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AP News Radio
As battle for Sudan continues, civilian deaths top 400
"Despite an extended ceasefire, some areas of Sudan's capital ball witness to gunfire and heavy artillery as the battle for power between Sudan's two top generals continues over 400 civilians have died so far with thousands more displaced. However, despite the huge numbers trying to get out, there are some who are making their way back to the war torn country on a ship from Saudi Arabia to Sudan, so they can be with their families. Another passenger also traveling to Sudan, lost his mother, sister, and daughter and the fighting Ashraf is traveling back to help his other relatives, holding back the tears, he told a reporter. In Khartoum clashes continued around the presidential palace, the headquarters of the state broadcaster and a military base, the battles sent thick columns of black smoke, billowing over the city skyline. I'm Karen Chammas
TuneInPOC
"ashraf" Discussed on TuneInPOC
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The Mad Mamluks
"ashraf" Discussed on The Mad Mamluks
"And Muslims because they're such a diverse group of people and they have the Quran as their base. I don't fear like white supremacists. I understand why they're white supremacists. And I disagree with them. But you know, I'm not like afraid and so forth. And when white supremacists, I don't know, recently, Daniel, and I don't want to mispronounce his name, but yeah, he had an interview. I don't know if any of you saw it with the white supremacists in the UK. And then it was ready to tear this guy apart at the end. There were agreeing on so many things. The white supremacists like look, I believe in ethanol national state, yes. But I love Muslims. I want Muslims to have their Sharia and I could live with Muslims. I'm just against immigration. And you know, people were calling them to Islam in the chat and all of this. But I guess, but not losing sight of what I wanted to say is that the problem that the west has committed, which is really hurting all of the world, not just Muslims, but it's hurting them. You know, people are dying in their home with no one knowing about it until the stench of the decaying body is perceived and someone calls the authorities. And we have this idea of gender identity issues. And we have greed, you know, kids are just growing up, not believing in God. And so forth, okay, but what is it doing in society? What's so great about it? Okay, we have freedom, but what's so great about it, they don't want to admit that they cut off their ties to the past that they led this world down, led the world down this path, and it's destroying the world. And it's destroying them before it destroys anyone else. And here's Islam to say, hey, no, look, there's another way. So there is the threat in the perceived threat. And people like the person that you mentioned. I mean, they're just trying to make a buck off of this tragedy basically just to make to make money off of it. But the idea that Islam is somehow intrinsically violent, whereas other religions are not it's just not true. I mean, look, it's just objectively it's not true, but you have to deal with people's perceptions. And that's what the worldview is about. How do you perceive the world? And I think our job should be to bring to bring people to a realistic view of the world. And I feel the only way I can view the world realistically is by being a Muslim because when you submit your will to God, you're not beholden to anyone else on earth. You're not beholden to status. You're not beholden to other people. You're not beholden to greed. You're not. You're beholden to God. And therefore you feel free on earth because you're calling people from the worship of other things and deities and God and gods and status and so forth. To the worship of the lord of all creatures. And so, you know, I feel like I see the world plainly as it is. And it doesn't mean that non Muslims are a person who doesn't even believe in God doesn't have something good to offer. And if they're not fighting humanity, they're not killing people, they're not harming people, then there's no harm from these people. But when we do things that harm others, then it becomes the obligations of Muslims to stop that. And I think that people are seeing through that. We talked, I think, earlier before, about 9 11 people, everyone lied about Islam so much that it had the opposite effect..
The Mad Mamluks
"ashraf" Discussed on The Mad Mamluks
"And I ended up wearing the shirt. And for substantial for Palestinians, if you want to play politics, that was their 9 11. And but, you know, the Palestinians, because they're defenseless and they're cause hasn't been taken up except by the Muslim ummah in droves, but a week um, you know, no one cared, but when America goes through it's 9 11, the whole world changes. And so anyway, that was that experience in high school definitely put me on a trajectory of fighting for people's rights and fighting for what's right and so forth. So that was the impetus for me. I mean, I can imagine why. And I think people don't realize, but that was a pretty defining moment, especially where things began to, I would say, pop off in the Middle East where things were I mean, yes, after I think that kind of settled down after the 60s and 70s and early, but then that was kind of like the whole resistance type of movement that were coming out. And at the same time you had the Afghan Soviet issues going on at that time as well too and then it's crazy to what his influences were and ours, ours was the Bosnian conflict and intifada that happened in the 90s. But also Kashmir and so on. But you had like just like the precursor to right and that was the moment because people don't realize I mean this is where it was a collaboration between the phalangist and like the Israeli.
The Mad Mamluks
"ashraf" Discussed on The Mad Mamluks
"And that's what I, that's what I did with my clients and those people who did come to me seeking advice when they were confronted by the FBI and had to deal with FBI interviews and so forth. Right, so I mean, I'm just trying to put myself back 20 years ago in 9 11. What maybe 21 at that time maybe? Yeah, 21, maybe 20. I would imagine that, I mean, because you know, the reason why I'm asking this question is because if you grew up like kind of we did prior to 9 11, nobody really was interested about your faith about your loyalties to nothing. I mean, it was just kind of like, oh, this is a regular Brown kid. Did all around America. But after 9 11, a lot of those things came into question for a lot of people. I mean, people didn't really say it, but you can kind of feel that. Where people are beginning to maybe question your patriotism or your loyalty and they're saying, well, why are you defending these people? The terrorists. They want to kill Americans. Why would you I'm sure you probably had to wrap around and deal with that and from that perspective, but maybe you could talk a little bit about that. Yeah, that's an interesting question that you bring up. I mean, yeah, when I think about it, actually, you know, the answer is more no than it is yes, and I'll tell you why. If I had been a Jewish lawyer doing that, then yes, I would have received that action. And one of my mentors is Stanley Cohen, who is another prominent attorney in New York, who he represented Musa album, the president of the political bureau of Hamas. And he's represented his represented so many. He's actually helped him on a case with the son in law of Osama bin Laden, who was convicted several years ago. So he's had incredible high profile cases, and he was featured in mainstream media as the America's most hated lawyer, this was after 9 11..
The Mad Mamluks
"ashraf" Discussed on The Mad Mamluks
"Be easy going up against the federal government, meaning that I'm sure they're ways that they may try to pressure people, maybe not to take cases or to try to intimidate people, I don't think the government takes very kind to attorneys or lawsuits or maybe resistance. So do you have any experience with that meaning like maybe some unofficial pressure or threats or anything from the government? No, nothing in terms of any direct threats or pressure per se, but certainly travel was difficult for a long time. And I haven't traveled recently in unfortunately with these lists. You can be on and you can be off again once you bring it to their attention. They take you off, but then you travel again in some imbecile puts you back on and then you have to go through the process. So there was a time that I was doing overseas travels and that's another thing I represented people overseas who were considered terrorists by the government they were on the SDG, which is the special special designated terrorist list by the State Department by the Treasury Department. And so I represented people who were trying to get their names off of it. So I made travels overseas. And I've been in the hot places. You know, you can imagine, I haven't been in Afghanistan, but I've been in Libya, Sudan, Iraq, and Yemen, and Palestine. And fellas thanks. So for people, so unfortunately for the government that was scary and so being stopped after coming in from foreign travel was an issue and directly after 9 11 domestic flights were an issue later they didn't become an issue and they haven't been and they're actually there was on and off and so forth. So really other than the traveling, there wasn't any direct pressure. But I do know that definitely I was hated by the government officials that I worked with, meaning the prosecutors are not worked with it, but worked against, let's say, and the FBI, the FBI, just hated my guts from what I understand because even in you may know what's called a grand juries, the prosecutor would ask people questions and after 9 11, they would ask questions about me. Why did you contact mister Newman? And the community. So if someone is called by the FBI, they'd say call Ashraf will give you he'll give you good advice and I would try my best to help anyone who was being contacted by law enforcement. And we went around just telling people, hey, look, you know, you can decide whether you want to talk to the FBI, but we educated people to say that they're not, they're not there for you. They're not your Friends..
The Mad Mamluks
"ashraf" Discussed on The Mad Mamluks
"Up with a mad mom looks. My name is sim, along with me, is my co host, mort, said I'm a chef. I'm so out. As usual, didn't realize what day it was and what the schedule was. So I'm going to embarrass him a little bit. So yeah, we have a wonderful show for you guys this afternoon, but before we get started, help us out on Patreon dot com slash the mad mom Luke's alternatively. You could go to the mad mamluks dot com fort slash donate and help us out that way. Our guest today is Ashraf nubani. He is an attorney who helped defend some of the most infamous Muslims who are accused of terrorism by the U.S. government. He's also an author of Islam's challenge for America. Please welcome Ashraf nubani. It's not like Washington. It's wonderful to be here. Now, I don't know if you know this show on Netflix called daredevil. And it's about an attorney who's a superhero. He's blind. And he defends other fellow superheroes who are being accused by the government or anyone of terrorism. So there's a familiarity, his name is Matt Murdock, he placed character called daredevil on it. And he has a lot of work. And a lot of pro Bono work because he's the audience will come to find out, you know, struggles with finances as you did. In your efforts to help many of the fellow Muslims in your community. It is an honor for you to join the show at thank you so much. Oh, of course. Thank you for having me. And when did this show come on? Because this is the first time, by the way, I'm hearing a problem. Maybe they took it off, I should be suing someone for some copyrights, huh? Yeah, no. Daredevil's been character of Marvel Comics for decades, but the show got really popular, almost four or 5 years ago..
Sky News Daily
"ashraf" Discussed on Sky News Daily
"That's why we would not panic mood. In august the ousted afghan president ashraf ghani dismissed as lies claims that he fled kabul with a helicopter full of cash. We have to take taleban into different categories. Because has i always said that taliban not an a different group. Alabama are not united. They are separated their committees. So so that's why we have to see which taleban you're talking with which taliban is going to rule carbon so covered will have different mentality and maybe a not side eastern side west side. Intimate me another pal. So that's why we have to see problems by problems and the tile which is a doha. I'm hopeful that they have seen the word now. Their kids went to go to school. They're getting good. Education has far. Has i know that so the day came to come and be. I'm hopeful for those taliban melas af team. So how optimistic are you. See ultimately eventually you might just be able to go back yourself and take your daughter's there to grow up and their education in afghanistan cayman see and has had has. I am here in these days. I've looked into it very closely. Talk with them. I have connection that he has to sit down and talk. How much genuine. The regarding the fi men on women's rights are human rights. Fortunately now internet media is very open and so fast nothing. They can hide things they were doing before. Become hide now because everything will come up.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Hey Nancy, Joe Biden’s Call to the Afghan President Is Impeachable!
"Miranda devine writes a great editorial the new york post. Nancy pelosi still looking for a phone. Call worth impeaching president. Do i have news for you. Bombshell report from reuters about july. Phone call between joe biden and then afghanistan president ashraf ghani in which the us president promises military aid in return for lies the perception around the world and in parts of afghanistan. I believe is. The things aren't going well in terms of the fight against the taliban biden said in the july twenty third call. And there's a need whether it's true or not there is a need to project a different picture unquote whether it's true or not biden solution. Things weren't going well after the. Us abandoned bogra airfield in the middle of the night by zander. Create the perception. That all was fine whether it was true or not. Well i guess you gotta get the impeachment machine revved up right bottom line is if you impeach trump for his phone call with the head of ukraine. You'd better go after biden right.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
"ashraf" Discussed on Mike Gallagher Podcast
"Got to presume that the washington the washington machine is going to rev up the impeachment process. Again right turns out. Reuters released a bombshell report. Joe biden and then afghan- afghanistan president ashraf ghani had a phone call in which the problem the. Us president promised military aid in return for lies. Do you remember when i was so proud of. What was the money he took away. Who was that guy. Remember when he was a about that. hell yes. We're gonna with withhold a country if you don't It was ukraine. Remember when he said though if they didn't fire the the corrupt prosecutor in ukraine will take away all this aid and he was very proud of that well apparently did the same thing with the afghan pre afghanistan. President ashraf ghani biden said according to reuters and this is a quote the perception around the world and in parts of afghanistan. I believe is. The things aren't going well in terms of the fight against the taliban and there's a need whether it's true or not there is a need to project a different picture. Wow the need to project a different picture. jen psaki. The white house press secretary was asked about this yesterday. She one answer circle back seem. Speechless was the president anyway pushing a false narrative in that call with. I think it's pretty clear. And i'm not going to go into details of a private conversation but what we saw over the course of the last few months is a collapse in leadership and that was happening even before gardening left the country with the president has conveyed repeatedly privately and publicly. Is you need to stand up and lead your country. And that's something he said at a press conference in july in public form as well
Mike Gallagher Podcast
White House Downplays 'Leaked Transcripts of Phone Calls' Between Biden and Ghani
"Got to presume that the washington the washington machine is going to rev up the impeachment process. Again right turns out. Reuters released a bombshell report. Joe biden and then afghan- afghanistan president ashraf ghani had a phone call in which the problem the. Us president promised military aid in return for lies. Do you remember when i was so proud of. What was the money he took away. Who was that guy. Remember when he was a about that. hell yes. We're gonna with withhold a country if you don't It was ukraine. Remember when he said though if they didn't fire the the corrupt prosecutor in ukraine will take away all this aid and he was very proud of that well apparently did the same thing with the afghan pre afghanistan. President ashraf ghani biden said according to reuters and this is a quote the perception around the world and in parts of afghanistan. I believe is. The things aren't going well in terms of the fight against the taliban and there's a need whether it's true or not there is a need to project a different picture. Wow the need to project a different picture. jen psaki. The white house press secretary was asked about this yesterday. She one answer circle back seem. Speechless was the president anyway pushing a false narrative in that call with. I think it's pretty clear. And i'm not going to go into details of a private conversation but what we saw over the course of the last few months is a collapse in leadership and that was happening even before gardening left the country with the president has conveyed repeatedly privately and publicly. Is you need to stand up and lead your country. And that's something he said at a press conference in july in public form as well
The Gerry Callahan Podcast
"ashraf" Discussed on The Gerry Callahan Podcast
"But so mcq secret. So don't tell anyone. I don't tell anyone didn't even tell you did. I know i didn't know about tell me at all any glass. He goes on a show announces it. I said i thought it was a secret. 'cause yeah i thought i was talking about talk about on the show okay. It's not a secret anymore. We're running in the race on the team. You can sign up What's the link later on. But it's the it's the step for calling five k. You can google it and find a bowl tweet at the lincoln tweeted the link. You can sign up. You can join kirk teen. He minahan and do that. Actually so There's been reports that this team was in top three for a long time. But i don't know that we're still a nighthawk again. They're a really big teams. Yes so So i would. It would be great if you if you all stepped up. It's a great cause joined the team. We need to say at least in the top ten. I think the top three would be. I guess after the race We're going to do a show. I one in a while. manhattan you're going to be there. I'll be there. I started training. Yesterday is gonna screw it up. Probably we'll see. I guess we'll have a we'll play. We'll play parts of it on our show. The next day i think on Yes on my day. I mean you you. We'll we'll see we'll play it by ear but we'll see how it goes but You can sign up. You can join the team you can hang out and watch the show. I guess that's how it's gonna work. Yeah and it's a great cost so sign up joint suras. Lots of big teams. Lots of teachers because she was a teacher. All goes to scholarships for people. Wanna be teachers. She was a teacher who was murdered by her student. If you haven't forget the story google it. It's a disturbing and tragic and her family's amazing friends are all there. It's a very emotional day and an uplifting day and I just going to say. I look good and pink l. What you. I look good and pink. I do not. will you gotta wear it anyway. I will And they're nice shirts and hats and everything else. It's a first class race so Join us on. Can you confirm that. September nineteen sunday. Yes won't confirm it. the nineteenth. that's today terai nineteenth in andover so join us see. See you there. Anything else culina. I'm not calling anything else No correio i'm used to. I gotta stop. I gotta stop saying that. Going to change the chain of script but that is it for today we will leave it there. Thanks to everybody for watching for listening for commenting. Thanks turtle boy. He had to go rap child's face in an in cloth and put her on the bus man now. Annoying turtaboi is to like the teachers principals. He shows up. Everything went a mask and he won't put one on and soon amateurs kid will be rebellious as he is and she'll be causing problems and that's good because everybody should be rebelling against this insanity but we will we will we'll give you an update on turtle boy 'cause incense school just start this week. He's going to be a problem. He's going to be a problem for that. School district problem for any of these mask fanatics all right. We will leave it there. I'm jerry kelly. This is the callahan podcast and we will talk again soon. Stopping stops. i. Don't i can go home and good. Gerry callahan podcast..
The Gerry Callahan Podcast
"ashraf" Discussed on The Gerry Callahan Podcast
"People are vaccinated are like he went off the rails But let's listen to rogan. Tell us all the stuff he's taken to Get better to combat the covert. Hello friends so. I got back from the road saturday night. Feeling very weary. I had a headache. And i just felt just run down and just to be cautious. I separated from my family. Slept in a different part of the house and throughout the night. I got fevers sweats. And i i knew what was going on so i got up in the morning. Got tested and turns out. Got cove vid so we immediately through the kitchen sink. All kinds of meds monoclonal antibodies Ivermectin z pack Prednisone everything And i also got an any d- drip and a vitamin drip. And i did that three days in a row and so here. We are on wednesday. And i feel great. I really only had one bad day. Sunday sucked but monday was better. Tuesday fell better than monday. And today i feel good. I actually feel pretty fucking good. That's the good news. The bad news is we have to move friday. The friday show in nashville. So there you go so he is all better at. How do you do that. How do you get all that stuff. Twelve he's i know he's got a lot of company to so that any drip. I'm sure i've heard talk about that before. I think that's anti-aging quote me. If i'm wrong the other other ones a vitamin drip. So i'm sure he does. You know pumps vitamin d vitamin c. When i thought perhaps when i was sick and we did the remote shows last week. That's what i did. I put myself vitamin c and vitamin d. Vitamin d is. There's some research covert so. Why didn't i know but that's i. I took that trajectory. He has a doctor rhonda patrick on his show a lot. And she is a big proponent. So someone wants to do that. It's a lot of work. Yeah but i mean he kicked it in three. It's worth it. I guess but you can't do it if you don't have the means you'll have the the connections but good luck to him. I'm glad he's better. It looks a little little. Ragged fifty four is not shaving. Looks so tired man. Yeah but i'm glad he's back to cancel the show..
The Gerry Callahan Podcast
"ashraf" Discussed on The Gerry Callahan Podcast
"And you're talking about hurtful language or are you talking about layabouts. Who don't pay their rent. You're supporting them. I mean i it must take all. They have not to come out in favor of abortion in the third trimester because they're just radicals that's what they are. They're not public. Health officials there radicals and they are hoping. Also i'm telling you right now. She was asked about rogan. When rogan said twenty one year old healthy 21-year-olds don't need the vaccine. They're hoping that this will be the rare case. Were someone who's not elderly. not obese. Takes a wrong turn. But even if he dies doesn't that just proved point that like joe rogan made his choice. We all have choices. He chose to knock vaccinated pandemic and he died from a virus. Like that's literally the whole point. Is you have a right to take a risk now. Well i think you the people who take risks. Turtle don't think they're going to die. You know this. This radio host phil valentine. There's some liberals were dancing on his grave. He's sixty one years old. I don't think he was obese. But he was probably not great shape and he was an anti vaccine. Rogan's on an anti faxer. We never has been. I'm not a you are. But i'm not anti vaccine. I don't think twenty year old. I certainly don't think twelve year olds. She could vaccine. Does that make you an antibac- cer- again it's like if they had a vaccination against t- to cure dementia right. It'd be wonderful it'd be. It would be great the development of great breakthrough. Would you ask. In a fifteen year olds take it if they had a vaccination against dementia. There are certain things that don't affect children one of them being covered. You know so. Why are you forcing this injection on children. It's and i can't imagine being in your position turtle boy where they're going to get to six year olds you know. They're going to get around six year olds and he'd say yes your year old must be vaccinated and you will fight them and you will resist. But they're going to their goal. They flat out says to make life difficult for the unvaccinated. I don't like the conspiracy stuff either. But don't you have to ask the question that a lot of public funds are going to pay for these vaccinations. So can you not see. The incentive is to try to get as many people take it as possible was the number in the number of pfizer New all new billionaires like twelve guys became billionaires during the pandemic but during the their the value. Yuks you have to have last question right. Where what's the incentive here. No doubt now. You're talking my language following. Well you know what it is created. It is fertile grounds for creating for growing young skeptics. If not conspiracy theorists yes when you say a dozen guys in a billionaires because they have not only Developed a sold as this vaccine forced it on people and and shamed you if you don't do it we don't do. We know if rogan has been vaccine so is talking yesterday on just on twitter that he was vaccinated. But i didn't. I wasn't able to confirm that before we went live today. So that's something. I'm definitely gonna look into today. I can't tell when i see him in. Pictures is he just jacked or z. A little chunky. He's got a lotta muscle this. He's like one of those people that exercise. He's got a lot of free time so you can. Exercise lowers these fitness junkies. One of those legitimate martial artist. Ju jitsu short. but it's like The the fox Of nfl guy jay glazer and he always talks about ma ma and training and everything. And i look at him and he just looks like a little chunky guy to me. I know he probably trains hard. But he's not exactly a lean not exactly lean a lot of muscle i mean. He runs in slogan rogan national champ in in mixed martial arts. So i'm going to guess you gotta be in pretty good shape to do that. And i was talking to Mike clark lenny. Lenny was on rogan. When logan was still in. La and they were getting ready to record. I heard it. It was a great show. It was all down memory lane of a boston comedy. Because rogan came up. And my clark owns giggles and he looks and he handles a lot of comedians and get some jobs and And rogan was a young comedian which is hard to believe that he was one of these young comedians planned. Giggles and nick's comedy stop in boston. I don't even think he's funny on his show. I mean he's good. He's good interviewer and he's smart. But i was surprise when about a year ago. Maybe you're could have been year and a half ago. I think it was on Net flicks. i don't know what it was. But he had to stand up special. Yeah and it was good. I mean he was funniest. Halley was he was a little dangerous little edgy and he was good at but that doesn't come through necessarily on his show. I think it's i think it's a different format. I mean when he's got comedians on hill. They'll they'll batra back and forth and it's a little bit funnier. No his standup. I think he's probably a better writer. A comedy writer than he is. I mean pro. I liked the show. Sometimes i don't get the whole like i don't understand why it's so popular all he does. He's not that interesting himself. He just invites interesting on his show is just like oh that's interesting. And what's interesting. Is he says anything remotely. I don't say controversial just opinionated. It goes viral like he talks about cancer culture and so he canceled cultures out of control. Cancer sucks he says the same thing we say or millions of other say and boom it gets it gets a video clip get set out and it's everywhere and it's like. Oh joe. rogan comes out and gets canceled culture. He probably audience in the country though bigger than tuck because they always influential any noise influential with not just conservatives but also some libertarians but And i'm sure many people on the left also listened to him and that's why they're threatened by people like him is because he has such a big reach and they're like okay you know tucker carlson's only gonna talk the right wingers or is this guy might influence some people on our team. If he says. I'm crazy we need to shut that down. I think he's at bernie on right sitting at bernie on roy like some really really like some. I'm going door stem. He endorsed doors which was stupid because he doesn't. There's no substance to. We talked about it at the time. He just said i really like. He's a good guy like he doesn't smartest people think he just says. you know. i was smoking peyote last night. And i really like bernie's ideas. He's really cool. Find rogan that interesting. It's just the the people that he has shower at your. He can't make the case. He endorsed burning but he couldn't support it with any real substance. But that's okay. He he that in that way he kinda remains. You know a man of mystery. He means a guy that you can't put into a box like us but just to finish the story leading and micro waiting for him to come in at his studio in. La three cents like an airplane. Hangar and the door opens and incomes. Flying in an tesla is Rogan and next to the the setup where they're doing the show is a boxing ring. He's going to hold. Jim in this league airplane hangar with whatever weights and all excess equipment and a ring a a mixed martial arts ring. I guess you're right. He does a lot of time and he works out hard but he still looks a little beefy. And whenever you see someone who. And i realize you're not supposed to talk about this turtle blood you see someone who dies young or fairly young covert. They show a picture. It'll be someone with it or vaccinated or whatever the you know. Nowadays it'll be unvaccinated guy and then you see them and they look like you know. They're very very overweight. And you're not allowed to say it as turtle boy points out has been yapping for a year and a half never ever does. He say it'd be a good idea to get up and take a walk. Haven't seen numbers either on that being a co or komo are our komo's biddy how what. What percentage who died are obese like eighty eighty. Haven't look at the data with japan. Japan is one of the least fat countries in the world somehow and nobody dies of in japan when they get it. It's like over the most obvious. Statistic is that obesity equals death for covert. Just i mean and that's fine if you don't if you're fat and you don't want give vaccinated..
The Dan Bongino Show
Democrats Must Impeach Joe Biden for Quid Pro Quo Conversation With Ashraf Ghani
"You're going to claim conservative Bona feeds the Republican Bonefish. You got impeached this guy. You have no choice right now. Yeah. Impeach the sky. I mean, we're just using the Democrats own standards. What? What do you mean? What happened? Did you catch the breaking news yesterday? If you didn't you missed out on a doozy. Remember when the Democrats impeach Donald Trump over a phone call with the Ukrainian president, suggesting it was a quid pro quo. We Illicit scandal is something for something. President Trump demanded they look into Hunter Biden story, ironically turned out to be true looking a hunter Biden in exchange for military aid. Story turned out to be entirely discredited after Donald Trump released the actual transcript of the call, and, uh, that was proven to be categorically false. I mean, if you can read if you can't read, Um are you the reading comprehension of a kindergartner? You may not have seen that in the transcript, it was Trump himself. That also authorized the release of the transcript. The left double down It didn't matter because there Buffoons, they said. We have to. We must impeach this guy scandalously demanding something demanding an investigation into the corrupt son of the former vice president. Now President Joe Biden. Demanding that exchange for military and, of course again. None of that happened now, Fascinatingly enough. We have an actual quid pro quo where Joe Biden asked the Now since the part in Afghan president departed since Joe Biden surrendered to the Taliban, Ashraf Ghani, where he asked him to lie. About the status of Afghanistan and the pending collapse of the Afghan military. And he held up actual military aid.
Reset
Big Techs Taliban Problem
"Last time the taliban controlled afghanistan. The world of technology looked pretty different. The internet was still in its relative infancy. The hottest tech products were things like my space in aol. Instant messenger and companies like facebook and twitter didn't even exist. Let alone were there. Presidents and prime ministers using social media to govern entire countries. But today it's really common for all kinds of world leaders to be on those platforms and now the taliban is back in power. Social media companies have a decision to make do facebook twitter and youtube ban the taliban because of its controversial past or do they let them run their self proclaimed more peaceful new government at the risk of legitimizing historically oppressive group joining us. Today to help explain. Vox foreign and national security. Reporter jen kirby. Hey jen hey shane. how're you doing. Good things so jen. Can you give us a rundown of what's been happening and afghanistan the last two weeks. Yeah so in some respects. This kind of starts a little bit earlier. Which is the fact that the united states had planned to withdraw from afghanistan and they set the deadline to be august thirty first and so in the past few weeks. They've been packing up and pulling out troops in preparing to leave but as that was happening the taliban was going on basically this route of afghanistan. They were taking over provincial. Capitals and all this is happening really really really fast much faster than the united states government at least said publicly and so two weeks ago. The taliban reached kabul the capital of afghanistan. Where the government is located and the afghan government claps. The president ashraf ghani fled and so essentially. The taliban became the new people in charge of afghanistan. And since that happened. It's been a chaotic and desperate rush to evacuate United states citizens and our afghan allies. Who helped us in the twenty year war in afghanistan. so it's been a mad rush mostly around the kaaba airport to get people out before this rapidly approaching august thirty first deadline
The Charlie Kirk Show
"ashraf" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"Afghanistan is in ruin. The taliban has taken over we spend over a trillion dollars to prop up the government of afghanistan to try and train their military and in doing so we supported this man by the name of ashraf. Ghani you see this guy on tv osh roth. Ghani was the president of afghanistan that want to talk a little about ashraf ghani because i don't think he's got enough attention recently. I don't think he has received enough attention recently. He was born in one thousand nine hundred forty nine his wikipedia bio which you have to take with a little bit of a grain of salt. Let me just say this ashraf. Ghani's wikipedia is much kinder to him than the wikipedia about me and let me be very clear. I did not abandon my country with cash. Keep that in mind when you read read wikipedia. It says that he's an academic. Well that should be a fire alarm right there. But an academic in charge of a country like afghanistan. Your country can't even read. And you're an academic co founder of the institute for state effectiveness in organization. An american organization set up in two thousand five to improve the ability of states to serve their citizens. Don't think he did very well. He went to american university in beirut and then he became a professor at johns hopkins university. Well that explains a lot. John hopkins was one of the first institutions to implement german historicism. I believe that's where john dewey either taught or went to school. Who's basically the father of the modern government school system. He then one worked for the world bank and was the finance minister for hamad karzai's cabinet until his resignation in december of two thousand four. Then he became the dean of kabul university. Oh he's so he's like afghanistan. Woodrow wilson from there. He got into government.
600 WREC
"ashraf" Discussed on 600 WREC
"Now they start because 1995% of Afghanistan covered by Taliban 5%, which is Panshir Province and Notre and some of the problems in north There are under control of mujahideen there under control of the people who beat the Russia who beat the China who beats, Uh, England who beat the Pakistan and India whatever. But what happened was the the manager. The so called President, Mr Ashraf Ghani? No, he elected by US government he elected by president of United States whatever was That he was the fraud, briber and cautious president. We ever had. He was beheaded president of Afghanistan. So then the Taliban they became strong. Why? Because Mr Ashraf Ghani was supporting Taliban under table and they Mr Ashraf Ghani released a lot of Taliban Mr Ashraf Ghani. Broad. The representative of, uh, Taliban on the table. Still Taliban was was lost the war. America won the war, but Hamid Karzai. Ashraf Ghani, They support Taliban. You know the Taliban? They didn't expect that they get their all problems of Afghanistan like a water. Why? Because Mr Ashraf Ghani called every record We call We have 11 corps in Afghanistan. They call him they said, Leave all your core. All your battalion for Taliban, but the people the army, our army, Afghanistan Army. And they said we can part we have tank we have Holly cooked, er we have Armin ation and we have everything but, uh Karzai and also Ash Afghanistan. No, leave it. Leave it to them. That's why we lost Afghanistan. The problem. Majority of people of Afghanistan state as we see Ashraf Ghani Anywhere. We will not leave them alone. They are very, very, very upset from so when, when he left because he apparently left with his family and his gold and everything else. Um, it was kind of it looked as though he was leaving because of the Taliban. He wasn't According to you. He's he's leaving because the people were angry with him. Correct. He left Afghanistan for two reasons. Number one. He is stole $50,001,000. Even he didn't talk high million dollars with him. He given to the PPS. The reason why he left because the people was hungry on him. Number two. He left because of the money. He stole the money. He got it. He you know, there was a three guy. Three person control all Afghanistan number one. Ashraf Ghani, number two, Dr Moorehead, which is he was not a doctor. He was a nurse. And there was another guy. Partly, Mr Fosse. These three gentlemen. Cover all Afghanistan. That's why the Taliban became upset. The people of Afghanistan became upset base it as better the people of Afghanistan tape as better that we can leave Afghanistan because these three gentlemen Sold every single mind to the neighbors, but he had they have three. They have to finish it. Number of what the first base is just Polishers. I'm sorry to say that he polish everybody. He you know, he show has sympathy to the people but the other faiths. Was just selling our country, our people, our army, our tank to the, um to the enemy of the human being right, including including China. Right. That's where the that's where the mines went. Of course, the copper mine from east of Afghanistan on the cars. I sold it before then Ashraf Ghani told that, but they sold it and they act under table. Not at the table. Mhm, Um and and and I'm sorry to say that Kylie I'm requesting from Mr Joe Biden. Please follow. And in fact, they, uh Mr Ashraf Ghani. He is he You know, we want the war. I'm a U s. Citizen. You United States wound the war but now Taliban, they got celebration. They got party. They said we beat Russia. We beat America. It's not true. It's not true if United States want to win the war or jump back They? We have one length. We have a big unit right now. They are located and north of Afghanistan. We called Pan should have province. We the passion leader, Mr Ahmad, son of Ahmad Shah Massoud, champion of Afghanistan, You can just Google it he takes We have 200 unit, 200 Special Forces units and the Taliban. They scared from them. Yesterday, Taliban lost three, uh, villages. And five city right operation started. Uh, the people the northern people know the line. People say we don't need support of, uh, United States now, right? I just want to support us. We are kindly the questing and welcoming American forces. We don't need military person. We need domination. We need air support, then. We promised and one year we will get all Afghanistan. We promised that so we have a strong unit now. Saber, I I appreciate the insight on this, and I do hope that we Change our tactics here because we are just abandoning our friends in so many women and so many little girls and Children from having a safe future and the future of freedom. Saber necessary. Thank you very much our best to you. We will pray for your family. Uh and we will do all we can to make sure that your your family is with you here. As an American citizen. God bless you. Let me tell you about our sponsor this half hour. It's.
Deconstructed with Mehdi Hasan
America's Longest War: 20 Years of Missteps in Afghanistan
"Begin with the final fiasco the images. We've been getting all day. Tell the chaotic story. The us continues. Its chaotic. exodus out of afghanistan. The withdrawal from afghanistan is a poorly planned debacle. The collapse of afghanistan represents another catastrophic failure of our political establishment. President biden is apparently delusional about the disaster in afghanistan but at the heart of the criticism is a contradiction that nobody in the american media or foreign policy. Blob wants to grapple with and it's this the only way for there to have been an orderly transfer of power in the wake. The us departure was for the process to have been negotiated as a transfer of power and to negotiate a transfer of power required acknowledging. And here's the hard part for the. Us that power was actually transferring. Therein lies the contradiction an orderly exit required admitting defeat and negotiating the unthinkable surrender to the taliban instead the us preferred to maintain the fiction that it was handing over power to the afghan government. Whatever that was and two former president ashraf ghani we would rather risk the chaos. We witnessed that admit defeat after all. It's mostly not our lives on the line anymore. But rather the lives of afghans who helped us over the past twenty years and focusing on the chaotic scenes at hamad karzai airport also. Let's commentators avoid asking the bigger questions. How is it that twenty straight years of. Us lies about progress in afghanistan could be so starkly exposed in a single weekend. And there'd be so little interrogation of that. Failure
Democracy Now! Audio
"ashraf" Discussed on Democracy Now! Audio
"Town of bates fafa near jerusalem in a victory for indigenous rights and the environment a federal judge wednesday block construction permits from massive oil and gas project northern alaska known as the willow master project environmental and indigenous groups sued the. Us government to stop the multibillion dollar deal with conaco phillips which was approved last year by the trump administration and backed by biden's interior department groups argued the project which was set to produce more than one hundred thousand barrels of oil. A day for the next thirty years would disrupt fragile wildlife and contribute to the climate emergency. The environmental protection agency has banned the use of corpora. Fos a common pesticide which has been linked to brain damage in children. The obama administration said it would ban the use of the pesticide in two thousand fifteen but the ban never took effect before it was reversed by the trump administration. The pesticide is used by farmers on more than fifty fruit nuts cereal and vegetable crops and the acclaimed italian surgeon. Dr gino strada has died at the age of seventy. Three strana was the founder of the medical aid group emergency which provides assistance to civilian victims of war. He worked enough. Kind of stan in iraq yemen rwanda and other countries in two thousand fifteen. He won the right livelihood. Award deadly disease has to be prevented and cute. Violence is not the right medicine. It does not cure the disease accused. The patient will listen to. War is first indispensable step in this direction to see our two thousand five interview with dr gino strada visit democracy now dot org and those are some of the headlines this is democracy now democracy now dot org the warring piece report i mean goodman with democracy now is ner means shea hi nermeen hi amy and welcome to listeners and viewers across the country and around the world. Today we spend the hour on ghanistan where protesters have taken to the streets for a second day in a row in defiance of the taliban which seized control of the country sunday protests have been held in kabul and other cities today tomorrow afghan independence day l zero reports. Two people died in the city of asadabad after the taliban opened fire on protesters waving the afghan national flag. This comes a day after. The taliban killed three protesters in jalalabad on wednesday ousted. Afghan president ashraf ghani spoke publicly for the first time since fleeing kabul he spoke from the united arab emirates. Ghani said he left to prevent more bloodshed. All my colleagues in the west told me that. If i don't leave things would be worse. I could have stayed and started to war. But i had a responsibility to my people. And i didn't want to start a bloodbath. Like in syria and yemen donny. Said if he had not left afghanistan quote the people of the country would have seen another president hanging on the news of cerium. This comes as president biden says. Us troops will stay in afghanistan until every americans evacuated even if that means staying beyond his august thirty first deadline evacuation. Flights are continuing from the kabul airport. But the taliban's preventing many afghans from reaching the airport with some being shot or whipped. A student in kabul told reuters. No women could be seen on the streets. After the taliban took control of the city are not out theft from Of their homes. Dale items are two days. I i don't see Any negotiating the street in. They are afraid that they are scared. Sullivan for more. We're joined by three afghan women who have fled their country. One left in two thousand seventeen one left last month but was planning to return and one left friday just for brief visit to the united states. Let's begin with nasseri nawa. She was in kabul until friday and joins us from lincoln nebraska where. She's a fulbright scholar at the university of nebraska. She's a former journalist with bbc. Persian based in kabul and her piece published monday in the washington. Post is titled. Taleban nightmare came true. I left but my sister couldn't in it. She writes quote since before. I left kabul a few days ago. I keep having the same nightmare. My sister running sweating bleeding followed by taliban fighters on the streets of kabul then. The nightmare came true now screen now while your sister is journalists like you tell us what happened to her on sunday after the taliban seized control and since then she was out of the house like so many other people in kabul because every mos- so to fight in the spirit to complete some official documents and apply for visas for in other countries. My sister was Bank to take some money but defined refused to to get their money almost two days before their take over that Bags didn't have enough money. So we we were actually facing with Difficult things that we were singing. Something bad is happening but not social satan than they get the power by my sister here that everyone is shouting of taliban came and you should run away so she starts running to a house and she cannot find her way out of that crowd and she's so scared and crying so finally. She finds her way to the apartment but at the house. Just my family is coming. They they will start killing people right now at. It won't be something in easy comb so and they tried to call people to help my sister get out of the country moments and it failed because light got cancelled. And can you talk about what her situation is. Now and all the other people you know of who are trying to leave a gobbled trying to leave lana assan. They are totally hopeless in the stuck at their houses. They don't dare to go out Provoking something and the only hope is right now that The normal life resumed enough ghanistan. The start number flights that everyone can use it because not everyone can get that emergency opportunity that the united states offer to offer to owner able people in afghanistan of my sister just told me an hour ago did receive guests from City in other province They hair that you can just go out by reaching to the airport but but it's not easy At our house and they cannot find their way to airport taliban. Don't allow anyone at it. It's it's just violence.
All In with Chris Hayes
"ashraf" Discussed on All In with Chris Hayes
"So i thought this decision that were you meant you mentioned obama's so let me bring told me back and tell me you obviously worked for barack obama we you and i have talked many times before about various aspects of foreign policy. That he may have gone wrong. He could have done better on. What is afghanistan fit into that scheme in your view. When you look at syria and libya and some of the other areas yemen of contention that you and i have discussed. I mean joe biden has successfully pulling troops out of afghans. He may be doing about way but he's he's managing to do it. We know that barack obama had a similar instinct. But he never did this. During the obama years especially early on the threat from al qaeda in afghanistan in pakistan was growing with significant. And you know that was largely. Because george w bush started the war there took the ball and then decided to invade iraq so what obama decided to do was surge a bunch of additional troops in two thousand nine and two thousand ten to push back the taliban and tried to buy some time in space to go after al qaeda in essentially predict the government toppling prevent major population centres from being overrun. What did that get us. It got us back to a status. Anti in hindsight. I think that that major surge was probably a mistake in the. us should have shifted to a counterterrorism mission. Sooner and drawn down troops sooner. And i agree. Been in hindsight. It's very easy to say. The safe haven in pakistan was a problem. Corruption has been. A problem is very easy to identify those problems. Solving them is much harder. Especially when you have a bunch of other competing priorities like the needs to be able to undertake counterterrorism missions in pakistan the need to keep the lid on pakistan's nuclear weapons program the need to a million other things by it becomes complicated in so. I think this urge in hindsight was a mistake. I do think it was time to end this war and that frankly it was doomed for a long time. Yes and joe biden of course was one of those people who at least at the time briefed the people that he was against that surge. It's interesting in following up now. Is president sarah. Afghan president ashraf ghani turned up today in the united arab emirates reportedly accused of taking one hundred and sixty million dollars of cash with him. This was the guy who was supposed to be clean. He was the guy was gonna fix. Afghanistan the technocrat the economist and it looks like he may have just been corrupted. Everyone before him. We talk a lot about the afghan military's faults. But how much is afghan leadership over twenty years to blame for this debacle now. Afghan political leadership and and the incentive structure that the united states in many of its international allies Place we set up an incentive structure that rewarded the most corrupt and again. I bench differ with you. Tom me a lot of us. It's not in hindsight. A lot of us had been talking about pakistan and corruption for years. Just to.
Here & Now
Former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani Emerges in the UAE
"United Arab Emirates says it is accepted former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and his family for humanitarian considerations. Ghani fled Afghanistan just as the Taliban approach Kabul Statement, carried by the U. S State run news agency did not say where Ghani was in the country.
Post Reports
"ashraf" Discussed on Post Reports
"Making sure that they didn't get into the hands of the taliban women. The taliban has been taking some american weapons for years. So maybe they figured that was more of the same. But you're asking a really great question here which is you know. Why didn't he take steps to sort of make the pull out. Not as terrible as it became. You know. I think on one hand you know you saw the president trying to frankly paint a very rosy picture and offer an assessment about the likelihood that the afghan forces would stand up. That was very much not in keeping with the advice. He seems to have been getting at least from his intelligence agencies so when the president does that is he putting spin on things is he not understanding what he's hearing is he misleading the public. Because he doesn't want to you know kind of own the disaster or make it seem as dire. I dunno. i suspect we'll we'll find that out so now that the us is essentially going to be dealing with an afghanistan that is run by the taliban. How does that change our national security risks. As a country i think at arguably increases them significantly. I mean we are. The united states is putting a big bet on the taliban acting as i guess what we would call in relative terms a responsible actor which is to say not allowing afghanistan to become a safe haven for terrorist groups the way it was before the september eleventh attacks whether they will make good on that commitment remains be seen and i think that's really the big one big question we don't have a force nef ghanistan right now. We don't have an embassy in afghanistan right now which means we're not we don't have. Cia personnel on the ground running spies running agents. We're gonna have a really hard time collecting intelligence from within the country. We're going to have to rely on satellite imagery on communications intercepts. We're going to try and do this. Counter terrorism mission from afar. That's gonna be really hard so really the future of afghanistan and our security there. An intentional thrust us really rests with. I think what the taliban decides to do and how aggressive the united states is going to be encountering any threats like if we see terrorist camps rebuilding portions of afghanistan. Do we go in and take them out. We bomb them. Do we send in special operations forces to kind of get in and get out. I think you could expect that the administration would do that. And they're betting that the taliban knows they would and will potentially take steps to make sure that those terrorist groups don't set up base there but we're gonna have to see what happens. I also wanna talk a little bit more about the afghan president ashraf ghani who essentially fled the country over the weekend. Even hearing president biden. Talk about president ghani's departure. I feel like you could sense some animosity there or frustration or disappointment that this president did not stay in place to try to lead his country. And in fact that was part of biden's argument for you know. Look if the afghans are not going to do the work to try to keep their country intact like why are we gonna stay there but i wonder like what role does ghani playing this and also we're is he like. What do we know about the circumstances under which he fled and why he is not in the country. I'm not sure where he is right now. I believe i've seen reports that he's in a neighboring country Yeah the anger from president. Biden was palpable against you know ghani and by extension the political leadership of kenniston who he sees as essentially abandoning the country afghanistan political leaders gave up and fled the country. The afghan military collapsed sometime without trying to fight again. This is in the category of things that we really need to know more about. But i find it very telling that he left as quickly as he did. I mean it. Almost felts negotiated in a way. I'm not saying that it was but we've seen reports. I should say provincial. Officials striking deals with the taliban in advance them coming into their cities and basically just handing over the keys. This was really a question to for the white house. I mean the you know the leader to leader communication. Did we not understand that he was going to pack up and go or did we know if we had a sense that he was going to leave this quickly. That might have been a tell for us because once the president of afghanistan left. I mean that was the signal that effectively the the game was over that the taliban was going to face no real resistance and when they came into kabul. But i should say to. You know the this kind of dim view that president biden and others have of ashraf. Ghani i mean this really goes. I think for a lot of the political class afghanistan over the years. I mean you're talking about a government where corruption has been endemic. And i think you know. A generation of us officials have just been very clear light and skeptical about their ability to to maintain a country absent us presidents and assistance. So in that sense. I don't know that anybody had a lot of hopes that ghani was going to try. And you know hold down the ford fight to the bitter end. But what i also find. You know so remarkable about this moment is that it's almost like it's it's so hard for us as americans to believe that. An american president would knowingly walk away from a country understanding that it was just going to descend indicate loss and be overtaken by militant fundamentalists. But that's what happened. I mean he knew that this would occur. Think it's hard for a lot of americans to swallow this right now. The idea that knowing how likely it was that things would go very badly that he still made the decision to go. But he's been very frank about that in his comments and it's just it's it's so stunning for me to see. I think because it's so at odds with what three successive american presidents have told us there which is that you know. There were hopeful about the mission. You know we're trying to build stability. We're trying to get the government to a place where it can stand on its own. I mean what we're finding now. Is that free years. People have privately understood that that was not likely to be the case. And you know it's striking to hear an american president basically say you know. Come on quick hitting yourself like we're going and he is stuck by.
MSNBC Rachel Maddow (audio)
Taliban Takes Full Control of Afghanistan
"Chief foreign correspondent. Richard engel as you probably know. He has spent big portions of the last two decades of his life in afghanistan during the war. There richard also just weeks ago reported on some of the last fierce fighting by elite afghan commando units fighting against taliban forces. We know that was some of the last fighting like that. That there was in afghanistan and richard. Was there in the middle of it but now that the taliban have been able to take control of. I all the provincial capitals and then the whole country including kabul without fighting at all not in a military operation but just in what appears to have been a negotiated surrender by afghan government forces and the afghan military all over the country as the taliban have now walked in to kabul without firing a shot. Richard has been there reporting around the clock as they have taken over again. As i mentioned we have been battling technical difficulties as you might imagine for some obvious reasons. But i do believe we've got our dear friend. Richard engel now joining us live. Richard thank you. I'm sorry to have you up at this hour. Thank you no problem at all. Comes with the territory with your show seriously seriously. I have bad technical. Gremlins karma as you know from the very beginning richard. Let me just ask you how you are right now. What this last few days has been like for you with all that you've seen in kabul over the years and what you're expecting over the day that is newly donning right now where you stand. So the taliban are spreading their wings they are establishing more and more of their control. They're trying to establish a government. The first two days in power they were coming out of the woodwork. So to speak they were battling lueders because that that happened here there was a collapse of law and order when ashraf ghani. The president fled when all the police fled. Even local security guards
WSJ What's News
Three Killed at Kabul’s Airport Amid Effort to Flee Taliban
"We begin this morning in afghanistan on your firm. The taliban claimed victory sunday after sweeping unopposed into the capital city of kabul president. Ashraf ghani fled abroad. Police deserted their posts and the afghan government collapsed now in chaotic scenes. The us along with western diplomats and thousands of afghans are trying to get out on sunday secretary of state. Antony blinken told abc news. This week with george stephanopoulos that the withdrawal would happen in a safe and orderly fashion. We're working to make sure that our personnel are safe and secure were relocating The men and women of our embassy to location at the airport this morning at least three people were killed by gunfire at the passenger terminal of kabul's international airport officials at the us central command. Were immediately available for
POLITICO Dispatch
Afghanistan: The Taliban Has Gained Ground at Surprising Speed
"Afghan army is quickly losing ground throughout the country to the taliban now to bolster its flagging military. The government is arming militias to help in the fight and by the way it should be said. This was the expectation the expectation was that if the us left afghanistan and foreign troops also left that the taliban would do a takeover right. This isn't the surprising part. The surprising part is the speed. And that's what's caught everyone off guard. They started by taking a parental capital zaranj. Just over a week ago right. The taliban have captured the capital of afghanistan's nimruz province as they step up their across the country earlier in the day gunman shot and killed the head of the afghan government's media and inflammation and really taken almost every provincial capital since With kabul really the last main wanting to fall the situation on the ground in kabul rapidly deteriorates. Us forces there are rushing to evacuate all personnel from the embassy or images online. Coming out right now inside kabul the presidential palace overrun by the taliban as you noted. Us officials have confirmed to fox news that afghan president ashraf ghani fled the country. So at this point you've basically seen a complete collapse of the afghan military of afghan authority in just over a week or so. The blistering taliban gains have reportedly taken some us officials by surprise but many this week including president biden have kept the focus on the afghan governments. Need to defend itself. Gotta fight for themselves simply stunned everyone in the us and around the world and it is arguably already one of the most successful guerrilla urged campaigns in history. I mean think about it. You have a militant group that in a matter of days not only looks like it's going to depose a government but a government backed by a major foreign power. It's quite
Monocle 24: The Briefing
The Taliban Has Retaken Control of Afghanistan
"We begin in afghanistan where the taliban are now in control of the capital kabul and much of the country having made sweeping advances in recent weeks following the withdrawal of us forces. The militant group took over the presidential palace where it says it will declare a new islamic emirate of afghanistan. President ashraf ghani fled the country on sunday while american and western nations scramble to evacuate diplomats and their citizens earlier today monocle producer. Emma searle spoke to charlie faulkner a correspondent based in kabul. Here's what she had to say about. The chaotic scenes on the ground The streets of kabul of being obsolete of clogged with traffic this we out of it was down to displaced people fleeing from conflict in the provinces in other parts of the countries that are flooding into kabul in the hope of some sort of support but certainly yesterday morning the chaos on the streets was very much down to people desperately trying to get cash out of the. Atm's trying to buy different sim cards. So that if communication lines go down this sort of increasing their options really of still being connected in some way people were sort of packing up and moving into different relatives houses of moving out to the center because they were expecting some sort taliban attack. But what actually unfolded was that by the mid afternoon following this crazy league. Celtic morning the city sort of just fell into. It's very eerie quiet nurse whereby people were home just waiting ready for the news of what was going to come watching social media keeping an eye on the news and then we always he got the news that was going to be a transition of power from the afghan government to to the taliban
AP News
Taliban Seek to Project Calm as US Speeds Chaotic Evacuation
"The U. S. ministry took over Afghanistan's has space in the chaotic at times with accu rate that's the Taliban rolled into the capital Kabul the Taliban swept into the capital of to the western backed government collapsed in president Ashraf Ghani fled the country the militants trying to project calm amid widespread fears of unrest videos circulating the internet sales team hundreds of people based on my naked Hamid Karzai's national anthem as they tried to flee the country the U. S. embassy has been evacuated and the American flag loads with diplomats relocating to the apple to aid with evacuations I'm Karen Thomas
The Economist: The Intelligence
Nothing to Break the Fall: Afghanistan
"Over the weekend afghanistan's acting interior minister warned citizens not to fall prey to taliban propaganda assuring them that the capital kabul would be safe but it was not safe kabul was the last bastion of government control at any pretense that the government had any disappeared. As reports emerged that president ashraf ghani had fled the country. Afghanistan is now squarely under taliban rule just as it was twenty years ago when america invaded. What brought off on your fan man. Mulata the dara renault this morning the taliban released video claiming a great victory congratulating the people of couple on their new leadership and claiming now is the time to give serenity to the nation law so the serenity is distant crowds continued together at kabul airport hoping to hitch rides on the evacuations. Being haphazardly arranged by western powers there was always a risk that as american forces and nato allies withdrew from afghanistan that the taliban would surge but with three times the troop numbers no one predicted. The afghan forces would fold so fast when the soviet union withdrew from afghanistan at the end of the nineteen eighties. The regime that they created losted for several
Newsradio 970 WFLA
Afghanistan Conflict: As Kabul Falls, Biden Backlash Grows
"Departure of the U. S from Afghanistan has some making comparisons to the fall of Saigon in Vietnam back in 1975, as thousands are desperately trying to get on air lifts out of the country, hearing reports of U. S. C. 17 aircraft carrying hundreds of people These planes are meant for just around 100 paratroopers. They're fitting as many U. S personnel and US allies in these planes as possible, trying to very quickly get people out of harm's way. There are also reports of sporadic gun Fire around the airfield that in some cases will temporarily slowed down how many planes are able to take off? But this process will continue. We understand. Additionally, across Kabul there are Taliban fighters that have taken over key government buildings, including the presidential palace. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani was inside before he fled the country for a jinxed reporting The Taliban moved in quickly this weekend took control of key strategic locations with relative ease. Leading to blame the Biden administration for underestimating the Taliban forces.
KQED Radio
Taliban Take Presidential Palace
"Course in Afghanistan, with the Taliban claiming victory after seizing the capital, Kabul, bringing to a swift end 20 years of the U. S. Led coalition's presence in the country fighters have seized the presidential palace. The government has collapsed. President Ashraf Ghani has fled There's chaos at Kabul airport, particularly with residents and foreign nationals trying to get out lots to make sense of add to that the United States says all of its embassy staff in Kabul now assembled at the international airport, ready to be flown out of the country in the coming hours. More than 60 countries have signed a statement saying all Afghans and other citizens who want to leave Afghanistan must be allowed to depart and we've heard from a Taliban spokesman. He's told the BBC that they are working to form a new government in Afghanistan and has urged calm a little bit later
AP News Radio
Afghan president flees the country as Taliban move on Kabul
"As the Taliban into the Afghan capital U. S. officials say the international airport has been closed to commercial flights as minute tree evacuations continue the suspension of commercial flights cuts off one of the last options for Afghans trying to flee from Taliban rule meanwhile Afghanistan's embattled president Ashraf Ghani was one of the lucky ones he managed to flee alongside other Afghans and foreigners the president's departure signals the end of a twenty year Weston experiments aimed at remaking Afghanistan the Taliban said it would soon announce the Islamic emirate of Afghanistan from the presidential palace I'm Karen Thomas
Kim Komando
Haiti Earthquake: At Least 700 People Dead, More Than 2,800 Injured
"Ashraf Ghani fled the country. The number of confirmed dead from yesterday's massive earthquake in Haiti has risen sharply to more than 700. Haiti's Office of Civil Protection says the 7.2 magnitude quake also injured at least 2800. The U. S and
WBZ Afternoon News
Pope Francis Calls for Peace in Afghanistan
"The pope's prayers come as a Taliban enters Kabul, the Afghan capital, and is negotiating a takeover of the government. Taliban official says the group will soon declare the Islamic emirate of Afghanistan from the presidential palace right in the capital that was the name of the country under the Taliban government ousted by US led forces after the 9 11 terrorist attacks Now the official did speak on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief media. Afghan president Ashraf Ghani has left the country. Meanwhile, Pope Francis also says his hope here is that the din of weapons ends and solutions can be found around a table of dialogue. The Department of
Rear Vision
"ashraf" Discussed on Rear Vision
"Inter-afghan negotiations with the elected government of ashraf. Ghani i'm now the fourth united states president to preside over american troop presence in afghanistan to republicans to democrats. I will not pass this responsibility onto a fifth amid rasheed says in its heist to leave the. Us has agreed to a deal. That's lift the taliban holding all the cards. I think the way. The taliban are moving to capture the whole of afghanistan installed themselves involved. I think they have no intentions of doing away with any of these militant groups them. But it's not just kinda de protecting multiple pakistani militant groups that are central asian chinese hold these miniature groups. Many of them are finding the taliban they constitute a real threat to the national community. And the fact is that the taliban have not fulfilled their promise. It was an hundred agreement of the taliban which immediately start controlling al-qaida and these other groups and in fact the last one year the census agreement was made with the americans. None of these militant groups have been apprehended or taken under control or toll to leave the country. They're all active. What exactly did the west will. What did the us get out of that. Deal with the taliban what i think. I'm certainly not saying. I think the. Us made a huge mistake by basically giving away too much. They said they'd release you. Know they released five thousand prisoners. They allowed the taliban leaders to fly around the world and meet with world leaders. They gave enormous concessions to the taliban which were absolutely ludicrous in the light of what subsequently has happened with the taliban are now using those concessions to be able to launch attacks all over afghanistan. I think the us made a big mistake. They lost their bag. Need chimps early on. They announced a withdrawal to fought too early. Which the taliban of course welcomed and the americans are not electoral. Absolutely nothing to log in with. And it's really left up. God president of the government a- show gunny in the doldrums because they have nothing to argue with the afghan president. Ashraf ghani is on record as saying the withdrawal of us. Nato troops has come too soon and afghan forces are already being overwhelmed. The full departure of us forces was to have coincided with the twentieth anniversary of nine eleven. But that's been brought forward to the end of august a power sharing agreement between the taliban and the government of ashraf. Ghani is still a possibility but is looking less likely made a dramatic escalation in fighting. They want to be in the strongest possible position militarily in going to the negotiating table so that they can extract the largest share of power possible from the escon government. You know what's ostensibly a power-sharing agreement but one in which the taliban essentially dominate what do you think is the more likely outcome that there is a power sharing agreement that we end up with a civil war. The ladder to me. A civil war is more likely. I think both the taliban and the government you know nowhere near you know the same page in terms of their demands and their asks what they want the. Us is unable to exercise any sort of leverage on either side. And and of course this withdrawal was unconditional wasn't conditioned on any kind of power sharing agreement. So we have two sides that are unwilling to compromise. The taliban is engaging in violence and so there is a war already going on and it will just intensify given the fact that the us Is out the door. Nato forces are out the gore. What we are going to see is likely a civil war. So what's the future for. Afghanistan should the taliban ashim majority or even full control of the country that talent governments that they invasion putting into face will be radically different from the islamic republic pakistan. Democracy that exists. Now there will be no democracy. There will be no human rights within vision. is islamic rights envision. I'm much more strongly islamic justice system. Of course the current afghan justice system is a mix of sharia and more secular law but the taliban justice system would be purely sharia. We've seen their sharia courts. You would have islamic clerics playing a much larger role in the government. Certainly there would be no elections. Certainly women's participation in government and swells in life in general and in society would be severely curtailed. You'd have no freedom of expression. I would imagine you'd have vast sense of the media and the media has been one of the sectors that's been so vibrant since one is really grown that without all disappear so life in society with would fundamentally change pretty profoundly mr under future taliban government. You've been listening to revision scott wiles technical production from isabella trump piano. You've been listening to an abc podcast. Discover more great. Abc podcasts live radio and exclusives on the abc listen app..