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Juggernaut
09-14-2011, 07:58 PM
Won't be long till Taliban refugees are immigrated. Trust me, they are coming to show us how to live and accept our multicultural failings.

Perhaps Obama does have a liking to terrorists. I'm sure Billy Ayers would agree! :o

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/09/12/us-mum-over-reported-taliban-office-in-qatar/

The Obama administration kept tight-lipped Monday following reports that the United States had endorsed a plan for the Taliban to open a political office in Qatar by the end of the year.

The Times of London reported Monday that the U.S. is hoping the new office will help move along talks to reconcile insurgents with the government in Kabul. The move comes as the United States looks to withdraw troops from Afghanistan.

State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said Monday she would not comment "on those specific reports," while restating the U.S. position on Afghanistan's negotiations with Taliban fighters to disarm, a process known as reconciliation.

"We favor an Afghan-led process. This Afghan-led process has many facets. But from a U.S. perspective we have certain red lines," she said. "Anybody reconciled has to accept the Afghan constitution, has to renounce violence, drop weapons and support human rights in keeping with international standards."

wingrider
09-15-2011, 12:50 AM
is Qatar in the United states?

as long as the towell heads keep their shit in the middle east I don't give a flying duck what they do

waltky
08-21-2016, 06:43 AM
Taliban control Khan Abad district in Afghanistan...
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Afghan District Falls to Taliban: Officials
Aug 20, 2016 - Khan Abad district fell to the Taliban after the militants launched a pre-dawn attack on the district's center.


Taliban militants on Saturday captured a district in northeastern Kunduz province, near the provincial capital where militants scored their biggest victory in 14 years last September. The militants, waging a bloody insurgency to topple the Western-backed Kabul government, have intensified their attacks nationwide and tightened their grip on the besieged capital of Helmand province southwest of Kunduz in recent weeks.

Khan Abad district, which is about 30 kilometers east of Kunduz city, fell to Taliban after the militants launched a pre-dawn attack on the district center, according to local officials. "After several hours of fighting the militants overran the district," the district's governor Hayatullah Amiri told AFP, adding that the provincial governor ignored their calls for reinforcements.


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Afghan forces prepare to operate against the Taliban in the Aliabad district, Kunduz Province

Provincial spokesman Sayed Mahmood Danish confirmed the overnight battle, and said security forces were "trying to get back control of the district from the Taliban". Khan Abad resident Abdul Satar told AFP hundreds had fled their homes amid the fighting. "The residents of the city are worried about their lives and safety. People are fleeing their homes and they have left their shops," he said, adding that roads to neighboring provinces were closed.

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid confirmed in a statement that the group's fighters were in control of district and police headquarters. The Taliban briefly captured northern Kunduz city in September last year, the first city to fall to the insurgents in their biggest victory in 14 years of war. The militants were driven out almost two weeks later by Afghan forces backed by U.S. aircraft and NATO soldiers, but it marked the first time since 2001 that the Taliban were able to take control of a major city in the country. But U.S. and Afghan officials insist that they will not allow another urban center to be captured after Kunduz was briefly overrun last year.

http://www.military.com/daily-news/2016/08/20/afghan-district-falls-taliban-officials.html

See also:

Breakaway Taliban Faction Names New Leader in Afghanistan
Aug 16, 2016 — A breakaway Taliban faction in Afghanistan has appointed a new leader for the group, the nephew of the faction's leader who was killed last year.


The development was announced in a video, which was obtained by The Associated Press. It says that Mullah Emdadullah Mansoor was named leader of the faction known as Mahaaz-e-Dadullah at a gathering on Monday in southern Zabul province. The meeting was attended by tribal and religious leaders, as well as the group's local commanders.


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Aug. 1, 2015 file photo shows Taliban leader Mullah Mansour.

The video shows Mansoor accepting the leadership position among a crowd of gunmen. He is the nephew of Mullah Mansoor Dadullah who was killed in Khak-e-Afghan district of Zabul last year, fighting with rival Taliban. Mansoor promised to "fight foreign forces" and exact revenge for the group's slain leader.

http://www.military.com/daily-news/2016/08/16/breakaway-taliban-faction-names-new-leader-afghanistan.html

Peter1469
08-21-2016, 11:41 AM
The Taliban represents one of the largest ethnic groups in Afghanistan. No wonder they have the power to keep taking the place over.

The US should read and understand history and culture before it drops in and demands change.

waltky
06-08-2017, 09:00 PM
4 nations cut diplomatic ties to Qatar as Gulf rift deepens...
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Qatar rejects 'blockade,' denies terror allegations
Jun 8,`17: Arab states have no right to "blockade" Qatar, the country's top diplomat said Thursday, insisting the campaign by Saudi Arabia and its allies to isolate the tiny, energy-rich nation is based on "false and fabricated news."


In a wide-ranging interview with The Associated Press, Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani repeatedly denied that his country funded extremists and he rejected the idea of shutting down its Al-Jazeera satellite news network. He said Qatar, as an independent nation, also had the right to support groups like the Muslim Brotherhood, despite the fact that its neighbors outlawed the Sunni Islamist organization. Sheikh Mohammed's hard line mirrored that of a top Emirati diplomat who told the AP on Wednesday that the United Arab Emirates believes "there's nothing to negotiate" with Qatar.

Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and other countries severed diplomatic ties with Qatar earlier this week and cut off air, sea and land travel to the peninsular nation. Kuwait's emir is working to mediate the Gulf crisis around Qatar, which is home to a major U.S. military base and is the host of the 2022 FIFA World Cup. "If anyone thinks they are going to impose anything on my internal affairs or my internal issues, this is not going to happen," Sheikh Mohammed said. Worried residents have responded to the crisis by emptying grocery stores in the capital of Doha, and Saudi Arabia has blocked trucks carrying food from entering the country across its only land border.


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Qatari foreign minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, poses for a photo during an interview with the Associated Press in Doha, Qatar, Thursday, June 8, 2017. Qatar’s top diplomat struck a defiant tone Thursday, saying no one gave Arab nations the right to “blockade” his energy-rich country, and that the campaign by Saudi Arabia and its allies to isolate Qatar is based on “false and fabricated news

Doha is a major international travel hub, but flag carrier Qatar Airways now flies increasingly over Iran and Turkey after being blocked elsewhere in the Middle East. On Wednesday, Emirati officials shut down the airline's offices in the UAE. Al-Jazeera's offices have been shut down by authorities in Saudi Arabia and Jordan. Turkey's parliament, on the other hand, has approved sending troops to an existing Turkish base in Qatar as a sign of support. "No one has given them the right to blockade my country, not to allow cars, or my flights to fly over their countries or my ships to park in their port," the foreign minister said. "No one is giving them the right to separate families and displace people. No one has given them the right to separate Qatari women from their Saudi children, or Emirati women from their Qatari children." He added: "I don't know in which century we are living. Are we living really in the 21st century?"

Throughout the interview, Sheikh Mohammed repeatedly denied that Qatar funded extremists and terrorist groups, the main reason given for this week's moves against it. Western officials long have accused Qatar's government of allowing or even encouraging the funding of some Sunni extremists, and the Qatari government has openly supported the Palestinian militant group Hamas. U.S. President Donald Trump, who tweeted Tuesday about Qatar funding extremists, called Qatari ruler Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani on Wednesday and offered to host leaders at the White House to resolve the crisis. But Sheikh Mohammed told the AP that Sheikh Tamim "is not going to leave the country while the country is in blockade," in effect turning down the mediation offer.

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