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This is Somaya, daughter of Zemari. Her family says that she and her father were among the ten killed in the drone strike.
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9 killed by U.S rocket attack today in Kabul, who are they?
1: Zemaray, Interpreter
2: Naseer, Army officer
2: Zameer, Shopkeeper
4: Faisal, Student
5: Farzad, Student
6: Ayat, 2 years old
7: Sumaya, 2 years old
8: Armin, 4 years old
9: Binyamen, 3 years old
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South Africa detects new variant of interest of Covid-19 C.1.2
mybs.in/2Zgmx5q
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The military said it targeted ISIS. This morning, I visited a family hit by a US drone strike in Kabul, who lost ten people, including seven children. Longer story coming. Photos by @jimhuylebroek nytimes.com/live/2021/08/3…
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One more feather in Kerala's cap to be the model state
hindustantimes.com/world-news/14-…
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In a (closed-door) forecast simulation I ran on geopolitical risk
A possible future play by🇨🇳in🇦🇫
Mine🇦🇫lithium (imp 4 microchips/batteries)→create scarcity→disrupt globl supplychain→markt shocks→impose Digital Yuan 4 chip/battery transctions→mve away frm a dollar run world
More imminent attack warnings
We supervised some airport emergency evacuations
What a colossal cock up Kabul `s airport evacuation is
Bring in (temporary) air cover support
Add reinforcements
Extend Aug 31 deadline
Offer contingencies
Never leave people stranded &vulnerable
#Afghanistan: Due to a specific, credible threat, U.S. citizens near Kabul airport, including South gate, new Ministry of the Interior, and gate near Panjshir Petrol station, should leave the area immediately. Avoid traveling to the airport at this time. ow.ly/5OQu50G0bt2
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Two weeks prior to the attack in Kabul, CNN's @clarissaward interviewed a senior ISIS-K commander.
At that time the commander told Ward the group was laying low and waiting for a time to strike.
As Ward notes, these were "words that turned out to be eerily prophetic."
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While battling the U.S., the Taliban also wages a parallel and largely hidden war against Islamic State. The Kabul bombings show how bloody it could become. on.wsj.com/3sTLm0u
Retweeted by Özer Pakistan wants to be treated like an ally, not a scapegoat, @joshrogin writes wapo.st/3kmZSKe
Retweeted by Özer "The U.S.supported govt in Kabul used Pakistan as a scapegoat to excuse its own ineptitude,corruptions & unpopularity.Pakistan helped bring Taliban to the negotiating table,got cut out of the negotiations & is now being blamed for the outcome"- @YusufMoeed
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
Retweeted by Özer Ukraine's foreign ministry said: "There are no hijacked Ukrainian planes in Kabul or anywhere else. The information about the hijacked plane, which is being circulated by some media outlets, does not correspond to reality."
dawn.com/news/1642364/u…
Retweeted by Özer Armed hijackers took control of a Ukrainian plane and flew it to Iran after it arrived in Afghanistan to evacuate Ukrainians, Russian news agency TASS reports.
english.alarabiya.net/News/world/202…
Retweeted by Özer In March 2002, after the fall of Taliban, thousands of Afghan girls were invited to go to the nearest public school to participate in a placement test because the Taliban had burned all female students’ records to erase their existence. I was one of those girls.
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Retweeted by Özer For your information:
Egypt has just closed Gaza's only border to the world.
Retweeted by Özer Update on Panjshir
IEA has ordered its soldiers to enter "Panjshir", multiple sources are reporting that time given by IEA to surrender is over.
Panjshir will fall like "house of cards".
Retweeted by Özer Tony Blair is paid around £1m a year as an international advisor to an organisation called the Mubadala Development Fund in the UAE
It has been reported that Mubadala has been developing a plan to mine US$1 trillion worth of resources in Afghanistan.
Skin in the game?
Retweeted by Özer Future CT Ops & Regional Power Contests in 🇦🇫
Taliban`s internal rifts surface
Eg Haqqani vs. Yaqoob faction
TTP makes inroads→ Paktika & Paktia
🇵🇰 IBOs necessary
🇮🇳 makes overtures to 🇮🇷 to counterweight 🇵🇰🇨🇳in 🇦🇫
Chabahar loses→Gwadar gains
🇷🇺 troubled by 🇹🇷-🇦🇫 relations
Afghan Taliban Commission Looking Into Pakistan’s Terror-Related Concerns
voanews.com/south-central-…
Retweeted by Özer Homegrown app helping Kabul residents steer clear of danger on.ft.com/382jI7J
Retweeted by Özer "Much, according to Ankara, is at stake. Turkey, the EU & U.S. should offer Saied a face-saving way to step back from the edge of the steep political cliff in which he has placed Tunisia"
By @OzerKhalid in Washington-based @QuincyInst`s @RStatecraft
See responsiblestatecraft.org/2021/08/16/wha…
Retweeted by Özer FACT-CHECK: This old video, recorded in 2020, is now going viral on multiple social media platforms with description that says Taliban got millions of dollars left by US in Afghanistan
Retweeted by Özer NEW: Intelligence Warned of Afghan Military Collapse, Despite Biden’s Assurances w/@julianbarnes @adamgoldmanNYT nytimes.com/2021/08/17/us/…
Retweeted by Özer "Much, according to Ankara, is at stake. Turkey, the EU & U.S. should offer Saied a face-saving way to step back from the edge of the steep political cliff in which he has placed Tunisia"
By @OzerKhalid in Washington-based @QuincyInst`s @RStatecraft
See responsiblestatecraft.org/2021/08/16/wha…
Our work is to save lives.
Whether it’s Afghanistan, Haiti, Lebanon, or communities facing extreme hardship worldwide—one thing we could do to save lives RIGHT NOW is become a country that welcomes more refugees with open arms.
Refugees must be welcome here.
Retweeted by Özer JUST IN: "The Crew made the decision to go" — Inside RCH 871, which saved 640 from the Taliban ... from @TaraCopp and me defenseone.com/policy/2021/08…
Retweeted by Özer I was 9 years old when I watched my Congresswoman wear a burqa in Congress to justify the invasion of Afghanistan.
For the rest of my life, I knew that as a Muslim woman my identity would be weaponized to justify American wars.
20 years of war later, what did we accomplish?
Retweeted by Özer NEW: Upheaval in #Tunisia is threatening key components of #Turkey’s regional policy. @OzerKhalid has more on the dynamics and what the US and EU might be able to do responsiblestatecraft.org/2021/08/16/wha…
Retweeted by Özer .@MichaelKugelman in his weekly South Asia Brief for @ForeignPolicy officially cites my Op Ed in @etribune titled " The New Quad - Pakistan `s Breakthrough Diplomacy " & the historic U.S-China rebalancing act it could entail
Cheers Michael
Citation Link
foreignpolicy.com/2021/08/12/sou…
Vietnam Iraq Afghanistan. When we will we ever learn that you can’t promote Democracy at the point of a gun?
Retweeted by Özer The collapse of Afghanistan should be the final indictment of state building policies based on foreign values, supported by foreign forces, financed by foreign money and implemented by foreign experts.
Retweeted by Özer From London, the best we can have on 75th year of our great independence. #NoToHinduRashtra
#ResignModi
Retweeted by Özer Cotton spokesman says that their office has heard from multiple US citizens in Kabul trapped behind Taliban checkpoints, who can’t safely reach the US perimeter and have no clear option for what to do. twitter.com/SenTomCotton/s…
Retweeted by Özer The Pentagon and State Department confirm that over the next 48 hours, there will be about 6,000 troops in Kabul and will be taking over air traffic control.
Retweeted by Özer BREAKING REPORT: US Abandons American Citizens in Afghanistan — Tells Them to Go Hide, "Shelter in Place".. Airport taking fire..
Retweeted by Özer Pentagon approves more troops for Kabul as U.S. seeks to secure airport for evacuations reut.rs/3AHcx19
Retweeted by Özer US elites are melting down over Afghanistan because they don't like being humiliated. They see this defeat as a destabilizing threat to their own legitimacy at home & won't forgive Biden until he gives them a new war, which he almost surely will. Dangerous times ahead for all.
Retweeted by Özer “We do not count because we were born in Afghanistan . . . We’ll die slowly in history.” I am heartbroken. The women & girls of Afghanistan have been abandoned. What of their dreams, hopes? The rights they have fought two decades for? #PrayforAfghanistan
Retweeted by Özer Credible report that the US is offering vast sums of cash to the Taliban in order to allow evacuations to proceed. Hope US media is on top of this story
Retweeted by Özer Was it worth it, probably not. Did I lose my legs for nothing, looks like it. Did my mates die in vain. Yep. On my 11th Bangaversary it’s a very somber one. Many emotions going through my head, anger, betrayal sadness to name a few….
Retweeted by Özer Women in Afghanistan, and those living as refugees in Pakistan or Iran have become so accustomed to war they have often replaced traditional motifs of flowers and birds in their rug weaving with images of war, including drones, tanks and guns #WomensArt
Retweeted by Özer Busy ignoring the atrocities in Kashmir. twitter.com/BDUTT/status/1…
Retweeted by Özer The situation in Afghanistan makes America look so bad, Texas has already banned schools from teaching it
Retweeted by Özer 'The Skate Girls of Kabul' photographic series by Jessica Fulford-Dobson featuring girls from the Afghan capital #WomensArt #WomenGirls Afghanistan 🙏t
Retweeted by Özer #AFGHANISTAN—Political insecurity and a third wave of #COVID19 has left millions of people in need of urgent humanitarian assistance.
The entire country is now facing a drought that experts say is one of the worst in decades, in terms of geographic scale. iruk.co/afghanistan
Retweeted by Özer Afghan Pres Ashraf Ghani to me on May 17:
Q: Are there any other circumstances under which you would step down early?
AG: No.
Q: None at all?
AG: If there is war — no. If there is war, I am the commander in chief. I will not abandon my people...I am willing to die for my country.
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