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Just as sidenote here for all. Talib means student as in singular. Taliban means 'students' as in plural. The term came to use when Mullah Omar in early 1990s recieved most of his recruits from Madaris students or religious seminaries which had proliferated in Afghanistan and Pakistan during the anti Soviet Russian jihad backed by USA as shown in Hollywood's Charlie Wilson's War. The CIA covert operation was the largest ever in budget and scope named 'Operation Cyclone.

Prior to emergence of Taliban the same seminaries funded under Operation Cyclone provided the manpower to the anti Soviet jihad and were called 'Mujihad' or a person who fights for Islam or Allah. The plural or colective become 'Mujihadeen'. Essentially there was and is no differance between Mujihadeen who were hailed as heros by the West and touted in White House and Taliban. Both are products from the same strain of thinking. The critical differance is Mujihadeen fought the Russians thus are packaged as 'good guys' but Taliban took on USA thus are 'bad guys'.
 
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Sayed Abad district, which was captured by the Taliban yesterday, 190 Kabul regime's ANA and commandos soldiers surrendered, 30 Humvees, 20 rangers, 15 Kamaz vehicles, 300 light and heavy weapons were seized by the Taliban's.
 
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According to secret documents belonging to the UK MoD that were found by citizen and sent to BBC there is a possibility of the UK to leave some forces behind in Afghanistan after NATO evacuates all its power.

Quote from BBC:

Sensitive military recommendations​

Most of the papers are marked "official sensitive", a relatively low level of classification used, according to the government, "where there is a clear and justifiable requirement to reinforce the 'need to know'".
But one document, addressed to Ben Wallace's private secretary, and marked "Secret UK Eyes Only", outlines highly sensitive recommendations for the UK's military footprint in Afghanistan, following the end of Operation Resolute Support, the Nato operation currently winding down in the wake of President Biden's decision earlier this year to withdraw American forces.
The document discusses an American request for British assistance in several specific areas, and addresses the question of whether any British special forces will remain in Afghanistan once the withdrawal is complete.
Media reports have already suggested Britain is considering leaving some forces behind.
Due to the sensitivity of the document, the BBC has decided not to report details which could endanger the security of British and other personnel in Afghanistan.
But amid reports of a worsening security situation in the country, it sounds several warnings.
"Any UK footprint in Afghanistan that persists... is assessed to be vulnerable to targeting by a complex network of actors," it says, noting that "the option to withdraw completely remains."
Afghanistan, it says, is already becoming more dangerous.
The reduced presence of Nato forces "is already impairing the situational awareness that we (and the US) used to enjoy across the country".
No Britons have been killed in Afghanistan since the US-Taliban deal in February 2020, it says, but "this would be unlikely to remain the status quo".
Rarely has a collection of lost documents covered such a wide range of important areas. This is a major embarrassment for the Ministry of Defence, which is currently carrying out a detailed investigation into how the papers came to be lying on a street corner, in the rain, in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
John Healey, Labour's shadow defence secretary, said he was surprised documents had got out of the Ministry of Defence at all. He said he wants Mr Wallace to complete the investigation quickly and report to the House of Commons this week to reassure the public that no military operations had been put at risk.

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www.bbc.com

Classified Ministry of Defence documents found at bus stop

The papers contain details about UK warship HMS Defender and the British military.
www.bbc.com www.bbc.com
 
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