A video surfaced Monday of Amin ul-Haq returning to hishomeprovince. He led security for Osama bin Laden in Tora Bora. 'It is virtually certain that Al Qaeda will reestablish a safe haven in Afghanistan and use it to plot terrorism against the United Statesand others,' former State Department coordinator Nathan Sales told the New York Times. In the February 2020 Doha agreement negotiated by Trump, the Taliban promised it would 'not allow any of its members, other individuals or groups, including Al Qaeda, to use the soil of
Afghanistan to threaten the security of the United States and its allies.' In return the group secured the release of 5,000 Taliban prisoners against the wishes of the Afghan government and Trump agreed to withdraw troops by May 1. But based on the Monday video of ul-Haq's return the militants seemed to encourage and even celebrate the Islamist figure's homecoming. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9939989/Al-Qaeda-Afghanistan-Bin-Laden-security-chief-Amin-RETURNS-20-years-pulls-out.html……………...................................................................................
Uzbekistan Warns U.S. That Afghan Pilots and Their Families Can’t Stay
Facing Taliban pressure, Uzbekistan has warned the U.S. that a group of highly trained Afghan pilots who fled there two weeks ago aboard Afghan Air Force helicopters and airplanes face expulsion from the country, officials say.
Uzbekistan is urging Washington to act quickly to take the pilots to a third country to avoid inflaming relations with the Taliban in neighboring Afghanistan, these officials say. https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/afghanistan-evacuation-kabul-airport
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8-29-21 UK Gen. Nick Carter, told the BBC that people eligible be brought out numbering in the "high hundreds" had been left behind.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Sunday that diplomatic recognition of the Taliban as Afghanistan's "new regime" would be dependent on the organization's actions, stressing that Britain would "engage with the Taliban not on the basis of what they say, but what they do."
"If the new regime in Kabul wants diplomatic recognition, or to unlock the billions that are currently frozen, they will have to ensure safe passage for those who wish to leave the country, to respect the rights of women and girls, and to prevent Afghanistan from, again, becoming an incubator for global terror," Johnson said.
"We will use every lever we have--political, economic, diplomatic -- to help the people of Afghanistan and to protect our own country from harm," he added. https://www.cbs58.com/news/fears-grow-for-those-left-behind-as-kabul-airport-evacuation-nears-end
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Moderna Inc’s Covid-19 vaccine contamination woes in Japan have widened with another million doses being temporarily suspended, after foreign substances were found in more batches and two people died following shots from affected lots. The affected vaccines in Gunma are from a Moderna lot that is different from those whose use has already been suspended, the Gunma official said.
Japan is looking into the possibility of mixing shots of AstraZeneca’s vaccine with those developed by other drugmakers to speed up vaccination. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/30/japans-moderna-vaccine-contamination-woes-1-million-more-shots-suspended.html
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July 2021 Japan will ship 1 million doses each to Indonesia, Taiwan and Vietnam on Thursday as part of bilateral deals with those governments, Motegi told reporters.
An additional 11 million doses donated through the COVAX sharing scheme will be sent this month to Bangladesh, Cambodia, Iran, Laos, Nepal and Sri Lanka, as well as various Pacific Island states, he said. Japan will ship 1 million doses each to Indonesia, Taiwan and Vietnam on Thursday as part of bilateral deals with those governments, Motegi told reporters.
An additional 11 million doses donated through the COVAX sharing scheme will be sent this month to Bangladesh, Cambodia, Iran, Laos, Nepal and Sri Lanka, as well as various Pacific Island states, he said. https://www.voanews.com/covid-19-pandemic/japan-send-millions-more-vaccine-doses-taiwan-asian-neighbors
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8-27-21 The Taliban’s military victory in Afghanistan is only the start of the group’s problems. The new government will fail because the Taliban cannot be pragmatic and ideological at the same time. Efforts by the Afghan jihadist movement to strike a balance will be exploited by ISIS--a transnational jihadist movement--and other groups, imperiling regional and international security. When that happens, the U.S. and its allies will have to return to the war-torn nation.
ISIS, which has denounced the Taliban as a fake jihadist movement, aims to exploit the group’s internal tug-of-war between pragmatism and ideological commitment. The volatility is heightened by the mix of entities in Afghanistan, including ISIS, the Pakistani Taliban and al Qaeda. There is also a debate whether to build an emirate or a caliphate, with the Taliban pursuing an Islamic polity within Afghanistan while ISIS seeks a single state for the entire Muslim world.
In fact the leadership is divided between Mr. Baradar who is looking forward to being Emirate 2.0’s chief executive and dealing with the world “pragmatically” and Mullah Haibatullah, who, as emir al-momineen, or leader of the faithful, is supposed to ensure the regime’s ideological purity.
Jihadists in Afghanistan, neighboring Pakistan and the broader region are celebrating the Taliban victory, but it won’t be long before struggles erupt within the Taliban as well as between the Taliban and other jihadist groups. Many of these non-Afghan jihadist elements are wondering about their future given that the Taliban signed an agreement with the Trump administration that they won’t allow Afghan soil to be used by any group for attacks against other countries. What will the Taliban do with their erstwhile Pakistani, Arab, Central Asian and Uyghur allies?
Pakistani Taliban won’t be alone in gravitating toward ISIS. Many within the Afghan Taliban movement, disillusioned by what they see as their leaders’ ideological compromises, will do so too. The more the Taliban accommodate their opponents and the world, the more they will lose people. Therefore the Afghan Taliban’s need to strike a balance is likely going to lead to their unraveling. The Afghanistan-Pakistan border will become a battlefield in which ISIS and other jihadist forces emerge. The U.S. will be forced to rethink the withdrawal. https://www.wsj.com/articles/threatened-isis-afghan-taliban-rule-jihadist-islamist-pakistan-baradar-haibatullah-11630094678
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8-19-21 ”The estimates are that in total the cost was something like $1 trillion, which is an astronomical number," said the Government Accountability Institute’s Peter Schweizer. On top of the monetary cost the price was also paid in human lives. 2,448 U.S. soldiers were killed since the war began, and 3,846 U.S. contractors were killed.
$83 billion was spent on weapons, equipment and training for Afghan security forces over the last year--and that U.S.-supplied military equipment is now in the hands of the Taliban. “They have helicopters, they have drones, they have small arms, they have some rockets. This is the kind of equipment that can certainly be passed to other countries or even terrorist groups,” said Schweizer. “Now we may end up, unfortunately, paying the price with this military equipment that we provided ending up in the hands of people that don't want good things for us.” https://fox17.com/news/nation-world/after-billions-spent-in-afghanistan-us-supplied-weapons-now-in-the-hands-of-the-taliban
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The Law that is written within the inward parts of the sons and daughters of God cannot be reduced to a series of statements injected as instant self-awareness and then just as easily rejected as instant unawareness. No, the foundations of truth are built century upon century as the soul, by love and love alone, enters into the true citadel of being.
The Christ mind is the real mind of every disciple of God. This one universal mind to which all may gain access through an obedient humility is not programmed, nor indeed can be, by the fallen ones who would impose their belief systems upon the children of God. Their success in manipulation comes about because the children of God have placed their trust in the outer mind; and it is this outer mind that is subject to all of the influences that surround the evolutions of Earth–hereditary, environmental and including the auric impressions of every lifestream upon every other lifestream amplified by mass communication, satellite and psychic levels of human experience….
To offer fanatical prayers of malintent against the witnesses to the truth of Being, calling for the death of our messengers–this is not the religion of Christ but of Satan. And those who lead the children of God in these Satanic rituals are those who have the greater fear and doubt in their own damnation. Those who are incapable of discerning light and darkness within themselves are the ones who make the loudest pronouncements concerning our representatives. They have denied the ascended masters and living Christ within themselves. By what standard then, pray tell, can they know the servant of God or the prophet true or false?
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