Amid reports of protests in Afghanistan, the Taliban asked Afghan Imams to promote unity and ask people not to leave the country during Friday’s prayers.
In a message to the Imams, the Taliban said to “encourage our compatriots to work for the development of the country, and not to try to leave the country” and answer “the negative propaganda of the enemy.”
Thursday marked the day Afghanistan celebrates its independence from British rule, which happened in 1919. Al Jazeera reported that anti-Taliban protests spread to more cities, and some demonstrators were carrying the Afghan national flag.
Witnesses told Al Jazeera that at least two people died in the city of Asadabad in the eastern province of Kunar after the Taliban fired shots towards the crowd, although it’s not clear if the people died from gunfire or a stampede. Protests and Taliban gunfire were also reported in Kabul, but no casualties were reported.
Things are still hectic outside the Kabul airport, where crowds of Afghans are trying to flee the country. NATO and Taliban officials told Reuters that at least 12 people have been killed in and around the airport since Sunday. According to Afghanistan’s TOLO News, at least 10 people were killed on Sunday alone. At least two people were shot and killed by US troops, and some were killed in stampedes or by falling from US military aircraft.
Compared to recent months in Afghanistan, while it may be tense, there is a general calm across the country. The Taliban control virtually all of the country, except for a few areas, including the Panjshir province, where a resistance force is starting to grow. The Taliban officially declared the “Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan” on Thursday and is in talks with former Afghan officials on the structures of a new government.
So far public order enforced less barbarically than in US. God forbid there should not occur the standard “blood-bath” prediction.
Protesters have been shot and killed.
And if they haven’t been shot and killed you will still hear that they have been shot and killed.
“The fall of Afghanistan was not the result of an “intelligence failure” by the CIA or a military mis-calculation by Secretary Austin and the Pentagon. Both knew, as did Khalilzad, what they were doing. When Austin approved the secret dark-of-night abandonment of the strategic Bagram Airbase, largest US military base in Afghanistan, on July 4, without notifying the Kabul government, it made clear to the US-trained Afghan army that the US would give them no more air cover. The US even stopped paying them months ago, collapsing morale further. This was no accident. It was all deliberate and Zalmay Khalilzad was central to all. In the 1980s his role helped create the 1996 Taliban takeover, in 2001 the Taliban destruction, and now in 2021 the Taliban restoration.”
F. William Engdahl https://journal-neo.org/2021/08/19/the-afghanistan-debacle-zalmay-khalilzad-and-the-great-reset/
https://www.bullionstar.com/blogs/ronan-manly/afghanistans-gold-at-the-ny-fed-1731-very-old-bars-held-since-1939/
Afghanistan’s gold at the NY Fed.
its 1975
stupid americans refuse to heed Big Als advice…
Afghanistan’s ranking in the Subcontinent has climbed to the very top. No South Asian nation has defeated America in war, let alone a 20-year war. India maybe the largest member and Pakistan maybe a nuclear power among Muslim nations. But Afghanistan wins the day.
With barely an army to speak of Afghani men defeated the mighty coalition forces In a region that prides itself of Martial races. Martial Race was a designation created by the British Empire for traditional warriors such as the Rajputs, Sikhs , Marathas and Gurkhas,.. the Afghanis beat them all.
I can just see Afghani men getting the best marriage proposals from the rich and famous where Dowries begin at a cool 100 million dollars along with mansions, yachts, etc. As far as the few hundred Americans the good looking women will be part of Harems and the men made into Eunuchs, part of the spoils of war.
Biden and the Blue Fascists have no intention of leaving Afghanistan. They intend to destroy the country like they destroyed Somalia, Sudan, Libya and Zimbabwe and like they tried to destroy Venezuela, Iran and Syria. The US is manufacturing an economic, security and humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan as a lesson to anyone who might be inspired by the Taliban’s military victory. Expect Biden to announce in the next few days that despite his best efforts, the US needs to act to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe in Afghanistan. The US will fortify the airport and stay there for a long time while spreading propaganda encouraging Afghanis to become refugees and enter the USA emigration lottery where the lucky few will get to repatriate to the US or Europe in exchange for telling horrific tales about the Taliban. In a country where most people live on less than two dollars a day the chance to emmigrate to the west is irresistable and Biden knows it. The US can never occupy the country again. But the Taliban has no air force and the US has the capability of fortifying and defending the airport indefinitely while using propaganda to panic Afghans into fleeing to the airport with whatever assets they can carry. The US can’t win, but the US can inflict terrible economic and humanitarian damage by continuing the war remotely from the air, from a hardened position at the airport and through the fifth column the US still has in the country. The war is not over.