Afghan official says Taliban abducted 26 peace activists

[Dennis Donovan]

Source: AP

By TAMEEM AKHGAR
10 minutes ago

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban ambushed a peace convoy in western Afghanistan and abducted 26 activists, members of a peace movement, a police spokesman said Wednesday.

The insurgents staged the ambush in the district of Bala Buluk in Farah province on Tuesday. The Taliban forced the six-vehicle convoy to a halt, then got into the cars and drove them and the activists to an unknown location, said the provincial police spokesman Mohibullah Mohib.

According to Mohib, a police operation is underway to locate and free the activists whose convoy was going village-to-village to rally for peace.

However, Bismillah Watandost of the People’s Peace Movement of Afghanistan, to which the activists belong, said that 27 of their members were abducted by the Taliban in the Farah assault. The different figures could not immediately be reconciled.

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This would be the same Taliban that Trump invited to spend the 9/11 anniversary at Camp David...

[Snarkoleptic]

1. I'm still waiting for a coherent explanation of

why we're still in Afghanistan and how we define victory.
*aside from natgas/pipelines

This is why we need to be on renewables.

[gab13by13]

2. We're definitely in Syria because of gas/pipelines,

until we got a president who obeys Putin and then we got out. Russia manages those gas/pipelines that come from Syria and Iraq and are to end up in Europe.

[Lochloosa]

3. Rare Earths. Afghanistan is sitting on a trillion bucks.

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/rare-earth-afghanistan-sits-1-trillion-minerals-n196861

In 2010, the USGS data attracted the attention of the U.S. Department of Defense's Task Force for Business and Stability Operations, which is entrusted with rebuilding Afghanistan. The task force valued Afghanistan's mineral resources at $908 billion, while the Afghan government's estimate is $3 trillion.

[Crowman2009]

5. Of course it's hard to get a mining operation started when...

... you're constantly being attacked by the Taliban.

[Igel]

6. Yes, they are.

It's the reason that we invaded 5 years before we had proof they were there.

(Now, there were some suspicions that they might be there. But the strongest evidence wasn't known to the West--Soviet reports done when the Soviets were there. Not that anybody really said the USSR went in just because of mineral wealth. There were some older reports, but mostly kept in Afghan archives, and not the Afghan archives in the WH. Details matter.)

[Hotler]

4. when ever you hear the phrase "We're over there protecting American interest" read it as,

we're here to steal that country's resources.

[MarcA]

8. +1,000 n/t

[EX500rider]

9. Which countries resources have we stole recently exactly? nt

[okaawhatever]

11. IKR +100 nt

[rockfordfile]

7. you would think after all of the money and all of these years the Taliban would be wiped out

All of that money could have been spent here for healthcare and other things.

[Llero]

10. Trump's war isn't going well