luka

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i saw that exact same prediction in over 7000 different places Shaka, sorry, no biscuit for you
 

luka

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post a topless picture. everyone here posts a topless picture. this one is corpsey in Cypress
 

Leo

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interesting to see how Pakistan comes out in all this. as the Times notes, they were nominally a US ally in the war again Al-Qaeda and the Taliban, yet also the Afghan Taliban's main patron and sees the Taliban's victory as its own.

But it was a relationship riven by duplicity and divided interests from its very start after 9/11. Not least, the Afghan Taliban the Americans were fighting are, in large part, a creation of Pakistan’s intelligence service, the I.S.I., which through the course of the war nurtured and protected Taliban assets inside Pakistan.

In the last three months as the Taliban swept across Afghanistan, the Pakistani military waved a surge of new fighters across the border from sanctuaries inside Pakistan, tribal leaders have said. It was a final coup de grace to the American-trained Afghan security forces.

“The Pakistanis and the I.S.I. think they have won in Afghanistan,” said Robert L. Grenier, a former C.I.A. station chief in Pakistan. But, he warned, the Pakistanis should watch what they wish for. “If the Afghan Taliban become leaders of a pariah state, which is likely, Pakistan will find itself tethered to them.”
 

version

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Apparently the suspected culprits are an ISIS affiliate called Islamic State Khorasan (ISIS-K).

I'd heard the Taliban had been executing imprisoned ISIS fighters, but I've also heard they released a bunch. I dunno why they'd execute some but not others when the two groups are opponents. You'd have thought they'd just kill them all.
 

Leo

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i love takes. the more takes the better.

ridiculous. Taliban aren't "allowing" ISIS to attack, they're enemies...which is why ISIS most likely did it, to fuck up/prolong the exit and cause chaos.
 
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