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    Kaitlan Collins

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    “As of now, the Taliban are not permitting the charter flights to depart,” Secretary Blinken says, adding the Taliban are claiming “some do not have the required documentation.” Blinken says they are working on it.
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    Kaitlan Collins

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    “We’ve made clear to all parties, we’ve made clear to the Taliban, that these charters need to be able to depart. And we continue every day, virtually every hour to work on that,” Blinken says.

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    • #47

      In memory of 11 September 2001 - Samuel Barber - Adagio for Strings, op.11.

      ..and to all those who have suffered since - including now.

      Our deepest condolences.

      The Team at FluTrackers



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      • #48


        World Health Organization (WHO)

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        "This will likely lead to serious reductions in services, threatening the gains we've made in maternal & child mortality over the past 20 years, causing disruption to #COVID19 vaccinations & jeopardising the progress to #EndPolio in #Afghanistan"-
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        "Health facilities have already closed and several NGOs have scaled down their operations"-@DrTedros #Afghanistan
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        • #49
          Taliban official: Strict punishment, executions will return

          By KATHY GANNON
          today

          KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — One of the founders of the Taliban and the chief enforcer of its harsh interpretation of Islamic law when they last ruled Afghanistan said the hard-line movement will once again carry out executions and amputations of hands, though perhaps not in public.

          In an interview with The Associated Press, Mullah Nooruddin Turabi dismissed outrage over the Taliban’s executions in the past, which sometimes took place in front of crowds at a stadium, and he warned the world against interfering with Afghanistan’s new rulers.

          “Everyone criticized us for the punishments in the stadium, but we have never said anything about their laws and their punishments,” Turabi told The Associated Press, speaking in Kabul. “No one will tell us what our laws should be. We will follow Islam and we will make our laws on the Quran.”
          ...
          One of the founders of the Taliban says the hard-line movement will once again carry out punishments like executions and amputations of hands, though perhaps not in public.
          "Safety and security don't just happen, they are the result of collective consensus and public investment. We owe our children, the most vulnerable citizens in our society, a life free of violence and fear."
          -Nelson Mandela

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          • #50
            Source: https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/09/1101742


            Afghanistan: Rapid decline in public health conditions, WHO warns
            29 September 2021
            Healthcare provision is deteriorating fast in Afghanistan, the UN health agency warned on Wednesday, with cases of measles and diarrhoea shooting up, and polio becoming a “major risk”.

            According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the COVID-19 response has also declined and almost half of the country’s children are at risk of malnutrition.

            Moreover, the agency pointed out that only 17 per cent of the over 2,300 health facilities previously supported by the World Bank, are fully functional, two-thirds of which have run out of essential medicines...

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            • #51
              US pledges to pay relatives of Afghans killed in August drone strike

              Updated: 5:06 AM CDT Oct 16, 2021
              AP

              The U.S. Defense Department said Friday that it is committed to offering condolence payments to relatives of the 10 people who were killed in an errant U.S. drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan, in August.

              Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said in a statement that the Defense Department was also working with the State Department to help surviving family members relocate to the United States.

              Kirby said the matter arose in a meeting Thursday between Dr. Colin Kahl, under secretary of defense for policy, and Dr. Steven Kwon, founder and president of the nonprofit group Nutrition & Education International.

              “Dr. Kahl reiterated Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s commitment to the families, including offering ex gratia condolence payments,” Kirby said. He did not say how much money would be offered.


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              • #52

                Lone Suicide Bomber with 'Disturbing Lethality' Carried Out Kabul Airport Attack, US Military Says

                4 Feb 2022
                Military.com | By Rebecca Kheel

                The blast outside the Kabul airport that killed 13 American troops in August was caused by a single suicide bomber, despite initial descriptions from U.S. officials that it was a "complex" attack, military officials said Friday as they unveiled the findings of an internal investigation into the attack.
                ...
                "The investigation found that a single explosive device killed at least 170 Afghan civilians and 13 U.S. service members by explosively directing ball bearings through a packed crowd and into our men and women at Abbey Gate," U.S. Central Command chief Gen. Frank McKenzie said in opening remarks at a press briefing about the investigation. "The disturbing lethality of this device was confirmed by the 58 U.S. service members who were killed and wounded despite the universal wear of body armor and helmets that did stop ball bearings that impacted them but could not prevent catastrophic injuries to areas not covered."...
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                • #53

                  Afghan women ordered to wear burqa



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                  • #54
                    The burqas shouldn't be a public health issue as long as infrastructure allows them to be kept clean.

                    War does cause serious global public health issues. Trying to keep traumatic battlefied or IED injuries sterile is impossible.

                    The study was performed to provide an overview of the molecular epidemiology of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in Afghanistan isolated by the German military medical service during the Afghanistan conflict. A total of 18 isolates were collected between 2012 and 2018 at the microbiological laboratory of the field hospital in Camp Marmal near Mazar-e Sharif, Afghanistan, from Afghan patients. The isolates were subjected to phenotypic and genotypic differentiation and antimicrobial susceptibility testing as well as to a core genome multi-locus sequence typing (cgMLST) approach based on whole-genome next-generation sequence (wgNGS) data. Next to several sporadic isolates, four transmission clusters comprising strains from the international clonal lineages IC1, IC2, and IC9 were identified. Acquired carbapenem resistance was due to blaOXA-23 in 17/18 isolates, while genes mediating resistance against sulfonamides, macrolides, tetracyclines, and aminoglycosides were frequently identified as well. In conclusion, the assessment confirmed both the frequent occurrence of A. baumannii associated with outbreak events and a variety of different clones in Afghanistan. The fact that acquired carbapenem resistance was almost exclusively associated with blaOXA-23 may facilitate molecular resistance screening based on rapid molecular assays targeting this resistance determinant.

                    Higgins, P.G.; Kniel, M.; Rojak, S.; Balczun, C.; Rohde, H.; Frickmann, H.; Hagen, R.M. Molecular Epidemiology of Carbapenem-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii Strains Isolated at the German Military Field Laboratory in Mazar-e Sharif, Afghanistan. Microorganisms 2021, 9, 2229. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9112229
                    ...

                    Carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii has been identified as a considerable menace for traumatic wounds associated with international wars and crises [1,2]. This also applies to the recent military conflict in Afghanistan, in which German soldiers participated for nearly 20 years, from 2002 until 2021.

                    Most reports on war trauma-associated A. baumannii infections or colonization from the recent Afghanistan conflict were, however, provided by the medical services of the USA and Canada [3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11]. As early as 2004, a report on a limited number of A. baumannii-associated bloodstream infections associated with Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) in Afghanistan was published [3]. In 2006, carbapenem-resistant isolates were still reported to be acquired predominantly in Iraq and less frequently in Afghanistan [4]. One year later, however, Canadian health officials published warnings about the risk of spreading multidrug-resistant A. baumannii strains imported into Canadian hospitals from Afghan battlefields [5]. Subsequently, in 2008, the US Armed Forces Medical Service reported an increased frequency of A. baumannii isolates associated with osteomyelitis in war-injured soldiers fighting for the OEF mission [6], and in the same year, an increased acquisition risk of resistant A. baumannii isolates at OEF deployment sites was documented [7]. Together with Staphylococcus aureus and Klebsiella pneumoniae, A. baumannii accounted for nosocomial infection rates of 2–4% in injured patients from the OEF mission [8], and a risk of spreading resistance was identified. However, as reported in 2011, the colonization rate with A. baumannii was highest at the beginning of the mission and declined in the following years [9]. Nevertheless, the relevance of resistant or even multidrug-resistant A. baumannii strains in the wounds of war-injured US trauma patients remained considerable, accounting for 38.6% of the registered infections due to multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria [10]. In a recent study on trauma-related infections in US soldiers, Acinetobacter spp. were isolated from 8.7% of skin and soft tissue infections, 9.0% of bloodstream infections, and 11.0% of osteomyelitis cases, [11]. Consequently, research on substances potentially inactivating A. baumannii in traumatic war injuries is ongoing [12].
                    ...
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                    And so on....
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                    i love myself. the quietest. simplest. most powerful. revolution ever. ---- nayyirah waheed

                    "...there’s an obvious contest that’s happening between different sectors of the colonial ruling class in this country. And they would, if they could, lump us into their beef, their struggle." ---- Omali Yeshitela, African People’s Socialist Party

                    (My posts are not intended as advice or professional assessments of any kind.)
                    Never forget Excalibur.

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                    • #55
                      Imho burqas are bad for public mental health. Forcing 1/2 of the population (based on sex) to wear one uniform, certain garment that covers the entire body, including the face, when going outside of the home, is not conducive to positive mental health on a large scale.

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                      • #56

                        Columbia College honors Marine killed during Afghanistan evacuationCOLUMBIA — Columbia College held two commencement ceremonies in the Southwell Complex gymnasium Saturday, but out of 405 graduating students, one degree recipient stands out from the rest.

                        Marine Sgt. Johanny Rosario Pichardo holds her certificate of reenlistment with the Marines at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego, California.
                        Courtesy of the Pichardo Family

                        Marine Sgt. Johanny Rosario Pichardo was one of 13 Marines killed by a suicide bomb during the US evacuation out of Afghanistan in August 2021. When she was killed, she was screening women and children near Kabul's airport attempting to flee the country, according to reporting from the Columbia Missourian. She was 25 years old.
                        ...

                        In an essay Pichardo wrote about why she was going to college, she highlighted her wish to make her mother proud.

                        "I decided to attend college to make my mother proud when I receive my degree and because it'll open a lot more doors for me and make me more valuable," Pichardo wrote.
                        ...

                        When asked about how she wanted her daughter to be remembered, Colosa Pichardo pointed to her face and smiled.

                        "Her smile, intelligent, beautiful, positive, very caring and dedicated to be a better person," she said.

                        She added that her daughter's memory will live on in the minds of her family and that the unimaginable loss was hard to describe....

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                        i love myself. the quietest. simplest. most powerful. revolution ever. ---- nayyirah waheed

                        "...there’s an obvious contest that’s happening between different sectors of the colonial ruling class in this country. And they would, if they could, lump us into their beef, their struggle." ---- Omali Yeshitela, African People’s Socialist Party

                        (My posts are not intended as advice or professional assessments of any kind.)
                        Never forget Excalibur.

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                        • #57
                          https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2022...kabul-bombing/
                          FOLSOM (CBS13) — It’s been a long road to recovery for Marine Corps Sgt. Tyler Vargas-Andrews, who was one of 18 Marines hurt in a suicide bombing at the Kabul airport last August.

                          “Tyler is an inspiring young man,” said family friend Joe Thusen. “He’s a Marine’s Marine.”

                          Thusen is a former Marine.

                          Vargas-Andrews was the most critically injured in the blast, losing his left leg at the hip and his right arm above the elbow.

                          “And for Tyler himself, just to have him come home is a blessing in itself as well, and we’re very thankful he’s coming home,” Thusen said.
                          ...

                          Vargas-Andrews has been in extensive medical care at Walter Reed Military Medical Center in Maryland, undergoing 43 surgeries so far.

                          He had a lacerated liver and a hole in his bladder from shrapnel, and yet, he’s determined to make a strong recovery and walk for his community this weekend....
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                          i love myself. the quietest. simplest. most powerful. revolution ever. ---- nayyirah waheed

                          "...there’s an obvious contest that’s happening between different sectors of the colonial ruling class in this country. And they would, if they could, lump us into their beef, their struggle." ---- Omali Yeshitela, African People’s Socialist Party

                          (My posts are not intended as advice or professional assessments of any kind.)
                          Never forget Excalibur.

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                          • #58

                            KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Hundreds of men, strung out on heroin, opium and meth, were strewn over the hillside overlooking Kabul, some in tents, some lying in the dirt.


                            AP PHOTOS: Despair and poverty fuel drug use in Afghanistan

                            By EBRAHIM NOROOZI
                            July 20, 2022

                            KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Hundreds of men, strung out on heroin, opium and meth, were strewn over the hillside overlooking Kabul, some in tents, some lying in the dirt. Dogs skulked around because they sometimes give them drugs, and there were bodies of overdosed dogs amid the garbage. Men here as well slip, quiet and alone, across the line from oblivion and despair to death.

                            “There’s a dead man next to you,” someone told me as I picked my way among them, taking pictures. “We buried someone over there earlier,” another said further down...
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                            i love myself. the quietest. simplest. most powerful. revolution ever. ---- nayyirah waheed

                            "...there’s an obvious contest that’s happening between different sectors of the colonial ruling class in this country. And they would, if they could, lump us into their beef, their struggle." ---- Omali Yeshitela, African People’s Socialist Party

                            (My posts are not intended as advice or professional assessments of any kind.)
                            Never forget Excalibur.

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                            • #59
                              The last text message Darin Taylor Hoover sent his mother from Kabul's airport a year ago was short but one she still reads every day. Taylor, as he was called by his family, was among the last 13 U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan. An Islamic State bomber blew himself up at an airport gate during the chaotic mission to evacuate Americans and at-risk Afghans before a complete U.S. military withdrawal.

                              'Pain does not go away': Anger persists for family of U.S. Marine killed in Kabul

                              Idrees Ali
                              August 17, 2022

                              By Idrees Ali

                              WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The last text message Darin Taylor Hoover sent his mother from Kabul's airport a year ago was short but one she still reads every day.

                              "Mamma I'm safe, I love you," the 31-year-old Marine Corps staff sergeant wrote as he worked to keep some semblance of order while thousands of desperate Afghans tried to get on the last few evacuation flights.

                              Taylor, as he was called by his family, was among the last 13 U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan. An Islamic State bomber blew himself up at an airport gate during the chaotic mission to evacuate Americans and at-risk Afghans before a complete U.S. military withdrawal.

                              Darin Hoover and Kelly Henson, Taylor's parents, have spent the past year trying to process the pain of losing their only son, re-reading the letters he left some family members and replaying the last time they saw him.

                              Their grief is mixed with anger, frustration and unanswered questions about why he was sent on that mission in the first place.

                              "It just aggravates me to no end that they put them in that situation that they should not have been in," said Hoover, who is a police officer.

                              On the first anniversary of the withdrawal this month, some U.S. officials and experts said there has not been public accountability for mistakes in the evacuation, which took place as the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan at the end of the United States' longest war...
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                              Ask Congress to Investigate COVID Origins and Government Response to Pandemic.

                              i love myself. the quietest. simplest. most powerful. revolution ever. ---- nayyirah waheed

                              "...there’s an obvious contest that’s happening between different sectors of the colonial ruling class in this country. And they would, if they could, lump us into their beef, their struggle." ---- Omali Yeshitela, African People’s Socialist Party

                              (My posts are not intended as advice or professional assessments of any kind.)
                              Never forget Excalibur.

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                              • #60
                                Statement by Principals of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee on Afghanistan, Women’s participation in aid delivery must continue

                                28 December 2022
                                Statement
                                ...

                                The decision by Afghanistan’s de facto authorities to ban women from working in humanitarian non-governmental organizations is a major blow for vulnerable communities, for women, for children, and for the entire country.

                                Female staff are key to every aspect of the humanitarian response in Afghanistan. They are teachers, nutrition experts, team leaders, community health workers, vaccinators, nurses, doctors, and heads of organizations. They have access to populations that their male colleagues cannot reach and are critical to safeguarding the communities we serve. They save lives. Their professional expertise is indispensable. Their participation in aid delivery is not negotiable and must continue.

                                Banning women from humanitarian work has immediate life-threatening consequences for all Afghans. Already, some time-critical programmes have had to stop temporarily due to lack of female staff. This comes at a time when more than 28 million people in Afghanistan, including millions of women and children, require assistance to survive as the country grapples with the risk of famine conditions, economic decline, entrenched poverty and a brutal winter.

                                While humanitarian organizations continue to engage the de facto authorities, we cannot ignore the operational constraints now facing us as a humanitarian community. We will endeavour to continue lifesaving, time-critical activities unless impeded while we better assess the scope, parameters and consequences of this directive for the people we serve. But we foresee that many activities will need to be paused as we cannot deliver principled humanitarian assistance without female aid workers.

                                We remain resolute in our commitment to deliver independent, principled, lifesaving assistance to all the women, men and children who need it.

                                We urge the de facto authorities to reconsider and reverse this directive, and all directives banning women from schools, universities and public life. No country can afford to exclude half of its population from contributing to society.



                                Signatories
                                • Mr. Martin Griffiths, Emergency Relief Coordinator and Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
                                • Mr. Qu Dongyu, Director-General, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
                                • Ms. Shahin Ashraf, Chair, International Council of Voluntary Agencies (ICVA) Board, (Islamic Relief)
                                • Mr. Ignacio Packer, Executive Director, International Council of Voluntary Agencies (ICVA)
                                • Ms. Miriam Sapiro, President and Chief Executive Officer, InterAction
                                • Ms. Tjada D’Oyen McKenna, Chief Eexcutive Officer, Mercy Corps
                                • Ms. Janti Soerpinto, President and Chief Executive Officer, Save the Children US
                                • Mr. António Vitorino, Director General, International Organization for Migration (IOM)
                                • Mr. Volker Turk, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
                                • Mr. Andrew Morley, President and Chief Executive Officer, World Vision International
                                • Ms. Sofia Sprechmann Sineiro, Secretary-General, CARE International
                                • Ms. Paula Gaviria Betancur, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons (UN SR on HR of IDPs)
                                • Mr. Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
                                • Dr. Natalia Kanem, Executive Director, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
                                • Ms. Maimunah Mohd Sharif, Executive Director, United Nations Human Settlement Programme (UN-Habitat)
                                • Mr. Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
                                • Ms. Catherine Russell, Executive Director, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
                                • Ms. Sima Bahous, Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director (UN Women)
                                • Mr. David Beasley, Executive Director, World Food Programme (WFP)
                                • Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO)
                                https://www.who.int/news/item/28-12-...-must-continue
                                "Safety and security don't just happen, they are the result of collective consensus and public investment. We owe our children, the most vulnerable citizens in our society, a life free of violence and fear."
                                -Nelson Mandela

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