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The anatomy of Pakistan’s complex relationship with Taliban

13Sep

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The anatomy of Pakistan’s complex relationship with Taliban

By Syed Zafar Mehdi Last week, after Taliban spokesperson Zabiullah Mujahid, with a characteristic bluster, announced that the group has taken “complete control” of Panjshir, the last holdout of anti-Taliban forces in the war-ravaged country, the news didn’t come as a shocker. The fall of this picturesque Hindu Kush valley in northern Afghanistan, which had traditionally been a bastion of anti-Taliban resistance, was inevitable this time, after the Taliban effortlessly toppled the US-backed government in Kabul and forced the US-led allies to beat a hasty, humiliating retreat. The breach of Panjshir, however, has another familiar dimension that has created quite a furore in and outside Afghanistan, and rekindled an old debate about foreign interference. Ahmed Massoud, the s...

Strange Crusaders: Diary of the Afghan War

12Sep

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Afghanistan, United Kingdom, USA, ZIO-NAZI

Strange Crusaders: Diary of the Afghan War

BY JEFFREY ST. CLAIR - ALEXANDER COCKBURN Ground Zero, World Trade Center, September 12, 2001. Photo: NOAA. September 12, 2001 The onslaughts on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon are being likened to Pearl Harbor and the comparison is just. From the point of view of the assailants the attacks were near miracles of logistical calculation, timing, courage in execution and devastation inflicted upon the targets. The Pearl Harbor base containing America’s naval might was thought to be invulnerable, yet in half an hour 2000 were dead, and the cream of the fleet destroyed. This week, within an hour on the morning of September 11, security at three different airports was successfully breached, the crews of four large passenger jets efficiently overpowered, the cockpits comm...

Post-9/11: What Next After 20 Years of US War in Afghanistan?

11Sep

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Afghanistan, USA

Post-9/11: What Next After 20 Years of US War in Afghanistan?

Anatol Lieven, who has covered wars in Afghanistan, Chechnya and Southern Caucasus, speaks on the US legacy and the Taliban’s rise. James W. Carden On Monday, August 30, at 3:29 p.m. Eastern Time, a C-17 transport plane took off from Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, signaling the end of America’s longest war. It was a war that took the lives of at least 48,000 Afghan civilians, 2,461 US service members, 66,000 Afghan national military police, and 1,144 NATO allied service members. The Cost of War Project at Brown University estimates that the post-9/11 wars launched by the United States have resulted in nearly one million killed and more than 38 million people displaced, with the US government having ...

Biden Tried to Absolve Himself for Afghanistan Aftermath — But He Voted for War

9Sep

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Afghanistan, USA

Biden Tried to Absolve Himself for Afghanistan Aftermath — But He Voted for War

President Joe Biden speaks about the situation in Afghanistan from the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on July 8, 2021. BYWilliam Rivers Pitt, Truthout Former president George W. Bush recently took a break from painting portraits of the wounded soldiers he fed into the maw of dual wars 20 years ago to complain about the end of one of those wars. In a rare interview, given to German news agency Deutsche Welle (DW), Bush had himself a nice little sad about the fact that the Biden administration was finally shutting down U.S. military involvement in the two-decade bottomless pit that was, and will ever be, his Afghanistan conflict. Calling the withdrawal a “mistake,” Bush said, “I think the consequences are going to be unbelievably bad...

8Sep

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Afghanistan, France

ماذا تريد فرنسا من أفغانستان؟

ليلى جبارةح.م بعد انتصارات طالبان وتمكنها من دخول العاصمة كابل بسلام من غير إراقة الدماء، أكد جو بايدن الرئيس الأمريكي أن قرار مغادرة أفغانستان كان الأفضل، بعدما أنهى مهمته التي لم تكن أبدا بناء أمة في حرب استمرت 20 سنة لتضع أوزارها من دون قتال باستسلام القوات الحكومية. عودة طالبان للحكم.. ونحيب ماكرون عن أي جهود دولية ومساعدات يتحدث الغربيون، ماضيهم وحاضرهم الاستعماري يشهد أن كل همهم قرع طبول الحرب، والاستيلاء على ثروات البلدان، وزرع الدمار ونشر الفوضى والموت، بزعم محاربة الإرهاب الإسلامي وضمان الحريات… استعادت طالبان الحكم وقدمت ضمانات بإعادة إعمار البلاد وخدمة الشعب، لذا دعت مواطنيها بعدم المغادرة مع إصدار عفو عام، تزامنا مع تجمع مئات الأفغان فى المطار طلبا للهروب، وهذا خشية العقاب من عملاتهم وخيانتهم، ومن جهته قامت الدول الغربية منذ الساعات الأخيرة على إجلاء ممثليها والأفغ...

As US Troops Withdraw, Afghans Need Reparations Instead of More Drones

7Sep

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Afghanistan, USA

As US Troops Withdraw, Afghans Need Reparations Instead of More Drones

Members of an internally displaced Afghan family who left their home during the ongoing conflict between Taliban and Afghan security forces arrive from Qala i Naw to the Injil District of Herat, Afghanistan, on July 8, 2021. BYKathy Kelly, The ProgressivePUBLISHEDJuly 17, 2021SHAREShare via FacebookShare via TwitterShare via Email Earlier this week, 100 Afghan families from Bamiyan, a rural province of central Afghanistan mainly populated by the Hazara ethnic minority, fled to Kabul out of fear of attacks by Taliban militants. Over the past decade, I’ve gotten to know a grandmother who recalls fleeing Talib fighters in the 1990s, just after learning that her husband had been killed. Then, she was a young widow with five children, and for several agonizing months two of her s...

The UK to Speak to Afghanistan’s New Rulers, Raab Says

4Sep

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Afghanistan, United Kingdom

The UK to Speak to Afghanistan’s New Rulers, Raab Says

The British diplomat, however, said his country will not recognize the Taliban as a government. On Friday, British Foreign Affairs Minister Dominic Raab said it is necessary to keep a communication channel with the Taliban, especially to facilitate the evacuation of Afghans who collaborated with the West and could not leave the country. RELATED: The Taliban Parades Seized US Weaponry in Kandahar Neverthless, during a press conference in Islamabad (Pakistan), he said that his country does not "recognize the Taliban as a government... but we do see the importance of being able to engage and have a direct line of communication.” Currently, Raab is touring the countries of the region. His first stop was Qatar, where he claimed that London and Doha cooperate to e...

4Sep

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Afghanistan

Horizon scanning in Afghanistan

Mohamed El-Doufani* writes: The Taliban are back in control of Afghanistan and the United States and its satellite states are out, having invested trillions of tax dollars propping up a corrupt client regime (and domestic Western beneficiaries). The speed of the collapse of the US client regime in Kabul has shocked many, but many others well versed in the reality of Afghanistan had predicted that that would happen once the US and its satellites withdrew their forces. Amid the noise, propaganda, tears, wishful thinking, handwringing and general chaos, it may be foolhardy to make predictions about the future of Afghanistan. However, there is enough information at this very early stage to offer some postulates as to how the situation in that country might develop. 1. Within...

The Lesson of Afghanistan is the Lesson of Vietnam We Forgot

2Sep

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Afghanistan, USA, Vietnam

The Lesson of Afghanistan is the Lesson of Vietnam We Forgot

BY DAVID SCHULTZ Photograph Source: Captain Brian Harris, U.S. Army – Public Domain Philosopher Georg Hegel declared the only lesson of history is that we do not learn from history. As the US prepares for the final pullout from Afghanistan and what will soon follow as the fall of the country to the Taliban an entire generation of us wonder if this is not Deja vu all over again and that what we thought we had learned from the Vietnam War proved to be a fleeting lesson. For those of my generation who grew up during or served in the Vietnam War a thousand images cross our mind. A naked girl scurrying away from Napalm, the execution of Nguy n Văn Lém, American flags draped on caskets in rows, a woman next to a dead body at Kent State...

After 20 Years and $2.26 Trillion, the US has Lost Its Longest War in Afghanistan

2Sep

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Afghanistan, USA

After 20 Years and $2.26 Trillion, the US has Lost Its Longest War in Afghanistan

BY DAVE LINDORFF Photograph Source: Lance Cpl. James Clark – Public Domain Another lost war! Another denial! The US actually began its war on the people of Afghanistan back during the presidency of Jimmy Carter, who foolishly followed the advice of his Russia-hating, rabidly anti-Communist Polish emigre National Security Director Zbigniew Brzezinski. Brzezinski, in mid-1979, successfully convinced the gullible Carter to launch Operation Cyclone, a $20-billion, 10-year CIA effort to fund and train the Islamic Mujahideen– largely ethnic Pashtun fighters based in neighboring Pakistan — to undermine the Soviet-backed Communist government in Afghanistan. A brutal bunch of armed religious zealots, these CIA-backed Mujahideen fighters were successful in undermining the Communi...