"Islamic Emirate" being used, seems they're going with the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.
"We have the right to act on our religious principles."
Hmm..
"The Islamic Emirate is committed to the rights of women within the framework of sharia"
He spoke on women's rights for about 30-45 seconds, said that women will need to act within the framework of Sharia, and then changed topic.
"Islamic values should be taken into account when it comes to the activities of the media, when it comes to developing your programs."
It's all coming out. The "inclusive Taliban" shit was an obvious farce.
1st question is regarding women's rights, from an Al-Jazeera correspondent.
"We are going to allow women to work and study, within frameworks of course. The women are going to be very active in the society, but within the frameworks of Islam."
2nd question is from an ABC correspondent regarding an American detained in Afghanistan currently.
Reiterating that everyone who fought, regardless of if they fought for the Americans, will be pardoned, as the Taliban has mentioned earlier.
Taliban says the U.S. contractor detained in #Afghanistan has "gone missing", and they don't have any more information on him.
Zabiullah Mujahid says the situation in #Kabul will soon be back to normal.
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Suspect in video says that "only Joe Biden" can detonate the apparent explosive by shooting out his window. Suspect has made multiple threats to blow up the explosive if he is shot at.
"If you shoot me, 2 and a half blocks are going with me. Then you're talking about a revolution. The revolution is on. It's today."
"I told my wife I'd be home by Sunday. I'm looking for all my other patriots to come out and help me, cause I've got it standing, I've got the foundation built people."
"Op-ed" style posts on this account will not be a thing for long, don't worry. The past week or so of covering the fall of Afghanistan has been causing a boiling anger within me since then, and these rants are my attempt at venting.
I cannot even begin to imagine the anger and the pain that veterans are feeling right now. I know it can't even come close to how shitty I feel at the moment.
The anger will come and go as the situation in Afghanistan continues to develop, but for those who aren't fans of --
the ranting and the anger, the only thing I can say is that it won't be this way for forever. Right now, this is an outlet, and I think we're all just trying to find ways to cope with the various emotions we're all probably feeling right now.
If I could tell the President one thing right now it'd be that nobody is really upset with the fact that the United States left Afghanistan. I think for the most part, a lot of us had been pushing for it for a while now. It's HOW we left that everyone (rightfully) is upset with.
Whether or not the U.S. should have stayed in #Afghanistan is irrelevant. I think most would agree that we should have left, but I think we would ALL agree that we did it in the worst way possible.
There is no other way to describe this, this was a MASSIVE security failure --
on behalf of the United States. The U.S. fucked it up somewhere along the line. I don't know if we failed in regards to intelligence, that we didn't know the Taliban would make such an aggressive and fast push. Maybe we didn't have the intelligence that the Afghan's wouldn't --
put up a fight in any of the cities conquered by the Taliban.
20+ years, $2 trillion plus spent, an unbelievable number of deaths for not just Americans but others around the world that also served in Afghanistan. It's just sickening, I don't think there's any other word.
Multiple Taliban leaders surrounded by heavily armed guards are now within the Presidential Palace. Appears the Taliban has full control of the Presidential Palace now.