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Afghanistan

A Taliban Commander Uses Military Helicopter to Take His Newlywed Bride Home

2022-07-04

[KhaamaPress] A Taliban
Taliban

...mindless ferocity in a turban...
commander allegedly flew his newlywed bride from Pashtun-infested Logar to Khost province
... across the border from Miranshah, within commuting distance of Haqqani hangouts such as Datta Khel and probably within sight of Mordor. Khost is populated by six different tribes of Pashtuns, the largest probably being the Khostwal, from which it takes its name...
, in eastern Afghanistan, using a military helicopter, according to local sources in Pashtun-infested Logar.

The Taliban figure was referred to as a commander of Haqqani branch of the Taliban on social media, and the source claimed that he resides in Khost and that his wife’s residence is in the Barki Barak district of Pashtun-infested Logar in east of Afghanistan.

The sources claim that this situation occurred yesterday, Saturday, July 2, in the Shah Mazar region of the Barki Barak district of Pashtun-infested Logar province.

The wife of the Taliban commander is seen being transported in a military helicopter that is landed near a house in a video that went viral on social media.

Furthermore, it is claimed that this commander gave his father-in-law 1,200,000 Afghanis as dowry in exchange for his daughter’s hand in marriage.

However,
the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits...
in response, the Taliban’s deputy spokesperson, Qari Yusuf Ahmadi, argues that the allegations are untrue calling it a "propaganda of the enemy", and that the Islamic Emirate dismisses it.

The video that was circulated on social media incited outrage among the public, who criticized the action as a misuse of public property and pointed out that it was in conflict with the Taliban supreme leader’s words made in the grand assembly.

This occurs after the Taliban have been in control for almost a year, but the group has notably failed to establish a government and gain domestic legitimacy and international recognition.

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Afghanistan

Taliban Warns U.S Over Violating Peace Agreement

2020-12-06

[KhaamaPress] Qari Yusuf Ahmadi, a front man for the Taliban
Taliban

...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
, said US forces attacked the group’s positions in Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
province last night in violation of the Doha peace agreement between Washington and the Taliban.

He stated on Friday, that US forces had attacked the village of Lavi Bagh in the Nad Ali district of Helmand province following repeated violations of the Doha agreement.

He claimed, Americans have attacked a region far from the battlefield, killing 18 civilians including Taliban fighters, and wounding three others.

According to Ahmadi, the US attack on Helmand province destroyed Taliban strongholds as a result of which civilian residential places were also damaged.

A Taliban front man claimed that when people wanted to evacuate the dead and maimed, these people were attacked 7 times during the evacuation process after the initial hit.

Condemning the incident, he warned the US government that "such reckless actions would not go unanswered, and progress against the Doha agreement will result in bad consequences".

This comes as, the press department of Herat
...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns...
’s Police HQ stated on Saturday morning, that two soldiers and a civilian were killed by unknown button men in the Islam Qala port of Herat province.

According to the statement, unidentified Gunmen in a Corolla vehicle fired on the soldiers at the customs gate in front near the port of Islam Qala, killing two port security unit members and a civilian.

Provincial Police headquarters appointed an investigative team to probe into the incident.

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Afghanistan

Father and Son Shot Dead, 251 Civilian Casualties Recorded In Afghanistan

2020-10-15

[KhaamaPress] Security officials in Faryab province say Taliban
Taliban

...Arabic for students...
fighters rubbed out a father and son in the Gurziwan district of the province.

The Faryab Police Command says that Taliban ~~bandidos~~ murderous Moslems entered a house in Afghan Tapah village of Gurziwan district last night and rubbed out a man named Rostam Khan and his son Mohammad Nasim.

According to the Faryab Police HQ, the father and son were rubbed out by the Taliban for giving water to the security forces.

Meanwhile,
...back at the desert island, Bert was realizing to his horror that he'd had only one bottle for one message, and he'd forgotten to include a return address...
Qari Yusuf Ahmadi, a Taliban front man, tweeted that the incident was not carried out by members of the group, but by local the police.

On the other hand, Interior Ministry front man Tariq Arian said the Taliban had carried out 575 offensive attacks in the past two weeks, which resulted in 251 Civilian casualties.

Arian also tweeted, that the Taliban had carried out 575 attacks, placed 92 improvised bombs, and conducted 6 suicide kabooms in the past two weeks, leaving behind 251 civilians dead and injured.

Only in Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
, the Death Eater group has reportedly carried 2 suicide kabooms and 72 aggressive blitzes.

This comes as Afghanistan’s unrest increases in the midst of Doha peace negotiations in Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
.

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Afghanistan

Afghan soldiers fire at Spanish troops: Taliban

2013-01-02

[Iran Press TV] Taliban say Afghan soldiers have opened fire on Spanish forces in the latest "insider" attack in the western part of war-torn Afghanistan, Press TV reports.

The attack took place in the Karkh district of the Herat
...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns...
province late on Monday when two Afghan Army soldiers turned their weapons on Spanish troopers and injured at least three of them.

A local security official said on condition of anonymity that the Afghan soldiers belong to the 3rd brigade of the Afghan National Army in the province.

Taliban Spokesman Qari Yusuf Ahmadi, however, claimed that the Afghan soldiers joined the krazed killer group and that they killed at least four foreign troopers in the attack.

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Afghanistan

6 Suicide Bombers Killed, Many Injured in Kandahar Gun Battle

2011-05-08

[Tolo News] Six jacket wallahs have been killed and 29 people, including military and civilians have been hurt in on going Kandahar shootout erupted Saturday afternoon, Kandahar Govenor said.

Several government buildings including Governor's compound, Traffic Police and intelligence Departments have been under a series of Death Eater attacks.

The shootout erupted in the afternoon today and sporadic shootings could be heard around Kandahar city.

Clashes between cut-throats and the Afghan cops still continues.

Doctors in Kandahar Maiwand Hospital told TOLOnews news hound that 12 maimed people were admitted to the hospital.

Officials have yet to comment on the condition and identity of the maimed.

A TOLOnews news hound in Kandahar said that a series of kabooms targeting government buildings have happened, but it's not clear whether they were suicide kabooms.

The shootout has been called the first after the Taliban declared the beginning of their spring attacks in the country.

The firefight started after a number of armed cut-throats stormed Kandahar Traffic Police Department building and opened small arms fire at the National Security Department, a security official said seeking anonymity.

Security officials and military vehicles have been dispatched to the shootout site and the area has been cordoned off.

Primary reports suggested that NATO troops have also taken part in the counterattack along with Afghan cops.

Military choppers have been seen circling over the city.

The Taliban Spokesman Qari Yusuf Ahmadi has said a number of Taliban fighters have targeted four government buildings in Kandahar city and have inflicted casualties to the government side.

The incident happens as the Taliban a couple of days ago declared the commencement of their spring attacks in Afghanistan.

In a statement the Taliban warned civilians to stay away from government and foreign institutions, that may be the main targets of their attacks.

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Afghanistan

Ongoing Efforts to Break Taliban Momentum in Helmand

2011-03-18

[Tolo News] Washir, a district in the southern Helmand province, will be cleared of the Talibs in four days, senior provincial officials said on Thursday.

There are civilian and military programmes on hand to ensure security after Islamic fascisti are wiped out of Washir district, officials said.

"We are making efforts to have full control over the district by the coming spring," said Deputy Governor of Helmand Abdul Satar Mirzakwal.

In another ongoing offensive in Deshoi district of the province around six foreign gunnies have been killed, Mr Mirzakwal said.

"Five to six foreign gunnies have been killed and the rest have beat feet. They can no longer resist against us," Mr Mirzakwal said.

But a Taliban spokesperson Qari Yusuf Ahmadi claimed that eleven foreign service members have been killed in Deshoi district and some others have been hurt, an allegation denied by foreign troops.

It's a counting thing -- the basis of science and reality -- so naturally the Taliban and the kaffirs arrive at different answers.

Officials said border forces have been deployed to Deshoi district and borders with Pakistain will be blocked to prevent Islamic fascisti infiltrating into Afghan soil.

Meanwhile,
...back at the palazzo...
a statement by International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) said thirty Talibs have been killed in an ongoing military operation in Khanshin district in southern Helmand province, the spiritual home of the Taliban.

Well done, O Isaf team!

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Afghanistan

Afghan Talks Featured an Imposter

2010-11-23

President Hamid Karzai and NATO officials were apparently tricked by an imposter who claimed to be one of the highest-ranking members of the Taliban and held at least two meetings with the Afghan leader and other officials in recent months, officials said.

The con man's willingness to talk and relatively mild demands -- for example, he did not insist on the withdrawal of foreign troops from Afghanistan before opening peace talks had raised hopes that the peace process here was finally making progress after two years of often fitful and futile attempts at negotiating with the Taliban.

Instead, Afghan and U.S. officials are now trying to clean up what one Western diplomat called the "most bizarre mess" of the nearly decade-long war.

They are also faced with an embarrassing reversal: only last month, U.S. Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of American and allied forces in Afghanistan, was telling reporters that the coalition had provided safe passage for senior Taliban leaders to travel to Kabul and talk with the Karzai administration.

A senior Afghan official said that at least one of the people given safe passage was a man who purported to be Mullah Akthar Muhammad Mansour, one of the chief deputies to the Taliban's supreme leader, the one-eyed Mullah Muhammad Omar.

The Afghan official declined to say if other Taliban leaders are involved in talks or have been given safe passage by coalition forces. But he did say that the talks with the imposter were thought to be the most promising in a series of parallel efforts to inch forward a peace process that has made little progress since the first discussions were held in Saudi Arabia in the autumn of 2008.

The imposter, whose true identity is not clear, "is a very daring man he thought he was more clever than we were," the Afghan official said.

Asked Tuesday at a news conference if he had met Mr. Mansour, President Karzai said he had not, without elaborating. The existence of the imposter was first reported by The New York Times and the Washington Post.

The fake Mr. Mansour managed to convince enough people that he was the real deal that British intelligence flew him to Kabul on multiple occasions, Afghan and coalition officials said.

He was also given "a lot of money" at one point, said a coalition official.

The money was ostensibly to cover the cost of traveling to Kandahar, the southern Afghan city where the man caught his flight with British intelligence, from the southwestern Pakistani city of Quettathe home base of the Taliban's leadership council, known as the Quetta Shura. But the real purpose of the money was to encourage his return to the discussions, the official said.

There were conflicting accounts of how exactly the ruse was discovered. The senior Afghan official said a few things about the man seemed off, and his sudden willingness to talk on terms acceptable to the Afghan government eventually raised suspicions.

In addition to dropping the standard Taliban demand for a complete withdrawal before the start of talks, the man failed press the insurgents' claim for an eventual role in the Afghan government.

The Afghan official said some of his colleagues began circulating photographs of the imposter to people who knew Mr. Mansour when the Taliban ruled Afghanistan. None recognized the man in the picture. But a senior Western diplomat said the man met with people who had previously known Mr. Mansour and they did not realize he was an imposter. "He fooled everyoneus and the Afghans," the Western diplomat said.

Either way, the Afghan official said everyone should have known better, noting that the talks seemed too easy to get going. No one asked, "Why now?" the official said.

Since first disclosing the meetings last month, senior U.S. and allied military officers here portrayed the nascent talks as the clearest evidence to date that American surge forces were pummeling the Taliban and forcing them to the negotiating table.

But the Taliban maintained it was not negotiating, and the insurgents began gloating Tuesday as word spread of the ruse. "The Americans and their allies are very stupid and anyone could fool them," said Taliban spokesman Qari Yusuf Ahmadi in a telephone interview.

The Afghan official said he and some of his colleagues are not sure what motivated the imposter. Maybe it was money or perhaps he was sent by Pakistan's intelligence service, which U.S. and Afghan officials say has deep ties to the Taliban, to find out what the Afghan government was offering in peace talks, the official said.

The Afghan official and the coalition official said the man, whom they believe to be Pakistani, may even have been sent by the Taliban to figure out what was on offer. But both acknowledged they were speculating.

Pakistan denies supporting the Taliban or harboring its leadership, and officials there could not be immediately reached for comment.

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Afghanistan: Mullah Omar's arrest 'unlikely'

2010-07-08

(AKI) - By Syed Saleem Shahzad - The head of the Taliban, Mullah Muhammad Omar is not the kind of person to live outside of Afghanistan, making unconfirmed reports of his arrest in neighbouring Pakistan unlikely, according to former Pakistani ambassador to Afghanistan Aziz Ahmed Khan.

"Mullah Muhammad Omar got religious education in Afghanistan, he lived through and through in Afghanistan. The only time he lived in Pakistan was during early 1990s when he studied a three month course of Islamic jurisprudence from slain Maulana Yousuf Ludhianvi in Karachi's Jamia Binori Town," said Khan, amassador to Kabul during the Taliban regime, recounting to Adnkronos International (AKI) on Tuesday a conversation he had with Omar.

"As soon as he finished his course he went back to Afghanistan. It has never been in his nature to live out of Afghanistan. Therefore I don't think that he ever lived in Quetta or in Karachi after the Taliban's defeat in Afghanistan," Khan said.

Afghan television Tolo television reported Omar was arrested Tuesday in the port city of Karachi.

Taliban spokesman Qari Yusuf Ahmadi, contacted by news agency New China, denied the new of the arrest calling it western propaganda.

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Pakistan Arrests Taliban Chief Mullah Omar: Reports

2010-07-07

[Quqnoos] The Pakistani spy agency detained the leader of the Afghan Taliban insurgents, Mullah Mohammed Omar in Karachi, unconfirmed reports say

Detention of the Afghan Taliban leader is neither confirmed by Pakistani officials nor by the Pentagon.

A spokesperson for the Taliban, Qari Yusuf Ahmadi, has rejected the news of Mullah Muhammad Omar's arrest and has said that he is safe and sound and in full command of his fighters, according to the reports.

The unconfirmed report is published, while an influential US Senator, John McCain in his visit to Afghanistan called the success of the Kandahar push, success of the Afghan war.

The Kandahar operation is expected to oust the Taliban out of their southern strongholds and to establish central government control in the province.

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70 Taliban insurgents killed in S Afghanistan clash

2008-07-25

(Xinhua) -- Afghanistan National Army (ANA) clashed with Taliban militants on Thursday in southern Afghan province of Zabul, leaving 70 militants dead, according to a statement of the Interior Ministry. "The Taliban rebels ambushed convoy of ANA on the Kabul-Kandahar highway in the Shah joy district of Zabul province," the statement said, "after hours' fierce fighting ANA foiled the attack killing 70 enemies, arresting four others and a large number of weapons. Some dead bodies of foreign fighters were also found in the battle field."

Earlier, Zahir Azimi, spokesman of Defense Ministry, told Xinhua ANA killed 34 Taliban insurgents in the highway clash. Jailani Khan, the provincial deputy police chief also confirmed the clashes between ANA and Taliban fighters and put the number of Taliban casualties as 37, adding the highway is now secured and re-opened.

Meanwhile, Qari Yusuf Ahmadi, the purported Taliban spokesman told Xinhua via phone from an unknown hideout that the outfit ambushed ANA convoy, successfully destroying two army's vehicles and killing over 12 Afghan troops.

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Battle leaves 4 Taliban dead in Zabul

2008-03-24

(Xinhua) -- Four Taliban insurgents were killed as in clash with Afghan police in Afghanistan's southern Zabul province Saturday, a local police official said Sunday. "The clash took place in Shahjoi district on Saturday, in which four rebels were killed and three others made captive," a police officer Faridullah Khan told Xinhua.

In the meantime, Taliban purported spokesman Qari Yusuf Ahmadi denied the casualties, saying two policemen were killed in the firefight which lasted for few hours. Conflicts and Taliban-related violence have left more than 220 people dead so far this year in the war-torn central Asian country, where anti-government militants have vowed to intensify their guerrilla-style attacks.

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Taliban vows to continue war in Afghanistan

2008-03-06

(Xinhua) -- Taliban militants fighting Afghan government and international troops stationed in Afghanistan vowed Wednesday to continue fighting until the withdrawal of foreign troops from the country. In a statement read out to media outlets in south Afghanistan through cellular phone, outfit's purported spokesman Qari Yusuf Ahmadi stressed that the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (former name of the outfit's ousted hierarchy) would continue war against the United States and its allies in the post-Taliban nation.

Brave Lad, that Qari, read it out over a cell phone, such machismo ...

It also termed the U.S. forces as an occupation one and called on Afghans to join the militants in fight against the United States and allies in Afghanistan.

In the statement, the outfit also called on NATO to pull out its troops from Afghanistan.

Why don't you make us leave?

It also stressed that Taliban wants to have friendly relations with all countries of the world.

The ones they don't kill, anyways ...

In the statement, the militants also condemned the recently adopted UN Security Council resolution against Iran and Israel's attacks against Palestine in Gaza stripe.

Cheez, who wrote this, Noam Chomsky?

The fundamentalist outfit also denounced the publication of the cartoon of Islam prophet Mohammad (PBUH) by a Danish newspaper and making film on the prophet by a Dutch company and called on the Muslims of the world to strongly condemn it.

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