the internet couldn’t read it.
Via Bulgarian journalist Ruslan Trad [STJ-SY] Introduction
Parties in the Libyan conflict reached a permanent ceasefire agreement across the country on 23 October 2020.[1] The agreement contained a term on the removal of various groups of foreign forces and mercenaries from the country before 23 January 2021. However, Syrians for Truth and Justice (STJ) obtained information verifying that recruitment drives and mercenary deployment to Libya are still underway.
Hundreds of Syrians were transferred to Libya by armed Syrian groups and Russian security companies between 23 October 2020 and early April 2021. Furthermore, STJ discovered that the large percentage of recruits sent to Libya during the recent period were civilians from several Syrian provinces, including the countryside of Damascus, As-Suwayda, Deir ez-Zor, and Raqqa, as well as the city of Palmyra in Homs province. Notably, most of these provinces are controlled by the Syrian government.
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[LB] Two metropolitan police officers could be involved in bringing to Ukraine three contract killers of one of the leaders of the Balkan drug clan, Radoje Zwitzer, who was attacked in Kyiv last year . Deliver Balkans in Ukraine these police officers were allegedly asked by deputy assistant head Kyiv police Eugene Dade County, said the investigation "Slidstvo.info" .
In early May 2020, two Serbs and one Montenegrin entered Ukraine illegally. In the Chernivtsi region, they got into a gray Toyota Highlander, where two Ukrainians were waiting for them. After that, the passengers moved to another car, a Toyota Sequoia, where there were also two Ukrainian citizens - police officers Rostyslav Chornobrovy and Semen Gordienko. They drove to Kyiv together, but the Balkans got out of the car at the entrance to the capital.
In Ukraine, another accomplice was waiting for the Balkans - a citizen of Montenegro. In Kyiv, the four began preparing for the assassination of the leader of the Kavach drug clan, Zwitzer.
Since 2019, Zvitser has lived in Kyiv with his wife and children. Every day at the same time he went out with his family for a walk in the residential complex "Novopecherskie Lipki". It was during such a walk on May 26, 2020 that Zwitzer was attacked. The killers came to the LCD in a Smart car and opened fire. Zwitzer was hit by five bullets, but he survived. During the attack, the Zwitzer's wife Tamara was shot dead by the killers. The gun that the woman took for a walk has not yet been found. Tamara in the case is a victim.
After the shooting, the killers jumped into the "Smart" and fled. Then they set fire to the car, but law enforcement officers managed to find a weapon in the cabin, a redesigned Scorpion vz.61 submachine gun and a Ukrainian Fort-12RM pistol with silencers.
Probable killers managed to escape from Kyiv. After the assassination attempt, they were taken away by a Toyota Sequoia car, the same one on which they were taken to the Ukrainian capital from Chernivtsi region.
"During the night, they were driving in the direction of Odessa, accompanied by two Kyiv police officers Rostsilav Chornobrovy and Semyon Gordienko, who were already familiar. Almost near Odessa, they were detained by a special KORD police unit. Chernobrovy was released after the incident, "the journalists said.
[AlAhram] 'We are proud to mark the relocation of 4,000 people from Greece during trying times and are confident that we can do more together with Greece, our partners and governments across Europe', said IOM chief Gianluca Rocco
More than 4,000 asylum seekers have been relocated from Greece to other EU countries since April 2020, United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... agencies said Thursday.
Forty-three asylum-seekers flew from Greece to La Belle France during the day, said a statement from the UN Refugees agency, the International Organization for Migration and UNICEF children's fund.
Since the start of the EU-funded initiative in April last year, 1,628 refugees, 1,531 asylum-seekers and 849 unaccompanied children have moved from Greece to other EU countries.
Athens said last month the number of asylum-seekers on its islands had fallen below 10,000 for the first time since Europe's migration crisis began in 2015 -- down from nearly 20,000 people in November 2018.
"European states demonstrate vital solidarity with Greece's communities through the relocation of refugees and vulnerable asylum seekers, and such efforts should become the norm and be expanded", said Mireille Girard, UNHCR representative in Greece.
Germany, La Belle France, Portugal, Finland, Belgium, Ireland, Norway, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Italia, the Netherlands, Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... and Luxembourg have taken in those relocated, the statement said.
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We are proud to mark the relocation of 4,000 people from Greece
Thousands of potential stabbers, rapists, stranglers, muscle for local crime, bombers and conspirators to make life just a bit more dangerous for sorry inhabitants of the EU.
[IsraelTimes] German politician says the move will send ’a clear signal to our Jewish citizens’ after several antisemitic pro-Paleostinian rallies in the country.
Germany’s Bundestag lower house of parliament passed a law on Friday outlawing symbols of groups designated as terrorist organizations by the EU, including the Paleostinian Islamist movement Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw,.
The new law, which must still be approved by the Bundesrat upper house, also outlaws symbols of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), listed as a terrorist group by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... and its Western allies.
Previously, only symbols of organizations banned by Germany had been prohibited.
The move comes after several violent mostly peaceful and antisemitic pro-Paleostinian rallies were held in Germany during the flareup of violence between Israel and Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... in May.
Thorsten Frei, a politician for Chancellor Angela Merkel ...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom. Now they make faces at her for inundating the country with Moslem colonists... ’s CDU, told Die Welt newspaper last week that the government wanted to ban the Hamas flag in response to the demonstrations.
"We do not want the flags of terrorist organizations to be waved on German soil," he said, adding that a ban would send "a clear signal to our Jewish citizens."
Germany saw several demonstrations during the 11 days of fighting between Israel and Hamas in May, with protesters shouting antisemitic slogans, burning Israeli flags and damaging the entrance to a synagogue with stones.
At one protest in Berlin, 59 people were arrested and dozens of coppers injured as protesters threw stones, bottles and fireworks.
The Central Council of Jews in Germany said it had received "a torrent of the most vile antisemitic insults" on social media.
Council President Josef Schuster urged the police to take a hard line against antisemitism and said the events had been "reminiscent of the darkest times in German history."
Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said Germany would crack down hard on anyone found to be spreading "antisemitic hatred."
"We will not tolerate Israeli flags burning on German soil and Jewish institutions being attacked," he told the Bild am Sonntag newspaper.
Far-left activist @shaunking wants justice for a Brooklyn George Floyd statue that was vandalized with spray paint. But last year he demanded statues of Jesus be torn down https://t.co/hL56w0cEd6
In case you've forgotten, Shaun's another Pretend Negro, providing much-needed leadership for The Movement® Talcum X
The George Floyd statue that was unveiled on Juneteenth in Brooklyn was discovered vandalized around 7:20AM today. Floyd's face and pedestal was spray painted black with the wording "https://t.co/DL4ztbsbk5" spray painted in white. pic.twitter.com/L5V83Tnpxr
[NATION.PK] Special Representative to Prime Minister on Religious Affairs Hafiz Tahir Mahmood Ashrafi has said that all madaris boards and organizations in the country agree that action should be taken under the law if any illegal activity takes place in any religious seminary.
Addressing a presser at Jamia Manzoorul Islamiyah here on Friday, he said that people all over the world committed crimes but their institutions were not held responsible for their individual acts.
He said that the teacher of the madrasa had been fired for committing an illegal and immoral act, and thus the institution had done its job. He said that the religious class had no relationship with criminals.
He said about 1,000 to 5,000 students and 300 to 400 teachers were the normal strength of religious seminaries, adding that there were 30,000 religious seminaries in the country where around 3 million students were studying. "That does not mean everyone is bad in madrasas," he added.
[NATION.PK] Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar chaired a meeting at his office on Friday to review the overall law and order situation in the province including investigations into the Johar Town kaboom.
Punjab IG police, Additional IGs of Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) and Special Branch and other officials concerned attended the meeting.
The CM termed the Johar Town blast a test case for the law enforcement agencies and directed them to move forward in an organised manner. "All-out efforts should be ensured to save the life and property of the people. Police’s obligation is to perform their duties efficiently," he stressed.
A report was presented before the meeting about the progress made during investigations of the Johar Town blast. The CM expressed satisfaction and directed to employ scientific methods. He further directed to increase police patrolling, adding that the law enforcement agencies should pull out all the stops to foil the nefarious designs of the anti-state elements.
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[NATION.PK] NEW YORK - Pakistain will do everything to promote a political settlement of the long-running conflict in Afghanistan, except the use of military action against the Taliban ...Arabic for students... , Prime Minister Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree... said in an interview with an influential American naewspaper.
"I mean, we will do everything up to that. All sections of our society have decided that Pakistain will take no military action," he said in a conversation with two New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... journalists in a video call.
Speaking to the prime minister were Yara Bayoumy, the Times’ world and national security editor, and Jyoti Thottam, the newspaper’s deputy Op-Ed editor.
The interview was published ahead of US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant... or is that an act?... ’s meeting with top Afghan leaders- President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money... and Chairman of Afghanistan’s High Council for National Reconciliation Abdullah Abdullah ...the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against both Karzai and Ghani. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun. He also held the meaningless salaried sop position as CEO of Afghanistan, while Ghani was president... - at the White House later Friday.
American officials have said they will discuss the US troops’ withdrawal amid a surge in fighting between the Afghan forces and the Taliban across the country. Imran Khan said Pakistain had used the "maximum leverage" it could on the Taliban to bring them to negotiating table with the United States and then with the Afghan government.
"Unfortunately," he said, "there is still a feeling in the Afghan government that Pakistain could do more, which I have to say is very disappointing to us when they blame us for being unable to, after so many years, to come to some sort of a settlement."
Replying to a question, the prime minister said Pakistain had been in constant communication with the Afghan government at different levels. Asked whether his government would recognise the Taliban if they carried a full military takeover in Afghanistan, the prime minister said, " Pakistain will only recognise a government which is chosen by the people of Afghanistan, whichever government they choose."
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and then his lips fell off
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All sections of our society have decided that Pakistain will take no military action
Says the country that gets ass raped every war it fights.
[IsraelTimes] After false story picked up by some Hebrew media, Lapid says people spreading rumors are deliberately trying to undermine new Israeli government and ties to US.
The US State Department on Friday denied that the Biden crime family administration ...knaves, footpads, and adjusters employed by the Biden Crime Family. They leave a trail of havoc everywhere they turn their attention, be it the nation's borders, the Keystone XL Pipeline, or epidemics, sometimes on purpose, most times through sheer arrogant ineptitude. They learnt this stuff in college, you know... planned to rescind recognition of Israeli illusory sovereignty over the Golan Heights, after a false report sparked an uproar in Israel.
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You can hit virtually every place in Israel with a 105 from the Golan Heights. If the Syrians wanted to keep them so badly, they should have behaved more responsibly.
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Capturing territory by military force and then annexing it? Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't that why we joined WWII, to put a stop to that?
That's actually the practical basis for the territorial boundaries of every nation on earth. The reason for every war is piled high and deep with flowery rhetoric, but the ultimate reason any country risks its future - the lives of its young men - is parochial interest. And there's nothing wrong with that. If I am not for myself, who will be for me?
We didn't enter the war in Europe, Germany and Italy declared war on the United States. It came to us. Yeah, I know FDR was egging them on, but even he knew he couldn't get a declaration of war against them with the focus on Japan and Pearl Harbor.
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Capturing territory by military force and then annexing it? Correct me if I'm wrong
As I recall, Israeli tanks got as far as within 20 kilometers of Damascus before stopping because a truce was forced upon them, yet they only retained the heights of Golan overlooking the Israeli farms below.
Ditto Israeli tanks and Cairo, where they only kept the Sinai when the war was over, and most of that they traded to Egypt for peace.
So Israel in both cases could have completely conquered each country, yet did not do so and did not keep nearly as much territory as they’d overrun. Your initial assumption is incorrect, Knuckles Slererong5344. Consider yourself corrected at the front end as well as the rear of your argument.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...... 46th president of the U.S. 
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...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell...
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
[NATION.PK] Special Representative to Prime Minister on Religious Affairs Hafiz Tahir Mahmood Ashrafi has said that all madaris boards and organizations in the country agree that action should be taken under the law if any illegal activity takes place in any religious seminary.
...46th president of the U.S. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call 
American officials have said they will discuss the US troops’ withdrawal amid a surge in fighting between the Afghan forces and the Taliban across the country. Imran Khan said Pakistain had used the "maximum leverage" it could on the Taliban to bring them to negotiating table with the United States and then with the Afghan government.
...knaves, footpads, and 
