GROWING ISLAMIC FASCISM IN AMERICA… will it be as bad as we witness is happening to Europe?
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One Year Later, Inspectors Still Want to Know What Ex-President Did with Afghanistan’s Money
The office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) has published its final report on the “theft of funds from Afghanistan,” with particular attention to “allegations concerning President Ghani and former senior Afghan officials.”
SIGAR concluded reports of Ghani fleeing Kabul with hundreds of millions of dollars were exaggerated, but a good deal of U.S. taxpayer money is still missing and Ghani was not eager to talk about where it went.
Ghani fled Kabul on August 15, 2021, ostensibly because he feared for his life as Taliban forces surrounded the capital. His critics, including some U.S. officials, said his sudden departure by helicopter made the Taliban takeover much worse because the triumphant insurgents expected Ghani to manage the transition of power after President Joe Biden’s disastrous withdrawal.
Within hours of Ghani’s hasty exit from Kabul, the Russian embassy began spreading rumors that the deposed president looted the Afghan treasury on his way out, packing hundreds of millions of dollars into ground vehicles and his escape helicopter.
“Four cars were packed with money, and they tried to cram another bag of cash into the helicopter. Not all the cash managed to squeeze in, and some of the money was left lying on the airfield,” snorted an embassy employee, as quoted by Russia’s state-run Tass news service. This source also spoke to Western media, claiming eyewitnesses could verify his claims.
File/A man reads a newspaper displaying front page news about Afghanistan, at a stall in Islamabad on August 16, 2021 as the Taliban were in control of Afghanistan after President Ashraf Ghani fled the country and conceded the insurgents had won the 20-year war. (AAMIR QURESHI/AFP via Getty)
Ghani released a statement from his refuge in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) denying the rumors he fled Afghanistan with bags full of cash.
“I was forced to leave Afghanistan with one set of traditional clothes, a vest and the sandals I was wearing,” he insisted, three days after fleeing Kabul.
At roughly the same time, Afghan Ambassador to Tajikistan Mohammad Zahir Aghbar was accusing Ghani of absconding with $169 million.
In its final report last week, SIGAR criticized Ghani for refusing to answer its questions directly, instead releasing statements through his attorney. The attorneys answered only six of the 56 questions SIGAR asked about stolen funds.
SIGAR noted that a great deal of money is missing from Afghanistan, but the wilder tales of Ghani escaping with a greater volume of cash than most helicopters would be capable of lifting are dramatic exaggerations:
The allegations that former President Ghani and his senior advisors fled Afghanistan aboard helicopters with millions in cash are unlikely to be true. The hurried nature of their departure, the emphasis on passengers over cargo, the payload and performance limitations of the helicopters, and the consistent alignment in detailed accounts from witnesses on the ground and in the air all suggest that there was little more than $500,000 in cash on board the helicopters.
That being said, it remains a strong possibility that significant amounts of U.S. currency disappeared from Afghan government property in the chaos of the Taliban takeover—including millions from the presidential palace and the National Directorate of Security vault. Attempts to loot other government funds appear to have been common. Yet with Afghan government records and surveillance videos from those final days likely in Taliban hands, SIGAR is unable to determine how much money was ultimately stolen, and by whom.
U.S. inspectors were deeply skeptical of Ghani’s claims that some of the cash he was apparently hoarding in his presidential palace was earmarked for charitable endeavors:
Multiple former senior officials were told that the $5 million found on the palace grounds was the president’s personal money and was declared in his assets. In response to questions from SIGAR about this large sum of cash, Ghani’s attorney said that “President Ghani had publicly announced his commitment to using his personal cash assets to establish a foundation in his ancestral village including a Presidential Library, an Islamic Studies Center, and an agricultural center.” However, this does not seem plausible even to the president’s own former staff. One former senior official said that “$5 million is a lot of money, and no one keeps that in their house.” Although such a scenario is possible, in our view, Ghani’s response explains why he would keep these assets liquid, but not why he would keep them as cash under the proverbial mattress for nearly 6 years.
SIGAR suspected Ghani did try to leave the country with a sizable bankroll, but based on messages between senior Afghan officials, the fabled bags of cash were left behind during Ghani’s hasty evacuation. The precise amount of money involved, and if it should all have been considered Ghani’s rightful personal property, was difficult to establish.
SIGAR also noted that Ghani and other top officials fled to Uzbekistan by helicopter, then spent about $120,000 chartering a flight to the UAE. The Uzbeks searched all of the fleeing officials and their staffers thoroughly, so it was unlikely they could have smuggled large amounts of cash through Uzbekistan. Eyewitness accounts from Uzbekistan suggested the charter flight consumed a great deal of the cash carried by the fleeing officials.
The Inspector General’s report hastened to add that while Ghani might not have departed Afghanistan with eight figures of cash tucked in his luggage, a huge amount of money was stolen. Ghani appears to have been sitting on a few million dollars’ worth of currency that was probably looted by the Taliban when it occupied his presidential palace in Kabul. A vastly larger sum vanished from the coffers of the Afghan National Directorate of Security (NDS).
Former senior officials of the NDS testified that its budget was about $225 million when the Taliban took over. Some accounts said the NDS had at least $70 million in its operating reserve.
This immense sum of cash was supposedly necessary because the NDS threw a lot of money at “anti-Taliban militias” and “local power brokers and communities.”
File/Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani (3L) gestures as he arrives ahead of a meeting at the Afghan Parliament house in Kabul on August 2, 2021. (WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images)
Cash payments to these local forces “soared as the country’s provinces fell one by one” to the Taliban blitzkrieg in the summer of 2021, “reaching a crescendo in the government’s final two weeks.”
“We used a lot of money to send and buy weapons at the end. The governors told us to push the people to help them protect different areas. NDS was the last organization to support them and work with them. We carried a lot of money to different people, like tribal leaders,” one former senior official explained.
SIGAR determined that on the day before Kabul fell, the huge NDS reserve of U.S. dollars “disappeared.” When the Taliban seized control of the NDS vault on August 15, “only a small reserve of Afghanis [local currency] remained.”
The fate of those missing millions remains murky. Some Afghan officials told SIGAR the money was seized by the Taliban, but those accounts could not be confirmed. The chain of custody for the literal keys to the money vault could not be nailed down. SIGAR noted that the manager who oversaw cash disbursements from the vault was replaced two weeks before the Taliban takeover; a former senior official said such personnel turnovers were a “common method to discretely steal funds amid the chaos,” and testified he himself was pressured to loot his agency’s treasury, with promises of a $20 million payoff if he complied.
“It remains a strong possibility that significant amounts of U.S. currency disappeared from
Afghan government property in the chaos of the Taliban takeover – including millions from the presidential palace and the NDS vault. Attempts to loot other government funds appear to have been common,” SIGAR concluded.
“With Afghan government records and surveillance videos from those final days likely in Taliban hands, SIGAR is unable to determine how much money was ultimately stolen, and by whom,” the inspectors glumly conceded.
China Celebrates Taliban for Giving Afghans ‘Better Security’ One Year Later
China, through its official Foreign Ministry and propaganda arms, celebrated the anniversary of the Taliban jihadist organization seizing power on Monday by repeatedly condemning America for its “failures” in the country and praising the Taliban for its “advanced” governance and improved “security.”
The Chinese Communist Party has emerged in the past year as one of the Taliban’s most loyal foreign allies. Taliban spokesmen immediately expressed in public a desire to see the Communist Party invest in Afghanistan and for them to join Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a global debt trap scheme in which China offers predatory loans to poor countries meant to be used to build infrastructure.
“China, our great neighboring country, can have a constructive and positive role in the reconstruction of Afghanistan and also in the economic development and prosperity of the people of Afghanistan,” Taliban spokesman and current United Nations envoy Suhail Shaheen said in an interview shortly after the fall of Kabul. “It is expected [that] China [will] play its role.”
Chinese officials and state media have, in turn, openly expressed a desire to exploit Afghan natural resources, most prominently its vast mineral wealth, with an anti-American Taliban government in power. China also announced plans to build a 150-factory industrial park in Kabul in May.
China is one of a small number of states that have accepted the Taliban as the official “interim” or “caretaker” government of Afghanistan. Most of the world has not acknowledged the Taliban but does not consider deposed former President Ashraf Ghani the head of government in Kabul, either, maintaining an ambiguous stance.
After 20 years waging war against the U.S. government – which entered the Afghan war theater following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks by al-Qaeda – the Taliban returned to power on August 15, 2021. Ghani fled the country on a helicopter, allowing Taliban terrorists to enter and take over Kabul with minimal resistance. Taliban leaders had abstained from attempting to overthrow Ghani’s government in earnest following the development of an agreement between them and the government of former President Donald Trump, but returned to full jihad after leftist President Joe Biden announced in April 2021 that he would violate the agreement for U.S. troops to leave on May 1 of that year.
A year ago, the Chinese government-run Global Times propaganda outlet described the Taliban’s return to power as “a sunny day in Kabul.” On Monday, the Global Times acknowledged that “challenges remain” for the Taliban but offered an overall positive assessment of the terrorist organization’s stranglehold on power.
“Several interviewees pointed out to the Global Times that the Taliban’s administrative capabilities are comparatively more advanced, but the ‘tribal culture’ still holds great sway in their governing style,” the state newspaper claimed. “They said the security situation in the country has improved since Taliban took power.”
The Global Times praised the Taliban for an “overall significant reduction in armed violence,” citing United Nations statistics from July. It also interviewed an alleged Chinese businessman in the country who praised the Taliban for offering help to merchants and encouraged them to attempt to build their businesses, theoretically profiting both the Taliban and Afghan civilians.
“After the Taliban entered Kabul, we were closed for a week. Like everybody else, we were closely watching the Taliban’s attitude toward citizens, the former government, and foreigners,” the merchant, identified as Yu Minghui, was quoted as saying. “Four days after they occupied the city, a newly appointed Taliban police chief approached us and told us not to worry and asked if we needed help.”
The newspaper also outrageously claimed that the Taliban had improved health care in the country and had taken “a more flexible approach” with treatment of foreign women, though it acknowledged the extreme repression of Afghan women.
To the extent that Taliban rule has stumbled, the Global Times blamed uncontrollable outside forces, such as America and global financial institutions, for their failures.
“On the economic and social level, Afghanistan under the Taliban’s rule presents a more worrying scene: A shortage of foreign exchange reserves, inflation, increasing poverty, and unemployment,” the Chinese outlet noted, blaming U.S. sanctions on the terrorist group and boasting that “China has provided $8 million worth of assistance to families affected by the recent earthquake in Afghanistan.”
The Global Times also published a bizarre political cartoon depicting Uncle Sam fishing for cash in Afghanistan.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry, commenting on the anniversary during its regular briefing on Monday, did not praise the Taliban, spending the vast majority of its time on Afghanistan condemning the United States. Spokesman Wang Wenbin declared that the Taliban’s return to power proved that helping countries transition to democracies with full respect for human rights was a doomed venture.
“The ‘Kabul moment’ marks the failure of the ‘democratic transformation’ imposed by the US,” Wang said, according to the transcript of Monday’s briefing. “A country’s path to democracy can only be explored by that country’s own population independently in light of their national conditions. The path to democracy varies from country to country, and will not work if it is imposed from the outside. Forcing the US-style democracy on a country has invariably led to dysfunction and failure of its implementation.”
“The so-called ‘leader of the West’ left its reputation in tatters when it decided to ditching [sic] its allies in the hurried retreat,” Wang declared, accusing America of “sowing discord and stoking confrontation for the sake of its own geopolitical objectives.”
Wang concluded by demanding that Washington fund the Taliban’s success. He did not acknowledge the Taliban’s decades of investment in jihadist terrorism or the recent revelation that the head of al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, was living unperturbed in the wealthiest neighborhood of Kabul before a U.S. airstrike eliminated him.
China had recently condemned the airstrike against Zawahiri, claiming it to be a violation of the Taliban’s “sovereignty.”
GROWING ISLAMIC FASCISM IN AMERICA… will it be as bad as we witness is happening to Europe?
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Dad of Three Jumps Into Action as 'Allahu Akbar' Rings Out on Plane
A father of three prevented a potential tragedy with his quick action on a flight last week.
According to the U.K.’s Mirror, 35-year-old Phillip O’Brien was on a Jet2 flight from Cyprus to Manchester, England, when a passenger allegedly stripped to her underwear.
The passenger attempted to storm the cockpit twice and screamed, “Allahu Akbar,” a phrase meaning “Allah is the greatest” that has been used by Muslim terrorists during violent attacks.
She had alleged there were explosives on board, and she asked children who were with her whether they were “ready to die.”
O’Brien was able to get the woman in a hold, and crew members eventually helped secure her in a chair, the Mirror reported.
“Everything was normal and then shortly after take-off a woman walked up the aisle naked and banged on the cockpit door shouting ‘Allahu Akbar,'” O’Brien said.
“As you can imagine everyone was s***ing themselves.”
O’Brien said he first questioned why the staff on board the plane had not stopped the woman.
“I spoke to staff and said, ‘Why have you not put her to the floor?'” O’Brien said.
The staff reportedly told O’Brien they were not able to restrain the woman. O’Brien, who has worked in security in the past, said he could.
“So when the woman went to the cockpit again I took control, took her to the ground and at that point the pilot did an emergency landing to Paris,” O’Brien said.
The woman allegedly said her parents were members of the terror group ISIS. Her behavior suggested she may have been suffering from a mental illness.
After restraining her, O’Brien asked her why she was trying to storm the cockpit. He said she told him, “If I didn’t there’s going to be an explosion, and everybody is going to die.”
Jet2 confirmed the flight landed in Paris so a “disruptive passenger could be offloaded,” the Mirror reported.
A woman who was a passenger on the flight spoke to the U.K.’s Daily Mail about her experience.
“I was more worried about my daughter — she was so scared, she had a massive panic attack,” the woman said. “You were just terrified of what she was going to do when you closed your eyes.”
She said the woman’s strange behavior began just 10-15 minutes after the flight took off and lasted for hours.
“It was just crazy,” the passenger told the Mail. “At first it looked like she was drunk — she had the suitcase on her head. The cabin crew said she wasn’t drunk as they had smelt her breath. I don’t know how she got through security.”
Saudi Aramco Reports Record $48.4 Billion Quarterly Profits
Aug. 14 (UPI) — Aramco, the largely state-owned Saudi oil company, reported a 90% surge in second-quarter profits on Sunday.
Aramco reported $48.4 billion net income for the three-month period ending in June, thought to be one of the largest quarterly profits in history.
The quarterly earnings were up nearly double from its $25.5 net income during the same period last year and above analysts’ expectations of $46.2 billion.
It also reported half-year net income of $87.9 billion, widely surpassing other major oil companies including ExxonMobil, Chevron and BP.
The Saudi Arabian government holds a 95% stake in Aramco and will take the majority of an $18.8 billion dividend set to be distributed before the end of October.
The company cited strong market conditions as a driving factor behind the earnings boom as oil prices rose as high as $130 per barrel earlier this year.
“Our record second-quarter results reflect increasing demand for our products — particularly as a low-cost producer with one of the lowest upstream carbon intensities in the industry,” Aramco President and CEO Amin Nasser said.
Gas prices, however, have begun to recede some, with the national average in the United States falling to $3.99 per gallon last week, falling below $4 for the first time since March. It went as high as $5.02 onJune 14.
Nasser added Aramco expects post-pandemic recovery in oil demand to continue for the remainder of the decade despite “downward economic pressures on short-term global forecasts.”
“While global market volatility and economic uncertainty remain, events during the first half of this year support our view that ongoing investment in our industry is essential — both to help ensure markets remain well supplied and to facilitate an orderly energy transition,” he said.
The record profits for Aramco come after U.S. President Joe Biden faced criticism for being photographed fist-bumping Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman during a visit to the Middle East last month.
Lawmakers said Biden’s actions indicated efforts to warm up to the oil-rich government despite Western intelligence indicating Mohammed was directly responsible for the killing of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey in 2018.
GROWING ISLAMIC FASCISM IN AMERICA… will it be as bad as we witness is happening to Europe?
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Ilhan Omar Once Again Shows How Much She Hates America …She was enraged by Christians singing hymns on a plane.
‘Normal Marital Argument’: Muslim Tells Wife He’ll Behead Her If She Doesn’t Wear A Hijab...Welcome to the New Europe. ROBERT SPENCER
For Hollywood, China and various Islamic nations mean hundreds of billions of dollars in profit to corporate enterprises, so human rights concerns are placed in the back seat. RAJAN LAAD
HILLARY AND OBOMB’S DIRTY SAUDIS DICTATORS….
How much as she sucked in?
DANCING WITH DICTATORS.... BOTH THE CLINTONS ARE EXPERT DANCERS!
Hillary’s Russian connection
“Facilitating strategic technology transfer in return for money is an old Clinton game. The Chinese bought their way to access of considerable space technology when Bill Clinton was president. Remember Charlie Trie, Loral, and the rest of the crew?”
AND THEIR BRIBES JUST KEPT ROLLING……..
HILLARY & BILLARY AND RED CHINA!
“Facilitating strategic technology transfer in return for money is an old Clinton game. The Chinese bought their way to access of considerable space technology when Bill Clinton was president. Remember Charlie Trie, Loral, and the rest of the crew?”
A MONEY MAKING TRAITORSHIP!
"Ask Jeff Sessions about the charges. Money was flowing into the Clinton Foundation from all over the world, disguised, rerouted through a Canadian charity, all to obscure its origins."
ENDORSED BY MEXICO, HISPANDERING HILLARIA CLINTON VOWS THAT MEXICO WILL ELECT ALL FUTURE U.S. PRESIDENTS!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/07/la-raza-hillary-clinton-backs-mexican.html
In 1994, Voz Fronteriza received $6,000 from UC student activity funds and many of its writers are members of the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan, which refers to the American Southwest as “occupied Mexico.” California attorney general Xavier Becerra, a former congressman once on Hillary Clinton’s short list as a running mate, boasts of his involvement with the militant group.
SWAMP EMPRESS HILLARY CLINTON
Leaked Julian Assange Message:
Hillary Is A ‘Well Connected, Sadistic, Sociopath’
"But what the Clintons do is criminal because they do it wholly at the expense of the American people. And they feel thoroughly entitled to do it: gain power, use it to enrich themselves and their friends. They are amoral, immoral, and venal. Hillary has no core beliefs beyond power and money. That should be clear to every person on the planet by now." ---- Patricia McCarthy - AMERICANTHINKER.com
Clinton Foundation Put On Watch List Of Suspicious ‘Charities’
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2015/04/charity-navigator-clinton-foundation.html
"But what the Clintons do is criminal because they do it wholly at the expense of the American people. And they feel thoroughly entitled to do it: gain power, use it to enrich themselves and their friends. They are amoral, immoral, and venal. Hillary has no core beliefs beyond power and money. That should be clear to every person on the planet by now." ---- Patricia McCarthy - AMERICANTHINKER.com
Author Salman Rushdie Attacked on Stage in New York
Famed author Salman Rushdie, whose writings prompted the Supreme Leader of Iran to put a bounty on his head in 1989, was attacked ahead of a planned speech in New York on Friday, the Associated Press reports.
A man was witnessed storming the stage at the Chautauqua Institution and “punching or stabbing” Rushdie in the midst of the author being introduced, according to an Associated Press reporter on the scene. Rushdie suffered an “apparent stab wound to the neck,” reports ABC News.
The Sun U.S. reports: “According to images from the scene, there were splatters of blood on the walls in the Chautauqua Institute after the attack on author Salman Rushdie just before his lecture.”
Rushdie was transported to hospital via helicopter. His condition is currently unknown. The man who is believed to have attacked the author has reportedly been detained.
New York State Police has launched a swift investigation into the attack
Rushdie’s book “The Satanic Verses” has been banned in Iran since 1988, as many Muslims consider it to be blasphemous. A year later, Iran’s late leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, or edict, calling for Rushdie’s death.
A bounty of over $3 million has also been offered for anyone who kills Rushdie.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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