Last month, the Taliban put into effect new laws stripping the women of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/afghanistan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Afghanistan</a> of the last of their basic human rights. While here in America, feminists like to define their basic human rights as access to abortion, Afghan women are no longer allowed to speak in public, show any skin or leave their home without a male chaperone.
As of late August, the Taliban received approval from supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada to put into place its “<a href="https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-taliban-vice-virtue-laws-women-b6db61e124116c712c867d2e1a4532ba" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vice and Virtue decree</a>,” which prohibits Islamic people from many religious and daily practices. Females were, unsurprisingly, hit the hardest by these new laws. Afghan women have been deemed as temptations, and therefore cannot show any skin or use their voices in public for any reason. They also may not make eye contact with men to whom they are not married, or blood related, out of fear of punishment and torture.
These new practices and ones already in place, including the end of education for women at 12 years of age and the inability to see male doctors, have not only left women with no rights, but truly no chance at a healthy and contented life. If these women are not allowed to be educated enough to be health care providers, and also can’t see male doctors, what will happen to them if and when they need health care? They will clearly become sick and suffer — which is, ultimately, the Taliban’s goal.
Women have been banned from most public spaces including parks, gyms and many stores. This has left women-led households particularly vulnerable. Since women are no longer let out of the home without a male, they are unable to walk, exercise or even shop for basic necessities like food.
Why is no one talking about this? Coming up on a month after the new bans took effect, the Biden Administration has barely mentioned this situation, let alone done anything to combat it. Where are the thousands of women who marched and protested after the overturn of Roe v. Wade and chanted “my body my choice?” Why don’t these people seem to care about the Afghan women having no rights over their bodies — including what they can wear, who they can speak to, or if they can speak at all? Or what about the girls as young as 5-years-old being sold into marriages under the Taliban — what about their choice?
The answer ultimately comes down to the sad fact that it was the Biden-Harris Administration <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/terror-threats-from-afghanistan-have-flourished-under-biden-harris-admin-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">who helped fuel</a> the Taliban to be able to perpetrate these acts in the first place. It is American taxpayer dollars that have been sent to make all of this happen. In August, the Taliban received <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/us-aid-vetting-failures-may-have-benefited-militants-afghanistan-watchdog-finds-2024-07-17/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nearly $240 million</a> in U.S. aid. The funds, ironically, even came from a State Department division called “Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor.” How does funding a brutal group that uses physical abuse as punishment for speaking in public qualify as maintaining human rights?
In Afghanistan, women&#8217;s lives are truly not their own. This is not just a matter of abortion or contraception as we hear in America. Women are being sentenced to death for “moral crimes” such as adultery or refusal of arranged marriages. Women who commit these crimes are being put to death, even by stoning. Afghan women are also eligible for forced “virginity testing” which are often inaccurate tests performed on young women to determine if they have abstained from sexual relations. If girls “fail” these tests, they can face torture, ridicule or death, even in cases of rape. If a woman has been raped and is married, she is an adulterer, which once again circles back to the “moral crimes” punishments.
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It’s important to note that Afghanistan wasn’t always like this. Prior to the Afghan–Soviet War in 1979, women actually experienced a fair number of freedoms. They were able to work, express themselves through choice of clothing. But after the war, and the initial takeover by the Taliban in 1996, these women and girls slowly started to lose themselves to the evil that had taken over their home.
American feminists might want to open their eyes to see beyond their tired and misguided rhetoric. Take a look at what actual denial of a woman’s control over her body looks like.
These women will continue to suffer under the Taliban as long as Biden and Harris remain in office. It is their policy blunders that have assisted in the progression of these inhumane acts. In the meantime, Islamic women have taken to social media and to singing in the streets to protest the laws leaving them deprived of actual human rights.
The next time American feminists try to tell you about your “oppression” as a female in America, remember you are still allowed to speak in public, receive an education, carry out a career, and have access to world-class health care — all unattainable dreams for Afghan women who don’t have the blessing and privilege to be a woman in America today.
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Tessa Gervasini is a recent graduate of Texas Christian University.
The view expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Daily Wire.

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Republican presidential nominee <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> slammed Vice President Kamala Harris during a rally in Pennsylvania over the weekend for her role in the Biden-Harris administration&#8217;s disastrous withdraw from Afghanistan in 2021.
Trump brought up the embarrassing withdrawal after the Taliban <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/taliban-reminds-world-of-biden-harris-humiliating-withdrawal-from-afghanistan-with-military-parade" target="_blank" rel="noopener">paraded</a> around billions of dollars worth of U.S. military hardware this week on the three-year anniversary of the country&#8217;s collapse.
&#8220;Two days ago, I watched a parade of the Taliban in Afghanistan,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;Did you see the Taliban where they were showing all of our equipment that they took from America? $85 billion worth, two days ago, celebrating three years of the defeat of America by these guys.&#8221;
He highlighted how his strength in projecting American military power convinced the Taliban to stop attacking U.S. forces in the country for a year and a half.
&#8220;For 18 months, we didn&#8217;t have one American soldier killed in Afghanistan,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And then I left and this bunch of incompetent people took over, and it all started up again.&#8221;
Trump said that the event was the &#8220;most embarrassing day in the history of our country&#8221; and noted that Harris had bragged about how she was &#8220;the last person in the room&#8221; when the administration decided to withdraw from the country.
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&#8220;In other words, she had the final vote, and she bragged about it,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s been the most embarrassing moment in the history of our country, Afghanistan. It should have never, ever happened. We should have gotten out with dignity and strength. And you don&#8217;t take your military out first, you take your military out last.&#8221;
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PRESIDENT TRUMP: &#8220;Two days ago, I watched a parade of the Taliban in Afghanistan, where they were showing all our equipment they took from America&#8211; $85 billion worth&#8230; Kamala bragged about being the last person in the room the night that decision was made.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/NwnVX4ElUq">pic.twitter.com/NwnVX4ElUq</a>
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The Taliban paraded billions of dollars worth of American military hardware around the streets of Afghanistan on Wednesday near the U.S.&#8217;s former airbase inside the country.
The Islamic extremist group, which is not recognized by any country as being the legitimate government of Afghanistan, touted U.S. military vehicles, helicopters, and weapons at the parade at Bagram air base.
The Department of Defense Inspector General <a href="https://www.dodig.mil/In-the-Spotlight/Article/3129145/lead-inspector-general-for-operation-enduring-sentinel-and-operation-freedoms-s/">said</a> in a report a year after Afghanistan&#8217;s fall that the Biden-Harris Administration left behind &#8220;U.S.-funded equipment valued at $7.12 billion&#8221;, which fell into the Taliban&#8217;s hands, including &#8220;military aircraft, ground vehicles, weapons, and other military equipment.&#8221;
The hardware left behind included nearly a billion dollars worth of aircraft, over 40,000 military vehicles, more than 300,000 weapons, and tens of millions of dollars worth of ammunition.
Also left behind were nearly all communications equipment that the U.S. gave to Afghan forces and nearly all other advanced military electronics, including night vision and surveillance equipment.
The Biden-Harris Administration&#8217;s August 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan was chaotic and projected American weakness around the world. Many say that this moment of weakness played a factor in Russian President Vladimir Putin&#8217;s decision to start a war by invading Ukraine just six months later.
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Check out the military vehicles and helicopters left behind by the U.S. for the Taliban three years ago—now parading through the streets of Afghanistan… <a href="https://t.co/viK2bw0CbI">pic.twitter.com/viK2bw0CbI</a>
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During the withdrawal, 13 service members were killed in a terrorist attack during evacuations at an airport in Afghanistan&#8217;s capital city of Kabul. When the soldiers were flown home, Biden was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-slammed-after-looking-at-watch-during-dignified-transfer-of-13-slain-troops-late-for-your-nap">caught</a> checking the time on his watch as their bodies were unloaded.
Since the U.S.&#8217;s withdrawal from the country, Islamic terrorist groups have reconstituted inside Afghanistan and have started growing at a rate that has alarmed many U.S. officials.

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Taliban Reminds World Of Biden-Harris’ Humiliating Withdrawal From Afghanistan With Military Parade

Taliban Reminds World Of Biden-Harris' Humiliating Withdrawal From Afghanistan With Military Parade

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An American captured by the Taliban a year after President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan in August of 2021 remains a hostage, and his family is growing increasingly frustrated with the lack of action from President Joe Biden as his health deteriorates. 
Ryan Corbett’s wife, Anna Corbett, has been fighting for his release, appearing before Congress and on major news networks to call on Biden and lawmakers to act. Since he was taken hostage, Corbett’s family has managed to secure nine brief video calls with him, and see that his condition is worsening.
His wife told The Daily Wire that the last call came this Sunday and says the call only &#8220;heightened&#8221; her concerns, learning that he has new health issues.
&#8220;My latest call with Ryan only heightened my concerns about his mental and physical health following more than 22 months in a basement cell without access to sunlight or nutritious foods,&#8221; Anna Corbett said. &#8220;My once healthy husband now faints without warning, experiences constant ringing in his ears, and is losing faith that this nightmare will ever end.&#8221;
&#8220;I continue to call on President Biden to meet with me to discuss how we can bring Ryan home before it&#8217;s too late,&#8221; she added.
A spokesman for Biden&#8217;s State Department would not specify any steps that had been taken to bring Corbett, a father of three, back to the United States, only telling The Daily Wire that it “will continue to work securing his immediate release.” 
“We are in contact with the UN Special Rapporteur&#8217;s office and welcome their efforts to call for more humane conditions Ryan and others held by the Taliban,” a State Department spokesman told The Daily Wire in an email. “We consider Ryan’s detention to be wrongful and we will continue to work securing his immediate release.” 
The United Nations official referenced by the State Department <a href="https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/06/afghanistan-detained-american-aid-workers-life-risk-if-no-urgent-medical">warned</a> earlier this month of Corbett’s deteriorating health and called on the Taliban to give him “medical treatment in a civilian hospital without delay.” 
“The conditions in which this humanitarian worker is being detained are utterly inadequate and substantially below international standards. This is having a significant impact on his physical and mental health, which is declining rapidly. Without adequate medical care he is at risk of irreparable harm or even death,” said Alice Jill Edwards, the UN Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
Corbett and his family first <a href="https://www.freeryancorbett.com/about-ryan">moved to Afghanistan</a> in 2010 and started Bloom Afghanistan, an enterprise focused on improving the war-torn country’s private sector. The Corbett family safely evacuated from Afghanistan when the United States withdrew under Biden’s orders in August 2021, creating a vacuum that the Taliban quickly seized to take power. 
About five months after U.S. forces left Afghanistan, Corbett returned to the country by himself to renew his visa and train more staff for his enterprise. He was initially welcomed back to Afghanistan and remained there until August 10, 2022, when he, along with two Afghans and a German colleague were detained by Taliban forces. While the Afghans were released a month later and Corbett’s German colleague was let go in December 2022, Corbett is still being held hostage, likely for political leverage. 
Corbett’s 18-year-old daughter Ketsia — who is set to graduate from high school on June 28 — recorded a video last week describing her dad’s situation and asking President Biden to act soon to save her father. 
“It feels like the last two years of my childhood have been stolen from me. Every day I get out of bed, put on a smile, and push forward,” Ketsia says in the video. “But my dad’s suffering is constantly on my mind and in my prayers. We’ve talked to him only eight times, but the calls have become more and more terrifying. My dad’s being tortured and abused and he feels forgotten and alone.” 
“He has no idea what’s being done to bring him home and why it’s taking so long” she continued, adding, “President Biden, if you see this or read my letter, I’m asking you to do everything you can to can to bring my dad home. I hope you can meet him one day because he is an amazing man.” 
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Former President Donald Trump&#8217;s campaign told The Daily Wire that Corbett would be a free man if Trump was in office.
“President Trump brought more Americans back home and reunited them with their families because other countries knew not to test him,” said Trump campaign communications director Steven Cheung. “With Biden in office, America is no longer respected on the world stage and has made Americans across the world more vulnerable.&#8221;
 &#8220;There is only one person who can negotiate the safe return of hostages like Ryan Corbett back to his family — President Trump,&#8221; Cheung added. 
Republican Congressman Mark Green (R-TN), who sits on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, called on Biden to “make it clear that we will not tolerate the wrongful detainment of Americans.” 
“President Biden&#8217;s botched Afghanistan withdrawal was saddled with grievous error after grievous error despite being warned repeatedly that the return of the Taliban was not a question of if, but when,” Green told the The Daily Wire. “Just because the War on Terror has wound down does not mean our commitment to safeguarding American lives is over. President Biden must make it clear that we will not tolerate the wrongful detainment of Americans. I pray for Ryan’s family and his safe return home.”

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/taliban" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Taliban</a> vowed in a message to the West over the weekend that it will soon return to stoning women to death in public.
“You say it’s a violation of women’s rights when we stone them to death,” said Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada, according to The Telegraph. “But we will soon implement the punishment for adultery. We will flog women in public. We will stone them to death in public.”
&#8220;These are all against your democracy but we will continue doing it,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;We both say we defend human rights – we do it as God’s representative and you as the devil’s.&#8221;
The publication said that these remarks are the most extreme that he has made since the Biden administration effectively handed over control of Afghanistan to the Taliban during President Joe Biden&#8217;s disastrous withdraw from the country in August 2021.
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The report noted that the Taliban reverted to its old extreme methods of punishment almost immediately after taking over, including carrying out public executions and beating people.
“Do women want the rights that Westerners are talking about? They are against Sharia and clerics’ opinions, the clerics who toppled Western democracy,” he said. “I told the Mujahedin that we tell the Westerners that we fought against you for 20 years and we will fight 20 and even more years against you.”
“It did not finish [when you left]. It does not mean we would now just sit and drink tea. We will bring Sharia to this land,” he continued. “It did finish after we took over Kabul. No, we will now bring Sharia into action.”
A U.N. report from last year found that 37 people had already been sentenced to stoning under the Taliban regime and that more than 100 had received sentences for &#8220;crimes against God&#8221;, according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/taliban-vows-publicly-stone-women-death-direct-message-western-democracies">Fox News</a>. Some of the punishments included lashings and having walls knocked down on individuals.

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House Homeland Security Committee Chairman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mark-green" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mark Green</a> (R-TN) issued a subpoena to Homeland Security Secretary <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/alejandro-mayorkas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alejandro Mayorkas</a> on Tuesday over documents related to the screening of the tens of thousands of Afghans the Biden administration brought into the U.S. during the August 2021 withdrawal from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/afghanistan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Afghanistan</a>. 
Green and other House lawmakers have been investigating how the Biden administration screened the more than 76,000 Afghans flown into the U.S. for resettlement as the military left Afghanistan and the Taliban took over. According to Green, Mayorkas has not provided all of the documents requested, including DHS communications on vetting the evacuees, documents which were requested 160 days ago. 
“In the wake of the Biden administration’s catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan, the country has once again become a breeding ground for foreign terrorist organizations under Taliban rule, and the Committee is still seeking answers on how the Biden administration vetted those entering the United States following the withdrawal,” Green’s office said in a press release. 
Green’s <a href="https://homeland.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/2023-10-31-Subpoena-re-Afghanistan-Screening-and-Vetting.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">subpoena</a> stipulates that Mayorkas is to appear before the committee on November 7 at the Ford House Office Building in Washington, D.C., at 12:00 p.m. 
“On October 20, 2023, the Department provided a partial production containing limited data on Afghan evacuees. Although the production contained 1,601 pages, it is wholly inadequate. For example, 150 pages were either wholly redacted, devoid of content, or illegible. Further, many of the remaining pages appear to be nothing more than scanned printouts from spreadsheets of data that were provided in a format that rendered them indecipherable,” Green wrote in a <a href="https://homeland.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/2023-10-31-Green-to-Mayorkas-DHS-re-Subpoena-Afghan-Screening-and-Vetting.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to Mayorkas. 
The lawmakers&#8217; investigation into the screening of the evacuees comes after stories that some of the Afghans brought into the U.S. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/afghan-refugees-face-federal-charges-after-trying-to-rape-child-strangle-woman-in-wisconsin-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">faced charges</a> of attempted rape of a minor and other physical abuse in addition to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-dozens-of-afghan-evacuees-flagged-for-potential-terror-ties-two-shipped-out-of-u-s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dozens being flagged</a> for potential terror ties. 
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“While the produced documents provide some basic information regarding Afghan evacuees, they fall well short of what was requested by the Committee. For example, the Department failed to produce a single e-mail or other communication from Department employees related to the withdrawal from Afghanistan or Customs and Border Protection’s screening, vetting, or inspection of Afghan evacuees at U.S. ports of entry,” Green added in his letter. 
Last year, the Inspector General for DHS released a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ig-report-blasts-bidens-homeland-security-for-improperly-vetting-afghan-refugees" target="_blank" rel="noopener">scathing report</a> that said that the agency “may have admitted or paroled individuals into the United States who pose a risk to national security and the safety of local communities.”
At least two Afghan evacuees were shipped out of the U.S. after they were initially let in, while State Department officials have also investigated adult male Afghan evacuees who had child “brides” with them at processing centers in the U.S. and the United Arab Emirates. U.S. military bases that housed the evacuees <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-military-bases-incurred-millions-in-damages-after-hosting-afghan-evacuees-during-bidens-withdrawal-report-finds" target="_blank" rel="noopener">incurred millions of dollars</a> in damages, making some facilities unusable for U.S. soldiers.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-republicans-tell-mayorkas-to-not-bring-large-numbers-of-palestinians-into-u-s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">RELATED: House Republicans Tell Mayorkas Not To Bring &#8216;Large Numbers Of Palestinians&#8217; Into U.S. </a>

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Pro-Palestinian protesters at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) waved Taliban flags during a heated demonstration on Wednesday, during which several people were arrested.
Video footage <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xauHmD-6OA&amp;t=1s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shows</a> dozens of protesters at a “Protest for Palestine” waving several Taliban flags, Palestinian flags, and signs as they walked through the university&#8217;s campus for about two hours.
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The protest was sparked by last weekend&#8217;s terrorist attacks on Israel by Hamas that killed <a href="https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/israel-hamas-war-gaza-strip/card/latest-death-toll-in-israel-and-gaza-eoVPFI8WcXN0mzIR73pY" target="_blank" rel="noopener">about</a> 1,300 people, including at least 27 Americans.
Counter-protesters also showed up at the FAU protest on Wednesday, demonstrating their support for Israel. A day earlier, more than 100 pro-Israel demonstrators had <a href="https://cbs12.com/news/local/three-arrested-florida-atlantic-university-israel-hamas-photos-three-arrests-at-fau-during-protest-for-palestine-following-israel-solidarity-march-october-11-2023" target="_blank" rel="noopener">held</a> a peaceful march on campus.
One female pro-Palestinian protester was arrested and charged with battery as well as battery of an officer after she allegedly elbowed a pro-Israeli protester and then kicked a cop as he was arresting her, Boca News Now <a href="https://bocanewsnow.com/2023/10/12/palestinian-supporter-arrested-at-fau-allegedly-kicked-police-officer/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
The university <a href="https://cbs12.com/news/local/three-arrested-florida-atlantic-university-israel-hamas-photos-three-arrests-at-fau-during-protest-for-palestine-following-israel-solidarity-march-october-11-2023" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> two other protesters were arrested as well.
FAU <a href="https://www.fau.edu/president/blog/support-for-israel/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">issued</a> a statement on Monday saying the university stands with Israel.
&#8220;As ardent supporters of Israel, Florida Atlantic University vehemently opposes the ongoing violence and loss of life witnessed this weekend in Israel and urges an immediate cessation of hostilities to avoid further loss of life,&#8221; FAU said.
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&#8220;We condemn the terrorist attacks that were carried out against civilian communities and we support Israel’s right to defend itself,&#8221; the university said.
&#8220;I defend Israel, I stand with Israel forever, for my whole life, and it&#8217;s sad to see that a terrorist group is doing what they&#8217;re doing to Israeli civilians, innocent people in Israel,&#8221; one young male pro-Israel protester <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xauHmD-6OA&amp;t=1s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> CBS Miami.
Similar protests, both for and against Israel, have broken out in cities across the country, including in <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/10/12/tempers-flare-at-israel-war-protests-at-nyc-universities/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York City</a>, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Atlanta.
The NYPD ramped up security ahead of dueling protests.
Within hours after Hamas&#8217; attacks on Israel began, disturbing, graphic videos circulated showing murdered Israeli civilians as well as Hamas soldiers with hostages, including children, the elderly, and bloodied women who appear to have been sexually assaulted.
Israel is now waging a massive counteroffensive, <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-hamas-war-gaza-palestinians-death-toll-ground-offensive-expected/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">launching</a> hundreds of airstrikes in Hamas-controlled territory, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/hamas-tells-gaza-residents-stay-home-israel-ground-offensive-looms-2023-10-13/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mobilizing</a> 300,000 reservists, and putting tanks near the Gaza border.

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Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said during an interview over the weekend that the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/taliban" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Taliban</a> is trying to get involved with launching attacks against <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/israel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Israel</a>.
The remarks come after Palestinian terrorists launched terror attacks against Israel over the weekend that were unprecedented in size, resulting in the deaths of 700+ Israelis with thousands more injured.
The remarks also come after the Taliban retook control of Afghanistan after President Joe Biden&#8217;s disastrous pullout from the country, which resulted in the deaths of Americans, billions of dollars of military equipment seized by Taliban terrorists, and the reorganizing of terrorist groups in Afghanistan.
McCaul made the comments during a Sunday interview on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union&#8221; with Dana Bash.
&#8220;I have seen indications that the Taliban wants to come to liberate Jerusalem, in their words, to fight the Zionists. It&#8217;s very concerning,&#8221; McCaul said. &#8220;And Hezbollah to the north, they have 100,000 rockets in Lebanon. And so we don&#8217;t want this to escalate, obviously.&#8221;
&#8220;We have seen through [the Taliban&#8217;s] postings that the intent and the desire is there,&#8221; he said. &#8220;If we have a call for jihadism in Jerusalem, that&#8217;s what really concerns me. I think, as it stands right now, the Israeli military capability far outweighs Hamas, and they can take care of this problem. But it will take time to go house to house. But if this lights up into a larger sort of war on jihad &#8212; or jihadist war against the Zionists, if you will, that&#8217;s what always keeps everybody up at night. I don&#8217;t want to see it escalate to that point.&#8221;
McCaul also confirmed Wall Street Journal reporting that Iran was behind the attack, saying that they &#8220;financed this every step of the way.&#8221;
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More than 2,500 people have reportedly died after a pair of 6.3 magnitude earthquakes struck parts of western Afghanistan on Saturday, marking one of the country&#8217;s deadliest tremors in the last 20 years.
The initial quake struck about 20 miles west of the city of Herat — the third largest city in Afghanistan and home to nearly 600,000 people — in the western Herat province, which borders Iran, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) <a href="https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000ldpm/executive?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=usgs_quakes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. It was followed by several strong tremors and aftershocks measuring magnitudes of 6.3, 5.9, and 5.5.
&#8220;According to the officials of the Ministry of Disaster Management, the number of martyrs due to the earthquake in Herat has exceeded 2,500,&#8221; Khalid Zadran, a spokesman for Kabul police, <a href="https://twitter.com/khalidzadran01/status/1711023647119507915" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on X. &#8220;Aid teams are working in the area. The affected people in the area still need shelter.&#8221;
State-run media Bakhtar News Agency <a href="https://bakhtarnews.af/en/earthquake-death-toll-in-herat-raised-to-at-least-500/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> at least 12 villages in the Zinda Jan and Ghorian districts of Herat province have been &#8220;completely destroyed.&#8221;
Janan Sayeeq, a spokesman for the Ministry of Disasters, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/afghanistan-earthquake-death-toll-500-red-crescent-2023-10-08/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Reuters early Sunday that the seismic activity killed 2,053 people so far, injured more than 2,000, and destroyed or damaged at least 1,320 houses.
Taliban officials asked local organizations to assist in the impacted areas by providing food and shelter for survivors and the homeless.
&#8220;We ask our wealthy compatriots to give any possible cooperation and help to our afflicted brothers,&#8221; the Taliban posted on X.
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Video and photographs show crowds of survivors gathering in the streets for safety.
Herat resident Abdul Shakor Samadi <a href="https://apnews.com/article/earthquake-herat-afghanistan-ba6f50c0cd0590f179756077f5f01393" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The Associated Press the impacted area forced mass evacuations from residences and other covered properties.
&#8220;All people are out of their homes,&#8221; Samadi said. &#8220;Houses, offices, and shops are all empty, and there are fears of more earthquakes.&#8221;
On social media, World Health Organization officials in Afghanistan said it dispatched 12 ambulances to Zenda Jan to transport casualties to hospitals.
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&#8220;As deaths &amp; casualties from the earthquake continue to be reported, teams are in hospitals assisting treatment of wounded &amp; assessing additional needs,&#8221; WHO officials said on X. &#8220;WHO-supported ambulances are transporting those affected, most of them women and children.&#8221;
Local media <a href="https://www.aa.com.tr/en/asia-pacific/death-toll-from-afghanistan-earthquake-exceeds-2-500/3011782">reported</a> that Afghanistan experiences frequent tremors, typically in the Hindukush mountain range, which sits near the confluence of Eurasian and Indian tectonic plates.
Last year, a 5.9 magnitude earthquake in June killed more than 1,000 people, leaving tens of thousands homeless in the Paktika province.

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A Gold Star mother who met President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> on the Memorial Day following her son’s death from the terrorist attack at the Kabul airport said that Biden responded by suggesting she take a photo with him when she wept during their meeting.
Army Staff Sgt. Ryan Christian Knauss was killed when a bomber detonated a bomb at Kabul&#8217;s international airport on August 26, 2021, killing 13 American soldiers. His mother, Paula Knauss Selph, the executive director of the Respect and Remember Foundation, met Biden in the Oval Office at an event for Gold Star families in Washington, D.C. on Memorial Day 2022.
“There&#8217;s been a lot of grief, a lot of grief,” she told <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12422089/Afghanistan-Gold-Star-mom-says-President-Biden-asked-photo-op-wept-Oval-Office-heartbreaking-loss-son-killed-Kabul-bombing-two-years-ago.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Mail.</a> “There&#8217;s nothing like watching your child die in front of you, in front of the world.”
She recalled when she met Biden, he said, “I can understand if you&#8217;re angry.”
“I stood face-to-face with him, eyeball-to-eyeball. I began to weep,” she said, adding that she told him, “It should have never happened this way.”
“He stood there stoically,” she remembered. “Nothing out of his mouth except  — well would you like to get a photo with me?”
Selph told Biden that the only picture she would take with him was if he stood with her at her son&#8217;s tombstone at Arlington National Cemetery. She said Biden answered, “I can&#8217;t do that because Secret Service won&#8217;t let me do that.”
“It&#8217;s a moral disgrace for a president not to have mercy on the people that he serves. It is a moral disgrace,” Selph said, adding that Biden thought the “sad occasion” was a “photo op&#8217;” rather an opportunity to comfort a grieving mother.
“He had the chance to make a difference for my child. On not making decisions and indecisions that cost him his life. And I do hold him accountable,” she concluded.
“Ryan, all of his life was quite certain he wanted to go in the armed forces,” Selph said of her son, who was a member of the JROTC cadet program before serving in the military. “And it is a pleasing thing to me. But throughout his life, he kept that focus. He was so disciplined. He was so smart. &#8230; He was protecting and giving us the opportunity for many people to live out the American dream. That&#8217;s what will long outlive all of us.”
The Respect and Remember Foundation says it has <a href="https://r2factor.org/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">three goals</a>: To encourage JROTC and ROTC Cadets with merit scholarships as they graduate and go directly into the military; to support active duty military stationed abroad with care packages and welcome home baskets and provide vacations for active military personnel and families, and to partner with veteran-led organizations connecting veterans together to help combat the high suicide rate among veterans and the adjustments to civilian life needed by veterans encouraging other veterans.

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A number of Gold Star family members laid into President Joe Biden and members of his administration, calling them out over the disastrous exit from Afghanistan that took the lives of their loved ones.
At an event in Escondido, California — hosted by Mayor Dane White and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) — relatives of the thirteen service members killed by the suicide bomber at the Kabul airport on August 26, 2021, joined together to speak publicly about their experiences.
Issa introduced the event, billed as the Afghanistan Gold Star Families Public Forum, saying that while they had officially allotted five minutes for each family member who wanted to speak, no one was going to enforce time limits as long as the families had something to share.
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RIGHT NOW: I am in Escondido where Mayor <a href="https://twitter.com/Dwhite1904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Dwhite1904</a> is hosting <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/C48?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#C48</a>’s <a href="https://twitter.com/repdarrellissa?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@repdarrellissa</a> for an Afghanistan Gold Star Families Public Forum, where family members of those killed during Biden’s chaotic withdrawal are speaking jointly for the first time
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Issa also made it clear that the ultimate goal was to make sure that such a tragedy never happened again: &#8220;Did they have to die? Could we have done something different? &#8230; I only apologize that we didn’t do it sooner.&#8221;
Then the family members began to speak, and they had little if anything positive to say about Biden and the military leaders who had been a part of the decision-making process during the troop drawdown and withdrawal — and most were absolutely furious that the administration had then insisted the withdrawal had been a &#8220;success.&#8221;
SSG Taylor Hoover&#8217;s mother was among those who spoke, and she said that the blame for her son&#8217;s death rested on Biden, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Mark Milley, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and others. &#8220;Incompetent, cowards, evil,&#8221; she said.
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Taylor’s concern was immediately apparent when he got to Afghanistan, Kelly says. He warned her of:
“Chaos, lack of communication, no leadership.” “Command cares nothing for us.”
“What kind of disrespect, what kind of hatred for our military, what kind of mess” would have made…
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Hoover&#8217;s father spoke as well, saying that the Biden administration &#8220;did not uphold their end of that contract.&#8221;
&#8220;This didn’t need to happen in the manner that it did,&#8221; he added, saying that leadership had &#8220;made a conscious decision that made a chaotic and frantic withdrawal from Afghanistan.&#8221;
He went on to call out those leaders, saying that it was &#8220;nothing short of disgusting and ignorant&#8221; that they had turned around and claimed that the withdrawal had been a success. &#8220;I’m calling out Secretary Blinken, Secretary Austin, General Milley &#8230; and ultimately, the president, and do what our son did: and be a grown ass man &#8230; You all need to resign immediately. Our sons and daughters have more integrity in their little toes than all of them combined.&#8221;
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“I’m calling out Secretary Blinken, Secretary Austin, General Milley,” Whited (who did not give the call to take out the bomber), and “ultimately, the president, and do what our son did: and be a grown ass man.”
“You all need to resign immediately. Our sons and daughters have…
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Nicole Gee&#8217;s mother said she knew no forum would ever bring her daughter back, but her goal in speaking was to make sure that the service members who came afterward would be treated with the respect earned by the 13 who lost their lives that day in Kabul.
&#8220;When our leaders, include the secretary of defense and our commander in chief, called this a ‘success,’… it’s like a knife in the heart,&#8221; she said. &#8220;These deaths were preventable. My daughter could be with us today. To call it a success is the ultimate disrespect. There were 13 avoidable deaths &#8230; This was not a success. What we’re asking for it to stop the insanity and make it better for the next group.&#8221;
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“These deaths were preventable. My daughter could be with us today.”
“To call it a success is the ultimate disrespect.”
“There were 13 avoidable deaths,” not to mention the wounded. 
“This was not a success.”
“What we’re asking for it to stop the insanity and make it better…
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Dylan Merola&#8217;s mother called Biden &#8220;heartless,&#8221; saying that he had claimed to know how she felt but never once mentioned her son&#8217;s name. &#8220;If they had closed the gate, my son would be alive today,&#8221; she added.
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“How could a worldwide event” just vanish from coverage, she asks
“Everything, even the way my son died, was being covered up.”
A colonel told her she wouldn’t want to see the drone footage. “I had already seen my son’s lifeless body,” who is he to say that?
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&#8220;The commander in chief failed in the oath he took … he failed everybody,&#8221; Humberto Sanchez&#8217;s <a href="https://twitter.com/MatthewFoldi/status/1688617438957699072" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mother said</a>. &#8220;I want the answers, I want the truth &#8230; I want to know this type of failure will not repeat itself again &#8230; I will fight til my last breath to get the truth.&#8221;
Hunter Lopez&#8217;s mother said that she believed there was more to the story — and objected to the notion that it was time to &#8220;turn the page.&#8221;
&#8220;If fault was to be found in someone wearing fatigues and not a suit, they would have been on trial a long time ago,&#8221; she said, adding, &#8220;We do not want a partial truth or truth told in a book release…as Americans, we want this truth. As Gold Star families, we deserve this truth. We deserved it two years ago, and we deserve it today.&#8221;
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“We do not want a partial truth or truth told in a book release…as Americans, we want this truth. As Gold Star families, we deserve this truth. We deserved it two years ago, and we deserve it today.”
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Rep. Issa has promised to get to the bottom of the issue, saying, &#8220;The Biden Administration lied to every one of these Gold Star families. That’s why we brought them forward. These are the words the White House doesn’t want you to hear.&#8221;
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The Biden Administration lied to every one of these Gold Star families.
That’s why we brought them forward. These are the words the White House doesn’t want you to hear.
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‘The Ultimate Disrespect’: Gold Star Families Trash Biden Admin Over Afghanistan Withdrawal

Gold Star Families Trash Biden Admin Over Afghanistan Withdrawal

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Bowe Bergdahl, the American soldier who was captured in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/afghanistan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Afghanistan</a> and later traded for five <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/taliban" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Taliban</a> leaders in a prisoner exchange, has had his desertion conviction vacated after a federal judge said the original case could have been clouded by a conflict of interest. 
U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton <a href="https://apnews.com/article/bowe-bergdahl-court-martial-overturned-12da397af78384788a6a09d6499936c0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">vacated</a> the desertion conviction for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/bowe-bergdahl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bergdahl</a> this week. Under President Barack Obama, Bergdahl was traded for five Taliban leaders who had been detained in Guantanamo Bay. 
According to Walton, because military judge Jeffrey Nance did not disclose his application to be an immigration judge under then-President Donald Trump, Nance’s presiding over Bergdahl’s trial could be construed as a conflict of interest because Trump had been vocally critical of Bergdahl. 
The judge <a href="https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/bergdahl-decision/f32af7e7e7307b1f/full.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that Nance’s neutrality was “undermined” because “he might be inclined to appeal to the president’s expressed interest in the plaintiff’s conviction and punishment when applying for the immigration judge position.” 
“Namely, the military judge in this case submitted a writing sample along with his application, consisting of an order in which he denied the plaintiff’s [Bergdahl] unlawful-command-influence motion which was based on President Trump’s statements, and ruled against the plaintiff — both actions that a reasonable person might view as serving the president’s interest in this case,” Walton’s ruling said. 
Bergdahl was imprisoned and tortured by the Taliban for five years after walking away from his post in 2009. He said that he was going to report poor leadership in his unit, according to the Associated Press. 
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After the Obama administration negotiated for a trade with the Taliban, Bergdahl returned to the U.S. where he was tried and pled guilty to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy. Bergdahl escaped jail time but was made to forfeit $10,000 in pay and was dishonorably discharged. 
While campaigning for the GOP presidential nomination, Trump <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-defense-bergdahl-trump/bergdahl-lawyer-slams-candidate-trump-over-traitor-comments-idUKKCN0QP29X20150820" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> Bergdahl a “dirty rotten traitor.” Trump also said that Bergdahl’s sentence was not strong enough, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-blasts-bergdahl-decision-complete-and-total-hank-berrien" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a> that it was “a complete and total disgrace to our Country and to our Military.”
Four of the five Taliban members <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/four-taliban-members-released-from-gitmo-in-trade-for-bowe-bergdahl-now-part-of-hardline-afghan-government" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released</a> in exchange for Bergdahl joined the Taliban’s hardline government in Afghanistan after the group took over in the fall of 2021.

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