Underground escape routes funded by CIA

(TL;DR Biden just handed Taliban a back door into Pakistan)

At the height of the Afghan Mojahedin's war against the Soviet invaders, the CIA provided money for a very ambitious project.

A series of defence tunnels was built in 1986 near the town of Khost in the mountains of Paktiya province, a few miles from the border with Pakistan. The aim was to store weapons and create an underground field hospital as well as to provide shelter against Russian air attack.

Bin Laden, the son of a wealthy Saudi building tycoon, had been one of the first foreign Muslims to rush to Afghanistan - within a few months of the Soviet invasion in December 1979. He brought his engineers and equipment to help with the job.

Although evidence is slim that he ever took part in combat, he was known as a well-connected donor in Peshawar, the hot and dusty Pakistani city which was to become the capital of the Afghan resistance in exile.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/sep/18/september11.afghanistan

How we failed to get Bin Laden-By John Kerry

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CPRT-111SPRT53709/html/CPRT-111SPRT53709.htm

As Biden claims the Taliban isn't a terrorist threat to the United States, a spokesman for the DoD has admitted it's aware of reports the Taliban is now "beating" American citizens. The Pentagon responded by letting the Taliban know that behavior is "absolutely unacceptable."

https://twitter.com/PearsonSharp/status/1428849917586403329

Taliban conducting ‘targeted door-to-door visits’

The Taliban is going house-to-house searching for opponents and their families, according to a United Nations threat assessment report, deepening fears that Afghanistan‘s new rulers are planning revenge.

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After routing government forces and taking over Kabul on Sunday to end 20 years of war, the group had repeatedly promised a complete amnesty as part of a well-crafted PR blitz.

The Taliban has been conducting “targeted door-to-door visits” of people who worked with US and NATO forces, according to the confidential document by the UN’s threat assessment consultants seen by the AFP news agency.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/8/20/taliban-un-report-afghanistan-door-to-door-revenge?taid=61203073eb335300017395e7&utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter