Posted on 09/13/2021 9:11:36 AM PDT by elpadre
The Taliban has been forced to deny that deputy leader Mullah Baradar is dead after wild rumours emerged that he was killed during a gunfight with his political rivals. The Taliban insisted today that Baradar is in Kandahar province meeting with the group's supreme leader Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada to discuss Afghanistan's future now the US has withdrawn.
But the social media rumour-mill believes he was actually killed in a gun battle in Kabul's presidential palace on Friday that broke out during a meeting with the powerful and ruthless Haqqani family.
The Taliban has so-far produced a handwritten note and an audio recording as evidence that Baradar is alive - which has only served to increase speculation further.
The Taliban has been forced to deny wild rumours that deputy leader Mullah Baradar was shot dead during a confrontation in Kabul last week
Taliban spokesman Mohammad Naeem released the audio recording on Monday.
In it, a man claiming to be Baradar accuses 'media propagandists' of spreading false rumours about him - insisting 'I and all my colleagues are OK'. 'There had been news in the media about my death,' Baradar said in the clip.
'Over the past few nights I have been away on trips. Wherever I am at the moment, we are all fine, all my brothers and friends.... (pics at link)
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
“...Adding further fuel to the rumours is the fact that the Taliban previously covered up the death of leader Mullah Omar for two years.
It was only after Afghan intelligence revealed his death in 2015 that the Taliban publicly confirmed it.
The Taliban’s supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, was also rumoured to have died for several years before the group recaptured Afghanistan.
Since then, the Islamists have claimed he is alive and in the country - somewhere in Kandahar province.
Akhundzada rarely appears in public, perhaps explaining why the Taliban have been reluctant to release images of Baradar if the pair are meeting. “
The feel good story of the day.
Doesn’t really matter. Next warlord up! There’s never a shortage of leaders in warlord states.
Sounds about right for those savages.
Exactly. Eventually one violent enough and smart enough will get the office. Make all pertinent parties rich with money from the Chinese, Russians, heroin, meth, and weed.
In addition to them learning how to get as many Afghan women to America, as possible, so they can pop out a citizen, collect every benefit offered to them and then send a portion of it back home, lest their entire family be chopped to pieces. Maybe the family gets a small cut. If so, then it’s a “Win Win” for everyone.
Pretty soon, the Taliban will be flying back and forth to their villas in Dubai in Gulfstreams.
The SAVAGES can NEVER behave......
Any relation to the Cody family on "Animal Kingdom?"
Love that show! But they’re small potatoes compared to the Haqqani Bros.
Well, that didn’t take long.
Forgery. The note was from his mother Rashihidadin "Kneecapper" Wiqtiquigquallaq. She ran a sex trafficking operation but has dropped out of sight after a torture slaying tabloid article on her. She was illiterate and only signed contracts to kill people using an "X."
Unclear audio: (scuffling) "Here's your goat stew, excellency." (three gunshots). "Ha. Ya' missed me, sucker." (four gunshots) "Ya forgot to duck, fool." (six shots) "Well there's been a change of leadership. I don't have to serve anyone anything."
I think this was a pitched battle between the old-fashioned “decapitation with dull knives” faction vs. the suspect, modernist “decapitation with sharp knives” reformers.
“The Haqqanis are considered the most lethal and sophisticated insurgent group targeting US, Coalition, and Afghan forces in Afghanistan”
https://www.dni.gov/nctc/groups/haqqani_network.html
So one group of sheep rapists killed someone from a competing group of sheep rapists.
The ewes can sleep a little easier tonight.
“The Taliban insisted today that Baradar is in Kandahar province meeting with the group’s supreme leader Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada”
Maybe they mean that they are now buried together in Kandahar, or meeting in Paradise.
No surprise... This is how power is achieved in tribal societies. Most ruthless rules.
No honor among thieves. 😆
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