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LetMyPeopleVote

(145,635 posts)
Mon Aug 16, 2021, 12:38 AM Aug 2021

Taliban co-founder and leader and 5000 Taliban fighters were released at TFG/US' request

TFG ordered released the head of the Taliban. This man will be the new leader of Afghanistan






TFG also ordered the release of 5000 prisoners many of whom are not fighting against the former government







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Hugh_Lebowski

(33,643 posts)
3. So basically New President of Afghanistan is Mullah Omar's right hand man, released by Trump in 2018
Mon Aug 16, 2021, 12:59 AM
Aug 2021

Think you'll see that as a headline anywhere in the M$M, including the WaPo or NYT, even?

LetMyPeopleVote

(145,635 posts)
5. Taliban Commander Who Led Attack on Afghan City Was Released From Prison Last Yea
Mon Aug 16, 2021, 01:18 AM
Aug 2021



The Taliban commander overseeing an assault on the key southern city of Lashkargah is one of 5,000 former prisoners released by the Afghan government last year under pressure from the U.S., Afghan and Western officials say.

The commander, Mawlavi Talib, is one of thousands of former prisoners freed to further peace talks who have returned to the battlefield to join the Taliban onslaught against cities around the country, Afghan officials say. The presence of the Taliban fighters is a fresh strain in relations between Washington and Kabul, as the U.S.-backed government struggles to fend off Taliban attacks throughout the country.

Afghan officials said fierce fighting continued Tuesday in Lashkargah, the provincial capital of Helmand province, after heavy U.S. airstrikes and a counterattack by U.S.-trained Afghan commandos overnight. Under Mr. Talib’s command, hundreds of Taliban have pushed toward the city center over the past week. On Tuesday they launched an attack on Lashkargah’s prison in a bid to release more inmates and recruit them into the fight.

The fighting in Lashkargah is part of a wider countrywide Taliban offensive that had captured half of the country’s remote districts by last month and now threatens provincial capitals. On Tuesday, the government said that its commandos launched a counterattack in the western city of Herat, whose defenses were teetering. Taliban forces last month pierced defenses in Kandahar, Afghanistan’s second largest city, but government forces are holding steady there.

quakerboy

(13,921 posts)
9. Anyone want to make any wagers
Mon Aug 16, 2021, 03:34 AM
Aug 2021

about what portion of the weapons the taliban forces are using in their conquest were delivered by the US to afghanistan?

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