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Taliban spokesman tells BBC they are 'awaiting a peaceful transfer of power'
BBC News ^

Posted on 08/15/2021 9:31:49 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

A spokesman for the Taliban has told the BBC's Yalda Hakim "there will be no revenge" on the people of Afghanistan.

Suhail Shaheen called the presenter live on air. "We assure the people in Afghanistan, particularly in the city of Kabul, that their properties, their lives are safe - there will be no revenge on anyone," he told her.

"We are the servants of the people and of this country."

Many Afghans fear a brutal return to the regime of the 1990s, which was characterised by public executions, stonings and girls being banned from school.


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KEYWORDS: afghanistandebacle; bidenadm; bidensfault; taliban
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1 posted on 08/15/2021 9:31:49 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Biden paid the ransom.


2 posted on 08/15/2021 9:34:26 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Scorpion and frog story comes to mind.


3 posted on 08/15/2021 9:34:44 AM PDT by pnut22
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

What are Taliban promises of peaceful coexistence worth? Nothing.
Just try reminding them of their promises when they are chopping off your head.


4 posted on 08/15/2021 9:35:06 AM PDT by SmokingJoe ( )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Probably most of the old government has already fled. Who is left to negotiate?


5 posted on 08/15/2021 9:35:39 AM PDT by antidemoncrat (somRead more at: https://economicti)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They’re the Softer Gentler Taliban.


6 posted on 08/15/2021 9:37:48 AM PDT by Orosius
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

No revenge, means they are going go be brutal to everyone, regardless of their prior support of the Afghan government.


7 posted on 08/15/2021 9:37:50 AM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment
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To: antidemoncrat

[[ A spokesman for the Taliban has told the BBC’s Yalda Hakim “there will be no revenge” on the people of Afghanistan]]

Tell That to the many 11 year old girls they are kidnapping and raping as they go door to door terrorizing the people.

So, right off the bat, he has lied!


8 posted on 08/15/2021 9:38:07 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Taqiyya, defnition: The approved Islamic practice of lying to an infidel in order to deceive.

“Taqiyya allows, and even encourages, you to lie to achieve your goals.”
Dr. Ben Carson


9 posted on 08/15/2021 9:38:15 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Is it true that the word “Islam” translates to “submission?”


10 posted on 08/15/2021 9:38:35 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Just look at it , would you believe a word that comes out of it


11 posted on 08/15/2021 9:38:55 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Allow me to translate: “We will have peace when all our enemies are in pieces. Too many of them have ‘heads.’”


12 posted on 08/15/2021 9:39:26 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: blueunicorn6

How many pallets will this be? And what past oversight will this be a ‘correction’ of?


13 posted on 08/15/2021 9:40:29 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: blueunicorn6

Mean while a little more than an hour ago Al-Jizzera reported pilots as saying Afghan Forces have fled the heavily protected Kabul airport.

Guess this leave a place for the Talibans newest toys...

Air Taliban: Fighters seize $6million US Blackhawk helicopters alongside tons of American equipment – while taking to the skies in captured Russian choppers as advance approaches outskirts of Kabul,” by Tom Pyman, MailOnline, August 14, 2021:

Taliban fighters today seized $6million US Blackhawk helicopters alongside tons of American equipment as they took to the skies in captured Russian choppers amid their advance through Afghanistan.

A series of videos being shared on social media show insurgents flying the Kremlin-made mi-17 aircraft around the city of Kandahar, with concerns continuing to grow over the militants’ ongoing grab for power.

Even more seismic, however, is the evidence that the Taliban have also seized American-made Blackhawk helicopters, made famous in the 2001 Ridley Scott blockbuster.

The Afghan government pilots who fly the operational Russian helicopters have been turned to the Taliban, while the US helicopters are likely to be grounded by a lack of spare parts from the United States.


14 posted on 08/15/2021 9:42:40 AM PDT by Covenantor (We are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and fools who can not govern. " Chesterton)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Aesop: The Scorpion and the Frog

Just one look at that McMohamad dude and you know that Taqiya is his middle name.

15 posted on 08/15/2021 9:42:41 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ("Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration." — Thomas Edison)
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Taliban spokesman tells BBC they are 'awaiting a peaceful transfer of power'...

Exactly like what happened in Washington DC on January 19.

Peaceful Transition to Military Power - Mistake or Slip of the Tongue

16 posted on 08/15/2021 9:46:42 AM PDT by C210N (You can trust government or you can understand history. But you CANNOT do both)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Sure.

I totally believe him.

🤪


17 posted on 08/15/2021 9:47:06 AM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ, and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJusChrist.Com)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

He looks like a really nice and honest guy.

I believe him.

Don’t you?

Probably a really great guy to sip a cup of tea with and have a chat about gardening or something.


18 posted on 08/15/2021 9:48:50 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Prediction:

Just like what has happened with the Vietnamese communists over the past 50 years, I predict the same will happen with the taliban in the next fifty.

We currently have peaceful relations with Vietnam, including quickly growing trade and tourism. They’ve pretty much shed the communist foundations and are embracing capitalism and freedom more and more.

I think the same will happen in Afghanistan in due time. Their primitive islamist tendencies will soften and slowly become more westernized, but they’ll do it on their terms and time schedule.

Though our twenty years there have been a military disaster, a whole generation of afghans have been exposed to what the west can offer. As was the case in Vietnam, this will be the lasting legacy and what will bring about gradual change.

Maybe it wasn’t all a waste.


19 posted on 08/15/2021 9:49:12 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

This is Afghan General Dostum’s House. 2 MINUTES!
READ THE DESCRIPTION!!!
https://www.bitchute.com/video/rAss8mPktMcX/


20 posted on 08/15/2021 9:49:35 AM PDT by Dick Bachert
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