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    Grab a coffee. A good read from The Observer. Harsh but fair.

    Afghanistan is a tragedy, a parable and a cautionary tale for our age. As the last, desperate evacuees scramble aboard planes in Kabul, as suicide bombers threaten to kill yet more blameless people, as a vast tide of refugees inundates the border with Pakistan and as the remaining population cowers, trapped and in fear before a resurgent Taliban, all those in the west who fought for 20 long and bloody years to shape this country’s future must pause, stand back and ask themselves: what have we done?

    Since the al-Qaida attacks on US cities on 11 September 2001, which triggered a global convulsion, remote, impoverished Afghanistan has touched, influenced and tested every great question, every big idea and movement – ideological, religious, geo-strategic – of our times. Many, for example, will view this staggering defeat, which is how history will surely judge it, as primarily a defeat for the problematic western concepts of humanitarian intervention and a rules-based world order.

    It’s undeniable that significant, even inspirational advances were made as the Nato allies acted out their theories of nation-building. Generations of young Afghans gained an education. Careers opened up to girls and women. Healthcare was available to rural villages where none previously existed. Free media and free speech flourished. A crude, vital democracy took shape. These are proud achievements.

    But welcome measures of apparent progress obscured fatal flaws. The Taliban recast themselves as an anti-colonial liberation movement of holy warriors. Withstanding repeated troop surges, defying America’s most fearsome weapons, ruthless in their methods and heedless of the terrible cost in civilian lives, they refused to submit. Western politicians wavered. The Iraq war diverted resources. Corruption and venality in Kabul discredited the project. Pakistan covertly nurtured the insurgency.

    Afghan resistance to western-directed rule became a rallying point for radical new forms of Islamist thinking that had spread from Saudi Arabia in the 1980s. As in other Muslim and Arab countries, secular traditions and religious tolerance came under withering fire. The violent creed espoused by al-Qaida and Islamic State in Syria and Iraq spawned ever more extreme fanatics, notably Islamic State’s Khorasan Province (ISKP), the group that bombed Kabul airport last week and was attacked on Saturday by vengeful US forces.

    While the west struggled to remake Afghanistan in its own image, Afghanistan began to remake the west. Thwarted at every turn, George W Bush and then Barack Obama backed away. Nato solidarity creaked. Governments balked at the extraordinary financial cost. The toll of lost military and civilian lives, and egregious human rights abuses, became unsustainable. The gradual haemorrhaging of political will grew into a crisis of self-belief.

    The losing battle in Afghanistan became a global metaphor, in the hands of Russia’s hostile rulers, Iran’s mullahs and authoritarians everywhere, for the supposed weakness and decadence of the west. It was a narrative, political and moral, that many in the west itself began to accept. As democracy’s advance faltered in the Afghan cauldron, xenophobic, nationalist-populist thinking flourished on the right in Europe and the US. And all the while, China, like a bird of prey, circled the corpse of western policy.

    As Kipling might have warned us, today’s Afghanistan has again proved a great destroyer of illusions, imperial or otherwise. The US, a superpower without equal, is humbled. Britain, narcissistically redefining its global role, finds to its surprise that it barely has one. Nato, the world’s strongest military alliance, is vanquished. Blindsided spies find their “intelligence” is terribly wrong – or came too late. European allies, ignored by a self-absorbed America, just discovered they don’t count for very much.

    Shattered, too, and perhaps permanently, is another grand illusion – that of the wise, all-seeing, empathetic Joe Biden. A reassuringly familiar figure and old foreign policy hand, Biden surfed into the White House in January on a wave of anti-Trump emotion. For the first few months, he enjoyed an easy ride. Now his calamitous Afghan miscalculations, and hard-faced responses, have slashed his approval ratings, harmed US global leadership and weakened his ability to pursue domestic reform. Hubris always has a price.

    The historic damage the western powers have inflicted on themselves aside, the mess they leave behind in Afghanistan is daunting. A host of immediate, practical questions arise. Most pressing is the fate of thousands of Afghans, vilified by the Taliban as collaborators, whom the evacuation was unable to scoop up. Britain admits it has failed to rescue more than 1,100 eligible people. The total is probably far higher. This amounts to a shocking betrayal. Everything possible must be done to assist their escape overland in a “second phase”.

    It’s plain, meanwhile, that linked humanitarian and refugee crises are building rapidly. The UN warns of half-a-million people fleeing the country amid rising food and medicine shortages. Depending on how the Taliban behave, and whether civil war erupts with northern warlords opposed to their rule, this number could swell further. Many British people and councils have already responded generously to refugee cries for help, but it behoves the government to devise a properly resourced, nationwide resettlement programme.

    It’s also urgent that ways be found to talk to a nascent Taliban regime that was good at running an insurgency but has no idea how to run a country. Some form of diplomatic relationship is required, if only to ensure future aid is delivered to those most in need. Taliban co-operation is also needed to suppress the ISKP and to prevent them and foreign terrorists from using Afghanistan as a base for waging international jihad. It’s unpalatable but unavoidable.

    When the dust settles, a public inquiry into Boris Johnson’s inept handling of the Afghan withdrawal, which was completed last night, the conduct of the foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, and his department’s loss of confidential papers from its hastily abandoned embassy is essential. But that’s for the weeks ahead. Right now, all eyes are on the the final hours of this latest stage of the tragedy. Our thoughts are with the tormented people of Afghanistan. In our hearts, we also remember the 457 UK armed forces personnel who gave their lives there and the thousands more who were injured.

    Whatever else was done in this valiant, confounding, distressing, still unfinished fight for human freedom, they did their duty. Failure is no fault of theirs.
    The Observer view on the resurgence of the Taliban | Observer editorial | The Guardian

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    UK military flight leaves Afghanistan after evacuating more than 15000 people

    Britain’s last military flight left Kabul late on Saturday after evacuating more than 15,000 people in the two weeks since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, ending nearly 20 years of British military presence in the country.


    “The final flight carrying UK Armed Forces personnel has left Kabul,” Britain’s Ministry of Defence said.


    Britain on Friday had said its evacuation mission would end within hours and that its military would be unable to fly out any Afghan citizens eligible for resettlement who had not already entered Kabul airport.


    “We should be proud of our armed forces, welcoming to those coming for a better life and sad for those left behind,” Defence Minister Ben Wallace said after the final British flight.


    Britain was at Washington’s side from the start of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan that overthrew the then-ruling Taliban in punishment for harbouring the al Qaeda militants behind the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. More than 450 British armed forces personnel died during two decades of deployment in the country.


    President Joe Biden has set an Aug. 31 deadline for the U.S. military to leave Afghanistan, while allied forces including Britain have chosen to leave before then. Britain has also suspended embassy operations in Afghanistan.


    Wallace estimated on Friday that between 800 and 1,100 Afghans who had worked with Britain and were eligible for resettlement would not make it out by air, and pledged to help them if they could leave by land.


    General Nick Carter, the head of Britain’s armed forces, told the BBC on Saturday that the total would be in the “high hundreds.”


    “People like me … we are forever receiving messages and texts from our Afghan friends that are very distressing. We’re living this in the most painful way,” Carter said.


    TALIBAN COOPERATION?


    Prime Minister Boris Johnson praised Britain’s armed forces.


    “I want to thank everyone involved and the thousands of those who served over the last two decades. You can be proud of what you have achieved,” he said.


    Carter said Britain and its allies might cooperate with the Taliban in the future to tackle threats from the Islamic State militant group. The group, enemies of both Western countries and the Taliban, claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing attack just outside Kabul airport on Thursday that killed scores of people, including 13 U.S. service members.


    “If the Taliban are able to demonstrate that they can behave in the way that a normal government would behave in relation to a terrorist threat, we may well discover that we (can) operate together,” Carter told Sky News.


    “But we’ve got to wait and see. Certainly some of the stories we get about the way that they are treating their enemies would mean it would be quite difficult for us to work with them at the moment,” he added.


    Johnson discussed the Afghanistan situation with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Saturday, when the two leaders agreed that the Group of Seven rich nations should take a common approach to dealing with any future Taliban government.


    “The Prime Minister stressed that any recognition and engagement with the Taliban must be conditional on them allowing safe passage for those who want to leave the country and respecting human rights,” Johnson’s office said.

    UK military flight leaves Afghanistan after evacuating more than 15000 people - The Frontier Post

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    Old Lee is pushing up daisies but the old boy was right on the mark several years back.


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    Some good news-


    US airstrike hits suicide bomber vehicle posing ‘imminent threat’ to Kabul airport - Pentagon


    The US has struck alleged suicide bombers in the Afghan capital, Kabul, according to the Taliban and a Pentagon spokesman. The strike hit a vehicle laden with explosives, apparently bound for the airport.
    Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid announced details of the strike on Sunday, shortly after US officials told Reuters that the American military had launched a “military strike” on suspected Islamic State Khorasan (ISIS-K) militants.

    Mujahid said that the strike targeted a vehicle used by the would-be bombers, and US Central Command spokesman Capt. Bill Urban later stated that the strike was carried out in “self-defense” against an “imminent” threat. The vehicle was reportedly carrying “a substantial amount of explosive material,” which was set off by the US strike, Urban added.

    US airstrike hits suicide bomber vehicle posing ‘imminent threat’ to Kabul airport - Pentagon — RT World News


    Gotcha, scumbags. Nice work.





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    And so it begins.
    The Taliban killed a famous Afghan folk singer on Saturday, a former interior minister said.

    Fawad Andarabi was reportedly dragged from his village home and shot dead.

    The killing follows an interview with a Taliban spokesperson who said, "music is forbidden in Islam."
    Afghanistan: Taliban Kills Popular Folk Singer Days After Music Ban

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cujo View Post
    And so it begins.
    And so it continues

    Same last time around

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    Quote Originally Posted by helge View Post
    And so it continues

    Same last time around
    Cold comfort for the singer, or his family, to be precise . . .

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    Some good news-


    US airstrike hits suicide bomber vehicle posing ‘imminent threat’ to Kabul airport - Pentagon


    The US has struck alleged suicide bombers in the Afghan capital, Kabul, according to the Taliban and a Pentagon spokesman. The strike hit a vehicle laden with explosives, apparently bound for the airport.
    Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid announced details of the strike on Sunday, shortly after US officials told Reuters that the American military had launched a “military strike” on suspected Islamic State Khorasan (ISIS-K) militants.

    Mujahid said that the strike targeted a vehicle used by the would-be bombers, and US Central Command spokesman Capt. Bill Urban later stated that the strike was carried out in “self-defense” against an “imminent” threat. The vehicle was reportedly carrying “a substantial amount of explosive material,” which was set off by the US strike, Urban added.

    US airstrike hits suicide bomber vehicle posing ‘imminent threat’ to Kabul airport - Pentagon — RT World News


    Gotcha, scumbags. Nice work.




    They must have good intelligence even in all this mayhem.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cujo View Post
    Fake news! Must be. The Taliban are now a bunch of kind caring folks. Must be true, saw it on the internet.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    I thought that the Taliban were our allies, fighting the evil Russians? Oh that's right, now it's Isis. Stay home yankee.
    I thought I'd explained to you that the Taliban didn't exist when Russia were in Afghanistan.

    Are you stupid?

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    Quote Originally Posted by panama hat View Post
    Cold comfort for the singer, or his family, to be precise . . .
    Yeah

    I remember when they used to do their public "burning" of cassette tapes.

    Taped music probably isn't mentioned in the Koran, so....

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    ^^ D'ohhh, the Mujahadeen morphed into the Taliban, and AQ split off them. And so on. Jeez 'arry.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    ^^ D'ohhh, the Mujahadeen morphed into the Taliban, and AQ split off them. And so on. Jeez 'arry.
    The Taliban wasn't formed until 1994, it wasn't only Mujahideen, and not all Mujahideen joined the Taliban, you fucking ignoramus.

    Osama Bin Laden was Mujahideen. He was never Taliban. The Mujahideen included Marxist-Leninists who opposed the government, and they didn't join the Taliban either.

    Stop talking out of your arse and try learning some history.

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    Blowback: Taliban target US intel's shadow army

    The Kabul Airport bombing shows there are shadowy forces in Afghanistan, willing to disrupt a peaceful transition after US troops leave. But what about US intel's own 'shadow army,' amassed over two decades of occupation? Who are they, and what is their agenda?

    By Pepe Escobar

    August 27 2021

    "So we have the CIA Director William Burns deploying in haste to Kabul to solicit an audience with Taliban leader Abdul Ghani Baradar, the new potential ruler of a former satrapy. And he literally begs him to extend a deadline on the evacuation of US assets.The answer is a resounding “no.” After all, the 31 August deadline was established by Washington itself. Extending it would only mean the extension of an already defeated occupation.
    The ‘Mr. Burns goes to Kabul’ caper is by now part of cemetery of empires folklore. The CIA does not confirm or deny Burns met Mullah Baradar; a Taliban spokesman, delightfully diversionist, said he was “not aware” of such a meeting.

    We’ll probably never know the exact terms discussed by the two unlikely participants – assuming the meeting ever took place and is not crass intel disinformation.

    Meanwhile, Western public hysteria is, of all things, focused on the imperative necessity of extracting all ‘translators’ and other functionaries (who were de facto NATO collaborators) out of Kabul airport. Yet thundering silence envelops what is in fact the real deal: the CIA shadow army left behind.

    The shadow army are Afghan militias set up back in the early 2000s to engage in ‘counter-insurgency’ – that lovely euphemism for search and destroy ops against the Taliban and al-Qaeda. Along the way, these militias practiced, in droves, that proverbial semantic combo normalizing murder: ‘extrajudicial killings,’ usually a sequel to ‘enhanced interrogations.’ These ops were always secret as per the classic CIA playbook, thus ensuring there was never any accountability.


    Now Langley has a problem.

    The Taliban have kept sleeper cells in Kabul since May, and much earlier than that in selected Afghan government bodies. A source close to the Ministry of Interior has confirmed the Taliban actually managed to get their hands on the full list of operatives of the two top CIA schemes: the Khost Protection Force (KPF) and the National Directorate of Security (NDS). These operatives are the prime Taliban targets in checkpoints leading to Kabul airport.

    Not random, helpless ‘Afghan civilians’ trying to escape.


    The Taliban have set up quite a complex, targeted operation in Kabul, with plenty of nuance – allowing, for instance, free passage for selected NATO members’ Special Forces, who went into town in search of their nationals.

    But access to the airport is now blocked for all Afghan nationals. Yesterday’s double tap suicide-car bombing has introduced an even more complex variable: the Taliban will need to pool all their intel resources, fast, to fight whatever elements are seeking to introduce domestic terror attacks into the country.

    The RHIPTO Norwegian Centre for Global Analyses has shown how the Taliban have a “more advanced intelligence system” applied to urban Afghanistan, especially Kabul. The “knocking on people’s doors” fueling Western hysteria means they know exactly where to knock when it comes to finding collaborationist intel networks.

    It is no wonder Western think tanks are in tears about how undermined their intel services will be in the intersection of Central and South Asia. Yet the muted official reaction boiled down to G7 Foreign Ministers issuing a mere statement announcing they were “deeply concerned by reports of violent reprisals in parts of Afghanistan.”


    Blowback is indeed a bitch. Especially when you cannot fully acknowledge it.


    From Phoenix to Omega


    The latest chapter of CIA ops in Afghanistan started when the 2001 bombing campaign was not even finished. I saw it for myself in Tora Bora, in December 2001, when Special Forces came out of nowhere equipped with Thuraya satellite phones and suitcases full of cash. Later, the role of ‘irregular’ militias in defeating the Taliban and dismembering al-Qaeda was feted in the US as a huge success.

    Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai was, to his credit, initially against US Special Forces setting up local militias, an essential plank of the counter-insurgency strategy. But in the end that cash cow was irresistible.

    A central profiteer was the Afghan Ministry of Interior, with the initial scheme coalescing under the auspices of the Afghan Local Police. Yet some key militias were not under the Ministry, but answered directly to the CIA and the US Special Forces Command, later renamed as the infamous Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC).


    Inevitably, CIA and JSOC got into a catfight over controlling the top militias. That was solved by the Pentagon lending Special Forces to the CIA under the Omega Program. Under Omega, the CIA was tasked with targeting intel, and Special Ops took control of the muscle on the ground. Omega made steady progress under the reign of former US President Barack Obama: it was eerily similar to the Vietnam-era Operation Phoenix.


    Ten years ago, the CIA army, dubbed Counter-terrorist Pursuit Teams (CTPT), was already 3,000 strong, paid and weaponized by the CIA-JSOC combo. There was nothing ‘counter-insurgency’ about it: These were death squads, much like their earlier counterparts in Latin America in the 1970s.

    In 2015, the CIA got its Afghan sister unit, the National Directorate of Security (NDS), to establish new paramilitary outfits to, in theory, fight ISIS, which later became locally identified as ISIS-Khorasan. In 2017, then-CIA Chief Mike Pompeo set Langley on an Afghan overdrive, targeting the Taliban but also al-Qaeda, which at the time had dwindled to a few dozen operatives. Pompeo promised the new gig would be “aggressive,” “unforgiving,” and “relentless.”

    Those shadowy ‘military actors’

    Arguably, the most precise and concise report on the American paramilitaries in Afghanistan is by Antonio de Lauri, Senior Researcher at the Chr. Michelsen Institute, and Astrid Suhrke, Senior Researcher Emerita also at the Institute.


    The report shows how the CIA army was a two-headed hydra. The older units harked back to 2001 and were very close to the CIA. The most powerful was the Khost Protection Force (KPF), based at the CIA’s Camp Chapman in Khost. KPF operated totally outside Afghan law, not to mention budget. Following an investigation by Seymour Hersh, I have also shown how the CIA financed its black ops via a heroin rat line, which the Taliban have now promised to destroy.

    The other head of the hydra were the NDS’s own Afghan Special Forces: four main units, each operating in its own regional area. And that’s about all that was known about them. The NDS was funded by none other than the CIA. For all practical purposes, operatives were trained and weaponized by the CIA.

    So, it’s no wonder that no one in Afghanistan or in the region knew anything definitive about their operations and command structure. The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), in trademark infuriating bureaucratese, defined the operations of the KPF and the NDS as appearing “to be coordinated with international military actors (emphasis mine); that is, outside the normal government chain of command.”

    By 2018, the KPF was estimated to harbor between 3,000 to over 10,000 operatives. What few Afghans really knew is that they were properly weaponized; well paid; worked with people speaking American English, using American vocabulary; engaged in night operations in residential areas; and crucially, were capable of calling air strikes, executed by the US military.

    A 2019 UNAMA report stressed that there were:

    “continuing reports of the KPF carrying out human rights abuses, intentionally killing civilians, illegally detaining individuals, and intentionally damaging and burning civilian property during search operations and night raids.”


    Call it the Pompeo effect: “aggressive, unforgiving, and relentless” – whether by kill-or-capture raids, or drones with Hellfire missiles.


    Woke Westerners, now losing sleep over the ‘loss of civil liberties’ in Afghanistan, may not even be vaguely aware that their NATO-commanded ‘coalition forces’ excelled in preparing their own kill-or-capture lists, known by the semantically-demented denomination: Joint Prioritized Effects List.


    The CIA, for its part, couldn’t care less. After all, the agency was always totally outside the jurisdiction of Afghan laws regulating the operations of ‘coalition forces.’

    The dronification of violence

    In these past few years, the CIA shadow army coalesced into what Ian Shaw and Majed Akhter memorably described as The Dronification of State Violence, a seminal paper published in the Critical Asian Studies journal in 2014 (downloadable here).

    Shaw and Akhter define the alarming, ongoing process of dronification as:

    “the relocation of sovereign power from the uniformed military to the CIA and Special Forces; techno-political transformations performed by the Predator drone; the bureaucratization of the kill chain; and the individualization of the target.”

    This amounts to, the authors argue, what Hannah Arendt defined as “rule by nobody.” Or, actually by somebody acting beyond any rules.

    The toxic end result in Afghanistan was the marriage between the CIA shadow army and dronification. The Taliban may be willing to extend a general amnesty and not exact revenge. But to forgive those who went on a killing rampage as part of the marriage arrangement may be a step too far for the Pashtunwali code.

    The February 2020 Doha agreement between Washington and the Taliban says absolutely nothing about the CIA shadow army.

    So, the question now is how the defeated Americans will be able to keep intel assets in Afghanistan for its proverbial ‘counter-terrorism’ ops. A Taliban-led government will inevitably take over the NDS. What happens to the militias is an open question. They could be completely taken over by the Taliban. They could break away and eventually find new sponsors (Saudis, Turks). They could become autonomous and serve the best-positioned warlord paymaster.

    The Taliban may be essentially a collection of warlords (jang salar, in Dari). But what’s certain is that a new government will simply not allow a militia wasteland scenario similar to Libya. Thousands of mercenaries of sorts with the potential of becoming an ersatz ISIS-Khorasan, threatening Afghanistan’s entry into the Eurasian integration process, need to be tamed.

    Burns knows it, Baradar knows it – while Western public opinion knows nothing."


    https://thecradle.co/Article/investigations/1401

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    Quote Originally Posted by OhOh View Post
    We’ll probably never know the exact terms discussed by the two unlikely participants – assuming the meeting ever took place and is not crass intel disinformation.
    says the author, who then goes on to write a load of "crass intel disinformation" (otherwise known as bullshit) of his own, using skills he brings over from his other gigs as an RT "correspondent" and a Press TV commentator.

    Hoohoo is so fucking obvious.


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    Russia to evacuate more people from Afghanistan, holds drills nearby


    MOSCOW, Aug 30 (Reuters) - Russia's embassy in Kabul said on Monday it was laying on extra evacuation flights from Afghanistan, while Russian troops carried out military drills close to the Afghan border amid heightened regional security risks.


    It was not clear whether the extra flights would continue past a Tuesday deadline agreed between U.S. President Joe Biden and the Taliban for the withdrawal of the U.S. troops who have led security at the airport since the Western-backed government collapsed.


    Russia's embassy remained operational in Kabul after Western diplomats rebased to the airport following the Taliban takeover of the capital on Aug. 15.


    President Vladimir Putin's special representative on Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov, said on Monday the embassy was working to establish relations Afghanistan's new Taliban rulers.


    Russia was ready to help rebuild Afghanistan's economy, he said, urging Western nations not to freeze the Afghan government's financial assets.


    "We are establishing ties (with Taliban officials), our embassy in Kabul is working quite actively on this," he told Russian state television. "We have had such contacts for a long time and we will work further on them."


    The embassy said in a series of tweets that extra evacuation flights would be open to Russian citizens and residents as well as nationals of countries in the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO), a Moscow-led post-Soviet security bloc.


    Russia evacuated about 360 people last week and Interfax on Monday quoted a representative of the Afghan disapora centre in Russia as saying 500 Afghans may also be eligible as students, residents or work permit holders.


    Meanwhile, Russia's defence ministry said around 500 Russian motorised infantry troops from Russia's military base in Tajikistan were carrying out drills in the mountains near the Afghan border, according to an Interfax report.


    The ministry said the drills involved test fire from a S-300 air defence system in a simulated attack on the base.


    They are the third set of drills by Russia close to the Afghan border this month. Next month, the CSTO will hold another exercise in Kyrgyzstan which hosts a Russian military airbase.


    Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu said last week Moscow would work more closely with CSTO members as the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan raises regional security risks.

    Russia to evacuate more people from Afghanistan, holds ...

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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    Hoohoo is so fucking obvious.
    To the extent that you must surely be the only person left who continues to read his piles of steaming .

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    Quote Originally Posted by cyrille View Post
    To the extent that you must surely be the only person left who continues to read his piles of steaming .
    Yes but he's head stooge. Someone has to mock him.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cyrille View Post
    To the extent that you must surely be the only person left who continues to read his piles of steaming .
    Why not if he has the time.

    And Harry's postcount does suggest that he isn't exactly overwhelmed by friends visiting him

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    23 hrs til the US is bye, bye and good ridance to Afghanistan.
    Talitubbies and neighbors enjoy.

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    McKenzie said the last flight left at 3:29 pm ET on Monday

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    Quote Originally Posted by S Landreth View Post
    McKenzie said the last flight left at 3:29 pm ET on Monday
    Yep, saw that but bet a few special troops still lurking and will sneak out soon.

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