By Judi McLeod ——Bio and Archives--August 22, 2021
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“What is happening in Afghanistan is not by accident. “The disaster that is Afghanistan is so defective in so many profound and different ways that it has to be a purposeful decision to try and destroy America's standing in the world. Nobody could make so many mistakes at that level and have it all be by accident. We know the leftist Biden administration has already done everything they can to sabotage America. And by creating such a gigantic avoidable disaster we are communicating to the world that we can't be trusted.”Imagine trusting not your own forces but trusting in the brutality of the blood-thirsty Taliban! There’s an apparent déjà vu and familiarity about the human tragedy that is playing out in Afghanistan.
“Zabihullah Mujahid’s account is not verified but has nearly 280,000 followers and is regularly cited by major news outlets. He recently tweeted an update on “military units” entering Kabul. He wrote that their “advance is continuing normally.”(Fox News, Aug. 16, 2021)
“KABUL, Afghanistan — Five members of the Afghan Taliban who were freed from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay in exchange for captured American Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl have joined the insurgent group’s political office in Qatar, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said Tuesday. (AP)
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“They will now be among Taliban representatives negotiating for peace in Afghanistan, a sign some negotiators in Kabul say indicates the Taliban’s desire for a peace pact.” (AP)Is what we are seeing this week in Afghanistan “Peace”?
“Others fear the five, all of whom were close to the insurgent group's founder and hard-line leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, bring with them the same ultra-conservative interpretation of Islam that characterized the group's five-year rule that ended in 2001 with the U.S.-led invasion.” (AP) “In an unexpected development, Pakistan also bowed to a long-standing Afghan Taliban demand that it release its senior leader, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, who had been in jail in Pakistan since 2010. At the time, Baradar was reportedly jailed after bypassing Pakistan to open independent peace talks with Hamid Karzai, who was then Afghanistan's president. “Baradar issued an audio message after his release to the Taliban. The Pashto-language message, heard by an Associated Press reporter, seemed to indicate he was preparing for a role in the insurgent movement moving forward.”“When Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar arrived at Afghanistan’s Kandahar airport from Doha on a Qatari Air Force C-17 on Tuesday, he was welcomed by jubilant Islamist militants as a conquering hero. Yet Baradar’s success had come not on the battlefield but in the dealmaking room.(UKTodayNews, Aug. 20, 21)
“Back in 2010, Baradar, then a top Taliban military leader, had been arrested in the Pakistani port city of Karachi in a joint operation by Pakistani and US spies. Eight years later, he was freed, supposedly at Washington’s behest, and flown to Doha to head the Taliban political office. This is the de facto embassy of the militant group that ruled Afghanistan under strict Islamic law from 1996 until the US-led invasion in 2001. “In Doha, Baradar represented the Taliban in talks with US president Donald Trump’s administration, which culminated in the February 2020 deal for withdrawal of all US troops from Afghanistan. That, in turn, paved the way for the Taliban’s seizure of the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Sunday, after an almost unobstructed sweep across the country, as Afghan army units, demoralised by the loss of US support, stood down.”
“Osama bin Laden, the man America went to Afghanistan to kill, warned in 2010 that a Biden presidency was likely to 'lead the US into a crisis.”Did bin Laden and the Taliban have a crystal ball? How did they know? The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan was aided and abetted by a shadow government in America. Barack Obama is head of the Shadow Government. Figuratively speaking he makes the bombs and passes them on to his top useful idiot, Joe Biden. God help America and all who depend on her stability because from here on in, it is only going to get a lot worse.
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