And how dramatically it fell (just as people predicted that it would):
Haibatullah Akhundzada is the supreme leader of the Taliban. He came into power in 2016, after the group’s former leader, Akhtar Mohammad Mansour, was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan.
A cleric who was once the Taliban’s top judge, Akhundzada fled to Pakistan in 2001, where he taught at religious schools before he rejoined to serve under Mansour.
He does not have much military experience, and since becoming the de facto leader of the Taliban has worked to bolster the group’s finances, in part through the narcotics trade, while also attempting to unify the group’s factions and consolidate power. It has been years since Akhundzada has appeared in public.
So, he is a man of letters.
Interesting ...
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A spokesman for the Taliban warned that U.S. troops in Afghanistan have to leave by Sept. 11—the anniversary of the terrorist attacks that launched the United States into the war—after troops were re-deployed to the Kabul airport to oversee an evacuation.
Justin's government insists on not helping:
🚨🚨🚨Today Trudeau’s defence chief took a large military jet to a “conference” in Hawaii. That was more important to him than sending it to Afghanistan to bring home stranded Canadians. https://t.co/VbJNcje10Q
— Ezra Levant 🍁 (@ezralevant) August 17, 2021
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Adding to the fear is frustration with Canadian government red tape. Federal bureaucrats are inundated with requests to rescue hundreds of people after the swift collapse of Afghan security forces amid the Taliban’s advance.
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Most of the promised 20,000 Afghan refugees the Trudeau government has now started to airlift to Canada fled Afghanistan before the fall of Kabul — a different issue from Canada’s trapped Afghan allies.
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Several sources within CAF tell the Sun a 17-member Non-combatant Evacuation Operations (NEO) advance team arrived at Ali Al Salem Air Base near Kuwait City late last week to link up with U.S. and U.K. teams already on the ground in Kabul — but have yet to receive orders to deploy.
And Justin has never met a dictator or madman he didn't like:
The Liberal government is not ruling out the possibility of recognizing the Taliban as the legitimate government in Afghanistan.
During an appearance on CBC’s Power & Politics, Liberal Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau claimed that his government will “wait and see” how the Taliban behaves before making such a determination.
The Taliban shoots people for fun.
How is that for "behaviour"?
A grisly discovery:
The U.S. Air Force has confirmed that human remains were found inside the wheel well of a C-17 military plane that had been swarmed by hundreds of people on the tarmac as it took off at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul.
The discovery was made upon landing at al Udeid Air Base in Qatar on Monday.
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