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Afghanistan – What Will Happen Next? A Provisional Government and a New Constitution…

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The Taliban leadership continues to arrive in Kabul. Anas Haqqani is the son of the Jalaluddin Haqqani and younger brother of Sirajuddin Haqqani, the head of the Haqqani Network. He is part of the Taliban negotiation team in Qatar. Today he and a high level delegation of Taliban met with former president Hamid Karzai and Abdullah Abdullah, the Chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation…

Gen. Milley Claims Nobody Expected Taliban to Take Afghanistan in Just 11 Days…He’s a Liar…All of Them Are…

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As President Biden continues to insist that he regrets nothing and that there was no way for his administration to predict how swiftly Afghan military forces would collapse, allowing the Taliban to regain control of the entirety of Afghanistan, after the US pullout, Gen. Mike Milley spoke at a press briefing on Wednesday to help cover for his boss, yet the president’s excuses are starting to contradict one another…

‘I’m a Brooklyn Cliche’: Hipster Daughter of Afghan President Who Fled Kabul in a Helicopter Filled with ‘$169 Million in Cash’ Is an Artist Living in Luxury Clinton Hill Co-op…

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Mariam Ghani, daughter of exiled Afghan president Ashraf Ghani, is living a luxurious lifestyle in New York City as chaos continues overseas…Ghani lives a bohemian artist life in a loft in a luxury co-op in Brooklyn’s Clinton Hill neighborhood and has previously described herself as a ‘Brooklyn cliché’…Her father, Ashraf, recently fled Afghanistan in a helicopter filled with $169million in cash as the Taliban overtook the nation. He has been given asylum in Dubai on ‘humanitarian grounds’…

Why the Afghan Army Folded to the Taliban…

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The Taliban’s swift takeover of Afghanistan caught the West by surprise, as no one had expected that the Afghan government forces would not put up a fight and vanish into thin air so quickly…

The War Nerd: Was There a Plan in Afghanistan?…

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Was there ever a plan there? So what was supposed to happen back in October 2001, when the US forces invaded? I’ve been going through the papers of record, the NYT and WaPo, to see what the official line was, year by year. The first years of an occupation are the most important, so I’ve focused on the first five full years of US occupation, 2002-2007. You can find a good timeline of these years here, but it’s much harder to find any trace of a plan…

U.S. Intelligence Warned in July That American Trained Afghan Defense Forces Would Capitulate to the Taliban…the Same Month Biden Said the Government Wouldn’t Fall…

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In July, Biden said a Taliban takeover was ‘not inevitable’ and rubbished the idea of a hurried evacuation of the U.S. embassy in Kabul…But a new report suggests intelligence agencies delivered a string of increasingly dire warnings about the possibility of a Taliban takeover…One assessment in July said government forces were unprepared for a Taliban assault on Kabul…

Taliban Commander Who Gave Taunting Victory Speech from Kabul Palace Was Released from Guantanamo After Claiming He Was a ‘Simple Shopkeeper’…

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A Taliban commander claimed he spent eight years in Guantanamo Bay in a triumphant speech from inside the Presidential Palace in Kabul Sunday…This came as the militants declared an Islamic state of Afghanistan after President Ashraf Ghani fled his country amid chaotic scenes…Experts identified the commander and former Gitmo detainee as Gholam Ruhani, who was accused of being a longtime security agent for the Taliban…

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