Afghanistan
Taliban says US will provide humanitarian aid to Afghanistan
I remember a time when it was the US’s position that we don’t negotiate with terrorists. How quaint that seems now. AP wire reports; The U.S. has agreed to provide humanitarian aid to a desperately poor Afghanistan on the brink of an economic disaster, while refusing to give political recognition to the country’s new Taliban […]
More on the 82nd Airborne’s Taliban war trophy
Jeff LPH 3 forwards to us this Task & Purpose report on MG Donahue’s war trophy we talked about earlier this week. According to the report, the 82nd Airborne’s spokesman says that nobody was ordered off an aircraft to load the truck. From the article; Col. Brett Lea, a spokesman for the 82nd Airborne Division, […]
Kabul suicide bomber allegedly was one of the terrorists released when Biden abandoned Bagram
As part of the abysmal and poorly managed Afghan withdrawal we abandoned Bagram Air Base. As you’ll recall, we did so in the dead of the night without notifying our Afghan allies. When the base (and its prison housing scores of terrorists) was “liberated” by the Taliban, those prisoners were released. One of those prisoners […]
Afghan gun stores selling American military weapons
Gun stores in Afghanistan have included U.S. military weapons in their stores. Just as this website’s readers suspected, U.S. military weapons provided to the Afghan security forces, abandoned by the later, ended up in Taliban hands. However, the supply exceeded their demand and the Taliban is not on a major war footing. They apparently did […]
Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Scheller Freed UPDATE
Marine Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller was released from pretrial confinement at Camp Lejeune, N.C., the service announced Oct. 5, 2021. Scheller was relieved of his command in August after posting a video critiquing military and civilian leaders for failures in Afghanistan hours after a terrorist attack killed 13 service members at Kabul’s international airport. (U.S. […]
Redstate reports that MG Donahue ordered 50-100 people off last flight out of Kabul to take a war trophy
Poetrooper sends in that Redstate is reporting that Major General Donahue, Commanding General of the 82nd Airborne Division and who was the on-the-ground commander in the final days of the Kabul debacle, is said to have ordered everyone off a C-17 so that a war trophy could be loaded. Of course, when people went to […]
Fort Bliss female soldier assaulted at Afghan refugee camp
ABC7 KVIA is reporting that a female US Army soldier at Fort Bliss was attacked by some of our Afghani “allies” housed there in a temporary refugee camp. From the report; The FBI is investigating the assault of a female Fort Bliss soldier by several male Afghan refugees at the Army’s Doña Ana Complex camp […]
Two Fort McCoy Afghan evacuees face federal charges
A couple of Afghan evacuees now have a “better idea” of what their future may hold. Both are facing federal charges. One of them is charged with sexual acts with minors. The second one is charged with spousal assault. Both men made appearances at the federal court in Madison. They are currently staying at the […]
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