My latest in PJ Media:
They warned us this would happen. As the Taliban moved into Kabul in August, Taliban commander Muhammed Arif Mustafa told CNN: “It’s our belief that one day, mujahedin will have victory, and Islamic law will come not to just Afghanistan, but all over the world. We are not in a hurry. We believe it will come one day. Jihad will not end until the last day.” Then in early September, another Taliban commander declared: “We are happy that we are victorious. We fought for 20 years. We want Islamic law, and not just in Afghanistan.” Old Joe Biden’s handlers boosted these aspirations by allowing the Taliban to take control of billions of dollars worth of American weaponry and military vehicles, and now the Taliban have begun to share this largesse with other jihadis. They’ve now fitted out Tajik jihadis with the best in American equipment.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reported Monday that “the Taliban has provided Tajik militants based along the border with Tajikistan with new military vehicles, weaponry, and other equipment over the past two weeks, security sources in Tajikistan and northeastern Afghanistan say, amid an ongoing military buildup on both sides of the frontier.”
Tajik jihadis “based in Afghanistan’s northern province of Badakhshan have been seen with U.S.-made weaponry and vehicles, including Humvees, with some of them wearing American combat gear, according to an official with Tajikistan’s state border services.”
This is a recent development: “The militants, who were previously seen carrying Kalashnikov rifles and driving old pickup trucks, received the new supplies during the past two weeks, according to the Tajik official, who spoke under condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to speak to the media.”
The recipients of this American bounty are “known in Afghanistan as the Tajik Taliban.” They are members of a jihad group known as Jamaat Ansarullah (Assembly of the Helpers of Allah). This group was “established by Tajik nationals a decade ago with the goal of overthrowing the secular government in Dushanbe.”
The Taliban work closely with these Tajik rebels: “In June, Tajik officials raised concern that one of the banned group’s commanders — Muhammad Sharifov (aka Mahdi Arsalon) had been put in charge of security in five border districts in Badakhshan after they were seized by the Taliban. Last month, Tajik security officials said they were reviewing reports that the militants were planning to infiltrate into Tajikistan, an allegation rejected by the Taliban.”
While all this has been happening, the Taliban have also been cozying up to the People’s Republic of China: The jihadis reportedly “‘removed’ ethnic Uyghur fighters from Badakhshan — which also shares a 76-kilometer border with China. The militants from the Turkestan Islamic Movement were relocated to other provinces, including Nangarhar in Afghanistan’s east, the former Afghan military official said. The Al-Qaeda-linked Turkestan Islamic Movement is designated as a terrorist organization by Beijing and the United Nations. Beijing blames the group for unrest in its northwestern Xinjiang region.”
There is more. Read the rest here.
gravenimage says
Thanks, Joe! Taliban Gives Tajik Jihadis U.S.-Made Weaponry and Vehicles
……………………
Oh, joy… Weaponry should have been removed from Afghanistan or destroyed once it became clear that the “Afghan army” was not going to stand up.
Hari Singh says
The AfghanNational Army was supposed to be the rear guard for the withdrawal. The people of Afghanistan didn’t buy what we were selling.
Even the USSR Afghan puppet government lasted a few years. The triumph of the Taliban was gonna happen. By staying we just prolonged the agony and filled the coffers of war profiteers with tax money while getting dedicated soldiers killed and wounded.
gravenimage says
It was impossible for us to ever civilize a nation that is statistically 100% Muslim.
mortimer says
The only way to civilize Muslims is to take them completely out of Islam. The barbaric jihad doctrine is incumbent upon all Muslims, So also is the retribution doctrine incumbent. FGM is compulsory. The hatred directed by Muslims against kafirs is also compulsory for all Muslims. The honor killing doctrine is not compulsory, but it is permitted; forced child marriage is permitted;
Islam does not ‘get along’ with others, but says Muslims are required to dominate the other.
There is only one way to stop these barbaric practices, and it is to convince greater numbers of Muslims that the Koran is a manmade text. That is when the jihad will stop. Western intelligence agencies should be creating programs and films to help Muslims leave Islam. This is dangerous work and must be done in highly secure thinktanks so that the creators are not all killed by the jihadists.
gravenimage says
Sadly in 20 years of western presence in Afghanistan only an estimated 5,000 converted to Christianity. There may be a few more very quiet Christians and Atheists who don’t speak about leaving Islam out of fear of their former coreligionists. Afghanistan is still statistically 100% Muslim.
Infidel says
The Taliban has taken a page out of Turkey. Just like Turkey used the ‘Free Syrian Army’ to act as their mercenaries in Libya and Azerbaijan, the Taliban is using both the Jamaat Ansarullah and the Turkestan Islamic Movement as theirs. The advantage for Turkey was that none of their own troops died in either of those foreign adventures. In Afghanistan, though, I don’t see why the Taliban needs these foreign fighters: unlike 2000, there is hardly any opposition to them. The Northern Alliance 2.0 has, unlike in 2000, lost the Panjsher valley and is probably in Tajikistan
The Turkestan Islamic Movement – the very name suggests to me that their ambitions are not limited to Xinjiang, but include Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan. Wonder whether Putin will be happy at all those regimes, which are still pro-Kremlin, fall. If they do, they’ll be a threat to Russia, and the last time that happened during the Romanovs, the Russians were forced to invade Turkistan and topple all the muslim Khanates like Buqhara and Khiva, setting off the ‘Great Game’
This time, if Russia is forced back, I’d support them conquering everything upto the Arabian Sea and cancelling every country from Kazakhstan to Pakistan. If any country can defang islam, they can – they did it in Siberia, Tatarstan, Crimea and the Caucasus in the 19th century and earlier
gravenimage says
Unfortunately, Putin has allowed Chechnya to become a Shari’ah state on Russian soil. Not sure I’d count on Russia to actually seriously oppose Islam.
Infidel says
He allowed a sharia enclave within Russia, which nowhere threatens the bulk of the country. But I doubt that he’d let there be a jihadist takeover of the entire country: if that raised its head, he’d probably project himself as the defender of Russian nationalism (like he did in Crimea) and resume doing what Yeltsin did to Chechnya in the 90s
gravenimage says
Maybe–maybe not, Infidel. Putin has also praised Islam for being a bulwark against the freedoms of the west.
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/8/6/as-ties-with-the-west-suffer-russia-embraces-its-own-east.html
Terry Gain says
The principle blame for the withdrawal debacle rests with General Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr. who was in charge of the details. I doubt that Biden told him to leave the weaponry intact. Given his deteriorated mental capacity I doubt that Biden paid any attention to the details. If Biden gave any such order McKenzie should have resigned.
James Lincoln says
Terry Gain,
You are very likely correct.
Just a day or two later, Sleepy Joe seemed more concerned with what flavor ice cream would be served at the White House.
OLD GUY says
It seems like common sense is not a requirement for political or government officials who should be taking care of the equipment us TAX PAYERS pay for. If they want to flush billions of our tax dollars down the toilet send me a million or two and I’ll but it to good use. Small town America is struggling for infrastructure improvements and repairs, but our FEDERAL GOVERNMENT blows our MONEY over seas. We need to limit or stop foreign aide and supporting the elite leaders of foreign countries with luxury lifestyles at our expense. Charity should come from the people not the GOVERNMENT. A lot of this foreign aide looks more like bribes to do business within a foreign country or to buy verbal political messages that support our policies.
Walter Sieruk says
This actually occurred because of Biden and his awful orders about withdrawing from Afghanistan the wrong way
The US military equipment and arms being obtained by the enemy, the Taliban, is because of that other enemy of America, Joe Biden.
Furthermore those thieving Taliban are using US military trucks and other American equipment they has stolen for furthering their brutal cruel harsh Islamic oppression of Sharia law on the people of Afghanistan who trapped and force to exist in the land that they have taken over.
This wasn’t what so many American soldiers had died and many are maimed for life for.
This is worse the sad, terrible tragic. It all comes down to fault of and blame of that death cult of a religion which is Islam.
Walter Sieruk says
The outcome of that horrible man ,Joe Biden in Office seems to have no end or limit
.That fiendish man ,Biden , created the catastrophe of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan and simultaneously inspires more zeal
Walter Sieruk says
Joe Biden left 85 billion dollars of US military equipment in Afghanistan in the hands ofthe Taliban .
Damn him
DazzleMe says
Agreed, he is brain dead
DazzleMe says
I agree
DazzleMe says
Makes me sick, the least American forces could have done was to disable the equipment!
David says
All US equipment and vehicles should have hidden devices built into the infrastructure that lasers and missiles can be homed in on if they fall into the wrong hands. Boom!