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Claims (32)
Taliban overthrew
Afghanistan host_asserted
“fundamentalist force arose. The Taliban conquered Kabul and most of the country. Massoud, now allied with the former general Dost, fought on. Before long, they got help from basically all of the parties because they were all stealing each o…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 42 (44) @ 4:34
Taliban overthrew
Afghanistan host_asserted
“That's all I have to say on it right now. So there you go. So I will add that when during the interim periods where the Taliban was in charge, so the guy that and we'll get to the coups that we did in Afghanistan, but one of the guys that w…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Turkistan @ 56:27
Bill Clinton declined_to_recognize
Taliban book_quoted
“was urged to recognize the Taliban by the U.S. oil company Unical, which was eager to build a gas pipeline through the country. He declined to do so. Pressure from women's groups appalled by the Taliban's anti-feminist proved decisive. In g…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil, and War Part 2 @ 44:42
CIA funded
Taliban host_asserted
“So you have a CIA individual telling everyone that they're funding literal terrorist organizations. Your thoughts. So I'm I am. He blocked me, by the way. I saw that. I saw that. I told her. Yeah, I was not a fan because for a couple of rea…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 1:26:47
United States overthrew
Taliban host_asserted
“We went back into Afghanistan, took over the opium production, and it skyrocketed, even more than what it had been when we were there before in the 80s. So this purposeful manipulation of who the bad guy is with created intelligence that in…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads & the War on Terror Part 5 @ 58:28
CIA spied_on
Taliban host_asserted
“being focused on the Taliban. Now, again, I know a lot about the Taliban. I was at CENTCOM on 9-11. I'm not a novice to any of this. I know that it was the Taliban that became the enemy of the CIA for getting rid of their opium. I know all …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 1 @ 58:14
CIA funded
Taliban host_asserted
“Their activities were paid for, as noted above, by heroin and coordinated by the CIA. At the height of the Vietnam War, with inflation threatening to wreck the domestic program for a great society, Lyndon Johnson relaxed the import quota sy…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Drugs,Oil, and War Part 3 @ 49:12
Inter-Services Intelligence funded
Taliban host_asserted
“Popular frustration with the corruption and infighting of the warlords and the fundamentalists led to a rise of Mullahs and the quote-unquote fundamental Taliban. Pakistani intelligence shifted their support to the Taliban with your money, …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 49 (51) @ 44:18
Taliban attempted_assassination_of
Abdul Haq book_quoted
“enemy. In 1999, they sent a squad to assassinate him at his home in Peshawar, but the killers managed only to gun down his wife and 11-year-old son. So when Haq crossed back into Afghanistan to fight the Taliban, he was there personally and…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Afghanistan @ 40:57
Taliban overthrew
Afghanistan host_asserted
“We're very aware of their after the Soviet CIA presence in Afghanistan and the Taliban basically taking over after they left and eradicating the poppy. They also stopped child trafficking out of Afghanistan. And then he goes on to mention m…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 12 @ 1:17:51
Taliban carried_out_attack
Afghanistan host_asserted
“The Taliban in Afghanistan had a particular reputation, and we've talked about it here. The Taliban has pros and cons. One of the pros, obviously, was their work to get rid of the opium. They had in the year 2000 put the edict out, no more …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 10 @ 1:31:46
Taliban recruited
Osama bin Laden host_asserted
“who had been sheltered by the UN. The Taliban admitted Osama bin Laden, and he brought along with him the new name for the Mujahideen, which was relabeled Al-Qaeda. But rest assured, everything's fine because we have these new fusion cells …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 49 (51) @ 44:50
Taliban assassinated
Najibullah host_asserted
“Popular frustration with the corruption and infighting of the warlords and the fundamentalists led to a rise of Mullahs and the quote-unquote fundamental Taliban. Pakistani intelligence shifted their support to the Taliban with your money, …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 49 (51) @ 44:18
Inter-Services Intelligence trained
Taliban host_asserted
“And we know the nationalities of all of them. We know that they had ties back to the areas where all of these people that they use over there in the Middle East for that they were trained by the CIA, by the Pakistani ISI. And so.…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - PART 39 - _JIMMY CARTER & PANAMA CANAL_ - EP.372 @ 1:07:32
Mike Pompeo covered_up
Taliban host_asserted
“Secretary of State Pompeo, who had just been the CIA director and knew damn good and well it still existed and it was still active because they fucking trained it. He gets over to Secretary of State and delists it right before they attack a…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 5 @ 59:21
Taliban trafficked
Afghanistan host_asserted
“Why he needed to immediately, as soon as he assumed office at USAID, travel to Afghanistan to prep the battlefield under the guise of any day Afghanistan is going to have a famine. Now, anybody that's looked into Afghanistan understands tha…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 43 - 'Exposed - The USAID Deception' - EP.382 @ 1:10:54
Taliban trafficked
Afghanistan host_asserted
“That's exactly what's happening and was just verified by what was said on Tucker Carlson's show with Iran and North Korea. So this is a tactic that they use to keep going back to disruption so they can destabilize, so they always have a boo…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism& Cold War part 6 @ 38:22
Taliban targeted_for_regime_change
Afghanistan host_asserted
“like in the hundreds as opposed to the tens of thousands. And obviously that thwarted the funding mechanism covertly of the CIA and much of Operation Gladio. So the Taliban had to be dealt with. I'm not going to say all of 9-11 happened as …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 10 @ 1:32:14
United States overthrew
Taliban host_asserted
“As a benefit of 9-11 in that it would give them the, you know, hey, because we already know bin Laden was a CIA asset. So let's stash him in Afghanistan and then we will use the 9-11 to go into Afghanistan to overthrow the Taliban's control…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 10 @ 1:32:39
Taliban member_of
CIA host_asserted
“bad for the cia and like the degree of which this is all bunch of angles and how they skew the angles and the work in the shadows like a lot of americans don't realize that the leader of the taliban we had him down in guantanamo like he wor…”
▶ The Colonels corner president’s secret war chapter 8 @ 2:23:28
CIA targeted_for_regime_change
Taliban host_asserted
“being focused on the Taliban. Now, again, I know a lot about the Taliban. I was at CENTCOM on 9-11. I'm not a novice to any of this. I know that it was the Taliban that became the enemy of the CIA for getting rid of their opium. I know all …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 1 @ 58:14
CIA supplied_arms_to
Taliban host_asserted
“Is the Taliban working with the Chinese? Well, hold up, hold up. So when we left Afghanistan, Biden was president. So we have no idea what was done and not done. A lot of those weapons that were left in Afghanistan has made their way to the…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 1 @ 1:04:11
Taliban member_of
Belt and Road Initiative host_asserted
“to the water in southern Pakistan, once the Taliban took back over the government, the Taliban for Afghanistan began three-way conversations with Pakistan and the Chinese corridor development project to tap into that. So there would be a...…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 1 @ 1:05:42
CIA funded
Taliban host_asserted
“All of these things were going on until the CIA got involved. And the CIA began funding what morphs into the Taliban, basically religious zealots, because they don't want, again, they're trying to create an unstable government to draw the S…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Afghanistan @ 25:44
Operation Gladio trained
Taliban host_asserted
“That doesn't mean they all work. That just means that they are trained on these missions. When they ran that mission in Russia at the theater, the crocus, they not only trained for missions, but to prepare for that specific mission, they to…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - PART 39 - _JIMMY CARTER & PANAMA CANAL_ - EP.372 @ 1:06:10
Muammar Gaddafi recruited
Taliban book_quoted
“from the location. A few months after the protests debated, the UN released a study showing that the use of mercenaries in armed conflict had vastly increased. Examples included Arab countries during the Arab Spring. Muammar Gaddafi, it not…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 9 @ 7:21
CIA trained
Taliban host_asserted
“In southern Pakistan, they've been building pipelines to go into the area of China. And guess what area of China that is? Oh, that's the area where all the Uyghurs are. You know, the Uyghurs that the CIA was training to be terrorists so tha…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 5 @ 58:50
Taliban member_of
Afghanistan host_asserted
“In that area, some of the scholars in Afghanistan and in Pakistan and our own people that are objective, they will tell you that the Taliban has completely. I'm not going to say change their stripes, but they are in meetings currently with …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 10 @ 1:34:02
Taliban overthrew
Afghanistan host_asserted
“until they did 9-11 and used that as an excuse to go back into Afghanistan, which I was kind of surprised wasn't mentioned at all on Tucker when they were talking about the whole 9-11 thing. You have to have that in context. You have to und…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism& Cold War part 6 @ 38:51
Taliban carried_out_attack
MH17 shootdown host_asserted
“And having left those weapons there. Well, they did the same thing with MH17. They kept on saying, oh, it was a Buk missile that was from Russia. And it wasn't. It was a missile that was in Ukraine that the Ukrainians kept. But that's what …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Afghanistan @ 2:08:02
United States supplied_arms_to
Taliban speculative
“And having left those weapons there. Well, they did the same thing with MH17. They kept on saying, oh, it was a Buk missile that was from Russia. And it wasn't. It was a missile that was in Ukraine that the Ukrainians kept. But that's what …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Afghanistan @ 2:08:02
CIA laundered_money_for
Taliban host_asserted
“The CIA is now hurting for money because many of their avenues for getting money has been shut down. And so is the U.S. press telling us that this money is going to the Taliban and when it's really actually going to CIA operatives over ther…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Prelude to Terror Chap 5 @ 49:58
Mentions (112)
▶ 25:44
All of these things were going on until the CIA got involved. And the CIA began funding what morphs into the Taliban, basically religious zealots, because they don't want, again, they're trying to create an unstable government to draw the S…
▶ 37:59
The Taliban had been running the show, all funded by the CIA. And it said that the Taliban movement had been deeply despised by most Afghans and had basically wrecked nothing but havoc on the country of Afghanistan since it was created by t…
▶ 38:33
Hogg, the guy wanted to try to break the power of the Taliban and was hoping that the American cruise missiles would actually do that. But he feared that if a foreign-sponsored bombing campaign pushed the Taliban from power, that it would b…
▶ 39:02
and anybody that would then fill that void. So he felt like it needed to be done from internal to Afghanistan as far as fighting the Taliban. But this seemed like the kind of mission the United States would support. Haqq was one of the brav…
▶ 39:31
even met with Margaret Thatcher at Downing Street, and he met with Ronald Reagan, who singled him out at a White House reception and basically mentioned him by name and said that we are with you. But that was only when he was one of many. H…
▶ 40:00
That when the Taliban is overthrown, if we were to align with the United States, it would be not good for Afghanistan. And here's his quote. What we want from you Americans, we want friendship with you. We cannot salute you. We cannot be yo…
▶ 40:28
So again, you know, we've learned enough to know that those are death words to the CIA. So the author says the CIA had given him only modest support during the rebellion as far as fighting off the Soviets. The U.S. was not inclined to help …
▶ 2:07:35
It will be done with weapon systems whose pictures are front and center from having been left in Afghanistan. Then they will be able to perpetrate a mass casualty event with those exact same kind of weapons that were given to Ukraine and th…
▶ 2:08:34
um in afghanistan through some you know no fault of their own screw up of the withdrawal as opposed to it actually being done through ukraine well i guess my my big question on the whole thing is who actually has control over those weapons …
▶ 2:09:07
And so it's who's got control of them. Does the Taliban or, you know, I hate to use that whole white hat theory. Well, you know, I'm sorry, I do follow it, but I don't because I try to do my own research. But, you know, and I and I don't li…
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Why he needed to immediately, as soon as he assumed office at USAID, travel to Afghanistan to prep the battlefield under the guise of any day Afghanistan is going to have a famine. Now, anybody that's looked into Afghanistan understands tha…
▶ 54:49
It's not a coincidence that in the year 2000, the Taliban had eradicated almost all of the opium. And the next year we have 9-11. And immediately we go back into Afghanistan because bin Laden just so happens to be in Afghanistan. And what h…
▶ 16:57
all funded with covert funds. Mujahideen, Taliban, Al-Qaeda, all created this way. All of those trace back to Pakistan and the entrapment of the Soviets into Afghanistan as a guise for funneling all of this money, our taxpayer dollars, to P…
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That doesn't mean they all work. That just means that they are trained on these missions. When they ran that mission in Russia at the theater, the crocus, they not only trained for missions, but to prepare for that specific mission, they to…
▶ 47:31
going on right now in all of the discussions of the money being funneled to the Taliban. This seems to be a hot topic right now, and I want to make sure that everybody understands a couple of points about that, and then you can make of it w…
▶ 48:32
And then, of course, as soon as we go back into Afghanistan, that's all overturned. They're back in the opium business. It skyrockets. It's tens of billions of dollars. And now we are being told a story that we are sending money to the Tali…
▶ 49:32
All of that information is being sent around with a grain of salt until we can get some additional information because it definitely is not consistent. Now, does that mean that the Taliban has not been compromised, infiltrated and taken ove…
▶ 49:58
The CIA is now hurting for money because many of their avenues for getting money has been shut down. And so is the U.S. press telling us that this money is going to the Taliban and when it's really actually going to CIA operatives over ther…
▶ 47:12
the creation of a ruling Islamic group in Afghanistan, the Taliban, that was far more radical and anti-Western than anything before it. And fourth, the most significant and damaging, the creation of a pan-Islamic nuclear weapon funded with …
▶ 54:10
weapons and militants into these other areas, which is going to circle back to Afghanistan, because one of the places that they focused on was Afghanistan. And that, of course, is to do with the poppy fields there. And the Taliban, everybod…
▶ 56:27
That's all I have to say on it right now. So there you go. So I will add that when during the interim periods where the Taliban was in charge, so the guy that and we'll get to the coups that we did in Afghanistan, but one of the guys that w…
▶ 57:36
And bin Laden was inserted into Afghanistan and they basically took the focus back to opium production by cooing that guy. Because the amount of opium production, as Cousin It just said, it went from a lot to almost nothing. And then it sky…
▶ 58:04
there were interim periods of time where the Taliban was in charge and every single time they decreased the production and we went in and destabilized the country in order to be able to begin the generation of the poppy again. So that is ki…
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After I got my chicken settled. And then the Taliban. Well you guys reposted it. And then the Taliban. Oops we sent however many millions of dollars. Hundreds of millions of dollars to the Taliban. You know and it's like okay. No that was n…
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They allowed industry to pick their targets in World War Two, too. So that's kind of par for the course. Stellar, go ahead. Going off topic, but you know how you guys were reposting and mentioned about, you know, that money that just kind o…
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The CIA in Afghanistan, number two, when the Taliban had virtually eliminated the opium production. And that's not even considering the Latin American and their involvement there in the overthrow of governments and the increase of the produ…
▶ 57:45
And the same thing with many of these podcasts. If you don't listen to them, then you don't understand the narratives that are being pushed, as Bridget said. So one of the things that I noticed right off the bat in that very first interview…
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being focused on the Taliban. Now, again, I know a lot about the Taliban. I was at CENTCOM on 9-11. I'm not a novice to any of this. I know that it was the Taliban that became the enemy of the CIA for getting rid of their opium. I know all …
▶ 58:46
And so when I hear then a steady stream and she wasn't the only one. And I for like two days pointed out everybody that was posting about the Taliban. It was a concerted media op, an information warfare operation to bring the Taliban up int…
▶ 59:14
I'm looking for targeted information warfare. And when I see it, I'm going to call it out. And the two days leading up to that appearance, it started popping up everywhere. And then that video got released and she's on there saying the same…
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Now she has added to that original assertion that, you know, the Taliban's bad. Now it's going to be the Taliban is behind an attack on the homeland inside the United States. And it's going to happen any minute. Pack your bags, get all your…
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And they've laid all the seeds for you to go right back to the Taliban. Same way they laid all the seeds to bin Laden before 9-11. That didn't happen in the last couple of weeks. That happened a couple of years before that. And they laid th…
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And whenever I see them, I'm going to point them out to you guys so that you see them too. And I just posted earlier today, it took less than five minutes to find out that like with every other one of these groups that is advocating the ove…
▶ 1:01:08
to overthrow the Taliban government in Afghanistan. And the funding is coming from here. So do they just want more opium access? I don't know. But there's an operation being ran, and it is being ran from the United States and intelligence a…
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I am here to tell you what they're doing. And if there is a false flag in the United States, and if the next words out of their mouth is it was orchestrated by the Taliban, I'm going to be the first one there with my bullshit flag saying bu…
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Bags are packing. Bags are packed. Bags are packed. Just saying. Bags are packed. Woohoo! Road trip! All right, Miles, go ahead. Yeah, real quick on the Taliban. I still don't really know exactly what happened when we left Afghanistan, but …
▶ 1:04:11
Is the Taliban working with the Chinese? Well, hold up, hold up. So when we left Afghanistan, Biden was president. So we have no idea what was done and not done. A lot of those weapons that were left in Afghanistan has made their way to the…
▶ 1:04:43
And they are stealing arms from the Taliban to sell on the black market. So that's all true. Now, as far as China goes, that's a completely different story. So we covered, Warhamster and Ghost and I covered on one of our shows that China wa…
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to the water in southern Pakistan, once the Taliban took back over the government, the Taliban for Afghanistan began three-way conversations with Pakistan and the Chinese corridor development project to tap into that. So there would be a...…
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continuation of that development project into basically downtown Afghanistan. That is simultaneously when this entire narrative of, oh my God, the Taliban's going to be the worst thing. And all of that shit popped off in the United States. …
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but the CIA blamed the Taliban. And it's exactly what happened in Southeast Asia, where they were blaming mainland China when it was actually Taiwan doing it. See how that works? That, folks, is what we call a pattern. Okay, the Colombian g…
▶ 56:08
Nicaragua and everybody else involved in this and how they pulled it off is just unbelievable. It really is crazy if you go back and you read the articles, because you guys know I've made a big deal recently of the demonization of the Talib…
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But Afghanistan, it was the Taliban. And that was, I don't know how many of you guys watched the movie, I forget the name of it, that Badlands did last night. I did watch it. And it was not a main point. It was an excellent done movie. I lo…
▶ 57:33
Taliban in with al-Qaeda is just wrong. Codex 911. Thank you, McModern. I highly recommend everybody go watch that. The Taliban is not al-Qaeda. The Taliban was not created by the CIA. Al-Qaeda and ISIS were created by the CIA. And it was t…
▶ 58:28
We went back into Afghanistan, took over the opium production, and it skyrocketed, even more than what it had been when we were there before in the 80s. So this purposeful manipulation of who the bad guy is with created intelligence that in…
▶ 58:56
that they have to have a boogeyman. And we are seeing today, with the likes of that Sarah Adams dumbass, that they are demonizing the Taliban. And as portrayed in that movie, when you see the pattern of them demonizing something and coming …
▶ 59:23
They are going to do something and blame that entity. That's what we are watching right now. She is out there constantly bashing the Taliban. So you know that the Taliban is going to be part of an operation with these convenient passports t…
▶ 1:00:27
Because it really comes back to we can do two things at the same time. We can condemn the Taliban and then also condemn the CIA for using the Taliban at the same time. We can condemn Escobar for being a drug trafficker while at the same tim…
▶ 1:17:23
resurgence of the drug trafficking in Afghanistan. And he does, to his credit, talk about the role of the Taliban and how it's viciously maligned in the U.S. press. But regardless of what you feel about all of the other crap that it did, it…
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We're very aware of their after the Soviet CIA presence in Afghanistan and the Taliban basically taking over after they left and eradicating the poppy. They also stopped child trafficking out of Afghanistan. And then he goes on to mention m…
▶ 1:23:11
You were talking about how the corrupt leaders are taken, the groomed by the CIA or whatever, and then if the country goes bunk or whatever, then they put them back in there. There's a perfect example of that. It was Harmad Karzai. He was a…
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At the end, maybe you can clarify this for me. You talk about the oil pipeline regarding China and the Taliban. And then he goes on to talk about, like instantaneously, them impeaching Trump. Like they tried to assassinate him, and then the…
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The Taliban in Afghanistan had a particular reputation, and we've talked about it here. The Taliban has pros and cons. One of the pros, obviously, was their work to get rid of the opium. They had in the year 2000 put the edict out, no more …
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like in the hundreds as opposed to the tens of thousands. And obviously that thwarted the funding mechanism covertly of the CIA and much of Operation Gladio. So the Taliban had to be dealt with. I'm not going to say all of 9-11 happened as …
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As a benefit of 9-11 in that it would give them the, you know, hey, because we already know bin Laden was a CIA asset. So let's stash him in Afghanistan and then we will use the 9-11 to go into Afghanistan to overthrow the Taliban's control…
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And what I noticed again recently in like the last three months is there's a drumbeat to equate the Taliban with the guy the CIA just installed in Syria. They whether it's the Sean Ryan show that Sarah Adams, weirdo CIA, current employer, e…
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um large podcast people are all saying the exact same thing and then i look in mainstream media and there's this story planted on the front page here there's a story planted on the front page of this um uh and it's all derogatory towards th…
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In that area, some of the scholars in Afghanistan and in Pakistan and our own people that are objective, they will tell you that the Taliban has completely. I'm not going to say change their stripes, but they are in meetings currently with …
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these people that are deriding the Taliban have is they want to connect to a pipeline that China built down through Pakistan. And so you immediately see that this, what I call the international syndicate, is going to be thwarted, like thump…
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was urged to recognize the Taliban by the U.S. oil company Unical, which was eager to build a gas pipeline through the country. He declined to do so. Pressure from women's groups appalled by the Taliban's anti-feminist proved decisive. In g…
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not in determining just how or when the U.S. military engagement occurs in a given area. Now, let me give you a counter to what he just said. The Taliban is a very unique group of people that basically operate and cannot be controlled much …
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There are some people that believe that the Taliban's not wanting drugs. And by the way, when they were in charge for a limited period of time before they were overthrown again, they did diversify. They did not want opium grown in Afghanist…
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When the United States attacked Afghanistan in October 2001, it would be proclaimed as another chapter in the U.S. war on drugs. Both bin Laden and the Taliban had been named abroad as financed from drug traffic. Well, that makes sense beca…
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credit card fraud, and other crimes, unquote, all of which is attributable to the CIA, of which bin Laden was part of. Gradually, the reason for U.S. silence became clear. We were about to use the Northern Alliance, which had just trebled o…
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is becoming extremely important with the vast expansion of the Afghan drug trade. As the sums of money available from the drug trade have increased, bin Laden and the mafia have established yet another complex money laundering operation. Th…
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The primary U.S. target at first was not bin Laden, but the Taliban, who by 2001 had already responded to U.S. and U.N. demands that they halt the opium cultivation, which they did. The ban imposed by the Taliban, Mullah Mohammed Omar, in J…
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The drug proxy allies were the Northern Alliance who responded to the Taliban ban by increasing their output. But they were working with the CIA and the Taliban were not as pliable, if you will, to the CIA. So they wanted to turn them off a…
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The U.S. was not waging a war on drugs, in short, but a war helped buy drugs. It is true that the previous Northern Alliance had controlled less than 5% of the opium traffic compared to the Taliban's 80%, but even before the onset of the U.…
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from the areas of Afghanistan under Taliban control, a rising tide of narcotics, both opium and heroin, was being refined and flowing out of the northern area of Afghanistan by the Northern Alliance. The subsequent article in the London Obs…
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During the ban, the only source of poppy production was territory held by the Northern Alliance. It tripled in production. In the high valleys, an area controlled by troops loyal to the former President Rabbani, the number of acres planted …
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in markets institution and businessmen, as well as politicians' back pocket. Writing in 1997 of his experience in exposing BCCI, Senator John Kerry concluded that today globalized crime can rob the U.S. not only of our money, but also of ou…
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that that may have been the reason. And the reason why I say that, because we look for patterns. What happened just before you guys saw the chart, because I went looking for that chart. I knew that chart existed. I've seen it before while I…
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of the majority of the opium production in Afghanistan and shut it all down. It went almost to zero. And they were almost at a similar place as where China was. I mean, I think they were at 70%. I mean, it was a large chunk of opium. I had …
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Obviously satisfying to find them in books like this. The routes shifted with the politics of the time, but the CIA denominator remained constant regardless of where we are in the geographical locations. The backbone of this entire operatio…
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Taliban had successfully eliminated the year's opium production in Afghanistan, which in recent years, oh, they supplied 90%, according to the author, of Europe's heroin. Not world heroin, but the heroin going into Europe, which kind of mak…
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However, it appears that what would have been the world's largest curtailment of opium production in half a century has now been reversed, thanks to the CIA. Following the defeat of the Taliban, the farmers began replanting wheat fields wit…
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And keep in mind, this is just a month after 9-11 where we're going in. The UN Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention released the Afghanistan annual opium poppy survey for 2001 and reported that the 2000 ban on opium imposed by the T…
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would, under the control of the CIA, dramatically increase. The Helmand province, under the Taliban, the highest cultivating area in 2000, recorded zero poppy cultivation in 2001. It was not allowed.…
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Taliban was ousted from province after province in 2001, which was the entire purpose of this arrangement. Starving farmers everywhere started to replant the one lucrative cash crop that they knew they could grow, which just so happened to …
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reported, quote, Western and Pakistani officials fear that within a year or two, Afghanistan would again reach its peak production of over 2,800 tons of opium, more than half the world's output. It reported further in December, with the Tal…
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The U.S. and the U.N. have ignored repeated calls by the international anti-drug community to address any of the issues in Afghanistan because, of course, they're not. I mean, there are some people that allege the entire 9-11 was to reset u…
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Because you can't do the opium without a war to generate the weapons to protect the opium. It's like a vicious circle here. Okay. More ominous was an active disinformation campaign by officials in the U.S. government around the Taliban. The…
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Not only did they ignore it, CIA Director George Tenet, in a report to Congress in February 2001 and in a speech that threatened retaliatory strikes against the Taliban, said this, quote, production in Afghanistan has been exploding as it w…
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And it accounts for 72% of the illicit opium production in 2000, knowing full well that it had just been eliminated. The drug threat is increasingly intertwined with all of these other threats. For example, the Taliban regime in Afghanistan…
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And at any point, anyway, the major foot stomper there is if they will lie and it's been documented they have lied repeatedly, you can't trust anything they say, even when they're not lying, because you don't know when they are and when the…
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which basically everyone knew was not worth the paper it was written on because no one was going to enforce it because the only people that could was the Taliban and they had basically tried to destroy them. So drugs continued to flow into …
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Just like all of us assumed that the Taliban was just as bad as Al Qaeda, Mujahideen and everything else until because it's a labeled terrorist group. Right. Until you actually dig down and find out that the Taliban is nothing like all of t…
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Let's see. Don't bend a knee. Good afternoon, Colonel. Thank you so much for having me up and for all your work. I just read something the other day that said the U.S. State Department or the deep state is mad at the Taliban because the Tal…
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because it was in fact not, although there was a branch there. So they do that as a deflection. The money behind that bank also is very interesting, primarily from Saudi Arabia and the UAE. And the UAE keeps coming up because what just happ…
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Ghani? Yeah, G-H-A-N-I. That guy? Well, he fled as soon as the Taliban kicked the U.S. out. That guy picks up and leaves with $167 million of your taxpayer dollars, by the way, in like four cars and a helicopter full of money. And where doe…
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Another less easily recognized is from the realm of deep politics not usually talked about. The United States and Afghanistan in 2002 had just replaced the anti-drug Taliban regime with a new controversial regime, some of whose members have…
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uh, current or not current CIA members on there that are trying to push a narrative. You can listen to those with your gladio glasses on and get a feel for, okay, what are they planning? Yeah. So that when it does come out, you don't react,…
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And laugh at them really, really hard. Right. Right. You know, and that's pushback. I'm not a pro Taliban person, but they are nothing alike. Absolutely zero. Sunshine, go ahead. So in this with with what's going on over there, would you sa…
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And it was the Taliban they were actually going after, or it was this that they were actually going after, using false intelligence. And so part of this entire psychological operation is to create this fictitious enemy, make them so reprehe…
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were sent to Islamberg and other compounds throughout the United States to be trained as guerrilla warriors. And they were transported by the CIA to Pakistan and eventually to Afghanistan, where they were, guess, surprise, surprise, came to…
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Since the heroin trade becomes, and I'm moving as quickly as possible, becomes threatened once again by the rise of the Taliban, who really are religious and, you know, adamant Islamist, become threatened. They want to eradicate. They said …
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Yes. Yeah, this cannot be. They have to be eradicated. So with the rise of the Taliban, there's a new threat, which we have to safeguard. The CIA has to safeguard the source of their block operations throughout the world, including Latin Am…
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So we got to mop up Afghanistan, kick out all of the Taliban that just eradicated all of the drugs out of there and reinstate the Mujahideen, whoever we're going to pick next. He even says that there was another guy that thought he ought to…
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bad for the cia and like the degree of which this is all bunch of angles and how they skew the angles and the work in the shadows like a lot of americans don't realize that the leader of the taliban we had him down in guantanamo like he wor…
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And I think it's a great thing. And that's the accountability that I do love. And so in that clip, she was actually talking about how the CIA was funding certain individuals, individuals, and also those individuals within organizations. And…
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passed into those of the Taliban until 2001 when the U.S. troops would come back. Supplies of rifles and missiles could not be the only sore point. Afghan task force paramilitary specialist Michael Victors…
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fundamentalist force arose. The Taliban conquered Kabul and most of the country. Massoud, now allied with the former general Dost, fought on. Before long, they got help from basically all of the parties because they were all stealing each o…
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Popular frustration with the corruption and infighting of the warlords and the fundamentalists led to a rise of Mullahs and the quote-unquote fundamental Taliban. Pakistani intelligence shifted their support to the Taliban with your money, …
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the year 2000, when the Taliban basically had put out an edict that no more opium was going to be grown in Afghanistan. They spent a lot of money trying to set up farmers growing things like olive trees, grape vines, all kinds of stuff. And…
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In the year 2000, because of their initiatives. And again, I'm not saying the Taliban's good. I'm just observing history. And then all of a sudden, bin Laden, who we know have ties to the CIA, gets put into Afghanistan. And all of a sudden,…
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The Taliban killing five UN employees in Pakistan in October 2009 was one example. That year, the former head of diplomatic security for the U.S. State Department, Gregory Starr, became the UN top security official. Starr had been a propone…
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That's exactly what's happening and was just verified by what was said on Tucker Carlson's show with Iran and North Korea. So this is a tactic that they use to keep going back to disruption so they can destabilize, so they always have a boo…
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until they did 9-11 and used that as an excuse to go back into Afghanistan, which I was kind of surprised wasn't mentioned at all on Tucker when they were talking about the whole 9-11 thing. You have to have that in context. You have to und…
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So the Taliban had to be taken out. So the exiles. OK, so you have the Hungarian uprising. Exiles responded to the desire to secure the status quo with dismay, meaning they weren't going to intervene. Fearing further East-West normalization…
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a new avenue of commerce. Now, as soon as the Taliban, who is in charge of Afghanistan, began having adult conversations to move their country forward with Pakistan and China in joining that corridor, all of a sudden, and I pointed this out…
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There's this unbelievable propaganda campaign that like every fifth post on my feed is something derogatory about the Taliban, comparing them to Al Qaeda, comparing them to ISIS. We all know the Taliban is not anything to do with Al Qaeda o…
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All of these billions of dollars go flowing just like every other military operation. Billions of dollars go flowing in there. And instead of using them for their Mujahideen, the Taliban and all that other stuff, they take pennies on the do…