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Could an atrocity have been arranged by some of Baradar's men at the request of the CIA?
Three days before the bloody carnage at Kabul airport, CIA director William Burns held a
secret meeting with a top Taliban commander in the Afghan capital. That is only one of several suspicious events this week in the countdown to the dramatic U.S. evacuation.
At least 13 U.S. troops guarding an entrance to Kabul airport were
killed in an apparent suicide bomb attack. Dozens of Afghans waiting in line for evacuation by military cargo planes were also killed. A second blast hit a nearby hotel used by British officials to process immigration documents.
It was not the main ranks of the Taliban who carried out the atrocities. The militant group which swept into power on August 15 after taking over Kabul has ring-fenced the capital with checkpoints.
The explosions occurred in airport districts under the control of the U.S. and British military.A little-known terror group, Islamic State in Khorasan (IS-K), claimed responsibility for the bombings. IS-K was barely reported before until this week
when the U.S. and British intelligence services issued high-profile warnings of imminent terror attacks by this group at Kabul airport. Those warnings came only hours before the actual attacks. President Joe Biden even mentioned this new terror organization earlier this week and pointedly
claimed they were "sworn enemies" of the Taliban.
How is an obscure terror outfit supposed to infiltrate a highly secure area - past "sworn enemy" Taliban checkpoints - and then breach U.S. and British military cordons?
How is it that U.S. and British intelligence had such precise information on imminent threats when these same intelligence agencies were caught completely flat-footed by the historic takeover of Kabul by the Taliban on August 15? When the Taliban swept into the capital it marked the collapse of a regime that the Americans and British had propped for nearly 20 years during their military occupation of Afghanistan. Could their intelligence agencies miss foreseeing such a momentous event
and yet less than two weeks later we are expected to believe these same agencies were able to pinpoint an imminent atrocity requiring complex planning?What is the political fallout from the airport bombings? President Biden and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson are
adamant that the evacuation from Kabul will be completed by the deadline on August 31. Biden said the atrocity underscores the urgency to get out of Afghanistan, although he threw in the token vow that "we will hunt down" the perpetrators.
To be sure, the president is coming under intense political fire for capitulating against the Taliban and terrorists and for betraying Afghan allies. Some Republicans are demanding his resignation due to his overseeing a disaster and national disgrace. It is
estimated that up to 250,000 Afghans who worked with the U.S. military occupation will be left behind and in danger of reprisal attacks.
There seems a negligible chance that the deaths of 13 U.S. troops - the largest single-day killing of Americans in Afghanistan since a Chinook helicopter was shot down in August 2011 with 38 onboard - will provoke an extension of the Pentagon's mission in the country. Even after the bombings this week, the Pentagon
advised Biden to stick to the August 31 deadline. The Taliban have also stated that all U.S. and NATO troops must be out of the country by that date.
Polls were
showing that most Americans agreed with Biden's pullout from Afghanistan - the longest war by the U.S. was seen as futile and unwinnable. The sickening bomb attacks this week will only underscore the public sense of war-weariness. Hawkish calls for returning large-scale forces to Afghanistan have little political resonance.
This brings us back to the secret meeting earlier this week between the CIA's William Burns and Taliban commander Abdul Ghani Baradar.
The Washington Post reported that Biden sent Burns to meet with Baradar in Kabul. It was the most senior contact between the Biden administration and the Taliban since the latter's takeover of Afghanistan on August 15. The details of the discussion were not disclosed and some reports indicated other Taliban figures were not aware of the meeting.
Baradar is one of the founding members of the Taliban. He was captured by Pakistan intelligence and the CIA in 2010. But at the
request of the United States, Baradar was released from prison in 2018.
Thereafter he led the Taliban in negotiations with the U.S. on finding an end to the conflict. Those talks culminated in a deal in February 2020 with the Trump administration agreeing to troop withdrawal this year. Biden has stuck to the pullout plan.
From his career path, there is good reason to believe that Baradar is the CIA's man inside the Taliban. Let's say at least that he has the agency's ear.
Why else would CIA chief Burns meet Baradar at such a crucial time in the U.S. evacuation of Afghanistan? To get Taliban assurances of security measures safeguarding American troops as they exit? That obviously didn't happen.
What else then? Could an atrocity have been arranged by some of Baradar's men at the request of the CIA? The objective being to shift focus from a shambolic, shameful retreat to one of necessity due to terror threats
. It seems uncanny that U.S. and British intelligence services were warning of an event only hours before it happened in a way that was precisely predicted. The other consequence of benefit is that the droves of desperate Afghans queueing near Kabul airport are dispersed out of fear of more bloodshed. The beneficial optic is that U.S. and British military planes will take off on August 31 without the harrowing, pitiful scenes of Afghans running down the runway after them.
Hence, the empire wraps up its bloody criminal war, with a little less shame than otherwise.
Reader Comments
Those guys couldn't run a hand-pump, never mind a country.
Sort of like thinking that Biden is running the U.S...but if people believe that, then they will believe anything, including the above photo and all that it hopes to invoke.
We've gotta have some SOTTfolk who are familiar with such. USAF ground crew? Others?
RC
[Link] this vid is well done.
Cos that's what you've been supping if you believe this bs.
Could also be used to get Biden out without having to admit he's lost his marbles.
I love the videos that purport to show 'nano-bots' sticking out of his sleeve during press conferences...these days anything is possible.
I wonder what the next ISIS variant will be? Anyone know what Delta is in Arabic?
That idiot Zelinsky in the Ukraine still thinks old Joe remembers any support agreed upon in the past. Lunch bag letdown will hit him hard. Taiwan still thinks the U.S. can help them should Mainland China decide it's time to end the games and clean house. That will be messy for everyone.
Then there are all the other nations teetering on the verge of dumping U.S. dollars for yuan and roubles.
It is a beautiful country though just have to take time to see it
Speaking of, please watch what Heart Is All linked above. While I look forward to SOTTites in general's responses, in particular I'm curioius as to your thoughts. To me, the fact the poor SOB got closed off of YT speaks volumes.*
RC
*Sure, he says it and I've not researched it and yada yada yada, but y'all know that to the point that this sentence could be read as an insult to intelligence. Please do not take it so folks.
rc
Pause around 23 seconds, you'll see what I'm getting at.
1. Set up a checkpoint near the target, but not too close.
2 . Find an unsuspicious looking candidate - he will come to you.
3 . While "checking" him and his vehicle, place a remote-activated bomb in the trunk, and a tracker on the outside.
4 . Tell him he must report to the scheduled target (usually a police station).
5 . Using the placed tracker, detonate the bomb when he has arrived at the target.
And voila, there you go ...
I have heard a report that the US military/CIA did exactly that in Iraq. Perhaps you remember the many "terror attacks" that served as an excuse to stay there ...
For a little humor, I just found a BBC 'story' about the event. I see the top includes a 'day of confusion' - MY ASS! What I just described is what happened! [Link]
**My search only found this interesting tidbit stored at SOTT: Hasbara Handbook. [Link]
rc
But the result was the same - kill allied cops to instigate fear and terror, and for domestic (US) political gain.
RC
I had not discovered SOTT at that time. But since SOTT features quite a lot of "foreign" articles of a similar kind, it is very likely we speak about the same thing. Only I had read the original.
RC
I remember that article describing an Iraqi man and his son, and both got suspicious what the soldiers doing so long in their car's trunk. The stopped after a mile, and found a strange and suspicious device the couldn't identify. And put it a few yards from the road in the sand.
Thus they survived to tell ... There are quite a few things suddenly unlocatable on the internet. Should we wonder ???
Frankly, I have high hopes that some SOTTite/SOTTitor will come to provide a link or a copy.
RC
For the time being anyway.
Add to the search this < site:sott.net > Skip the brackets of course.
Do you remember that S. Bomber article? The Frozen Flying Fish Pentagon one? They were both exemplary.
RC
Nice try ol boy, but I don't think you'll find many commenter on SOTT falling for such a basic manipulation* technique!
Now, had you tried something along the lines of, I've tried and it either didn't work or I can't find it etc. then I'd have been more likely to do your own bloody work for ya
*manipulative? Who me? Never (well not for anything nefarious anyway! )
I question this article because it does not question the events themselves. In other words all of these Afghan events focus attention away from treasonous election fraud, political corruption, child trafficking and pedophilia. All of the hurricanes do the same.