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Pentagon preparing to house 30,000 Afghan refugees in U.S.
Documents obtained from a source show DoD planning to potentially relocate up to 30,000 Afghan SIV applicants into the United States in the immediate future.

— Jacqui Heinrich (@JacquiHeinrich) August 16, 2021

The Department of Defense is preparing to immediately house thousands of Afghan refugees on American military installations, Fox News confirmed late Sunday. Documents show DoD plans to relocate up to 30,000 Afghan SIV applicants into the United States in the immediate future.

The bases include Fort McCoy in Wisconsin and Fort Bliss in Texas.

“We want to have capacity to get up to several thousand immediately, and want to be prepared for potential of tens of thousands,” Pentagon Spox John Kirby tells me. “Bliss & McCoy have capability right now – what’s advantageous is w/ a bit of work, could increase in short order.”

— Jacqui Heinrich (@JacquiHeinrich) August 16, 2021

Kirby says American citizens will not be given priority evacuation over Afghan SIV applicants. “Once we get more airlift out of Kabul, we’re going to put as many people on those planes as we can. There will be a mix…

— Jacqui Heinrich (@JacquiHeinrich) August 16, 2021
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Just because the US may be gone, does not mean any war might be over. If there are so many people who are afraid or trying to escape that can't, you may have the foundations of a peoples resistance.
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Taliban shooting kids in front of their parents

https://www.mid-day.com/news/world-news ... s-23186832
08 August,2021 06:04 AM IST | Kabul
According to local media reports, the Taliban have murdered more than 40 civilians in Malistan in the past one week. Most of these civilians were Hazaras
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Biden says he stands 'squarely behind' Afghanistan decision
Source: AP

By ZEKE MILLER, JONATHAN LEMIRE and JOSH BOAK
WASHINGTON (AP) — Striking a defiant tone, President Joe Biden said Monday that he stands “squarely behind” his decision to withdraw U.S. forces from Afghanistan and that the Afghan government’s collapse was quicker than anticipated.

Biden said he was faced with a choice between sticking to a previously negotiated agreement to withdraw U.S. troops this year or sending thousands more service members back into Afghanistan for a “third decade” of war.

Biden said he will not repeat mistakes of the past and did not regret his decision to proceed with the withdrawal.

“I stand squarely behind my decision,” Biden said in a televised address to the nation from the White House East Room. “After 20 years, I’ve learned the hard way that there was never a good time to withdraw U.S. forces.”


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Ken_J wrote: Mon Aug 16, 2021 6:20 pm Just because the US may be gone, does not mean any war might be over. If there are so many people who are afraid or trying to escape that can't, you may have the foundations of a peoples resistance.
Which the US will probably fund, just like they did with the Taliban.
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Kabul Under Taliban Control: Checkpoints, Beatings, Fear
On their first day in control of Kabul, Taliban fighters commandeered streets and searched the homes and offices of government officials and media outlets, spreading fear and menace across the Afghan capital.

Armed militants erected checkpoints throughout the city of six million people, imposed a 9 p.m. curfew and took over army and police posts. Fighters, many grinning in victory, rode through the streets in captured U.S. and Afghan military vehicles flying the Taliban’s white flag.

Turban-clad insurgents searched the phones of passersby for evidence of government contacts or compromising material they might deem un-Islamic. Bridal dress advertisements that showed women with exposed strands of hair were covered in fresh white paint. Stores were shut across the city.

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Rozina, an Afghan-Canadian woman visiting Kabul with her Afghan husband, said Taliban fighters came to their hotel Monday morning while she was in a back garden. Frightened, she ran upstairs to her room. Minutes later, Taliban fighters came inside with the hotel manager, who persuaded her to come out of the bathroom where she had hidden.

Three armed militants rummaged through Rozina’s purse and luggage, checked her passport and asked questions about her relationship with her husband, she said. They demanded to see their marriage certificate. Her husband protested, saying that devout Muslims wouldn’t invade his wife’s privacy. They slapped him across the face and hit him in the back with the weapons, she said.
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Afghan air force flees en masse: Uzbekistan SHOOTS DOWN one fighter plane and forces another FORTY SIX helicopters and planes to land carrying 600 Afghan soldiers
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Taliban leader was freed from Guantanamo Bay in 2014 swap by Obama
By Paul Sperry
August 16, 2021 9:44pm Updated
https://nypost.com/2021/08/16/taliban-l ... -by-obama/
When then-President Barack Obama released five Taliban commanders from the Guantanamo Bay prison in exchange for an American deserter in 2014, he assured a wary public the dangerous enemy combatants would be transferred to Qatar and kept from causing any trouble in Afghanistan.

In fact, they were left free to engineer Sunday’s sacking of Kabul.

Soon after gaining their freedom, some of the notorious Taliban Five pledged to return to fight Americans in Afghanistan and made contacts with active Taliban militants there. But the Obama-Biden administration turned a blind eye to the disturbing intelligence reports, and it wasn’t long before the freed detainees used Qatar as a base to form a regime in exile.
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Well, I see that a lot of folks seem to be very upset about Biden's policy of withdrawal in Afghanistan. Often cited is the terrible human rights record of the Taliban. In These Times recently featured an article written back in 2017, maybe to remind us how great things were before Biden came along.

The U.S.-Trained Warlords Committing Atrocities in Afghanistan
by May Jeong
September 19, 2017

https://inthesetimes.com/article/our-wa ... fghanistan

Extract:
(In These Times) According to Malik Lal Mohammad, a local elder, one day in August 2009, a pro-government armed group and their U.S. advisors arrived in Khataba to seek out Taliban fighters.

Khataba residents had learned to make themselves scarce when government forces were on a sweep. In a previous U.S.-advised raid, locals say, at least three men suspected of affiliation with the Taliban had been disappeared.

A group of farmers, however, decided that they had little to fear. They were all relatives of Hanif Hanifi, a two-term Afghan senator with clout among local officials. After a rushed assembly to discuss their options, the men, all Pashtun, decided to continue working in the fields. Hanifi’s name, they believed, would afford them protection.

…The farmers never had time to make their case. The Afghan patrol opened fire, killing all seven men. It was not clear whether the U.S. advisors, who were stationed half a mile away, witnessed the killings, but Mohammad believes they would have been within earshot of the gunfire.
This kind of impunity has come to be the norm in Afghanistan. Numerous reports from human rights agencies have implicated U.S.-backed militias in killings and human rights violations over the course of the war. No one has a comprehensive tally. Due to poor record-keeping, even the U.S. government may not know how many militias it has funded or how many civilian deaths those militias are responsible for. None of these crimes have been prosecuted in Afghan or international courts.
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