Afghanistan: Mission Accomplished
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ska invita
back on the other side
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
The government doesn't really want any Afghans here
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
I don't know about nation-wide, but there's over 1,000 coming here:
journalstar.com
We've already got 3,000 Yazidi refugees here.
About 500 Afghan refugees have arrived in Nebraska; resettlement agencies swamped
Finding housing is proving to be a challenge. While many people have been placed in apartments or rental houses, some are staying in such temporary lodging as Airbnbs and extended-stay
We've already got 3,000 Yazidi refugees here.
spring-peeper
Well-Known Member
I don't know about nation-wide, but there's over 1,000 coming here:
About 500 Afghan refugees have arrived in Nebraska; resettlement agencies swamped
Finding housing is proving to be a challenge. While many people have been placed in apartments or rental houses, some are staying in such temporary lodging as Airbnbs and extended-stay
We've already got 3,000 Yazidi refugees here.
How do people feel about that number of refugees coming into the area?
teqniq
DisMembered
I would never have guessed.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Yeh well you already know the way in which successive governments used the Afghans as proxies or auxiliaries
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
I don't hear a lot of push back. The state government is run by the Catholic Church and it's their refugee resettlement organization that brings refugees in. There's often calls for donations for furniture, housewares, and bedding to furnish an apartment for incoming refugees. There is also usually jobs waiting for them in meat packing, if they're able. Those aren't great jobs, but it usually allows them to get a foothold to get established.
That isn't to say there aren't problems to come up. With Iraqi war refugees there was a misunderstanding about the appropriate age to marry off girls. A couple of families decided to marry of their 14-year-old girls to much older men against their will. At least one of these cases resulted in the underage girl being forced into sex. This resulted in a court case and several people went to prison, but I think the sentences were reduced because the cultural differences were taken into account in sentencing.
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gosub
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weltweit
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No trips for Afghan women unless escorted by male relative: Taliban
KABUL: Afghanistan
PursuedByBears
Go stick your head in a pig
Of course.
miss direct
misfungled
That was horrifying to watch. Isn't John Simpson there too?
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
I found this interesting. I'm sure everyone remembers the green-eyed girl on the cover of National Geographic? She's recently turned up as a refugee in Italy:
Of course, she looks little like her picture from 1985 since life is sometimes quite harsh for green-eyed girls in Afghanistan, and elsewhere.
MSN
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Of course, she looks little like her picture from 1985 since life is sometimes quite harsh for green-eyed girls in Afghanistan, and elsewhere.
Brainaddict
slight system overdrive
There's an interesting article about her somewhere about the dishonesty and poor ethics of the photo. We're meant to see fear and trauma in her eyes but iirc the reality was that she just didn't want to be photographed but didn't feel able to refuse.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
A quick search returns one like that You ll Never See the Iconic Photo of the Afghan Girl the Same Way Again
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
Considering how much money National Geographic (and the photographer) has made from that photo, I'd think they could at least assist in getting her settled.
gosub
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Leaked document reveals Biden’s Afghan failures
The notes shed new light on how the administration was unprepared to evacuate Afghan nationals who'd helped the U.S. against the Taliban.
www.axios.com
Humberto
Dark! Dark! England's army! Liverfuckingpool
Just to update the thread a bit:
www.theguardian.com
Two suspected British Islamic State recruits seized by Taliban at border
Exclusive: first reported case of attempted international recruitment to IS since US left Afghanistan
friedaweed
Me and me girl named Jane
John Simpson goes back to Afghanistan to explore the shocking unravelling of a country he has been reporting on for more than 40 years.
Watched this last night. Unsurprisingly grim viewing.
Blair should be gaffa taped to a chair and forced to watch it..... and then waterboarded every time he said it was the right thing to do at the time.
Him and Dubya have a lovely legacy to look back on.
Watched this last night. Unsurprisingly grim viewing.
Blair should be gaffa taped to a chair and forced to watch it..... and then waterboarded every time he said it was the right thing to do at the time.
Him and Dubya have a lovely legacy to look back on.
Humberto
Dark! Dark! England's army! Liverfuckingpool
Outrageous really isn't it? They are incapable of getting it right. They topple the government, build a country largely reliant on foreign money to keep it going and then lose a war because of their incompetence. Then they drop the Afghan people overnight AND apply economic sanctions during a humanitarian crisis.
teqniq
DisMembered
I am thinking this is ill-considered:
edition.cnn.com
Biden unfreezes Afghan funds for in-country relief and 9/11 legal fight | CNN Politics
President Joe Biden signed an executive order Friday allowing $7 billion in frozen assets from Afghanistan's central bank to eventually be distributed inside the country and to potentially fund litigation brought by families of victims of the September 11 terror attacks, senior administration...
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Don't think much of us involvement in Afghanistan in the last 21 years has been well-considered so it fits well within that trendI am thinking this is ill-considered:
Biden unfreezes Afghan funds for in-country relief and 9/11 legal fight | CNN Politics
President Joe Biden signed an executive order Friday allowing $7 billion in frozen assets from Afghanistan's central bank to eventually be distributed inside the country and to potentially fund litigation brought by families of victims of the September 11 terror attacks, senior administration...
jeff_leigh
What happened to Dubversion ?
At the moment Biden’s ratings are in the toilet so you can imagine what Fox News would make of it he gave to afghans that hosted Bin Laden but not 9/11 victims
ska invita
back on the other side
utter scum
www.theguardian.com
A detainee at a secret CIA detention site in Afghanistan was used as a living prop to teach trainee interrogators, who lined up to take turns at knocking his head against a plywood wall, leaving him with brain damage, according to a US government report.
The details of the torture of Ammar al-Baluchi are in a 2008 report by the CIA’s inspector general, newly declassified as part of a court filing by his lawyers aimed at getting him an independent medical examination.
CIA black site detainee served as training prop to teach interrogators torture techniques
Newly declassified documents reveal Ammar al-Baluchi was repeatedly slammed against a wall while naked until all trainees received ‘certification’
A detainee at a secret CIA detention site in Afghanistan was used as a living prop to teach trainee interrogators, who lined up to take turns at knocking his head against a plywood wall, leaving him with brain damage, according to a US government report.
The details of the torture of Ammar al-Baluchi are in a 2008 report by the CIA’s inspector general, newly declassified as part of a court filing by his lawyers aimed at getting him an independent medical examination.
Humberto
Dark! Dark! England's army! Liverfuckingpool
Unless they change the US Governments' restrictions on Afghanistan's Central Bank and other sanctions because of the Taliban being in government, we will continue to hear reports like this:
www.hrw.org
Time Running Out to Address Afghanistan’s Hunger Crisis
“Children in the provinces – they are only skin on bones now – and I’m afraid this is only going to get worse,” the director of an international humanitarian organization in Afghanistan told me.
hitmouse
so defeated, thinks it's funny
New interview with a member of an Afgan/Iranian anarchist group, audio with transcription:
thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org
Updates from Afghanistan and Iran | The Final Straw Radio Podcast
thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org
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