The burnt-out remains of cars, minibuses and armoured vehicles at the CIA secret base. Photograph: Emma Graham-Harrison/The Observer
The Guardian: Inside the CIA’s secret Kabul base, burned out and abandoned in haste
A Taliban commander invited the media to inspect the site where America plotted killing raids and tortured prisoners
The cars, minibuses and armoured vehicles that the CIA used to run its shadow war in Afghanistan had been lined up and incinerated beyond identification before the Americans left. Below their ashy grey remains, pools of molten metal had solidified into permanent shiny puddles as the blaze cooled.
The faux Afghan village where they trained paramilitary forces linked to some of the worst human rights abuses of the war had been brought down on itself. Only a high concrete wall still loomed over the crumpled piles of mud and beams, once used to practise for the widely hated night raids on civilian homes.
The vast ammunition dump had been blown up. Many ways to kill and maim human beings, from guns to grenades, mortars to heavy artillery, laid out in three long rows of double-height shipping containers, were reduced to shards of twisted metal. The blast from the huge detonation, which came soon after the bloody bomb at Kabul airport, shook and terrified the capital city.
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WNU Editor: At least they burned all the vehicles.
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"...where they trained paramilitary forces linked to some of the worst human rights abuses of the war..."
Compared to what? What is the world wide baseline or the super power baseline (Russia, China, US)? How does it compare to the Taliban, Pakistan, Middle East etc.
Compare total numbers/incidents.
The usual suspects remember that the US bombed a hospital in Kunduz. The Taliban were there. Jihadis have often used hospitals, mosques and schools for cover. How many times have jihadis blown up hospitals or shopping centers where there were no US troops, but just civilians. More than once and done over decades.
Ozymandias
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3dpghfRBHE
I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
METAPHOR,
R,
Apparently there's trouble with traffic lights in Kabul.
By the way that's what really happened to Ozymandias, a bad traffic light combined with being behind a school bus
Very green.
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