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Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:43am On Aug 30, 2021
Tdotbluejays:
Americans are discussing about the devastating effect of Ida and Covid. Umudeakians are discussing about Afghan Muslims. Even more than Newsmax and DT Junior.
Joe Bidens needs a calamity to make people forget the Afghan mess.
You see it all the time. Make a big stink about some diversion when there is s crisis.

Prayers to Americans .
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:38am On Aug 30, 2021
Tdotbluejays:
Refreshing that the aid is happening without hesitation or asking what Louisiana’s politics are.
That is OK for a governor.
Unlike this one whom politifact and other leftist fact check sites lied about this WH release.

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:30am On Aug 30, 2021
Tdotbluejays:
More BS. Darwin wins again.
Quoting Lincoln project. The co-founder is a paedo and dont tell me those coworkers of his never knew

January 31, 2021 - 01:28 PM EST

A co-founder of The Lincoln Project is
being accused of sending unwanted
messages to young men, pressuring
them for sexual favors in exchange for
jobs and career advice, according to a
new report.

Weaver earlier this month first
acknowledged sending what he called
"inappropriate" sexual messages to
young men.
"To the men I made uncomfortable
through my messages that I viewed as
consensual mutual conversations at
the time: I am truly sorry," Weaver
said on Jan. 15. "They were
inappropriate and it was because of
my failings that this discomfort was
brought on you."
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:23am On Aug 30, 2021
benalvino3:
Biden’s drone strike today killed a former US interpreter and six Afghani children

This just keeps getting worse

Obama 2.0
6 children. What a blunder. There are innocent people who could not make their way out.
Knowing Taliban if they go medieval , those innocent can be punished for that.
Remember Muslims in Nigeria rioting because some guy had drawn a cartoon of their prophet in Netherlands?
Ignore this. I don't want to bring up religion here.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:20am On Aug 30, 2021
Tdotbluejays:
Nothing else to say.

This dude is a Christian but spends alot of time on Nairaland posting funny stuffs about Islam. His obsession is through the roof.
I should have added. If you want to challeng me on anything I wrote in that section Feel free.
I have debated all sorts of muslims in other foras , educated, highly educated etc . Im not one to believe everything Im told.

Go ahead . pick one topic or post and lets go there to discuss it.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:14am On Aug 30, 2021
benalvino3:
Lol, is that not how Ibime attacked me of being Islamophobic because I was criticizing ISIS and using the term religion of peace and Islam only to search him and realize he was also doing the same thing?

There is no Christianophobia nothing for straight men too.
When they cant counter an issue, they go looking for angles to attack.

I have spent a lot of time in the religion section and have nothing to hide. I raised topics and responded to many and if anyone wants to challenge me on anything I stated (using this moniker) let them go ahead.


Phobias are a way of someone dismissing you on account of the phobia defined of you. Oh he is homophobic, don't listen to him stuff.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:06am On Aug 30, 2021
Tdotbluejays:
Is that why you regularly turn off images and miss screenshots on post?

Anyway, it's Monday morning. You should have better things to do with your time Instead of resuming here to mark register.
You are a real clown. I only said I missed something once, I post from opera yes because it only captures the screen I'm on Not the whole screen .Im using a 2G phone remember.
I miss some stuff because I skip threads where you and the old geezer take up acres of naira land real estate discussing people. Of course I cant ask you to engage in anything constructive with someone illiterate.Thats why I miss your twitter screenshots.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 5:53am On Aug 30, 2021
Enugurangers:
Asking how you have been noticed to hate Muslims?
For the past one week or so, you have gone on overdrive about how Afghans are being abandoned or how Taliban have invaded Afghanistan. Maybe you need to go through your past posts.

Hate Muslims: Your created topics on Nairaland confirms your Islamophobia.
Creating topics means I hate Muslims?
You are very stupid.Islamophobia is a word created to bash those who dare criticize islam. Its a word to tar someone.
Real phobias exist like acrophobia ( fear of heights ), ophidiophobia ( snakes), public speaking etc. Genuine and real phobias that. lot of people suffer from.
Islamophobia came up to liken those who don't believe islam as having an irrational hatred of muslims.
The left also created other phobias to bash people like homophobia, transphobia etc.

Afghan is a mess because Joe Biden foccked up .And you have to protect him .Proper cult definition.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 5:39am On Aug 30, 2021
Tdotbluejays:
No. I should be asking you how much you get paid by the GQP for spending atleast 15 hours of your day, 7 days of your week on here.

You know, since $1 is equal to N520. A $5 weekly allowance from the GQP goes a long way in getting you through the month.
still bothered by others people's lives?
I am usually logged in on one browser tab throughout which refreshes like Facebook does in the background.
It gives you the appearance that Im online throughout
In reality I check the tab probably less than an hour in a day.
You can't understand how a cursed poor man living in a mud hut, with no electricity and a limit of N200 data can be online throughout.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 5:33am On Aug 30, 2021
Tdotbluejays:
I don't know why he cares so much about Afghanistan. This dude hates Muslim but has suddenly fallen in love with Afghans that are majorly Muslims that practice Sharia law.
Tell me why I love afghans and hate muslims. Stop your physcho analysis. Always bothered about people's thoughts and intepretations
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 5:25am On Aug 30, 2021
Tdotbluejays:
Maybe you should post the full video next time instead of some 144p screen grab. Those weapons in the video could be Arms donated to the Afghan army by NATO or USA or Australia or Canada or the UK.

As per the money, it could be money from the vault of a bank. How is it Biden's administration donation to them? You need to stop your simplistic way of thinking like you are a child.
When we are reduced to maybes there is a huge problem.
Maybe your fingers don't type what your brains want.
Maybe you are a paid propagandist whose checks come from the old geezer.Maybe thats why you agree with all his crap and maybe all your likes are from the old geezers many monikers.
Maybe maybe is for losers.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 2:28am On Aug 30, 2021
Marine Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller posted this video criticizing the Biden admin action in Afghanistan.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PL8flyVdJfA

He was fired for speaking his mind out.

Lt Col Vindman, a pompous dual Ukraine American citizen leaked a phone call that Trump had with incoming Ukraine president .
He was clebrated, feted and his actions led to a sham impeachment of a US president.

Banana republic.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico:
Tdotbluejays:
You are back to posting from dodgy websites.
What the hell did you just post? Screenshot of someone in Iraq arranging money? grin

Anyway, is it still the 31st of August? You seem to be more current on the date than anyone else.
Sorry to say it But you are very kiddish. What is s dodgy website? Any website that one should never quote? Ya right. Conservative website?
But you endlessly quote twitter nobodies every few hours.

Video of Taliban the screen grab I linked earlier. Include some carrots in your menu.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piPzfseZCoM

Old Geezer. Lets pick your superior mind (made so because you live in America) by hearing your answer to this.
Should we call one who knowingly arms a jihadist group a terrorist?

Afghan military summary in photo. Eqpmt under Taliban hands now.

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 8:37pm On Aug 29, 2021
Tdotbluejays:
The Afghan government under pressure of the US Gov peace agreement with the terrorist Taliban.

It was a shitshow. If the US and NATO go against the agreement, the war would not end. If they agreed to it, the Taliban would immediately move in. But the ultimate goal was the war to end which hopefully does in 2 days.
The Taliban are happy with Biden.
A pallette of 100 dollar bills

1.leave $83 billion in weapons
2 leave major military base
3 free thousands of terrorist prisoners
4 leave a mountain of cash
5 Allow thousands of potential terrorist into the US…

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 8:30pm On Aug 29, 2021
Tdotbluejays:
The Afghan government under pressure of the US Gov peace agreement with the terrorist Taliban.

It was a shitshow. If the US and NATO go against the agreement, the war would not end. If they agreed to it, the Taliban would immediately move in. But the ultimate goal was the war to end which hopefully does in 2 days.
The Taliban are happy with Biden.
A pallette of 100 dollar bills

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 4:12pm On Aug 29, 2021
Taliban govt needs money. 160m in their Central Bank.
The rest: Gold bars in NY fed reserve Plus Bonds in NY totalling 7B or so.And also 450m in EU Special Drawing Rights. Frozen.

Taliban are asking Joe Biden to unfreeze the aid in return for extending the evacuation deadline.

Joe Biden to receive the bodies of the 13 fallen heroes.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 2:02pm On Aug 29, 2021
wirinet:
Please what was the condition?
That the US will pull out ALL its troops from Afghanistan within 14 months on the condition that the Taliban will not allow terrorist groups to use the country as a base to launch attacks on the US and the West.

Is that not a very stupid agreement?

First the US will withdraw it's troops and then hope that the Taliban (whom the Trump administration would be in charge of Afghanistan) will not give safe haven to terrorists.

What will the US then do if the Taliban decides to renege on the agreement after the US withdraws all troops?

What will the US do if the Taliban was unable to stop terrorist groups from using some parts of Afghanistan not under their direct control to launch attacks on the US?
Which part of the agreement are you reading. There was the first one, to get Taliban to talk with Americans, followed by a comprehensive peace agreement with the Afghan admin. Which conditioned the troop withdrawal on the second agreement.
The Taliban did not attack American after that And talks were underway with the Afghan govt.Messed up by the elections because Trump could not follow through to completion.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 11:17am On Aug 29, 2021
benalvino3:
We can only look at his past actions.
Like i said earlier, the abandoned a lot of the equipment, vehicle, what they did was to take the keys away.
Note that the media all along never supported Trump in anything. Ceaselessly mocking and lying about everything obviously helped the Taliban's. They criticised the deal, then the process and were happy to report on Taliban attacking the afghan army before the talks in September.
The surviving media would have celebrated if Trump made Russia/China drop a nuke on a city in America.
Anything to make Trump look bad was the driving force of the media and democrats and Ibime and Salford and so on ad infinitum.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 11:06am On Aug 29, 2021
benalvino3:
And I said it is both true and false. They got abandoned drone like i said that may end up in the hands of china. The US wont even sell their Drone to Turkey making turkey have to develop their own.

the damage has been done and nothing they can do now. the taliban has relocated all those equipment already.
To me Joe Biden seem to be a weakening of America mission. The drones will be taken over by China plus helicopters, drone jamming equipment etc.
No ally can ink a deal with Biden in charge. China might as well invade Taiwan knowing very well US will do nothing but bark.

Ibime does not seem to understand that Trump would not have let Taliban take over Kabul that easily. Again itsl a case of 'If Only' this or that.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:28am On Aug 29, 2021
Looking at the whole matter critically, Joe Biden wanted the Taliban to come to power.
Just like the democrat ex president directly aided the jihadists in Syria and Iraq. He removed all troops despite warnings.

All these actions leaving eqpmt, withdrawal chaos, media fawning ,no questions from media, Tis too much.
They seem to love jihadists.
Wonder why.
Maybe not Biden but we know the power behind the throne.

benalvino3:
Since the US was operating there ISIS k did not strike them, Taliban came in, release some prisoners of Al Q... and ISIS and the strike the US Because they thought the Taliban Care about protecting US lives when they are free to kill women who did not cook good food. The taliban is now saying the US will pay for killing ISIS K members, Members that the biden admin will not name. I think all this are just shows. They did not kill anyone. they just want to look like they are taking actions. Drone strikes Usually have Footage and if they really killed anyone they would have showed something.

The US abandoned Equipment including drones. The US does not leave drone tech for any military especially Afghan militaries because those are techs they would not even sell to their Allies.

They left a lot of planes than afghans can pilot. these are things they could deliver based on request and Usage needs. Ibime will likely excuse or believe the lies biden admin puts out... I don't blame him because it is both true and false. some of the equipment were for the afghan Army but many were abandoned.

they left the base like there was a ticking time bomb there taking even UK by surprise, no one in Afghanistan or the government knew. Ibime look at this excerpt and tell me if those were not abandoned equipment?
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:17am On Aug 29, 2021
Bagram withdrawal was the catalyst.
Boom boom bomb bomb MOAB MOAB is what the jihadist need when they threaten a stronger force.
Welding the big stick while holding a carrot is what Biden did not do. He tucked his tail, they smelt the fear.And moved in for the kill.

It may have been part of the plan though.
Make the military look weak.
By Joe Biden.


Ibime:
Story for the Gods. Funny how Trump never had any criticism of the withdrawal, even praising it a month ago, only to start making noise when Taliban started taking over. Even last week he said he will evacuate civilians, equipment then troops in that order. That means decommissioning of equipment and no Bagram airbase.

Now all of a sudden, story done change. He had already cut troops down to 2.5k. How many was he planning to keep to defend Bagram airbase.

You bloody liar. Someone who has been boasting that he will leave no troop in Afghanistan.

So again, how would he stop Taliban overrunning Afghan army and taking their equipment. Save your psychophantic MOAB bomb baby bomb story for Cartoon Network.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:02am On Aug 29, 2021
I am at a loss about what actions Biden handlers have been taking.You mentioned the haphazard withdrawal. Gen Miller said it was Biden's idea to maintain Trump level troops, Bagram had to be closed .
Leaving the evacuations to be handled from Kabul only.

Let's go back to 1975 in Saigon. Hurried evacuations as the city was taken over by American enemies.

Fast forward today.Mass frenzied evacuations as Taliban takes Kabul .

In the middle of it all. Kamala Harris goes to Vietnam. She takes this darnphoto infront of the North Viet Communist Ho Chin Minh.She is paying homage to a communist.
I dont think this is a coincidence.
Taliban when they see this interpret it differently than a simple photo op.
Military when they see the photo get demoralized for all their blood, tears and sweat.


benalvino3:
Since the US was operating there ISIS k did not strike them, Taliban came in, release some prisoners of Al Q... and ISIS and the strike the US Because they thought the Taliban Care about protecting US lives when they are free to kill women who did not cook good food. The taliban is now saying the US will pay for killing ISIS K members, Members that the biden admin will not name. I think all this are just shows. They did not kill anyone. they just want to look like they are taking actions. Drone strikes Usually have Footage and if they really killed anyone they would have showed something.

The US abandoned Equipment including drones. The US does not leave drone tech for any military especially Afghan militaries because those are techs they would not even sell to their Allies.

They left a lot of planes than afghans can pilot. these are things they could deliver based on request and Usage needs. Ibime will likely excuse or believe the lies biden admin puts out... I don't blame him because it is both true and false. some of the equipment were for the afghan Army but many were abandoned.

they left the base like there was a ticking time bomb there taking even UK by surprise, no one in Afghanistan or the government knew. Ibime look at this excerpt and tell me if those were not abandoned equipment?

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:57am On Aug 29, 2021
Ibime:
You be mumu. You should have spent your sabbatical better than the absolute hell of a year you have had, drinking conspiracies which must have worsened your mental health compared to when you started your rest.

I asked you that after US complete withdrawal, there was no plan to continue fighting the Taliban, so how did you expect Afghan Army weapons not to fall in Taliban hands, you are shouting bomb baby bomb. Bomb what does not concern you again?
Your initial question is not reasonable. Was ut ordained that the Taliban were to come back to power. Nowhere was that indication apparent.
The Bagram airbase withdrawal speeded up the collapse.Americns did not even tell the afghan commander they were leaving, they shut down the lights after leaving and looters soon came in. There was no close air support for the Afghan army.
The Airbase held 5000 ISIS prisoners who Taliban released. If the groups are enemies why were the ISIS-K released.

We are being hypothetical about what would have happened had it been Trump.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:49am On Aug 29, 2021
Ibime:
Mr Arizona, so Trump that has signed peace deal with the Taliban to allow US withdraw orderly will return with MOAB to bomb them to stop them overthrowing Afghan Army and stealing their equipment.

You should have spent your sabbatical resting instead of watching cartoon network.
Wars are not won by being nice, having lawyers in the front lines and dropping. smart bombs that destroy only military targets leaving civilians unharmed.
MOAB is a shock weapon. Bomb baby bomb and the enemy will to fight goes out of the window.

MOAB.MOAB. is the solution to Taliban.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:33am On Aug 29, 2021
Ibime:
Shutup Aba Arizona

You congratulated Biden for equipping Taliban

I told you those are Afghan army equipment so they would fall into hands of Taliban after US Withdrawal anyway

You said Trump will drop MOAB

Now you are saying you were being sarcastic while still talking about mass equipment for dropping MOAB.

Mumu, how will Trump drop MOAB on Taliban to stop them taking Afghan equipment after withdrawal. You can't make up your mind whether you want withdrawal or continued engagement.
Dont you know the MOAB destroys everything within a 300m radius.It is too heavy for a normal jet fighter, hence a heavy transport like C130 or its variants are needed.Yes that's why the US has many heavy transports. MOAB baby, that has GPS guidance, it is thermobaric weapon .Very deadly.
If Taliban joke two or three MOABs and they go running to mommy.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:18am On Aug 29, 2021
Ibime:
Stop talking rubbish.

All those equipment are from the Afghan Army

Trump drop MOAB on who. Why hasn't Trump dropped MOAB on them.in the last 5 years? When your brain is that of a cultist, it will be reduced to simple imbecilic ideas like the utter stupidity you typed above. MOAB ko, Amos ni.

So after America withdrew competently under Trump, Trump will start returning regularly with MOABS to stop the Taliban defeating the Afghans and taking their equipment?
Mumu. You made a stupid comment, I answered more stupidly. You cant tell satire , accepting everything s a true statement.

Why do you think US has a lot of heavy transports planes. They are for mass droppings of MOABs. When Taliban see tha huge transport after evacuations are over, they will squeal in fright because the MOAB is about to land.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 1:14am On Aug 29, 2021
Ibime:
So they wouldn't have taken these equipment from the Afghan army after Trump pulled out?
Hypotheticals.The elephant in the room is the chaotic imbecilic withdrawal.

They would not have them because Drumph would have dropped the MOAB on them.The Taliban right now would be running to their mommies begging to be rebirthed again.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:05pm On Aug 28, 2021
budaatum:
Drumpfthpq doesn't share with the likes of me so I couldn't exactly say. But all his other plans have unravelled so it was probably a plan to do nothing. We saw he had no Covid plan, and the huge cost too. And not even one for his own ever shifting reinauguration.

Everything with him is covfefe, and kraken.
Drumph has a BT cellphone number.Its easier if you join his telegram group.
Do I send you an invite?
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 8:50pm On Aug 28, 2021
obixcel:
This life is really funny, the irony is stunning. The same Taliban u've been bombing d hell out of and killing with drones for decades now, is now the same folks u rely on to provide u security while u evacuate your citizens? And you gonna trust them now?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_HLp8gJwzc
The Taliban Badri 311 brigade is providing security. Bunch of ex-suicide bombers driving Humvees , wearing night vision googles while totting M4 Carbines with advanced gun sights.

All gifted by Biden.

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:17pm On Aug 28, 2021
Biden admin lying. Democrats are liars.


https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/08/27/biden-state-department-falsely-denies-taliban-terrorist-haqqani-network-ties/


The Biden State Department made the astounding claim Friday that the Taliban and its brother organization, the Haqqani Network, are “separate entities.”In truth, the two are tightly linked, and many of the top Haqqani leaders
– including self-described “Kabul chief of security” Khalil Ur-Rahman Haqqani – are also high ranking Taliban officials.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 8:32am On Aug 28, 2021
Good write up. The author skips one detail.
Both want extreme implementation of the sharia law.
The difference with ISIS-K is that it is a province of ISIS , had pledged allegiance to the Caliph .Its goal was to acquire territory directly under one caliph or leader .The ultimate goal of the IS is to subject the whole world under Islam.Via war.
Taliban also seeks an Islamic state where the laws of Allah are supreme.The leaders want power using religion as the basis of holding leadership.Taliban is content with holding Afghanistan only and harbouring those who want to fight 'infidels' rest of the world excluding Afghanistan.
ISIS wanted the whole world including Afghanistan.
Put it simply, they dont have an ideological clash. Theirs is purely geographical territorial clash.
Both hate the west in name because they depend on everything western inventions

When clerics hold power, the results are devastating. Middle East nations are Islamic states.The rulers Id say are religious in name only, they leave the court system to the clerics while family lineage holds political power.


Tdotbluejays:
What is the difference between the Taliban and Isis?

Islamist militant factions have fought between themselves for control of Afghanistan since 2015

The Taliban and Isis are both Sunni Islamist extremist groups seeking to form authoritarian states under strict Sharia law and prepared to use violence to achieve their aim.

The two forces are actually enemies, however, who have fought bitterly since 2015 when Isis formed the Islamic State-Khorasan Province (ISKP) in Afghanistan at a time when it was first seeking to extend its geographical reach beyond Iraq and Syria.

The Taliban first came to prominence in 1994 during the Afghan Civil War, its ranks composed largely of students - from which the group derives its name in Pashto - many of whom had been mujahideen resistance fighters who had battled occupation by the Soviet Union in the 1980s.

A Deobandi fundamentalist Islamist movement originating in the Pashtun areas of eastern and southern Afghanistan and in northern Pakistan, the Taliban was led by Mullah Mohammed Omar and conquered first the province of Herat and then the whole country by September 1996, overthrowing the Burhanuddin Rabbani regime, establishing the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan and making Kandahar the capital.

Its tyrannical rule, marked by the massacre of opponents, the denial of UN food supplies to starving citizens and the oppression of women, was brought to an abrupt end by US-led coalition forces in December 2001 in retaliation for Osama Bin Laden’s devastating al-Qaeda terror strike on the World Trade Center in New York City.

Since then, Taliban fighters have regrouped as an insurgency and continued to battle to retake Afghanistan from US, Western Allies and NATO peacekeeping forces ever since.

Isis meanwhile was first formed by Jordanian jihadist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in 1999 before rising to global prominence when it drove Iraqi forces out of key cities in the west of the country in 2014 - having declared itself a worldwide caliphate - and later conquered swathes of eastern Syria before ultimately surrendering Mosul and Raqqa in 2017 when international forces intervened.

It established the ISKP in the Nangarhar Province of eastern Afghanistan in January 2015, actively recruiting defectors from the Taliban, in particular those who were discontented with their own leadership’s lack of success on the battlefield.

How have their respective factions interacted?

The formation of ISKP prompted Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour to write a letter to his Isis counterpart, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, calling on him to abandon his recruitment drive of the disaffected and arguing that any war for their comparable cause in Afghanistan should be carried out under Taliban leadership.

Fighting duly broke out between the two sides that June 2015 and between two separate factions of the Taliban in the Zabul Province that November over whether or not to join forces with Isis.

More battles erupted in April 2017 when ISKP captured three drug dealers selling opium to raise funds for the Taliban in the northern Afghan province of Jowzjan and again in May 2017 when 22 militants were killed in clashes between the two sides along the Iranian border.

The Taliban launched an offensive to clear Isis out of Jowzjan the following summer, with the the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan joining in on the latter’s side, as up to 7,000 people were displaced from their homes.

That July’s conflict ended in a significant defeat for ISKP, who suffered further setbacks in skirmishes the following year before being almost entirely eradicated by the US and the Afghan military in late 2019, although the Council for Foreign Relations estimates that there are still 2,200 members of ISKP still active in Afghanistan.

Despite having an Afghan government in power, In February 2020, the Donald Trump administration signed its peace accord with the Taliban in Doha, Qatar, which saw the latter group pledge to keep other Islamist extremists, including Isis, out of the country.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 10:20pm On Aug 27, 2021
Taliban uses massive bio database to track every person whose details had been captured by US forces. Have. specialised unit Al Isha combing through the data.
Wharra mess by Joe Biden.



“But American, NDS [Afghanistan’s National
Directorate of Security] and RAW’s [India’s
Research and Analysis Wing] puppets won’t
be let off. They will always be watched by Al
Isha. Those who were barking about having
US dollars in their pockets till a few days back
— they won’t be spared. They can’t be spared,
can they?”


https://nypost.com/2021/08/27/taliban-kill-squad-hunting-afghans-with-americas-biometric-data/

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