[KhaamaPress] Defense Ministry of Australia confirmed that its servicemen have left Afghanistan in recent weeks which brought its military presence in the war-battered country officially to an end.
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Well Afghanistan, we put up a good fight on your behalf to free you from Al Quida & Taliban, and teach you how to defend yourselves but to no avail... After 20 years, its time to go, you are on your own... Good Luck Mates, Bye.
[KhaamaPress] Pakistain ambassador to Kabul Mansoor Ahmad Khan expressed concern over the recent armed uprising of people (militias) against the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... will put Afghanistan’s security situation even hazardous.
Mansoor Ahmad Khan has said that if the ongoing war changes into that between the Taliban and the armed uprisings (militias), it will plunge Afghanistan into serious dangers.
The Pak ambassador to Kabul in an interview with La Belle France Press called on international community to work for strengthening Afghan National Defense and Security Forces.
Afghan government reacted to the recent statements of ambassador and asked Pakistain to stop supporting the Taliban and giving them sanctuaries.
Deputy Spokesperson of Ministry of Defense of Afghanistan Fawad Aman has said that Pakistain does not have to worry about the recent uprisings in Afghanistan.
Aman added that the safe havens of the Taliban in Pakistain should be demolished to stop bloodshed in Afghanistan.
Pakistain expressed its concern over people taking weapons against the Taliban at a time when thousands of people stood and took weapons to protect their residence and fight against the Talibs.
Afghan 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... had also assured international community to better manage the fresh mobilization and had added that Afghan National Army has the capacity to enlist up to 30,000 local army personnel.
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The article below the source article states the 10th Mountain Division is on standby for a return to Afghanistan if necessary. The article states:
Afghanistan’s other allies, Russia and China had also criticized US withdrawal from Afghanistan. The earlier had dubbed it a failure while the latter had said that the move will leave mess for Afghans and for countries in the region. (https://www.khaama.com/us-may-return-to-afghanistan-to-suppress-taliban-464/)
Cui bono? Afghanistan, Russia, China and Pakistan? Not the U.S.
Today (7/12), the 10th Mountain Division is 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum is welcoming a new commander in a change of leadership ceremony. This ceremony will recognize the outgoing Commander Major General Brian J. Mennes and welcoming the incoming Commander Brigadier General Milford H. Beagle, Jr.
Return to hell? Most likely that ship has sailed after 20 years.
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The article below the source article states the 10th Mountain Division is on standby for a return to Afghanistan if necessary.
Eh? The photo attached to that article is of the 10th Mountain Division returning from Afghanistan last December. I missed anything about them going back.
[ToloNews] Amid questions over the formation of public uprising forces and doubts about their capability, sources from within these fighters' ranks said on Sunday that they are struggling with a lack of military equipment to fight against the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... They said they have repeatedly asked the government’s high-ranking officials to provide military equipment and weapons to the forces, but their requests have not been heard so far.
While dozens of fighters have pledged loyalty to former vice president Marshal Abdul Rashid Dostum ...ethnic Uzbek warlord who distinguished himself fighting the Soviets and the Taliban. The story that he had a bad guy run over with a tank is an exaggeration. It was an armored personnel carrier... in the northern provinces against the Taliban, an aide to Dostum said that the government has not met its commitment to support the public uprising forces.
"We contacted them repeatedly. We asked senior security authorities, including the defense minister, the national security adviser, the NDS chief and the interior minister from the address of the High Council for National Reconciliation and the parliament, but unfortunately, they are not paying the required attention to equip and supply the public uprising forces," said Enayatullah Babur Farahmand, a member of the leadership council of Junbish-e-Milli and the deputy head of the High Council for National Reconciliation.
"These forces will prove effective and the enemy will not succeed if they are not provided more support," said Murtaza Jalali, a media adviser to Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... ’s faction led by Ata Mohammad Noor.
...alternately Atta Muhammad Noor, the ethnic Tajik from Balkh province who fought against the Soviets in the Mujahideen — they called him The Teacher for his passion for educating the fighters — then against the Taliban in the Northern Alliance. After the Taliban were defeated Hamid Karzai appointed him governor of Balkh, whereupon he introduced stability and erased poppy cultivation...
Thousands of people have taken up arms in recent weeks in various provinces of the country to fight the Taliban following advances by the group in many provinces. Most of these forces have been formed in northern Afghanistan.
"We are defending our soil. We are defending the people, the flag and this homeland," said a public uprising forces member.
"We have police, NDS and army forces. They are faced with problems in management. How will we manage those people who have taken up arms to fight the Taliban?" asked Mirza Mohammad Yarmand, a military analyst.
The Afghan National Defense and Security Forces front man Gen. Ajmal Omar Shinwari confirmed in a briefing with news hounds that public uprising forces have not received equipment.
"Weapons and equipment are not handed over to anyone except when they have military training," he said.
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I suppose it would be impolite to ask where all of our money has gone for the last 20 years?
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"Weapons and equipment are not handed over to anyone except when they have military training," he said.
Compare that situation to:
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed."
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Just send someone on a shopping run to Peshawar — they’ll have everything wanted, and at very reasonable prices, too.
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sources from within these fighters' ranks said on Sunday that they are struggling with a lack of military equipment will to fight against the Taliban
[ToloNews] The Taliban ...Arabic for students... on Sunday announced its opposition to an agreement between the US and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... for the latter to take over security of Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ...A product, and probably the sole product, of the Southern Alliance... International Airport, with a front man of the group saying that they are against the presence of any foreign troops after the given deadline for their withdrawal from Afghanistan.
The US and coalition forces are expected to fully leave by August 31. Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important... has said that an agreement has been reached over the post-withdrawal Kabul airport security.
"If they remain within the framework of NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... or Turkey or any other country, it will not be acceptable both for the people of Afghanistan and for the Taliban," former Taliban commander Sayed Akbar Agha said.
Erdogan announced the agreement on July 9.
"Our defense minister met with the US defense secretary, and we had a meeting with US and NATO to discuss the future of the Hamid Karzai International Airport," Erdogan said on July 9. "We decided on what we accept in this respect and which conditions we don’t agree upon."
The Afghan government welcomed the move. The Civil Aviation Authority on Sunday said that a new defense system has been activated at Hamid Karzai International Airport.
"We welcome friendly countries for their cooperation in strengthening the capacity and management of the control of airports," Defense Ministry’s front man Rohullah Ahmadzai said.
The new defense system at the Kabul airport has been established with the help of Afghanistan’s allies, a government front man said.
"Right now, our foreign allies are cooperating with us so that we can find the capacity to use the weapon (defense system)," said Gen. Ajmal Shinwari, a front man for the government forces.
Turkey has been helping in Hamid Karzai Airport’s security since 2013, officials said.
"It creates some type of concern--why are they trying to secure their route? For fleeing? On the other hand, it is a type of hope as it gives a feeling of the international community’s presence," said retired general Zahir Azimi.
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Afghani trade routes, important population centers, media and communications infrastructure already in Taliban control. The majority of Afghanistan is already preparing for a Taliban regime. Government officials, soldiers, journalists and citizens trying to get while they can.
All the hype and reports of 'outstanding warfare' by the Afghans, financed with American money most of which I'm sure went into bank accounts and property in England. After all that hoopla fed to the world about containment, another fine experiment by the five sided puzzle box and their Democrat enablers finally comes to an end.
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the taliban could care less about the Uighers.
The Taliban welcomed a contingent of Uighurs to Afghanistan as Al Qaeda allies when they ruled the country, and the Uighurs remain there still — in Badakshan, listed under Tehrik-e-Taliban in the Al Qaeda organization table. They sent a group to Syria to help Al Nusra fight Assad — they keep busy in Idlib nowadays. They call themselves the Turkistan Islamic Party, and there is only a small remnant left in Xinjiang.
So the Taliban won’t be much interested in the fate of the Uighurs in China, except as an excuse, but they’re awfully fond of the ones they have locally.
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So the Taliban won’t be much interested in the fate of the Uighurs in China, except as an excuse, but they’re awfully fond of the ones they have locally.
I have little doubt they're interested. Not as a humanitarian matter so much as a potential addition to their territory. East Turkistan Xinjiang, even after the territory annexed to existing Chinese provinces, is more than 2x the size of Afghanistan. We see borders as fixed. The Taliban probably doesn't. And why would they? East Turkistan was conquered at gunpoint. It's always been the land of the Mongols/Turks. The Chinese own it now, but they did not always own it and who knows what the future brings?
[OneIndia] The 'pressure fuse' used in the bombs that were dropped on the Indian Air Force station in Jammu through drones in a first-of-its-kind attack indicates that some elements of the Pakistain army or the ISI helped terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... in fabricating the IEDs, according to security sources.
The improvised bomb (IED) that pierced the rooftop of one of the IAF buildings at the Jammu airport carried less than one kg of RDX and a cocktail of other chemicals whereas the one that was dropped on the ground contained a little over one kg of the deadly explosives along with some ball bearings, they said.
The sources said the IED used in the June 27 attack on the IAF station "definitely" used the technical expertise of the Pak military. The 'pressure fuse' used is similar to the ones used by the Mighty Pak Army.
A 'pressure fuse' is generally used in minefields, anti-tank mines and those dropped by the air force in the fuselage between the explosive and main detonator of a shell or an IED.
The bombs are activated by the pressure of either falling on the ground with force or some individual or vehicle passing over it. However, nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... in these sophisticated IEDs, the 'pressure fuse' had been deployed at the nose of the bombs so that they trigger with a force after falling on the ground, the sources said. Most of the artillery shells and mortar bombs have this type of fuse and that's why they don't explode in the air but on impact, they explained.
Director General of Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... Police Dilbag Singh had said earlier that Pakistain-based holy warriors of Lashkar-e-Taiba were suspected to be behind the bombing of the IAF station in Jammu through drones, which may have come from across the border.
The National Investigation Agency took over the investigation into what was the first instance of Pakistain-based holy warriors deploying drones to strike vital installations in India on June 29.
Two IAF personnel were maimed in the earth-shattering kabooms that took place within six minutes of each other. The first blast ripped off the roof of a single-storey building at the technical area of the airport manned by the IAF in Satwari on the outskirts of Jammu. The second one was on the ground.
It is mentionable that Pakistain has been procuring armed drones from China and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... of late. The sources said drones can fly up to three hours and can be monitored and manoeuvred remotely through Global Positioning System technology.
The aerial distance from the Jammu airport to the international border is 14 km.
[Rudaw] The pilot of a drone that targeted Erbil airport late last Tuesday must have been nearby, likely close enough to see the airport given the range and model of the drone that was used, an American drone expert told Rudaw.
"That drone is meant to carry about 10 to 15 pounds of weight, and when you carry that type of weight, that significantly changes the distance that that drone can fly," former US army intelligence and special operations soldier Brett Velicovich told Rudaw’s Roj Zalla.
"That drone more than likely was not flown from further than ten miles away, so whoever was flying that particular drone was probably pretty close to the target because that drone does not have a long range," he added. "Drones that have long-range typically, you see them - they are more like a fixed-wing type of aircraft, they are not quadcopters... you typically see most quadcopters stay under ten miles, closer even to four, five miles."
"The first thing I noticed immediately was that there was somebody probably very, very close controlling that drone, and more than likely could even potentially see the target that they were going at," Velicovich said.
An explosives-laden drone hit Erbil International Airport, which hosts US-led coalition troops, late on Tuesday, causing a fire at the site but no casualties or physical damage. It came less than 24 hours after an "airborne threat" was shot down over the US embassy in Baghdad.
Three rockets were fired the day before at Ain al-Asad airbase.
Velicovich said the main issue with those quadcopter drones is that they can "evade air defenses pretty well."
"That is very dangerous because these air defenses are out there looking for mortars, they are looking for aircraft, they are looking for massive rockets, and when a drone flies through that it is very difficult to detect," he said.
[YNet] - Foreign Minister Yair Lapid Monday addressed 26 European foreign ministers in a speech to the EU Foreign Affairs Council, where he addressed the two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Lapid said that it is "no secret" that he supports the proposal, but added that conditions are currently not ripe for a peace deal. Don't call us - we'll call you. p.s. How're things in uncovered meat sector?
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#Iran's parliament is working on a law that, if passed, will ban any negotiations between Iranian and American officials. The Iranian officials who violate the law will be sacked and prosecuted.
The motion is apparently targeting the Raisi administration
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Hey, Iran, It's OK, Don't Negotiate, because it is not the US Government you have to worry about, its the financial supporters of governments around the world that are the issue, you are cutting off their bread & butter... and if they do not like it ... guess what...
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...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important....jpg "Kashmir")
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