Link-dump of Afghanistan-related Web-links

• al-Jazeera timeline live-updates article on the Western withdrawal from Afghanistan
  (still being continuously updated per Aug. 17, 2021)
  📑 https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/8/16/taliban-says-afghanistan-war-over-as-president-diplomats-flee

• a US war veteran of the US Afghanistan occupation shares her feelings (on Twitter) about Afghanistan today
  (link to non-tracking mirror of Twitter thread)
  📑 https://nitter.eu/LauraJedeed/status/1426689324284841987

• Beau of the Fifth Column weighs in on three questions he’s been getting a lot regarding the US withdrawal from Afghanistan (10-minute video)
  📑 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mYE6xQPoFw

• Heartbreaking: Afghanistan’s Paralympic Team Can’t Travel To Tokyo, With Airports In Turmoil
  📑 https://www.npr.org/2021/08/16/1028072127/afghanistan-paralympics-team-tokyo-airport-kabul-taliban

• My own potentially stupid & cancel-able suggestion to the Taliban, posted publicly to my personal blog:
  📑 https://minddumpster.wordpress.com/2021/08/16/hot-take-opportunity-for-taliban/

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