A reporter in the Pentagon briefing said there were 35 injured soldiers 13 fatal How would so many be in one space? Pentagon confirms it was one bomb and separate gunfire from outside the fence Was the gunfire first and did that draw the solders to the spot? If gunfire was after it would need to be minutes later to allow the debris to settle How many soldiers were shot to death? Did we return fire? Did we kill any shooters? Do the Marines have authority to shoot outside the fence of the airport towards a crowd?
Taliban missing Biden, Milley, Austin, and Kirby the Klown already??????????? Probably Joe has even put a little sumpin-sumpin in the "Infrastructure Bill" for them just so there will be no hard feelings. Meanwhile, yeh, they gonna miss Biden's "cooperation" with them. a/k/a Joe the Taliban's Bitch. It is not clear yet that ISIS will sniff the Taliban's hair the way Joe has. The Taliban is 'embarrassed heavily' by ISIS-K attack, 'overwhelmed,' girding for civil war, terrorism experts say. "The Taliban is overwhelmed," Bruce Hoffman, a counterterrorism expert at Georgetown and the Council on Foreign Relation, tells Politico. "They are very effective at bullying and victimizing civilians, but they are incompetent at battling groups that look like themselves." "Abu Muhammad," an Afghan militant with ties to the Taliban, told the Post that Thursday's attack was meant to both disrupt coordination between the Taliban and U.S. military and serve as "a punishment also for all those who want to leave Afghanistan to go and live in the West." He added that "we are all preparing for the possibility of a long war." https://news.yahoo.com/taliban-embarrassed-heavily-isis-k-083538473.html
'No one has money.' Under Taliban rule, Afghanistan's banking system is imploding https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/27/economy/afghanistan-bank-crisis-taliban/index.html The Taliban's rule of Afghanistan faces an imminent threat: The war-torn nation's banking system is on the verge of collapse. Nearly two weeks after the Taliban seized power, Afghanistan's banks remain shuttered. That has left many people in the country without access to cash. "No one has money," one current employee of Afghanistan's central bank told CNN. The employee, speaking anonymously due to fears for their safety, said many families don't have enough money for their daily spending and some paychecks have been halted. All of this raises the specter of a severe economic and humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, just weeks after the takeover by the Taliban. The central challenge is that Afghanistan's economy is heavily reliant on access to foreign currency and international aid -- most of which has been blocked since Kabul fell. Grants finance a staggering 75% of Afghanistan's public spending, according to the World Bank. Afghanistan's banks are still closed, days after the Taliban ordered them and other services to reopen, because they've virtually run out of cash, the central bank source said. "You've got a stack of cards that is about to come down," a person familiar with the situation of the Afghan economy told CNN. "As soon as you open the banks, it will expose how fragile the system is." 'Existential flash point' The Afghan banking industry is similarly warning of a complete meltdown. "Afghanistan and its banking sector are at an 'existential flash point' where the collapse of the banking sector is at hand," reads an August 23 memo sent by the Afghan-American Chamber of Commerce. The memo was written by a banking and finance working group composed of major Afghan commercial banks, customers and investors. Afghanistan's central bank, the bedrock of its financial system, appears to be in disarray. Many current employees of the Afghan central bank have not been allowed back in the office since the Taliban took power, the Afghan central bank source told CNN. "My coworkers are worried for their unclear destiny," the source said. The Afghan-American Chamber of Commerce memo indicated that, at least as of August 23, central bank leadership "refused to answer any communications" from the banking industry. Requests for cash from the central bank were not honored, the memo said. The Afghan banking group said it decided to close all banks across the nation on August 15 and has not reopened due to a fear of a "run" by customers for deposits. Another factor cited in that August 23 memo was the fact that the Taliban had not appointed a new central bank governor. Later that day, the Taliban appointed Haiji Mohammad Idris, as acting governor of the central bank, according to media reports. Little is known about the new central bank chief. He appears to be a loyalist without the kind of resume or training that would inspire confidence in the Afghan banking system. Lifelines cut Part of the problem is that Taliban-ruled Afghanistan has turned into a pariah almost overnight. The Biden administration swiftly blocked the Taliban from accessing the billions of dollars held by the central bank in the United States. The International Monetary Fund halted $450 million in funds that were scheduled to arrive in Afghanistan early this week. And then the World Bank froze financial support for Afghanistan. The cash shortage is a nightmare for a country that runs a very large trade deficit like Afghanistan does. Citing a "rapid depletion of cash," the Afghan banking group called for the US government to immediately grant access to the central bank assets. "Without access soon, we fear the entire Afghan economy and banking sector will fail and liquidation of assets will be ordered," the memo said, "and public frustration and possible violence will soon result as the public [will] not be able to buy food and major services." Growing risk of a humanitarian disaster All of this will pose an immediate governance test for the Taliban -- and could create an opening for ISIS and other groups seeking to further destabilize the region. "The Taliban came in not understanding what they would be inheriting here," the economic source familiar with Afghanistan told CNN. Now, fears are rising that the situation in Afghanistan will soon devolve into a humanitarian disaster. In a recent interview with CNN, Ajmal Ahmady, who led the Afghan central bank before fleeing the country, warned of economic hardship, cash shortages, inflation and a surge of refugees leaving the country. Ahmady pleaded with the international community, and the United States in particular, not to back away from Afghanistan. "Humanitarian assistance not only needs to remain, but needs to increase over the next few days and months," he said. "Let's not wait until another crisis hits." Consider that nearly half -- 47% -- of households in Afghanistan lived in poverty, according to the World Bank. "Very quickly, this is going to get very bad," the economic source familiar with Afghanistan told CNN, adding that a humanitarian crisis is "inevitable" in the current path. The Afghan central bank employee voiced concern about what lies ahead. "I have many wishes -- all of them are going to die," the employee said. "We are moving towards a hopeless future."
Oh, I get it! This is Hunter's Daddy's Master Plan! Get the tribes of Afghanistan to just kill each other in a massive shootout with all the military equipment we left behind. China moves in, gets all the rare earth minerals, and voila! Hunter has a whole bunch of new clients. And 10% for The Big Guy.
Dogecoin, man. Dogecoin. The 7th century savages will have all their poppy revenues over on Dogecoin very soon. In related news, I expect Cuba and El Salvador to both be on CartelCoin very shortly. Maybe AFG will migrate from Dogecoin over to PoppyCoin. Cuba’s central bank now recognizes cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/27/cubas-central-bank-now-recognizes-cryptocurrencies-like-bitcoin.html
Patriots trying to fill in where the Biden woke-sters won't go. ‘Pineapple Express’: US vets volunteer to secretly rescue allies in Afghanistan. A group of highly trained US military veterans has been secretly rescuing hundreds of allied operatives from Afghanistan — volunteering over fears those allies would otherwise be left for dead, according to a report. The weeklong secret operation dubbed “Pineapple Express” has been carried out by a group of special ops veterans including retired Green Berets and SEAL Team commanders, they told ABC News. They were driven by deep frustration “that our own government didn’t do this,” former Navy SEAL Jason Redman told ABC. “We did what we should do, as Americans,” he said. They initially formed to rescue an ex-Afghan commando who was getting death threats from the Taliban for having worked with US special forces and elite SEAL Team Six, ABC said. After the Taliban’s target and his family of six were rescued, the task force continued rescuing Afghan allies — and has so far helped at least 630 get through the deadly ring of steel outside Kabul airport to safely evacuate. more at link. https://nypost.com/2021/08/27/us-vets-volunteer-to-secretly-rescue-allies-in-afghanistan/
Marine officer relieved of duty after calling out senior leaders about Afghanistan “Did any of you throw your rank on the table and say, ‘Hey, it's a bad idea to evacuate Bagram Airfield, a strategic airbase, before we evacuate everyone’?” Scheller, in uniform, said in the video. “Did anyone do that? And when you didn't think to do that, did anyone raise their hand and say, ‘We completely messed this up’?” https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/27/marine-us-fatalities-afghanistan-506999
This where the Americans that Biden left behind will be used. The Taliban will trade the American hostages for sanctions relief
At least it's nice to know that at least one officer has the balls to call it like it is. Men like that are wasted in the new woke military.