Gen Dostum the part of much loved Northen alliance is now travel banned in America due to his war crimes.
he has burried people alive. in Northern alliance there are people who stuffed children of the poppy farmers as punishment who didnt comply. yes that place is a mess.
Lots of tales about legendary warlord Dostum, his ho trains/caravans and bloody exploits. One really interesting one I read was about when the first detachment of US SF (oda 595) along with some CIA guys first landed in Afghanistan to make deals with some NA warlords, they offered him some of the finest Russian Vodka along with sack-fulls of dollars.
definitely no good guys in Afghanistan. I'm sure you must have seen the bitter-lake documentary, makes you wonder if socialist Afghanistan would have turned out better if everyone would have turned a blind eye to the commie regimes alleged brutalities.
I'm totally against left economics and commie/socialism but it has worked out well for Muslim countries, Nasser, Ataturk, Gaddafi, Saddam and even the much demonized Bashar now, they kept the extremists in check and people were happier in a non hyper-religious system. The Kurds are commie/socialists, and they're by far the best of the 'rebels' in that mess today.
another loosely related subject (which we all missed) the son of former Governer of Punjab Tasir who was abducted by Uzbak millitants and taken to Afghanistan.. was rescued NOT by the American/ Afghan forces (as being claimed) but by Afghan Taliban (read Haqqanis) who raided the Uzbaks .. killed every single soul including women , children, old or young around the captive and then helped him to escape and drove him to a place where he could meet up with American base. (He himself has been interviewed ).. he was carefully grateful to Afghan taliban for their help. ..
(hmmm what is ...that?? )
I saw his interview on CNN with Amanpour (who is a first class propagandist bitch herself) and he mentioned how a Taliban helped with by lending him his cellphone to make the call home, his story was that he was kind of scary looking himself at that point so so nobody wanted to lend him the phone when he just so happened to run into a real Taliban who helped him out
they are the sole super power and they do that with almost every other country (exception being their two top Middle east allies Israel and KSA)
strangest bedfellows ever, my theory on that special relationship is that the jooz will eventually, when its convenient, stab the wahhabis in the back.
Afghan issue is beyond the 80 era of Afghan Jihad project. with ISIS in the mix it is beyond what USA, PAK and KSA together made that turned into Al Qaeda/ Taliban. truth to be told, the Taliban project had tacit approval from USA, KSA and a westernised (anti Pak Army) Benazir Bhutto's government. and the idea was to bring order in the chaos (so convinently such American role is missed out even by some top names injournalism which only shows hypocracy & intellectual dishonesty).
(and that is an unfortunate history) as the monster became something which it planners had NOT planned.
how had they planned for post socialist Afghanistan to be ?
too much propaganda on all sides but if this is how it was then it was a hell lot better than what came after
in American defence, why Americans didn't decide to take the target out in Iran? maybe they didn't want to loose yet another drone to Iranian Mullahs and cause an unnecessary diplomatic rift when Obama is on his way out.
but it is being repeatedly suggested that Americans want to deal directly with those who hold the power and have the say in their opposing ranks and that are Haqqanis. therefore
the whole thing is so murky, I'm not even sure they actually did take out any Taliban leader, this is a conspiratorial, but the facts are that the Afghan mujh, ISI and CIA are old pals, Iran would have immediately shot down any false claims and busted the smoke screen by opening it to the world, so they do it in remote Pakistani Baluchistan, home to Jundallah and the baloch separatists, not exactly a talib playground, is it ?
p.s. thanks for finding my bs interesting, Its an honour, I'll have to try and behave better now.