Illustrative image.
On August 13, the Taliban captured Pol-e Alam, the capital of the eastern Afghan province of Logar following heavy clashes with government forces.
Taliban fighters managed to storm the city despite fierce resistance from Afghan government forces. The governor, Abdul Quayom Rahimi, and other senior officials were captured by the Taliban. The officials were forced to surrender after being besieged in the governor’s compound for several hours.
Another clip from Logar from TB takeover. #Afghanistan pic.twitter.com/bAHEgvghUu
— FJ (@Natsecjeff) August 13, 2021
VIDEO via pro-TB outlet showing TB militants outside police HQ in Logar capital. #Afghanistan pic.twitter.com/nnA1J8QqZ1
— FJ (@Natsecjeff) August 13, 2021
The fall of Pol-e Alam, which is located some 80 km to the south of Kabul, was a major blow to Afghan government forces.
Meanwhile in Afghanistan’s southern region, the Taliban advanced further imposing control of Qalat-e Gilzay, the capital of Zabul province. Local sources said that the city fell into the hands of the group without a fight.
Multiple local sources + pro-TB sources reporting that Qalat city has fallen to the Taliban without a fight. #Zabul
VIDEO here from Qalat after TB militants entered the city earlier today:
— FJ (@Natsecjeff) August 13, 2021
Pol-e Alam and Qalat-e Gilzay were the sixth and seventh provincial capitals to be captured by the Taliban on August 13. One of the provincial capitals captured earlier on in the day was Kandahar, the second largest city in Afghanistan.
The Taliban’s rapid advance is worrying Kabul’s allies in the West. The UK government announced that it will send 600 troops to Afghanistan to evacuate British nationals. Earlier, the US decided to deploy 3,000 troops in the country to facilitate the drawdown of personnel at its embassy in Kabul.
With Afghan government forces on retreat in several parts of the country, the Taliban is posed to make even more gains in the upcoming few hours.
Here is an article which outlines the high cost of the war in Afghanistan:
https://viableopposition.blogspot.com/2021/08/the-high-cost-of-war-in-afghanistan.html
The upper floor, corner office dwellers in America’s defense industry would say that the 20 year war was a resounding success, particularly when it came to their personal finances.
The US military industrial complex is corrupt to the rotten core. In both Afghanistan and Iraq the US military, CIA and contractors have siphoned off billions and padded their pockets. How can one justify the cost of $144 a gallon gasoline brought in from Pakistan. 50% of all US supply containers simply disappeared to be sold in FATA markets. Even US supply sergeants became millionaires stealing tax payers money and smuggling heroin. A military as corrupt and incompetent as the US is destined to lose. The ANA was corrupt to begin with but US industrial sized corruption made them even worse.
What qbout the cost of the “Israel” project? I’m sure it made a few people billionaires too.
The Zionists bankrupted the US as well.
Taliban have also captured the northern Mohammad Agha district of Logar province. They are now 25 km from the centre of Kabul
That is correct, Kabul valley is now within artillery and rocket range. The mobile 122mm grads which the Taliban have captured from the ANA in large numbers can make a huge mess. Pol e Alam is a very beautiful lush city with great views of snow capped Hindu Kush. It is open run to Kabul and no natural defences.
This means Kabul can fall within 3 days.
The only question is whether the Taliban want to engage with 3000+ Marines en route to the embassy right now … they seem to be on a collision course.
As I pointed out earlier, Logar is very crucial strategically as its terrain from the lower Hindu Kush pans out into the Kabul valley. The Taliban can now rocket Kabul airport at will from higher ground. The US and its vassals may soon have a costly fight on their hand if they don’t flee faster.
G2 Airport should be renamed TO TALIBAN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
Attacking Kabul with rockets would mean massacring Afghan civilians. But that’s what these Wahabi terrorists are standing for.
So when Americans bomb civilian areas it’s fine?
What are these Westerners ‘standing for’ when they wipe out entire villages in the name of fighting ‘terrorists’?
Imbecile.
In all fairness, the US, Australians and the NATO vassals have killed Afghan civilians indiscriminately as even acknowledged by their own governments under war crimes investigations. That is one of the main reasons of Taliban success. The US night raids and torture of civilians alienated Afghans who are a tribal conservative society that wants to be left alone. Western inhuman savagery and cowardly actions gave rise to the Taliban. What was the purpose of invading Afghanistan when it clearly posed no threat to the US or any NATO vassal?
Opium poppies and rare earth metals.
Ashraf Ghani, do the right thing. This is the time to accept reality without further loss of life. Invite the Taliban in and gracefully resign. Why fight for weeks, die in numbers and lose anyway?
Taliban are the bastard child of Saudi Arabian madrases in Pakistan. US spent twenty years fighting Taliban and never thought to pressure Saudi’s into shutting the recruitment schools network down?!
Oh not just the taliban, many terror groups are Saudi controlled. Especially AQ
You’re confused.
The Taliban are the consequences of American evil and Russian stupidity.
These are the orphaned children of the shitshow Russia and and America created in the 1970s and 80s.
They are the result of stupid western colonialism.
They are over extending themselves and don’t realize it. They as much chance to run Afghanistan as they did in the 90s. The government and warlords will turn into gorilla warfare once they leave Kabul. Then we’ll see.
The Taliban are made up of thousands of fighters who are all Afghans. They are fed, sheltered, and transported by the Afghan people, not aliens. The Taliban have been fighting NATO regimes using guerrilla war tactics, a methodology impossible to sustain for so many years without popular support. This is an aspect deliberately missing from media reports of Western regimes.
They are over-extending nothing.
They are gathering up new recruits and local tribes are signing up to the Taliban government as it roles to Kabul.
It is the Americans and their NATO poodles that overextended themselves, which is why they’re now desperately trying to rescue their staff from their embassies …
PS.: It’s Guerrilla, not Gorrilla
https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b27301ae4a1e49a68668658461b0
If I was a CIAtroll in Kabul I would start packing…
They are destroying computers and sensitive documents before they get captured like in Iran, 1979. The US is so incompetent that it will have many Afghan traitors compromised and killed.
Looks like Saigon 2.0 coming up soon.
BREAKING NEWS: US embassy in Kabul tells staff to destroy sensitive documents USA AMBASSADOR AND EMBASSY IN AFGHANISTAN HAVE BEEN MOVED TO WOMEN WASHROOM IN KABUL AIRPORT INSTRUCTED TO WEAR BURKA AND PACKED AND READY FOR A FAST EXIT VIA THE ROOFTOP; ALSO BEN AFLECK HAS BEEN CONSIDERED FOR UPCOMING SAIGON 2 !
Yeah, Ben Assfuck, the CIA stooge idiot is coming to save the day for Uncle Shlomo along with his childhood buddy, Matt Damon, dressed up as Jason Bourne. Who knows, maybe their fellow Massachusetts asshole colleague and Mossad informer, Mark Wahlberg, will tag along and show everyone how great Hollywood is only in winning celluloid wars for the decrepit and soon to be forgotten US.
Looks like we lost Jens, the bumbling “Danish” village idiot, bastard son of that other Danish lackey swine, Jens “the Dolt” Stoltenberg.
23 down 11 to go in one shows Taliban has vast grass root support They are 20 Kms from Kabul city center