People carry the body of a relative killed in Saturday's attack. AP
Posted on 11/22/2020 4:27:42 AM PST by xomething
Mortar shells slammed into a residential area of Afghanistan’s capital and killed eight people Saturday, hours before outgoing U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo held what are likely his last meetings with the Taliban and Afghan government negotiators trying to hammer out a peace deal.
The attack in Kabul, claimed by Islamic State militants, also wounded 31 people.
The assault came as peace talks were underway in Qatar, where Pompeo told Afghan government negotiators that the U.S. will “sit on the side and help where we can” in the negotiations with Taliban militants. Meanwhile, the U.S. military announced a sudden visit to the Mideast by long-range, nuclear-capable B-52H bombers, underlining America’s continuing presence in the region.
Two Taliban officials told The Associated Press that the warring sides have found common ground on which to move forward the stalled talks. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to speak to journalists, did not elaborate.
In Kabul, at least one of the 23 mortar rounds hit inside the Iranian Embassy compound. No one was wounded, but it damaged the main building, the embassy said. At least 31 people were hurt elsewhere in the city, according to the Interior Ministry.
The local Islamic State affiliate issued a statement claiming the attack that targeted the so-called Green Zone in Kabul, which houses foreign embassies, the presidential palace and Afghan military compounds, according to SITE Intelligence Group.
In Doha, Pompeo met with the co-founder of the Taliban, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, who signed the peace agreement with Washington in February ahead of the so-called intra-Afghan talks. Taliban spokesman Mohammad Naeem tweeted that further prisoner releases were discussed in the meeting,...
People carry the body of a relative killed in Saturday's attack. AP
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Everyone knows things can be fixed there if we send more troops, stay another 10 years, and spend another trillion dollars.
Didn’t they say ISIS is on the ropes? What is this? /s
Out going Mike Pompeo. Not yet.
This war is proven to be unwinable. The only winners are the military industrial complex. Those that have lost the most are those mourning their loved ones and the veterans of that war still suffering, not to mention the tax payers.
I never understood going there to begin with. With hindsight being 20 20, now that Bush is fully exposed as a backstabbing RINO globalist, our going there was but a sham inspired the Deep State.
What’s up with this sort of thing? Didn’t george w bush tell us that moozlums were “the religion of peace”? w didn’t lie to us, did he???
Only in Syria. To get rid of ISIS is to get rid of mooselimbs. The West doesn’t have the heart for that.
“w didn’t lie to us, did he???”
Absolutely not!!! The attack on the Twin Towers was planned by the Afghan Air Force High Command and executed by brave Afghan AF pilots. Their weapons were those invisible WMD’s of Saddam’s. It was the largest military attack on our soil since Pearl Harbor.
We must stay in Afghanistan and fight to the finish!! (or at least until every Deep State creature has his/her pockets lined with military/industrial cash)
Seriously speaking, I wonder how the body/injured count of the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers stacks up against the count of our dead and wounded soldiers? How many Twin Towers could be rebuilt with what we’ve spent on the Iraq/Afghan wars? Would the Middle East be more secure had we not meddled there?
We really need a “like” button for all the good posts here.
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