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🇦🇺 Si vis pacem, para bellum Journalist @warstudies LynneKODonnell @proton .me

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@lynnekodonnell
Lynne O'Donnell
2 years
Tweet an apology or go to jail, said #Taliban intelligence. Whatever it takes: They dictated. I tweeted. They didn’t like it. Deleted, edited, re-tweeted. Made video of me saying I wasn't coerced. Re-did that too. #TwoTakesTaliban (I’m out now) #Afghanistan #journalism
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2 years
Here is a photo of #Taliban on a private jet, including @QaharBalkhi who is a citizen of #NZ , travels on a NZ passport & has family living free in NZ. If the @UN won't reimpose travel bans on terrorists, time to activate the Magnitsky Act again all human rights abusers.
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3 years
#Pakistan is supporting #Taliban ’s offensive. Without Pakistani logistical support, Taliban could not undertake its massive nationwide attack. The #ISI is pleased it has ejected all the foreign troops. The goal now is to induce panic in govt and army.”
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3 years
"Has it been easy to take up resistance? Absolutely not. I'm in a difficult situation. I'm not made of steel, I'm a human being. I'm aware that the #Taliban want my head. But this is history. And we are in the centre of the history." @AmrullahSaleh2
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3 years
Happening now in #Kabul . Cries of Freedom.
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Massoud Hossaini
3 years
#Uprising : youth, women and men standing up against #Taliban & #Pakistan in #Kabul , Mazar, #Herat and several other cities. No one wants a slave #terrorist group to rule #Afghanistan and steal it’s properties for the sake of #Islamabad
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1 year
How many of these guys are selling their daughters, or their kidneys, to afford a piece of bread, or drugging their children to stop them crying from hunger? #Afghanistan
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1 year
Sport is politics. #Afghanistan ’s cricket team has been photographed with #Taliban figures, accepted their praise. Have any Afghan cricketers spoken out against anti-woman policies? Joined women’s protests? Called for education, free speech? Right decision @CricketAus
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Cricket Australia
1 year
Cricket Australia is committed to supporting growing the game for women and men around the world, including in Afghanistan, and will continue to engage with the Afghanistan Cricket Board in anticipation of improved conditions for women and girls in the country.
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First they came for the #journalists . No one knows what happened after that.
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2 years
For all those Western journalists & photojournalists who tell us that #Afghanistan is safe & the #Taliban regime is “the new normal”. It’s not, you idiots. #empathy
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3 years
Kabul. #Afghanistan Bit of a mess but the weather’s good.
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3 years
Happy Valentine's Day!
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Whores of Yore
4 years
This is Judith Beheading Holofernes by Caravaggio, c.1598. It’s one of the most dramatic & famous paintings of the Renaissance. Beyond the mighty Caravaggio, the tragic stories of three Italian women are combined within it. A thread (CW. Sexual violence, murder & torture)
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"When #Pakistan was created it had 300-400 madrassas, today it has over 50K. These madrassas need only provide one man per year to the #Taliban to sustain the insurgency. This is the manpower the insurgency receives from Pakistan." #Afghanistan
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2 years
"There can be no mistake: Scholz has bolstered the trans-Atlantic pillar of #German policy and positioned Berlin to be a stronger leader of Europe and a bulwark against #Russian bullying for decades to come." @ForeignPolicy
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3 years
Then, you know, like, just go. Then you can finally claim peace as your legacy @ashrafghani
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Pajhwok Afghan News
3 years
Taliban will talk peace if Ghani goes: Khan
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3 years
Taliban in uniform?
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Ihtesham Afghan
3 years
Mr Naya Taliban @Zabehulah_M33 Sahib these are Your So Called Changed Talibans. Snatching National Flags from Afghan Citizens and Beating them infront of Public. Now where is Your Stance? @amnesty #Afganisthan
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"In many places #Afghanistan ’s war looks like an ethnic conflict, with #Hazaras , #Uzbeks & #Tajiks taking up arms against what they see as a #Pashtun nationalist movement using the banner of the #Taliban and the cloak of religion to seize land & assets."
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1 year
@alexberesfordTV Are you suggesting actually reading it, seeing for oneself what Harry actually says, putting it into actual context, before joining the rush to judge, hate & self-justify while propping up the corrupt British establishment & the corporate media that benefits from it? Oh, c'mon...
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2 years
Architect of #Taliban ’s victory does revisionism in series of polite TV interviews as #Afghanistan disappears into horror & catastrophe.
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2 years
. @BBC outsources journalism. Calls it a "conversation" when fmr head of British Army interviews fmr pres of #Afghanistan . Two failed men in search of a legacy engaged in mutual self-delusion. Then Khalilzad chimes in with his version of history. Shameful.
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2 years
@RnFnHomer @Hromadske @lapatina_ BBC journalists travel in groups, with crews, kit, security advisers. Male & female. Doing their jobs. All journalists are targeted, everywhere. For doing their jobs.
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Lynne O'Donnell
2 years
#TwoTakesTaliban Can't get their fake tweets right, can't get confessional video right, now can't get their story right. Duelling #Taliban spox competing to be mean to me. C'mon chaps, I told you this would make you look silly, but now it's getting ridiculous #Afghanistan
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Lynne O'Donnell
3 years
One day this will be comedy gold. But now, it’s tragic. Who needs education? #CouldntMakeItUp #Taliban #Afghanistan
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Roh Yakobi
3 years
Taliban official is asked to find Afghanistan on the map. He's no idea.
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1 year
The #Taliban ban women from higher education. Next, they will ban all women from working in civil service. Watch this space #Afghanistan
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2 years
What do @WFP & the #Taliban have in common? Their spokespersons in #Afghanistan have both blocked me on WhatsApp. Which one functions thanks to my tax dollars? Both! #noshame
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Lynne O'Donnell
3 years
"When #Taliban stormed into a remote #Afghan district, they terrorized residents & looted local businesses, & then they did something even more troubling: They demanded the names & ages of girls & women to be married off to their young fighters."
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Lynne O'Donnell
2 months
Independent #Pakistan journalist Asad Ali Toor @AsadAToor has been arrested. #JournalismIsNotACrime
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Lynne O'Donnell
2 years
l apologize for 3 or 4 reports written by me accusing the present authorities of forcefully marrying teenage girls and using teenage girls as sexual slaves by Taliban commanders. This was a premeditated attempt at character assassination and an affront to Afghan culture.
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3 years
International assistance isn’t the political lever many Western donors think it is -- the #Taliban just don't care about the people of #Afghanistan .
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Lynne O'Donnell
2 years
"For the NRF to translate its achievements into more meaningful victories—from unconventional war to conventional war that will liberate whole provinces—it will need the backing of the int'l community." @alinazary #Afghanistan
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2 years
" #Afghanistan is now the most dangerous country in the world, controlled by #Taliban terrorists sheltering anti-Western jihadi groups while torturing, raping, starving & killing their Afghan opponents."
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2 years
As sex slavery & forced marriage practices of #Taliban & #Haqqani in #Afghanistan finally surface, a reminder of the report they denied & threatened to kill me for writing: @ForeignPolicy with @Massoud151 . Time to activate #magnitsky
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Foreign Policy
3 years
As the Taliban expand control, women are fleeing to escape what some described as their worst nightmare: being kidnapped and forced into sex slavery, @lynnekodonnell reports.
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Lynne O'Donnell
2 years
A year ago, July 23, 2022, @Massoud151 and I went to Bamiyan to investigate reports of forced marriage--sex slavery, effectively--of women and girls to #Taliban fighters. They've been a bit annoyed about it ever since. #ProtestingTooMuch ? Here's the truth:
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Lynne O'Donnell
1 year
Siege of Chinese guesthouse in downtown #Kabul ongoing. No security, no rule of law, no consequences. This is the #Taliban ’s #Afghanistan
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Lynne O'Donnell
2 years
Full Statement of @HodaKhamosh , the representative of #Afghanistan 's women's rights protesters, delivered in Oslo during Norway's #Taliban #invitational
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Lynne O'Donnell
2 years
#Tajikistan appears to be deporting #Afghans , some of whom have been residents for years. Is there a reason for this? Does @UN have any idea (silly question)? @AmrullahSaleh2 @UNAMAnews
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Lynne O'Donnell
4 years
Grabbing women “by the pussy,” on the other hand...
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Lynne O'Donnell
2 years
"Some #Taliban figures ( @QaharBalkhi among them) use false names, hold foreign passports & have family living abroad, making them vulnerable to some of the sanctions in the Magnitsky Act provisions." #Afghanistan #HumanRightsViolators #WatchOut
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Lynne O'Donnell
4 years
@KateEMcCann Losing faith in Govt that failed to recognize initial risks, failed to act beyond its hubris, failed to quarantine arrivals from abroad, failed to provide NHS with adequate PPE, still uses vacuous slogans in place of solid information & still lacks a plan. #NoWonder
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Lynne O'Donnell
4 years
@Amy_Siskind @sbg1 Keep an eye on the generals; they're lining up against him.
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Lynne O'Donnell
3 years
A v good source has sent me this photo, saying it is #Taliban leader Mullah Haibatullah Akhunzada, in Kandahar, southern #Afghanistan , yesterday Oct 30, 2021.
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Lynne O'Donnell
4 years
#Taliban can no longer pretend the aim is #peace , rather than power, as it bombs & kills its way to talks with #Afghan Govt aimed at ending #war . Hypocrites, liars & murderers. And the #US is complicit.
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Reporterly
4 years
Social media video shows aftermath of car bomb blast and #Taliban attack on the NDS building in #Aybak city, #Samangan province
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1 year
Received this video taken Dec 19-20 in #Pakistan 's South Waziristan. Blowback turns to war. Is this what #Taliban 2.0 looks like?
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Lynne O'Donnell
3 months
Sources in Miran Shah say MP Mohsin Dawar @mjdawar has been shot & injured in his NA40 constituency #PakistanElection
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Lynne O'Donnell
2 years
As humanitarian catastrophe took hold in #Afghanistan after #Taliban control, I asked @WFP if I could spend time with them to report how they spend billions of taxpayer dollars purportedly easing hunger. Response: "We don't do that." #Unaccountable #Journalism
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Lynne O'Donnell
2 years
"Child & forced marriages which the #Taliban deny have soared since August, Amnesty says, in a "perfect storm” of conditions: misogynistic policies, girls barred from school, violence, poverty, drought, hunger, unemployment, lack of security." #Afghanistan
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Lynne O'Donnell
2 years
@UNAMAnews @DeborahLyonsUN @moiafghanistan Oh Debs. He is going to miss you. And your headscarf. And the photo ops. And the belly laughs after you leave the room.
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Lynne O'Donnell
1 year
In #Kabul , guesthouse used by Chinese nationals is under attack. #Taliban pledged security to #China ’s ambassador. Here’s how it’s working out. #Afghanistan
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2 years
"Suicide bombers are our heroes" -- the true horror of the #Taliban in #Afghanistan
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🇦🇫Afghanistan Fact Checks🔎
2 years
Spokesman of Siraj Haqqani, Khosty, in occupied Afghanistan: "Suicide bombers are our heroes and those who committed suicide are our pride." #DoNotRecogniseTaliban
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3 years
" #Afghanistan 's soldiers & police are not paid regularly, not supplied with adequate food, water, ammunition or arms. Supply lines are pilfered & weapons, ammunition, and other equipment sold onto the black market, with much of it reaching the insurgency."
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Lynne O'Donnell
2 years
#Taliban invited all their mates to stay as thanks for shoulder-to-shoulder support during 20 years of insurgency in #Afghanistan . This act of the show has only just begun ⁦ @ForeignPolicy #WhereIsSiraj ?
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Lynne O'Donnell
1 year
Maybe the @ElonMusk era of #Twitter isn't so bad after all. Just suspended a Talib I reported for abuse. Hopefully first of many. "We have reviewed your report carefully and suspended the account you reported for violating Twitter's hateful conduct policy."
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Lynne O'Donnell
3 years
"Advisors to #Afghanistan 's resistance suggest Saleh/Massoud follow the #Taliban playbook after their overthrow in 2001: regroup, rearm, seek support, expand. Pakistan's intelligence service sheltered, funded & armed them before igniting their insurgency."
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2 years
The brave women of #Afghanistan are beaten for asking for their rights & the #Taliban trolls attack me. FFS These days every day's a troll day
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Heather Barr
2 years
Afghan women are still protesting.
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David Richards, former UK defence chief, has two daughters. And yet, this: "I think the West is going to end up recognising the #Taliban government. If that's the case, then we better get on with it sooner rather than later."
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2 years
The #Taliban have an "office for suicide bombers". And they want diplomatic recognition to legitimise their control of #Afghanistan . An office for suicide bombers....
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Lynne O'Donnell
2 years
Who is watching? Who cares? @MarkusPotzel @UNAMAnews @US4AfghanPeace But hey ho, keep that cash flowing & release the "Afghan fund" to pay the Taliban's bills & pretend you're making a difference. Spoiler alert: you're just making it worse. #impunity
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Tajuden Soroush
2 years
This morning Taliban beat and barred girls from entering university in Badakhshan province.
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Lynne O'Donnell
1 year
@SaadatMaher
Maher Saadat
1 year
The victim in the video was a former NDS officer who lost both legs in Kunduz in 2014. He was recently kidnapped, brutally tortured, and killed, highlighting the Taliban regime's ongoing human rights violations. #Afghanistan
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Lynne O'Donnell
3 years
#Hazara girls rock
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Lynne O'Donnell
4 years
God almighty. Just when you thought #Trump admin had hit rock bottom...
@MaxBoot
Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸
4 years
Trump’s choice for ambassador to Germany thinks that Germany has gone too far in atoning for Nazi crimes: “There's sort of a sick mentality that says that generations after generations must atone (for) sins of what happened in 13 years of German history.”
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Lynne O'Donnell
2 years
"The fact that Zawahiri was living in a house that reportedly belongs to a top aide to Sirajuddin Haqqani shows the #Taliban have no intention of breaking ties with #alqaeda as they promised in talks with US envoys." #Afghanistan
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Lynne O'Donnell
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Meet the tourists who are choosing to holiday in #Afghanistan --where women are locked in their homes & minorities are persecuted by the terrorist-run #Taliban . But hey isn't the lifestyle so "bucolic"
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Lynne O'Donnell
2 years
These stories were written without any solid proof or basis, and without any effort to verify instances through on-site investigation or face-to-face meetings with alleged victims.
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Lynne O'Donnell
2 years
Do not forget: #Afghanistan does not have a legitimate government, it has no diplomatic representation, it has no place at the United Nations. Afghanistan is controlled by dozens of UNSC-sanctioned terrorists & drug dealers. This "foreign ministry" spokesman uses a false name.
@QaharBalkhi
Abdul Qahar Balkhi
2 years
د ملګرو ملتونو عمومي اسامبلۍ په ۷۷مه ناسته کې د افغانستان په تړاو د ځینو هېوادونو د اندېښنو په اړه د ا. ا. ا. د بهرنیو چارو وزارت اعلامیه
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Lynne O'Donnell
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"The Northern Alliance was gasping for breath by 2001. There is no knowing where all the money went. Northern Alliance warlords are millionaires today with assets & bank accounts abroad. How that happened no one wants to tell."
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Lynne O'Donnell
2 years
ForMins of #Russia & #Pakistan share a laugh at how " #Afghanistan has brought us closer but we no longer need to debate" it. Starvation, economic implosion, repression -- what a laugh, eh?
@mfa_russia
MFA Russia 🇷🇺
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💬 FM Sergey Lavrov during talks with FM of Pakistan Shah Mahmood Qureshi in Tunxi, China: Those who tried to make Afghanistan centre of the world politics, now try to make #Ukraine to replace #Afghanistan . And we all understand what it is about.
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Lynne O'Donnell
3 years
Children are starving to death in #Afghanistan & still @UNAMAnews congratulates itself on a job well done. It's surreal. Defund the @UN .
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UNAMA News
3 years
75 years of Afghan & UN partnership. #Afghanistan joined Organization when Minister A. Hosayn Aziz signed UN Charter, 19 Nov 1946 & Afghan flag was raised in New York. Marking UNDay -24 Oct- we look back at a few moments of UN commitment & work with Afghan people. #UN4AFG_75years
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Lynne O'Donnell
4 years
McMaster on the #Taliban - “War is a contest of wills. And we have to have the will ourselves to prevail,” McMaster said. “These are some of the most horrible people on earth. These are the enemies of all civilized people.” #Afghanistan
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Lynne O'Donnell
2 years
This is #Afghanistan today. Women want their right to be educated, #Taliban lunatics open fire. In what other country does this happen? @US4AfghanPeace
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Ziar Khan Yaad🇦🇫
2 years
The oppressive and terrorist group ruling Afghanistan today prevented a number of #female protesters who demanded #women 's rights and education in #Kabul . #Afghanistan
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Lynne O'Donnell
1 year
This person, a spokesman for the #Taliban , uses a false name & travels on a New Zealand passport. He lies, threatens to have journalists killed & brags about suicide attacks. #Afghanistan #NewZealand @JacindaAdern @US4AfghanPeace #HassanBahiss
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Abdul Qahar Balkhi
1 year
IEA firmly supports the publication of fact-based realities. To this end, it has facilitated an environment conducive to the activities of the media & its employees, including by providing access to information across all regions of the country.
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Lynne O'Donnell
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#Afghanistan is a centre of global terrorism, women are locked up & terrorised, minorities are targeted, fmr soldiers are killed, the economy is imploding, the Taliban are stealing aid & dealing meth. But, yeah, it's "safe" so let's go on a holiday. Way to go, . @Levisonwood
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Levison Wood
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For anyone interested in visiting the Wakhan in Afghanistan, my guide Malang is now running tours and expeditions. It’s completely safe and the country is welcoming tourists. Forget what you may have heard, it’s a beautiful country & welcoming people.
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Lynne O'Donnell
7 months
Name this band. I'll go first -- The Beardos
@HafizZiaAhmad
Hafiz Zia Ahmad
7 months
نن د ا.ا.ا. د بهرنیو چارو وزیر محترم مولوي امیر خان متقي په مشرۍ پلاوی د روسیې فدراسيون په رسمي بلنه مسکو فارمت ناسته کې د ګډون په موخه مسکو ته روان شو. ۱
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"Pakistan desperately needs a reset. The only way forward is for #Pakistan ’s generals to finally relinquish their hold on the country and let a democratic process run its course." @ForeignPolicy @OmarWaraich
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