Posted on 05/05/2017 5:40:24 PM PDT by huldah1776
KABUL, Afghanistan – Earlier this week, some 700 young men here were spotted traveling north in a convoy of buses. They had no identification cards and said they were laborers going to find work, Gen. Jawid Kohistani, a former official at Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security (NDS) and a leading security analyst, told Fox News.
Despite that lack of documentation, they were able to make the more than 300-mile excursion from terrorist-teeming Nangarhar province by the Pakistan border to the provincial capital of Jalalabad. Then, they made their way west to Kabul and, finally, north to Mazar e-Sharif -- with almost no authorities stopping or investigating them.
"How does terrorism spread? Terrorists just get on a bus and go where they need to. It is that easy," Kohistani said. "These are the simple things that must be fixed. These young men have no weapons on them. So security forces say they cannot stop them. There is no real strategy to identify them and arrest or get rid of them."
When it comes to terrorists either entering Afghanistan – often across the Pakistan border -- or moving from province to province, such travel is often far from clandestine. While some such travel entails traversing mountainous pathways at night, it’s usually done by large groups of men in broad daylight on mainstream highways.
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God what a joke this war has become. 16 years now and hundreds of them take buses into the war zone? We are fighting against a Taliban offensive. Opium production has skyrocketed along with the addiction hitting the USA. “Refugees” are streaming in. We dump around 12 billion a year into the place. We need to just depart, quit cold Turkey, before we become a laughingstock.
Blood and Treasure Down the Drain.
Well, its just getting ridiculous now. Imagine 1960. We are bogged down in Germany. The German spring offensive has begun. And their reinforcements move all around the country and battlefield, immune from attack as long as they don’t carry weapons.
Meanwhile, massive amounts of bootleg German beer are being smuggled into the USA.
We are giving Berlin 12 billion a year, most of which goes to defense contracts and into the pocket of whatever German we call the leader.
Its insane. Its time to stop, just stop.
Add the fact that the entire population is hard wired and spring loaded to the jihad position. Meanwhile, we “nation build” with spilt blood and tax dollars and the usual suspects profit from the endless cycle of madness.
General Dostum knows what to do with them...
I agree, time to GTFO.
The time to GTFO was before Daddy Bush decided to defend one ME bandit from another ME bandit.
oh, no. Not walking. Bus caravans in broad daylight.
I was thinking. That border is as porous as ours. I’m going to look at a map and see if I can find the roads on google earth. Maybe even a bus or two?
“before we become a laughingstock.”
Lol!!!
I’ve not heard much news after the MOAB was dropped. What was the final score?
Pakistan/Khalistan ping
Last number was 94, but foxnews went to the site and there were tunnels decimated so they aren’t exactly sure.
http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-afghanistan-moab-20170415-story.html
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/05/02/moab-devastates-isis-afghanistan-tunnels.html
“...before we become a laughingstock.”
That bus has left the station.
If Fox News was able to go to the site, I imagine there weren’t too many people putting up a defense.
I imagine that everyone at this place was killed. I’ve heard of no survivors.
This was some sort of command center, wasn’t it?
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