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quoted The Mission by Tim Weiner

Tim Weiner: The Mission (AudiobookFormat, Mariner Books)

Amerine had fresh intelligence that Taliban fighters were preparing to attack from a hideout over the next ridgeline. His air support officer made a careless and catastrophic error when he sent the coordinates to a B-52H Stratofortress bomber ready to attack. He had called in an air strike on his own position.

A two-thousand-pound smart bomb came screaming across the sky and struck Team Echo. "The doors and windows flew out," Karzai recounted six months later to a reporter. "I got injured on my face and my head, and I saw this very good fellow, a very nice man, Greg, jump out of his place and just throw himself on me. It was very remarkable, very remarkable. And the tribal chiefs followed; they all covered me from all around." Dirt and rocks and flesh and bones rained down. Explosions shook the earth, and the stunned and shellshocked Afghans thought that the town was under attack by bin Laden's Arab fighters. But it wasn't al Qaeda; it was Team Echo's arsenal of rocket-propelled grenades cooking off. Dazed and bleeding, Karzai saw scores of dead and wounded outside the compound. He slowly realized that "it was not a rocket attack on our room or an RPG attack on our room. It was something else." It was the worst friendly-fire attack by American forces in the decade since the 1991 Gulf War against Iraq. Three American special-forces officers were killed and twenty soldiers and spies were wounded. At least fifty Afghans died.

— The Mission by 

#TimWeiner #CIA #USA #Afghanistan #war #murder #massacre

Auch als ehemaliger der schäme ich mich für das ehrlose, feige und auch unchristliche Verhalten der gegenüber sicherheitsüberprüften Verbündeten aus und vom bedrohten, integrierten Ezidinnen & Eziden aus dem .

🇩🇪🇪🇺 verrät derzeit seine GG-Werte wie & liefert sich genau dadurch dem & wieder aus. 🔥 Feige & dumm, so würde es zu Recht nennen. 😤https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/afghanistan-charterfluege-aus-islamabad-fuer-gefaehrdete-ortskraefte-vorerst-ausgesetzt-a-0a40ed83-f4a3-48a0-99d1-399f1ffc2f89

I am deeply relieved that changed his mind and pardoned .

But in light of the fascist coming to office in January, he needs to do many more pardons, such as:

1. Pardoning all members of the US who committed absence offenses (, desertion, missing movement, etc.) during the years of the wars in and

2. Pardoning all US political prisons, most notably ,

3. Pardoning all senior members of his administration (including the Vice President) of any "crimes" related to their official duties (using the logic of SCOTUS)

After that, I recommend that he himself resign from office, making our first female US President. And of course, she can then pardon Joe Biden.

I hate that this #3 is necessary, but that is the world …

Afghan women stuck under Taliban rule are being barred from reuniting with their British husbands because they can't meet the English language standards needed to come to the UK.
Meanwhile, all English language test centres in Afghanistan have closed, meaning Afghan women would only be able to do the test if they are in a neighbouring country, like Pakistan.

As ever, the cruelty is the point.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/afghanistan-taliban-british-spousal-visa-b2362161.html