After the Bombing, Refugees Have Begun Flying Out of Kabul Again

Mark Clouse August 29, 2021

Evacuation Flights Resume in Kabul After Deadly Bombings

From www.cbn.com
2021-08-27 07:43:03

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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Evacuation flights from Afghanistan resumed with new urgency on Friday, a day after two suicide bombings targeted the thousands of desperate people fleeing the Taliban takeover. The U.S. says further attempted attacks are expected ahead of the Tuesday deadline for foreign troops to leave, ending America’s longest war.

Kabul residents said several flights took off Friday morning, while footage shared by a local Tolo TV correspondent showed the anxious crowd outside the airport as large as ever.

Thursday’s bombings near Kabul’s international airport killed at least 60 Afghans and 13 U.S. troops, Afghan and U.S. officials said, in the deadliest day for U.S. forces in Afghanistan since August 2011. In an emotional speech, President Joe Biden blamed the Islamic State group’s Afghanistan affiliate, far more radical than the Taliban militants who seized power less than two weeks ago.

“We will rescue the Americans; we will get our Afghan allies out,…

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US Army’s XM913 50mm Cannon to Get New Tank Platform

Mark Clouse August 27, 2021

Rheinmetall teams with US Army DEVCOM to explore OMFV weaponry

From www.shephardmedia.com
2021-08-26 17:00:00

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The OMFV programme is set to benefit from Rheinmetall’s work under CRADA. (Photo: American Rheinmetall Vehicles)

American Rheinmetall Vehicles has announced a partnership with US Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Armaments Centre (DEVCOM AC) to conduct a series of R&D efforts.

The collaboration, dubbed Master Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA), will allow DEVCOM and Rheinmetall to leverage their respective expertise to develop integrated combat vehicle weapons, fire control and ammunition technologies.

Rheinmetall said the efforts will include, but will not be limited to, digital engineering, modelling and simulation, and prototyping and testing.

The partners emphasised how the CRADA will enable exploration of integrating the US Army’s XM913 50mm cannon onto platforms currently competing for the Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle (OMFV) programme.

The 50mm XM913 chain gun is an experimental, modern version of the Northrop Grumman <a…

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American Forces Still Being Attacked by Iraqi Insurgents

Parker Davis August 26, 2021

The Iraqi insurgent group Qasim al-Jabarin is claiming responsibility for a series of seven attacks on US Military caravans in Iraw over the last week. The result of the attacks did not lead to any US deaths, but they disrupoted the flow of supplies.

Iraq’s insurgent group attacks seven US military caravans

From www.plenglish.com
2021-08-24 20:52:16

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24 de agosto de 2021, 16:43Baghdad, Aug 24 (Prensa Latina) The insurgent Qasim al-Jabarin group claimed on Tuesday seven attacks against seven US military caravans in Iraq, according to the Saberin news website.

Two of the actions took place in the Al-Diwaniyah province, two others in Babylon, another in the capital district of Yusufiyah, while the rest occurred in the provinces of Al Muhatna and Dhi Qar.

Recently, the harassment of US interests in that country escalated with bombs set off as vehicles passed by, loaded with military logistics.

Those caravans enter Iraq from the Syrian border in the west or through Kuwait in the south.

Iraqi irregular groups consider the US troops as occupiers who frequently violate sovereignty and disrespect local laws.

The rejection of Americans increased in tone after the assassination by US aircraft of the Iranian General Qassem Soleimani and the Deputy Commander of the Popular Mobilization Units, Abu Mahdi al-Mohandes.

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Analysts Believe Ethiopia is Using Iranian Drones in Battle for Tigray

Parker Davis August 26, 2021

Ethiopia is in the middle of a civil war in the region of Tigray, which also includes foreign troop invasions by its neighhbor, Eritrea. In response, Ethiopia is using drones to comabt the ‘insurrectionists’ and those drones appear to be Iranian drones, the Mohajer-6 drone to be exact. This drone cut its teeth, in part, over the skies of Libya and Syria.

Images Suggest Ethiopia Using Iranian Drones in Civil War

From www.thedefensepost.com
2021-08-25 13:40:56

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Citing images shared on the internet, several media outlets have reported that the Ethiopian National Defence Force is using Iranian-made Mohajer-6 combat unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as it fights a civil war.

Who took the photos remains unknown. However, they show the Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed visiting an airport with what appears to be the drone in the background. The fact-checking website Bellingcat and some open-source researchers independently geo-located the images, indicating that they were taken at the government-controlled Semara Airport.

Semara is the capital city of the country’s Afar province, which abuts the Tigray region where government forces are battling the anti-government Tigray Defense Forces (TDF).

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Coming Soon, Women Being Drafted for War in America

Parker Davis August 26, 2021

The Senate Armed Services Committee approved a proposed language change to the Selective Service law from men being required to sign up for the potential draft to men AND women being required to sign up for the potential draft, the writing is on the wall for American women. You too will be drafted if the DNC has its way, in the name of ‘equality.’

Women Are on the Verge of Being Forced Into Military Conscription Due to a Perverse Notion of ‘Equality’ – Reason.com

From reason.com
2021-07-23 07:00:00

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The Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday approved a language change in the $768 billion National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would expand the “Selective Service”—the oxymoronically named requirement under threat of imprisonment for 18-year-old males to submit their names to a national registry of potential military conscripts—to include the female of the species.

As Ella Lubell noted here yesterday, among those cheering this development is the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), whose lawsuit challenging the male-only draft was denied a hearing last month by a Supreme Court that nonetheless signaled its potential interest should Congress decline to change the law. “Men-only registration actually impedes women’s full participation in civic life,” the ACLU maintains.

It’s worth pausing on that logic, particularly in light of what that “L” stands for. Is “participation” really the right word to describe being coerced by the state…

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Putin Upset Taliban Has US Weapons Now

Freedomist Editor August 25, 2021

Russia is warning the world that the Taliban acquisition of US arms, munitions, and tech could pose a significant problem for all the nations that line its border.

Russia concerned about Taliban weapons seizures

From apnews.com
2021-08-24 19:20:26

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MOSCOW — Russia’s defense minister has voiced concern about the Taliban seizing a large number of weapons, including air defense missile systems, after sweeping over Afghanistan.

Sergei Shoigu said Tuesday the Taliban has captured hundreds of combat vehicles along with a number of warplanes and helicopters.

He expressed a particular worry about the Taliban obtaining more than 100 man-portable air defense missile systems.

Shoigu noted that Afghanistan’s refugee problem is a cause for grave concern.

The Russian defense chief voiced hope that the Taliban would move to form an inclusive government that would include all groups in the country.

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Taliban Tells US to Leave Their Afghanis Where They Are

Freedomist Editor August 24, 2021

Taliban spokesperson asks U.S. to stop encouraging Afghans to leave the country

From theweek.com
2021-08-24 17:35:58

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Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said Tuesday that the militant group will stop Afghans from fleeing the country, promising safety to those who aided Western efforts amid fears of Taliban reprisal, writes Forbes.

Mujahid said Afghans would no longer be allowed to travel to the airport in Kabul, and reportedly asked the U.S. stop evacuating citiziens because “we need their talent,” per Forbes. “We are not in favor of allowing Afghans to leave,” he reportedly said, per Axios. Mujahid also told those who worked with the U.S. that “we have forgotten everything in the past,” suggesting they were safe in Afghanistan, and insisted the Aug. 31 withdrawal deadline was not up for negotiation. Since those remarks, President Biden confirmed the U.S. will stick to its end-of-month target.

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid sends a message to the United States:“We will not allow Afghans to leave, and we won’t extend that [August 31st] deadline.” <a…

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Biden Just Handed the Taliban Hundreds of Deadly, High-Tech American Missiles

Freedomist Editor August 24, 2021

PGC – Thanks to the efforts by Joe Biden to assure the collapse of Afghanistan doesn’t happen too close to the 2022 elections (which would be bad for the DNC, the CCP knockoff import from China masquerading as an American political party), the Taliban now have hundreds of death-dealing, high-tech missiles it inherited from the Afghan government it just defeated thanks to the hasty American retreat.

Taliban May Have Inherited ‘Hundreds’ of Missiles From Former Afghan Government

From www.thedailybeast.com
2021-08-23 15:29:42

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By Jeff Stein

The Taliban, its al Qaeda ally, and the renegade ISIS-K terror group may have inherited hundreds of deadly shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles from the fallen Afghan government’s weapons depots, experts say.

The exact number of missiles and their origin, kind, age and viability are hard to come by. A 2019 report by the RAND Corp. think tank put the total at an alarming 4,500, but according to experts, that figure is unreliable, and almost certainly represents the number of MANPADS—Man-portable air defense systems—acquired by successive Kabul regimes going back decades. It’s highly unlikely that Washington supplied any to Kabul, experts explained. Any left today likely represent a fraction of those acquired by the Taliban regime overthrown by the U.S. in 2001, or its predecessors.

Still, if even a fraction of MANPADS fell into the hands of the Taliban, Al-Qaeda or ISIS-K, an Islamic State faction active in Afghanistan and elsewhere nearby, that would be…

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US Claims It’s Protecting Afghanis By Scrubbing the Internet of the Afghan War

Freedomist Editor August 23, 2021

PGC – The United States State Deparment has made it clear it is attempting to delete from the Internet the history of the Afghan War in the name of protecting the Afghanis who stood with the US against the Taliban. The move could be on its face just what it says it is, but given the nature of an emboldened state that now has the full coopreation of the massive corpostates that support and enable it, and even move coervcively against its opponents in ways the state itself can’t, one should be paying close attention to attempts by this government to gaslight Americans into being whatever the state wants to believe about what actually happened in Afganistan.

The US Is Removing Records of Its War in Afghanistan From the Internet

From www.vice.com
2021-08-18 16:19:27
Matthew Gault
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America’s war in Afghanistan is vanishing from the internet. Federal agencies are wiping websites of videos, articles, and photos and saying it must be done to protect the lives of the Afghans left behind who may face retaliation from the Taliban.

State Department Spokesperson Ned Price told the Associated Press that the process of scrubbing online evidence of Afghans working with coalition forces “is of the utmost importance” and that State’s policy is “only to remove content in exceptional situations like this one. In doing so, department personnel are following records retention requirements.”

The United States Agency for International Development—the agency in charge of much of the more than $100 billion America spent reconstructing Afghanistan—is also purging records. “Given the security situation in Afghanistan, and out of an abundance of caution for the safety of our staff, partners, and beneficiaries, we are reviewing USAID public websites and social media…

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No Draft for Women, Say GOP Senators in Response to DNC Amendment

Freedomist Editor August 12, 2021

PGC – The consequence of insisting that there is no real physiological difference between men and women is that eventually women will be expected to do the same things that men are expected to do,, not just that men are expected to do some of the things women are currently expected to do,

One of the duties of men in most societies throughout human history is to be the ones that die first when the lands come under attack. We send the men to protect the women, the children, the elderly, and those not able to fight. It’s not a western thing, it’s not a white thing, it’s an almost near-universal thing, For better or worse, this is the overwheming tradition of humanity.

Now, as the narrative becomes the institutions, as the theoretical assumption that there are no real physiological differences between male and female become instutitions and change existing institutions, it is only a matter of time before that society expects women to face the physical threat of any potential enemy in the same way as the man, despite the fact that she is not nearly physiologically equipped for such a task and would be broken even if she survived the war.

GOP Senators are trying to either pre-emptively cut off the eventual drafting of women in the military or grandstanding a threat that might not, yet, be credible. As a DNC-held Senate Committee recently passed an amendment that would do just that, make women eligible for the draft, perhaps this is more the former than the latter.

Women ‘Should Not Be Forced to Fight’: GOP Senators Take Stand against Female Draft

From www.christianheadlines.com
2021-08-11 13:50:00

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A coalition of Republican senators is taking a stand against requiring women to register for a draft, saying in a proposed resolution the concept would harm military readiness.

U.S. Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and five other GOP senators introduced the resolution on August 5 after a Democratic-controlled committee passed an amendment that would force women to register with Selective Service, making them eligible to be drafted into war. Under current law, only men must…

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