Massacre In Kabul: At Least 40 Killed In Girl School Bombing

At least 40 people were killed on May 8 when three explosions rocked the Sayed ul Shuhada school to the west of the Afghan capital Kabul.

The first explosion was caused by a booby-trapped car. Later, two rockets landed near the school, which hosts mostly female students.

https://youtu.be/fhRyLGVJ12M

A spokesman for the Interior Ministry, Tariq Arian, said that 25 people were killed. However, Ghulam Dastagir Nazari, a spokesman for the Health Ministry, put the death toll at 46 people. Most of the victims were reportedly students.

The Taliban quickly denied responsibility for the attack. The group’s spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, even condemned the incident on Twitter.

The hideous attack may have been orchestrated by ISIS, whose cells were behind several bombings and rocket attacks on Kabul in the recent months. As for now, the terrorist group is still silent.

The attack exposes the fragile situation in the Afghan capital, which is yet to be secured. The ongoing conflict between the government and the Taliban remains the main destabilizing factor. The US withdrawal from Afghanistan will further complicate the situation.

https://southfront.org/massacre-in-kabul-at-least-40-killed-in-girl-school-bombing-video/

This is what Biden will use to justify extending the war

‘Humbled’ Sadiq Khan re-elected as London mayor, giving Labour a victory as party reels from by-election setbacks

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has been re-elected to lead a city rocked by knife crime and controversial Covid-19 lockdowns, giving the Labour Party a victory to celebrate after being embarrassed in this week's by-election.

Khan was pronounced winner of 55.2% of the mayoral vote on Saturday, besting Conservative Shaun Bailey's 44.8%. While the margin of victory was comfortable, it wasn't the landslide that he appeared to be headed for as recently as a couple of months ago, when polls showed him leading by a 25-point margin. His margin was so large at that point, in fact, that it wouldn't have required a count of second-preference votes.

"I'm deeply humbled by the trust Londoners have placed in me to continue leading the greatest city on earth," Khan said just after the results were announced. "I promise to strain every sinew to help build a better and brighter future for London after the dark days of the pandemic and to create a greener, fairer and safer city where all Londoners get the opportunities they need to fulfill their potential."

The mayor acknowledged that "the scars of Brexit remain" and "we must use this moment of national recovery to heal those divisions." However, the literal scars of London's rising crime – including stabbings that have left at least 12 teenagers dead so far this year – also have weighed on Khan politically. Bailey made crime concerns a focus of his campaign, vowing to hire 8,000 police and reopen police stations that Khan has closed.

Labour lost at least 138 seats in Thursday’s local by-election voting, 123 of which were won by the Tories. Among the losses were some previously reliable seats in typically pro-Labour districts, such as a Parliament seat for Hartlepool that the party had controlled since 1974.

But Khan’s win was never in serious doubt, and he finished with an edge of more than 228,000 votes over Bailey, when counting both first- and second-preference votes. Green Party candidate Sian Berry came in a distant third in first-preference votes, at 7.8%, well behind Khan’s 40% and Bailey’s 35.3%.

Khan, the first Muslim to head of the largest city in Western Europe, nevertheless called his re-election an “overwhelming mandate.”

https://www.rt.com/uk/523289-sadiq-khan-reelected-mayor-london/

Israel denied involvement in the killing of Iran's general Soleimani, but a new report says it helped the US in the assassination

Israel went to great lengths to distance itself from the drone assassination of Qassem Soleimani last year. However, a new report on the planning and execution of the Iranian General hit claims that Israel was involved.

Soleimani, who commanded the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps’ Quds Force, was wiped out by an American drone near Baghdad Airport last January. His killing brought the US and Iran closer to open war than at any time in recent years, and according to a Yahoo News article published on Saturday, was in the planning stages since the earliest days of the Trump administration.

Based on “interviews with 15 current and former US officials,” the article pieces together the effort to “take Qassem Soleimani off the board,” in the words of one anonymous CIA official. Multiple US military branches and intelligence agencies were involved, but so too were Israeli special forces, the article claims.

In the runup to the strike, US Joint Special Operations Command personnel traveled to Tel Aviv, where they “worked with their Israeli counterparts to help track Soleimani’s cellphone patterns.” Soleimani reportedly switched phones several times in the hours before the attack, but the Israelis knew his numbers, and “passed them off to the Americans.”

It is unclear which Israeli unit or units had Soleimani’s details. All the article reveals is that they were “counterparts” of US special forces.

Israel has repeatedly denied involvement in the Soleimani strike. “The assassination of Soleimani isn't an Israeli event but an American event. We were not involved and should not be dragged into it,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly told his security cabinet after the attack. “Israel stayed at a distance from the incident,” was reportedly the line from the directors of Mossad and Israel’s Military Intelligence Directorate.

The Israel Defense Forces’ international spokesman, Jonathan Conricus, told France 24 that the Israeli military “had no role” in killing Soleimani, emphasizing that “this was an American-executed operation.”

https://www.rt.com/news/523286-israel-involved-soleimani-strike/

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>THIS SCREAMS OF BIG BROTHER AND MASON BLACK AND WHITE CHECKBOARD

My thoughts exactly