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- At least 4 civilians were killed and 25 more wounded as a result of an IED explosion in the city of Herat;
- At least 1,500 Taliban fighters are fighting against government forces in Jawzjan province, the deputy head of security forces coordination center in the province, Mohammad Zahir said;
- The Taliban released a statement calling on people and politicians to avoid participation in the upcoming Afghan presidential election. The group added that it will contribute efforts to prevent them;
- The Taliban says that its forces destroyed a vehicle in the Zinda Jan district, Herat province. A soldier was killed and 3 others were reportedly injured.
The 2014 elections were so riddled with fraud that it almost caused a civil war in Afghanistan. Must be the US ‘assistance’. Everything the US touches turns to shit – why would a new president for the Afghan government mafia NOW even matter? They’re history.
The Taliban are working out the terms of the government’s capitulation and the US loss. It’s their country and their opium – they won. WE (the US) don’t get to weasel in terms favorable to either the CIA/USAID, CENTCOM or Cheney and Bush’s contractor cronies. Trump won’t get us out of Afghanistan. Our only hope now is if the Taliban make us leave. I don’t trust them though. A few million in bribes to the right hands and the US will still have a few expensive, useless, permanent bases there forever.
Even without US interference, Afghanistan’s in a part of the world where vote rigging and other forms of corruption are common.