And they have $7,000,000,000 worth of American military equipment to continue their jihad.
“On Anniversary of Taliban Takeover, Glee, Mourning and an Embrace of Jihad,” by Christina Goldbaum and Yaqoob Akbary, New York Times, August 15, 2024:
The parade of cars rolled through Kabul from morning until night, clogging the streets in end-to-end traffic. Crowds of Taliban and their supporters lined the routes, chanting “God is great!” and “Long live the mujahedeen!” One truck dragged an American flag, a red X drawn across its stars and stripes.
Outside the old U.S. embassy, young children — maybe 6 or 7 years old — wearing military fatigues stood on the top of a gray Toyota pickup, clutching small white Taliban flags. A dozen others crammed into the back of the truck, white flags draped over their shoulders. Yet more flags were stapled onto wooden poles, waving in the air.
“Our way is jihad!” a man shouted through a loudspeaker from the passenger seat. The children responded: “Long live jihad!”…
Among the Talibs who have come out on the streets to celebrate, there has been a palpable itch for a return to jihad and martyrdom — the only way to live an honorable life, many say, and a guiding belief instilled in them since they were children in Taliban-run madrassas.
“In these three years, we are fixing the roads, helping other people, but we want to continue the jihad,” Panjshiri Shinwari, 27, said on Wednesday when the celebrations commenced. A Taliban fighter who joined the movement during the U.S.-led war, he now works for the government’s intelligence agency, the General Directorate of Intelligence.
He and a group of friends had joined the celebrations at Mahmood Khan Bridge, which stretches over the Kabul River, now a dry channel of weeds and sewage.
“I want to go to Palestine,” Mr. Shinwari continued. “We are all ready to continue our jihad in Palestine!”
“No, it’s Pakistan’s turn,” another young Talib, Ashiqullah Naziri, 19, piped in….
somehistory says
Yes, as I read a few days ago, the old “students” of the ban are bored with the office work, ‘fixing’ things like mannequins, and girls in school. They all want to return to their real thrills….waging violent war and murdering infidels.
FYI says
And the Taliban are famous for smashing up musical instruments.
Here is a list of the top 5 Taliban Rock bands
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But they don’t like music;that’s haram and for the infidels
Instead they have Jihad.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Their rock bands are bands who throw rocks at women buried upto their waists for execution
Tony Rice says
It is men who get buried up to the waist so they can possibly squirm out but women to their necks so they can’t get out.
truth says
Taliban now has access to $85 billion of American military equipment
that’s a headline from the Telegraph.
The 7 billion number comes from so called “fact checkers” from CNN, NPR and ABC…
who knows what the real number is but it’s way more than 7 billion. When all the MSM fact checkers agree you know it’s propaganda..
abu taleb says
Taliban must be thinking that women are not people, because Taliban certainly does not help Afghan women. Some muslims do indeed treat women worse than their beloved camels or goats.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
7 billion? I thought that we had left $89 billion worth of weaponry there
somehistory says
I recall that number, as well.
somehistory says
“Former Afghan prosecutors hunted down, killed by Taliban 3 years after US withdrawal”
“The three years following the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan have been a deadly game of cat and mouse for employees and allies of U.S. and NATO forces left behind under Taliban rule. Among the de facto government’s targets are thousands of Afghan prosecutors trained by U.S. personnel to enforce the rule of law and prosecute terrorists.
The three years following the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan have been a deadly game of cat and mouse for employees and allies of U.S. and NATO forces left behind under Taliban rule. Among the de facto government’s targets are thousands of Afghan prosecutors trained by U.S. personnel to enforce the rule of law and prosecute terrorists.
As the Taliban rapidly gained Afghan territory in the summer of 2021, they released convicted terrorists from government jails across the country. The Taliban had been conducting deadly attacks to target Afghan prosecutors for years before taking over Kabul on Aug. 15. The newly-released prisoners were out for revenge against the prosecutors who put them behind bars.
Joe Maida IV was a former Texas prosecutor who supported the Afghan legal system’s growth inside the country between 2006 and 2013 and worked on Afghan policy at U.S. Special Operations Command and with Special Operations and Combating Terrorism at the Pentagon through 2019. He told Fox News Digital that “The Taliban continues to hunt down individuals who supported the Afghan government.” In addition to military personnel, Maida says the Taliban “are seeking out terrorism prosecutors for retribution. They’re doing that by sending special teams to the provinces, but then also writing letters to the mosques to identify these individuals, who then disappear.””
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/former-afghan-prosecutors-hunted-down-killed-by-taliban-3-years-after-us-withdrawal/ar-AA1oXwlb?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=049fab12514e49689dfba5e9e9e11dd5&ei=56
somehistory says
There is a lot more on the web page about what is happening there. None of it good.
jerry glenn says
Jihad. It’s what they are good at.
Thomas says
When are the civilized world going to do something about the industrial production of brainwashed terrorists that is going on in Afghanistan?
Dialog? Nah, how do you talk sense to a person who believes he has god guiding him on the rightful path of jihad? Killing and terrorising in the name of god when people don’t want to play the game of 100% sharia.
It’s cancer and what do you do with cancer? If you wait, the cancer will kill you.