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6 Sep, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Everyone who declared themselves an Afghanistan expert less than a month ago is silent today as the last Afghan resistance stronghold in #Panjshir is under heavy aerial heavy bombardment by the Taliban, aided by Pakistan.
On the ground in #Panjshir, Ahmad Massoud's close aide, Mohammad Fahim Dashty, died in battle as the Northern Alliance Resistance Force fought the Taliban.

With Ghani gone, VP Amrullah Saleh declared himself to be the democratically-elected leader & has been hold up in #PanjshirValley - the last resistance stronghold - now under attack. Saleh is calling on the UN to intervene to stop the burgeoning genocide.
I guess we all know now why Lieutenant General Faiz Hameed, head of Pakistani ISI, flew into Kabul on Sept 4.

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I'm still digesting what is Joe Biden's most important speech, marking a new direction for US foreign policy.

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"This has been a massive military, diplomatic, and humanitarian undertaking, one of the most difficult in our nation's history, and an extraordinary feat of logistics and coordination under some of the most challenging circumstances imaginable" -- @SecBlinken
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