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Bomb explodes in northern gate of Kabul airport
Today's Headlines

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Page 1: WoT Operations
Fifth Column Update: Incredible: The Biden-Occupied Government Gave the Names of Our Afghan Allies (and Green Card Holders) to the Taliban, So They Could... Help Us Get Them to the Airport	9 23:24 Rex Mundi [1795]
Breaking: Four Marines dead in Kabul airport bombing	61 23:36 Rex Mundi [1792]
BREAKING: Chaos and Confusion at the Kabul Airport as the 82nd Airborne Begins Evacuation Ahead of Schedule	3 13:59 Deacon Blues [1765]
JUST IN: Bomb explodes in northern gate of Kabul airport	20 20:15 CrazyFool [1826]
Nancy Pelosi: ‘Hopefully,' White House Can Evacuate ‘All' Americans from Afghanistan	12 17:03 Lowspark [1758]
The Taliban take a captured $6m US-made Blackhawk helicopter for a joyride, and unveil more special forces with night vision - amid fears they have amassed 200,000 American-supplied guns and 150 aircraft	4 12:19 swksvolFF [1756]
US Army's 'Night Stalkers' unit that assassinated bin Laden used its Little Bird helicopters to help German commandos evacuate their citizens from Kabul	6 18:06 swksvolFF [1757]
UK minister: There could be a highly lethal terror attack within hours	4 08:14 Skidmark [1761]
Blackwater founder Erik Prince offers evacuation flights from Kabul for $6,500 per person	10 14:26 Skidmark [1766]
Serious violence averted as over 1,000 Palestinians protest on Gaza border	0 [1788]
France vows Afghanistan evacuation to last ‘as long as possible’	0 [1763]
Good Morning	11 13:04 Frank G [1755]
'They Will Be The First To Die': Oklahoma Mom Who Rescued Afghan Girls, Now Helping Save Over 200 Female Afghan Judges	6 23:00 Dron66046 [1784]
Anti-Taliban fighters prepare to defend to defend Panjshir Province	1 02:58 borgboy [1791]
Dozens of California students, parents stranded in Afghanistan after summer trip abroad	13 18:46 M. Murcek [1763]
Screw Biden: CIA and US Troops Are Conducting Rescue Operations to Evacuate Stranded Americans	13 17:04 Chris [1760]
Reuters photojournalist left behind enemy lines killed and mutilated by Taliban	2 06:15 Skidmark [1751]
Iraqi security forces destroy ISIS headquarters in Salahuddin	0 [1746]
Fighting escalates in de-escalation zone	0 [1750]
SDF arrests ISIS members in Syria's Deir ez-Zor	0 [1762]
Iran-backed factions resume shelling Syria's Daraa after agreement collapses	0 [1752]
Escalation in Syria's north reveals secret Turkish-Russian agreements	0 [1761]
Turkish forces bomb Syria's Tel Abyad countryside	0 [1756]
Palestinian shot by IDF Saturday at Gaza security fence died from his wounds today, was member of Hamas' al-Qassam Brigades	0 [1752]
Turkey evacuates its military from Kabul Airport	0 [1787]
Report: Biden Plans to Bring 50K Afghans to U.S. Without Visas	3 08:04 Rob Crawford [1792]
A number of important ISIL commanders were assassinated outside of Bagram prison	4 17:38 Procopius2k [1786]
Page 2: WoT Background
Report: Corrupt Ex-President Hamid Karzai Slinks onto Taliban Ruling Council	7 16:17 Lord Garth [1755]
REVEALED: Naturalized Americans could have their citizenship revoked if secret DHS program hosted by Amazon flags their social media or other personal data as a threat	5 20:30 Mercutio [1769]
Israeli Prime Minister Neftali Bennett To Meet With US President Joe Biden At The White House (Foreign Brief)	7 14:37 Skidmark [1748]
Algeria severs diplomatic ties with Morocco	0 [1757]
Afghans with legal papers will be able to travel beyond August 31:Taliban	1 19:16 Gerthudion the Prolific5181 [1751]
Lebanese lawyers sue British firm over Beirut blast in 2020	0 [1758]
Iraqi parliamentarians call on Erbil, Baghdad to deter Turkish attacks	0 [1759]
Accounts of HTS prisons in Syria's Idlib	0 [1751]
Blinken says there is a ''very real possibility'' of an attack by the ISIS branch in Afghanistan	5 18:59 M. Murcek [1796]
Egypt has conveyed stern warnings to both Israel and Hamas to maintain calm at the Gaza border	2 05:06 Dron66046 [1788]
Nigel Farage: 'No way' British parliament would vote for military cooperation with America under Biden admin	4 08:59 Procopius2k [1794]
Page 3: Non-WoT
The CDC Only Tracks a Fraction of Breakthrough COVID-19 Infections, Even as Cases Surge	9 18:52 M. Murcek [1745]
Japan: Moderna contamination may impact vaccination drive	0 [1759]
Death Valley hikers die on same trail days apart amid hot temperatures	17 20:28 Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 [1777]
Exclusive: Samples From Early Wuhan COVID Patients Had Genetically Modified Henipah, One of Two Types of Viruses Sent From Canadian Lab	1 14:02 Bobby [1744]
Tokyo's Medical Assoc. Chairman holds live press conference recommending #ivermectin to all doctors, for all Covid patients.	4 13:24 Thing From Snowy Mountain [1750]
[Not just a bong song] Smoke on the water: Lake Tahoe now has the worst air quality in the WORLD thanks to wildfires with locals warned to stay indoors	9 15:49 NoMoreBS [1744]
Dominion CEO John Poulos broke down in tears in front of his family and started screaming at the TV during Rudy Giuliani's 'sweaty' press conference where he accused the voting machines of rigging the vote for Biden	8 17:10 M. Murcek [1765]
Catherine Leroy - The first female war correspondent to make a combat jump	4 20:07 Skidmark [1780]
Arkansas detention center doctor is treating COVID positive inmates with cow deworming drug FDA warns is dangerous – as people in Oklahoma flock to feed stores to buy it	8 17:02 Dale [1761]
SaNOtize - More on COVID treatment regimes	6 17:42 Lord Garth [1751]
Murders of Colombia activists fell in first half, but violence persists -ombudsman	0 [1753]
FEMA 2014 Pandemic - Influenza Continuity of Operations Planning	1 15:31 Snake-eyes [1750]
Biden White House Approves Licensing Deal For Chinese Communist Party-Linked Huawei, Reversing Trump	2 13:26 Lord Garth [1747]
Shooter opened fire on Miami Beach tourist, danced over body	16 23:17 JohnQC [1779]
Man who doused stranger with scalding liquid in NYC busted	4 09:46 trailing wife [1748]
Woke Brandeis University expands list of words, phrases to avoid using	7 15:48 JohnQC [1751]
Now they are being downright romantic	1 06:35 Skidmark [1760]
The cops who couldn't shoot straight: NYPD is giving new recruits guns that are easier to fire in a bid to improve accuracy after missing targets on half of all fired shots last year	17 16:35 SteveS [1759]
Taliban likely to get a seat on UN Commission on Women	2 06:41 Skidmark [1751]
Meet Bessé: 7,200-year-old skeleton of a young female discovered in a cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is identified as a 'new type of ancient human' called the Toaleans - who only died out 1,500 years ago	4 10:24 DarthVader [1749]
Woman is booted off Spirit Airlines plane after lighting a cigarette and blowing smoke in passengers' faces amid dramatic spike in out-of-control passengers this year	2 20:19 CrazyFool [1775]
Woman who coughed on and spoilt $35k worth of supermarket food claiming she had COVID is jailed for two years after court classed it as 'BOMB threat'	3 10:24 Frank G [1758]
Atlanta PD sounds alarm on rising homicides, guns stolen from vehicles	3 11:45 JohnQC [1746]
Woman is sexually abused while thrown around by crowd tearing her clothes off in Pakistan: Police investigate HUNDREDS of men after attack on woman making TikTok video in a park	6 13:29 NN2N1 [1749]
Direct hit! Spectacular moment decommissioned US Navy frigate lifts out of the water and explodes after being TORPEDOED during combat training exercise	5 16:18 M. Murcek [1743]
Page 4: Opinion
Sometimes there really is a conspiracy to theorize about	6 20:22 Rob Crawford [1776]
Exclusive from Gen. Flynn: We Are in the Midst of a Fascist Power Grab, But We the People Still Have Options	3 18:17 Besoeker [1755]
Biden's handling of Afghanistan is ‘humiliating': Victor Davis Hanson (video)	1 07:54 Skidmark [1751]
The Good News‐A COVID-19 Update	5 17:10 Dale [1758]
You Don't Need To Go To Kabul To See The End Of American Order. It's Right Here Among Us	3 10:35 JohnQC [1750]
Our Mistaken Ideas About Human Rights Failed Us in Afghanistan	7 20:13 Skidmark [1778]
Afghanistan: Geo-economics over geopolitics	2 19:35 Eohippus Gleth9401 [1759]
August, 1940: Eagle Day	2 13:10 Mike Kozlowski [1753]
Larry Elder is the Black face of white supremacy. You've been warned	9 19:00 JohnQC [1754]
Military expert says General Scott Miller gets the lion's share of blame for Afghanistan debacle	16 17:43 magpie [1750]
Page 6: Politix
Facebook is set to form an independent election commission to help it decide on how to run political adverts and deal with fake news ahead of the 2022 midterms	4 23:10 CrazyFool [1773]
FBI Raids Homes of Democrat Lawmakers Over Corruption Probe	10 15:06 Angstrom [1788]
AOC demands Biden resettle a minimum of 200,000 Afghanis in U.S. as quickly as possible	12 16:09 SteveS [1746]
Cuomo corpse count grows by twenty percent	3 11:48 JohnQC [1785]

    
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                        21:35 Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589

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                        21:12 Thing From Snowy Mountain

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                        20:30 Mercutio

                        20:28 Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843

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19	Taliban/IEA
6	Islamic State
5	Sublime Porte
3	Hamas
1	Devout Moslems
1	Narcos
1	Commies
1	al-Nusra
1	Govt of Iran Proxies
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1	Hezbollah

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Thu 2021-08-26
Bomb explodes in northern gate of Kabul airport

Wed 2021-08-25
Taliban Vows to Help Fight Climate Change

Tue 2021-08-24
Firefight at Kabul airport kills Afghan guard
16,000 more leave Afghanistan

Mon 2021-08-23
US Embassy Tells Americans: Do Not Go to Kabul Airport

Sun 2021-08-22
9 Talbanis surrender to Resistance Forces in Andarab; 6 of them Paks

Sat 2021-08-21
U.S. charges man who made bomb threat near U.S. Capitol

Fri 2021-08-20
IMF suspends Afghanistan's access to funds

Thu 2021-08-19
US freezes assets of Afghanistan central banks as Taliban takeover

Wed 2021-08-18
Former Vice PR and Now President Of Islamic Republic Of Afghanistan 🇦🇫 Amrullah Saleh In Panjishir

Tue 2021-08-17
Reports say Ghani in Oman to escape to US

Mon 2021-08-16
Taliban Declares Victory and Announces ‘Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan' From Presidential Palace

Sun 2021-08-15
Kabul has fallen, Taliban is killing political leadership and religious minorities in Afghanistan

Sat 2021-08-14
Herat: Ismail Khan captured by the Taliban

Fri 2021-08-13
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