Posted on 08/14/2021 9:18:49 AM PDT by elpadre
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani delivered a televised address on Saturday in a bid to rally troops defending Kabul as the Taliban tightened their territorial stranglehold around the capital and US Marines returned to oversee emergency evacuations. Advertising
Ghani said he was ordering the Afghan military to remobilise as they seek to defend the capital from the Taliban after the insurgents’ astonishing blitz through Afghanistan over the past week.
“In the current situation, the remobilisation of our security and defence forces is our top priority, and serious steps are being taken in this regard,” he said.
The focus must also be on “preventing further instability, violence and displacement of people”, Ghani added.
With the country's second- and third-largest cities Kandahar and Herat having fallen into Taliban hands, Kabul has become the besieged last stand for government forces who have offered little or no resistance elsewhere.
Early Saturday, the Taliban seized a province just south of Kabul and launched a multi-pronged assault on a major city in the north defended by powerful former warlords, Afghan officials said.
The Islamist insurgents captured all of Logar and detained its provincial officials, said Hoda Ahmadi, a lawmaker from the province, adding that the Taliban have reached the Char Asyab district, just 11 kilometres (7 miles) south of the capital, Kabul.
The Taliban also attacked the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif from several directions, setting off heavy fighting on its outskirts, according to Munir Ahmad Farhad, a spokesman for the provincial governor.
Later on Saturday, the militant group seized Sharana, the capital of the eastern Paktika region, an MP from the province told AP. (story continues at link)
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“Adios, mofos!”
I wonder how the press is going to dance around this leftist disaster.
This reminds me of 1975 and the fall of Saigon.
While the Tallyband and the Chinese Communist Party strip all the Gold from Northern Afghanistan
Bushies had an equal hand in this disaster.
Of course, easy pickings. The population certainly is going along with the Taliban taking over. And the Taliban happy to inherit all the wealth, buildings etc. we’ve left behind. It’s a win for the Taliban no matter how it’s painted.....let the WarLord battles begin!
Biden lost Afghanistan.
An Afghan national army was never going to work; the country is made up of tribes, and that comes first with them.
I was 18 in 1968. I’m now one year into my eighth decade.
Nothing has been learned from US military history after 1945.
NOTHING.
I think we’re watching Biden’s “deal” with the Taliban playing out. Iran is happy.
Biden lost Afghanistan.
They need the money for their Pet Illegals
This is the same government who wanted us to leave.
And he said, quote: http://www.lerctr.org/~transit/healy/campanis.wav
[[I wonder how the press is going to dance around this leftist disaster]]
They are all praying and sacrificing to Molech right now that the situation turns around somehow and,
If by any chance the afganistanis somehow pull off a miracle and defend themselves without anyone’s help this time, the left will pounce on it claiming it was all part of the plan in the first place, claiming that is was ‘tough love’ that got them to defend themselves.
Don't get me started on the inbred Bush Crime Family.
I think Ghani may want find a pilot and a plane with a lot of fuel. These terrorists don’t seem to be slowing down in the least.
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