Afghani Resistance Thread

[Uncle-V]

Meanwhile, back to inside Afghanistan - by Afghanis ^^

The Northern Alliance is regrouping again too
Northern Alliance plans to regroup: Resistance leaders seek arms to fight Taliban in Northern Afghanistan
Leaders of Afghanistan, who have India’s backing and who fought the Taliban between 1996 and 2001 as members of the Northern Alliance, have shown some signs of initial resistance amid the Taliban’s surge.

While former Herat strongman Ismail Khan, now in his 70s, is planning to regroup to fight the Taliban, dozens of fighters have pledged loyalty to former vice-president Marshal Abdul Rashid Dostum in the northern provinces against the Taliban, ET has gathered.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/ne ... aign=cppst (paywalled)

Dostum!! Oh Flock, better cover your eyes if you don't like blood and spilled guts everywhere - and that's even before he faces the Taliban.

This is a very interesting analysis of The Northern Alliance by the Washington Post, dated April, this year
about why it didn't hold the North against the Taliban under the previous (just fallen) government
but it also points to why they may be more successful now - as they were in the very early days, resisting Taliban Mk 1
ie, they dont have that worm Ashraf Ghani leading the country for a start - and neutering all the effective resistance.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210816220 ... this-time/

I read that these regional warlords types have been trying to organize resistance for the last few months in anticipation of the US pullout, but haven't been all that successful. Dostum and his forces fled Mazar-e-Sharif to Uzbekistan without firing a shot and there was even a video of Taliban fighters lounging around in his palace (you can imagine how tastefully decorated taht joint is).

I think a lot of these former Mujahadeen types from the Soviet resistance days have been discredited now as they were deeply associated with the government and its corruption. And they are all getting on in years. Nevertheless, some form of resistance will eventually emerge, organized on ethnic lines as the Uzbeks, Tadjiks, Khazar's and other groups chafe under the Pashtun-dominated Taliban. In a few months, there will probably be a very ugly civil war raging.

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I think we will have to take all the reports coming out of Afghanistan with a big pinch of salt. The taliban will put out videos of smiling girls in class rooms. The other side will have videos of women being stoned (and I don't mean hash). The taliban have a very sophisticated propaganda machine as do the west.

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https://spectatorworld.com/topic/did-ge ... ghanistan/

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This is funny, teaching afghan women about dadaism\

[John Bingham]

That was a very poor choice.

They should have discussed Kasimir Malevich's Black Square.

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I tried to get finance to teach them the Off side rule but I am still trying to get to grips with it myself

[Big Daikon]

Taliban Twitter is lit!

[SternAAlbifrons]

Washington Post
Opinion by Ahmad Massoud
Yesterday at 11:26 a.m. EDT

The Mujahideen Resistance to the Taliban Begins Now. But we need help..

In 1998, when I was 9 years old, my father, the mujahideen commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, gathered his soldiers in a cave in the Panjshir Valley of northern Afghanistan. They sat and listened as my father’s friend, French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy, addressed them. “When you fight for your freedom,” Lévy said, “you fight also for our freedom.”

My father never forgot this as he fought against the Taliban regime. Up until the moment he was assassinated on Sept. 9, 2001, at the behest of the Taliban and al-Qaeda, he was fighting for the fate of Afghanistan but also for the West.

Now this common struggle is more essential than ever in these dark, tense hours for my homeland.

I write from the Panjshir Valley today, ready to follow in my father’s footsteps, with mujahideen fighters who are prepared to once again take on the Taliban. We have stores of ammunition and arms that we have patiently collected since my father’s time, because we knew this day might come.

We also have the weapons carried by the Afghans who, over the past 72 hours, have responded to my appeal to join the resistance in Panjshir. We have soldiers from the Afghan regular army who were disgusted by the surrender of their commanders and are now making their way to the hills of Panjshir with their equipment. Former members of the Afghan Special Forces have also joined our struggle.

But that is not enough. If Taliban warlords launch an assault, they will of course face staunch resistance from us. The flag of the National Resistance Front will fly over every position that they attempt to take, as the National United Front flag flew 20 years ago. Yet we know that our military forces and logistics will not be sufficient. They will be rapidly depleted unless our friends in the West can find a way to supply us without delay.

The United States and its allies have left the battlefield, but America can still be a “great arsenal of democracy,” as Franklin D. Roosevelt said when coming to the aid of the beleaguered British before the U.S. entry into World War II.

To that end, I entreat Afghanistan’s friends in the West to intercede for us in Washington and in New York, with Congress and with the Biden administration. Intercede for us in London, where I completed my studies, and in Paris, where my father’s memory was honored this spring by the naming of a pathway for him in the Champs-Élysées gardens.

Know that millions of Afghans share your values. We have fought for so long to have an open society, one where girls could become doctors, our press could report freely, our young people could dance and listen to music or attend soccer matches in the stadiums that were once used by the Taliban for public executions — and may soon be again.

The Taliban is not a problem for the Afghan people alone. Under Taliban control, Afghanistan will without doubt become ground zero of radical Islamist terrorism; plots against democracies will be hatched here once again.

No matter what happens, my mujahideen fighters and I will defend Panjshir as the last bastion of Afghan freedom. Our morale is intact. We know from experience what awaits us.

But we need more weapons, more ammunition and more supplies.

America and its democratic allies do not just have the fight against terrorism in common with Afghans. We now have a long history made up of shared ideals and struggles. There is still much that you can do to aid the cause of freedom. You are our only remaining hope.


(The Sandhurst trained Ahmad Massoud is the leader of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan)

[SternAAlbifrons]

^^^
Blueprint (tick, done)

Caravans On A Moonless Night

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CI ... 0017-4.pdf

[SternAAlbifrons]

^^^

"the CIA mujahideen met them..."

Wow, they even have mormon members.
not like the Taliban at all