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Insights on Afghanistan's Current Crisis

[Music] Legend welcome to the show brother thank you for having me it's an honor it's an honor to have you here we met several months ago at Scott man's play here in Franklin and I've kind of kept in touch ever since and uh we've been wanting to get you on to talk about the withdraw the money that's going to the Taliban I think there are very few people around that have a a more in-depth Insight than you do and uh so this is going to be a heavy episode but I just want to say that I really appreciate you coming and um I know this is going to be very eye openening to a lot of Americans and probably the world before we get any further into the interview Legend I just wanted to explain to the audience why the camera shots are different your true name and Fa can never be revealed at least not right now due to the fact that you still travel over to Afghanistan and fight and are a member of the NRF which is the Afghan National resistance front fighting force just wanted to make that clear now we can carry on well thank you for inviting me it's my pleasure I never thought that 23 years after 911 I would have to come here to the Sha Ryan Show to tell the world that the Taliban is a terrorist group group and I'm here and we're doing just that it's a real shame isn't it it is absolutely but um but let me give you an introduction real quick so you were born in war in Afghanistan you immigrated to the United States before 911 you join the US Army as a linguist and in the intelligence Community as an analyst uh you deployed to Afghanistan to Coast bam and Cabell returned to the US to train Afghan forces predeployment you returned to Afghanistan with the Department of Defense and now you are part of the NRF the Afghan National resistance front and you're here to get us up to speed on the US Taliban relations and uh I think that's the primary goal of this and and um as much as I can't wait to dive in I'm kind of uh I'm very concerned about what I'm going to hear and I I think the rest of the world will be too I think you'll be surprised but um but before we before we get too serious everybody gets a gift everybody gets a gift so W Ranch little ranch dressing for you so you know after our uh dinner last night you said when you came to America you had a ranch addiction and it went on everything and there's also some uh gummy bears in there for you I'm still addicted to Ranch maybe you can dump them on those gummy bears well today you also get a gift Shan oh nice I love gifts I love gifts oh boy I should have warned you it may make you sad what is this this is a flag that the Taliban burnt in 2022 we recovered it from Afghanistan oh man this is when the Taliban were celebrating their first year anniversary in Cabell this is what they were doing enchanting death to America all over kabell and there's a few of these flags so the first you personally recovered this yes and I gave the first one to General Joseph votel former US Central Command CEO the other one went to uh Colonel Mike walz Congressman Mike Wells from Florida oh and then the third one went to Lieutenant Colonel Scott man and then you have the fourth one well thank you that's um I don't know what to say thank you but uh absolutely it will be in the in the SRS Museum in here thank you wow uh well before we get to In The Weeds about everything that's going on I want to dig into a little bit of of your background to kind of qualify you on on why you're able to speak on this and and how you become so informed so um what what kind of work were you doing for the US Army in the global war on terrorism so I joined the US Army at the age of 17 and uh because I was born in Afghanistan I was in a very unique position every General out there wanted an afghan with them and there were linguist obviously in the as contractors civilians but there weren't many Afghan Americans in the US Army so I knew the language I knew the history of the country I was born there and I was an American Soldier I had a security clearance and so I worked Under the Umbrella of the intelligence Community uh unlike other US Army soldiers who have one MOS I had an MOS too one but they do one specific thing uh where I was deployed one day I was with the division headquarters the next day I was with the c at the gate the next day I was helping uh during an interrogation I was everywhere and so my job like I said fell under the US Army intelligence I did Linguistics I deployed to Afghanistan after my deployment I returned to the US I was stationed here in Fort Riley Kansas and we had this pilot program where we would train Afghan soldiers who would come here for training and they would go back to Afghanistan at the same time we also had a predeployment training for US forces who were going to Afghanistan so the US government had started this pilot program it was to give the US soldiers a taste of Afghanistan before they go to Afghanistan and we were there we started this at Fort Riley uh I played a very very tiny role we had role players in there uh africanamerican civilians who the government would hire and bring and so there was a whole Afghan Village inside America inside this military base there was a call to prayer uh everyone spoke fary or PTO there was a local villager an elder a Mulla a governor and some uh those Afghan soldiers who were here and then the US soldiers would partner with them and they would go on joint missions yes we were involved in that interesting interesting how many times did you deploy to Afghanistan with the US government um the US Army two one in 2007 and then an additional one with DOD in uh 2011 and what kind of work were you doing over there so I think we covered the uh Army part the other one while I was in Afghanistan I was still in the Army just not active duty I was on reserves what but what units were you attached to 82nd was my first unit then Fort Riley The Big Red One first Infantry Division yes and then following that I was on a special assignment in the west coast that also fell under the intelligence Community is something that I cannot talk about okay yes but it was that and then following that I went on my uh tour to Afghanistan again and this was with the dod under a contract and it it was basically similar to what the CIA did what you did in Afghanistan except I was not CIA okay as and we were civilians we would do RFI we would get requests for information we would go to Villages go to different places and get that information we had recruited I had recruited they uh we had recruited trained and maintained this network inside Afghanistan and we would collect information we would gather information not collect all on the words so CIA collects we didn't collect we gathered and we would submit that we would report to uh anyone that needed information whether it be isaf uh NATO NATO allies US Embassy agency anyone US Army intelligence C anyone that needed information they would send us r f and we would go out so the way it worked was as you know when there's a US team that leaves the base in Afghanistan goes on a mission they have to have a certain amount of individuals troops vehicles uh qrf has to be there the roads have to be green and so in my case that wasn't the case I had a freedom of movement letter from the commanding officer which at that time was the Turkish military and so I was out about in cabul every day in a Twan team it was me and my partner we would go meet collect the information and come back was your partner also an Afghan American no he was an American he was a US Army Ranger former and then contractor and then later on it switched and then it was one of the Turkish allies okay yes the former Turkish uh I don't remember what their intelligence agency is called but he was from the SE the Turkish external agency but now he joined uh he he had joined this contract he was there as a civilian so this was basically you don't have to answer this if you don't want but this was with the defense intelligence agency no no we were in a contract working for the dod okay yes okay not the okay so but you are essentially a spy I wouldn't call it a spy you're a spy I would but um well let's move on I wanted to I just wanted to dig in a little bit into your background because I wanted to I wanted to qualify you to to speak on this and and give the audience uh a reason that they should be listening to you and um so I want to move on to August 2021 the afterm withw yeah how were you involved in that so in August 2021 I still had family in Afghanistan and I reached out to anyone I could to try to save their lives but I didn't get any help not from the department and so I was reaching them other veterans were reaching them uh individuals very high ranking that I knew that I reached out to for help they reached out on my behalf but I didn't really get any help so when the last soldiers were pulled out of Afghanistan August 31 I still had family there so I had no choice but to go there myself and I did and once I landed there these other veterans that I just uh involved the evacuations that I had been in touch with they heard that I was there and so they started reaching out to me it's really funny I remember while I was there I spoke to a s US senator that called me asking me for help uh so he/ she I I don't want to identify that individual but it's sit US senator and he called me asking me to save help this uh American citizen that was left behind and I was shaking my head I'm just a veteran there I have I don't I'm not special forces I'm not agency they're there and you're calling me to save an American it's not my job it would be my honor to do it but why aren't you doing it you're a United States Senator that's how we got involved there were so many Americans Left Behind especially after the abig gate bombing uh there are reports that even US Passport holders were T of around from the age Kaya it was a mess there are still Americans in Afghanistan right now yeah do you know where all over all over all over Afghanistan how are they surviving and they in hiding so I'll give you an example there you could say there's a father American citizen in Afghanistan and um his children are a citizens and his children under the age of 18 are eligible to come with him but let's say he has a daughter that's 23 she's not eligible to come with them and what kind of father would leave his daughter behind the mercy of the Taliban so now that father has decided to stay with his family with his daughter okay and now the state department uh the current Administration is saying that father has chosen to stay in Afghanistan the reality is you have made it impossible for him to come he doesn't want to stay there there are so many Americans in Afghanistan still to this say man how many Americans do you estimate are still there I don't know the exact answer but I'll tell you it's definitely not the hundred or so individuals Mr Biden told everyone there were 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that did this it's not America uh that's how the world sees it we shouldn't we know better we're right here uh two it didn't just happen all of a sudden in August 2021 this thing started during the Doha deal it it started in 2020 in fact even in uh July of 2021 uh uh weeks months before the official evacuation uh there were us uh CIA officers were sending CIA and as well as uh US military partners of the Afghan Air Force they were sending messages to those Pilots Afghan pilots on the ground in July in June and July saying in case of emergency take your plane to usbekistan this is in July way before the evacuation there were even um cases where the US was giving visas to uh with this US Embassy in Kabal they were granting visas to commanders of forces such as host protection Force they were evacuating the commanders and their families so we know what a chain of command is having both served in the military once you cut off that chain you remove that Commander at the peak of battle what happens to that chain it deterior right yes and that's exactly what happened but all of this started in 2020 with the DOA deal what is the Doha deal a conspiracy anything but a deal anything but a good deal for the people in Afghanistan or for us in America for for both countries it only benefited the Taliban Doha deal is is it's a very complex issue you this is an agreement that was signed between zalma khalat the US ambassador for Afghanistan the US Special Envoy for Afghanistan at that time and the Taliban they signed it in Doha what happened was the zi KH zad started pushing this idea with the help of the state department that there are good Taliban and bad Taliban president Trump at this point was the president while the DOA deal was signed he wanted an end to war he wanted us service members to come home he doesn't he didn't want the US soldiers to die and he wanted this war to end this is something I wanted you wanted everyone in Afghanistan they were tired of War they wanted peace but not this type of peace that they eventually got this is not peace they wanted to the from the Afghan side they were looking at this Doha deal as a way to make the Taliban mainstream bring them into politics drop your weapons send in elections what they got in said was the opposite and so president Trump wanted an end to war the Afghan government wanted an end to war and so they said let's give the Taliban a chance and let's negotiate with them and so Z khiz on behalf of the US uh met with the Taliban in Doha and Qatar and they brought uh the Taliban sent M Abdul gani barar to Doha mulani baradar is the individual Sarah Adams the CIA Target arrested and so he was released because of the lobbying uh that Z KH did he was released from the prison and he was given he was put in this mansion in Doha and he negotiated on behalf of the Taliban now that guy is the brother-in-law of the founder of Taliban he was the chief of operations for the Taliban for about 15 years in Afghanistan so all of those US soldiers that died in battle that man is the record responsible but now he's there and Z KH is saying this is a good Taliban and he wants peace and so they his son that we're negotiating with it's not his son it's his brother-in-law it's his brother the founder of the Taliban is dead he died many many years ago in Pakistan this man is his brother-in-law and the co-founder of the talban and that's who we're negotiating with that's who we're negotiating with in 20120 not we Z KH is negotiating with him and so if you you have to know about Z KH history his history he yes he's an African-American he's an employee at the state department or was at that time he was the special Envoy uh for Afghanistan but Z kala's relationship with the Taliban goes back many many years back 1999 Z Khat was in Houston Texas and he invited the Taliban to the United States to Houston Texas and the Taliban were here not just any Taliban Amir Khan mut Amir Khan mutaki today is the foreign minister of the Taliban a senior Taliban cabinet official and so Z kala's relationship with the Taliban goes back all the way to 19 99 if I I'll say it like this if I tell your viewers to close their eyes right now and picture Taliban right and then I ask you what you saw I know what you did not see you did not see a guy in a suit and a tie clean shaven right here in the United States but that is exactly where they are that's Z KH individual he's Taliban in mind in action he's been supporting the Taliban and lobbying for the Taliban since 1999 at a time when he knew back in 1999 that Taliban were executing women in stadiums they were hosting Osama Bin Laden and all of those things that the Taliban were carrying out Salma khiz was aware of it he didn't care so now going forward now that you know zma Khat he worked for the state department he was uh tasked so president Trump wanted peace I'll go step by step and he asked State Department for help some Afghan expert and he was given zai khalat and so zai khalat goes to Doha negotiates with the Taliban and he comes up with this agreement and there's four parts to that Doha deal one is uh the US will withdraw its forces from Afghanistan if the following happens the Taliban do not host Al the Taliban do not allow their supporters or give Safe Haven or any sort of support to alqaeda and that Afghan and Taliban agreed that Afghan that they will not allow alqaeda to use Afghanistan soil for attacks against America and America's allies and then the Taliban must become mainstream they must enter into negotiations like the Doha deal with the Afghan Republic with the constitutional republ repu in Afghanistan and so and then the Taliban agreed to a permanent ceasefire and if all of these things happen the US will withdraw president Trump will withdraw all of the US forces but only one of those things happened the Taliban violated all of the others they failed to negotiate with the Afghan government they took over the Afghan government they say they will not host alqaeda alqaeda is all over Afghanistan right now from what I understand Al-Qaeda and Taliban are now one and the same is that true absolutely there's alqaeda has just opened eight new bases in Afghanistan I we can talk about alqaeda uh if if that's yes we can talk about alqaeda has eight new bases in Afghanistan right now and this is according to un uh Security Council un investigations alqaeda has 16,000 fighters in Afghanistan and Bin Laden's sons are in Kandahar and Helmont protected by the Taliban the Taliban are basically they violated this agreement days after they signed it I'll give you another example of the Doha deal and and what the Taliban were doing back then you know Mark Randall US Navy veteran who uh disappeared in Afghanistan Mark Randle so he's a US Navy veteran he's an American engineer was in Afghanistan at around the time when the Doha deal was being negotiated between Z Khat and the Taliban leader uh more Randle goes missing in Afghanistan and people start people know Taliban and akani are the ones doing all that kidnapping they're taking American hostages so people started asking Zai KH Z and the Taliban and Doha well what do you mean when you say you want peace and you want an end and you're kidnapping Americans they said no no no no no we have not kidnapped this American Z KH Z said anyone who says that Taliban did this kidnapped uh Mark Randall is an enemy of Peace they're saying this in order to break down this negotiation these talks and so people in Afghanistan and elsewhere they kind of took a back step they said oh no no I don't want to be labeled as an enemy of Peace so I'll just stay quiet and then the Doha deal was signed evacu ations happened we left a few months ago in 2023 Mark Randall is released by the Taliban the Taliban who did not hold them but the Biden Administration so the Taliban did not release him just uh without getting anything in return they asked for an indiv a specific individual who was in Us in jail a Taliban commander and the Biden Administration released him that Taliban Commander is Bashir nurai Pablo Escobar of Afghanistan Dr Kingpin Mr Biden released him in 2023 let's go before we get to into Al-Qaeda and Taliban I want to go back to what was happening during the withdrawal it seemed I interviewed a number of people on this subject and it seemed that the it seemed like the assassinations the all of the Carnage that started happening over there it seemed like a light switch how fast did that start happening to the Afghan people and who will start there like I said earlier it didn't just happen it to those in Afghan they were watching this unfolding every day and this could have been prevented unfortunately at this point Mr Biden and his administration had won the elections and he was in in charge and he refused to support them the president of Afghanistan at that time ashra gani he sent a letter to Mr Biden requesting a list of defensive weapons that the Afghan government needed in order to defend in order for the security forces to defend and defend the people and the country against the Taliban Mr Biden received it and he said this is a wish list he's not going to get it knowing that the Taliban were advancing the Z KH Z's Point his objective was that the Taliban would Circle eventually the Afghan presidential Palace forcing ashra gani into sign signing an agreement handing over power to the Taliban now ashra gani he he wasn't a good president he had bad policies but nevertheless he was elected by the pop the Afghan population it was a Democratic elected government now think about this had rashani chosen to stay instead of fleeing right he would have handed over this government to the Taliban and today the Taliban would have been a government that was recognized by the whole world so I'm not saying ashra gani was a good man who planned this he just left now the first vice president he went to paner Valley to join the resistance and he took with him this legitimacy from the talban he took it had they stayed the Taliban had already entered Cabell they had circled the presidential Palace they would have forced them into signing over this government handing over the government to the Taliban your question was I forgot what your question was we're talking about the basically what I'm getting at is what started happening to our partner forces so yes I remember um the US had stopped contract support for the Afghan forces as I said earlier the US was granting visas to the commanders and basically destroying whole units uh the command was being removed and soldiers basically had no one to give them orders and so as the Taliban approached these guys were out of ammunition they had no air support they had no uh medac they're injured were uh dying there was no one to treat them and the Taliban were advancing and the Taliban did not come alone they brought a lot of other Terror networks with them and so they kept pushing the Afghan forces some were overrun some you can see videos of how they asked the Afghans to surrender and when the Afghan forces ran out of ammunition ran out of bullets they did surrender but then the Taliban massacred all of them and this continued all the way until the Taliban reached Kabul they took over Kabul and at this point the resistance had been declared all of paner Valley The paner Province just north of Kabal was the only province that had not Fallen to the Taliban it was getting besieged by the Taliban on a few different fronts from the north from the east from the sou from the west and now the Taliban were approaching from the south from Kabal in large numbers but most of the Commandos uh even from as far as Helmont and kahor they uh gotten their vehicles and taxis and any other way they could they all came to the AER Valley to defend this one place to Rally here and then start counter operations against the Taliban so they were there unfortunately even at that point when Mr Biden and the whole world saw that the Taliban were right there and they had besieged P chair even at this point he refused to help the last Democratic forces in Afghanistan and so what happened was many many people members of the Afghan military were executed by the Talan do you have an estimation of how many thousands thousand thousands it's hard to tell man it's but it's thousands Afghanistan after the evacuations were over when I went there there were still dead bodies on the sides of the road man and it was still happening it was in the end they were still killing people I saw Taliban had hanged individuals I saw Taliban drowning uh a man in the river all of these were what we call our Afghan allies our Afghan partners and it's continued it's continuing it's even happening right now as we speak the oppression of women Revenge killings looking for Afghan uh former Afghan military government officials Civil Society they're still attacking them they're still killing them do you think they'll stop absolutely not what is their goal the taliban's goal are you familiar with al-qaeda's Goal list isis's goal list what is it you are an unbeliever according to them where you are this is a camp of the unbelievers they want to purify this you are the end goal I am the end goal this is the end goal and ala's goal taliban's goal they're the same it never stops no so you know sometime you hear people say uh not people again State Department uh these individuals who are in their in the inside the state department and their and they never leave they they say alqa is a problem Taliban is not a problem there's Taliban 2.0 and Taliban 1.0 they say this the reality on the ground is not that it's different the look The the leader of the Taliban who's in K right now you know what his title is his title that it's mandatory for all Afghans to address them by that title it's Amir the commander of the Believers which Believers I am a believer I'm a practicing Muslim I an American Muslim that man thinks he's my commander he's the commander and believer commander of all the Muslims in America all the people in Saudi Arabia and the gulf in India in Indonesia in Europe in America in Canada he's the commander of all of them now you come and you tell me State Department tells me oh but this is Taliban 2.0 this has changed what you don't know is taliban's ideology there is no difference between Taliban and alqaeda their ideology is identical they're two sides of the same coin they both want the same thing they think that after Afghanistan they're going to link up with the army of Mahi and this is basically the Judgment Day is nearby it's it's it's around the corner and so they're going to join they're going to be there the army of Mahi who's going to go to Damascus in Syria and they're going to link up with uh the Messiah I'm not kidding the Messiah Jesus Christ and that this is the army that will link up with Jesus Christ march on Jerusalem take over Jerusalem liberate Jerusalem and then Liberate the West liberate America liberate Canada when Isis and alqaeda and these guys in Afghanistan when they look at America they don't see the United States of America they see the Islamic States North America Province the Islamic States Latin American Province the Islamic States European Province just like Afghanistan to them is the Islamic States horasan Province ISP what you call them wow what happened to our allies families are they being killed and persecuted as well yes the short answer is yes now who's your ally is it the guy that was your interpreter your Barber your who's your your advisor who's your ally is it the guy who uh you know 95 96% of the people in Afghanistan son did not pick up a weapon to kill Americans when Americans were there aren't they your allies so who's the Ally I'm not talking to you I'm talking to all the viewers all the listeners who's the Ally so are their families getting massacred and killed by the Taliban on a daily basis absolutely but if your definition of an ally is interpreter and your question is if that interpreter's family mother father children are getting executed yes so the Taliban agenda in Afghanistan is to wipe out the entire ideology of anybody who took part in in aiding the us whether it was a barber whether they were fighting alongside us whether it was the government officials their families everybody exactly but first first them then you we'll get into us here in a minute look let's let's get back to the evacuation I want to cover the evacuation before we get into the Weeds on this other stuff let's talk about the how many people did we evacuate how many people did the US evacuate from Afghanistan the Biden Administration claims it evacuated about 12 something thousand individuals 20 something Taliban individuals thousand individuals 120,000 were any of those people vetted you background you're a professional you work in the CIA you tell me is it possible to vet people that many people in two weeks while you're surrounded by Taliban akani Isis there's a suicide bombing and all that chaos you saw the stuff on TV you tell me is it possible to vet all of those individuals no okay now Mr Biden can can claim whatever he wants and you this is a free country you can believe him or you can just say no give me the evidence what I can tell you is this about the veterans most veterans involved in this they're all in agreement in this that about 70% of the people that Mr Biden evacuated were not eligible to get any of the Visas they were not vetted they don't know who they brought out they're figured it out they're figuring it out right now they're learning who they brought out now while they're already here now I'm not saying there's anything wrong with those individuals that we brought I am if you said what I'm saying right now they would call you racist islamophobe they can't say the same thing to me so there is a process America is a very generous country it gave me a home it took me in and um this is this is going to continue America has always been a generous country it will continue to accept refugees legally vetted correctly but that is not what is happening right now that is not what happened unvetted individuals uh they were not the so-called allies quote unquote they don't know who they were they were just people and so if you this category of individuals that they brought the whole of Afghanistan falls under that category it's all your ally are you going to evacuate those 40 million of the Afghan people and bring them here you tell me is the evacuation the solution here or is it just a Band-Aid to this problem it's a Band-Aid yeah you were in Afghanistan too right you were deployed there you trained the Afghan forces you worked with them what was did you ever think that you were doing this in order to bring these guys and make them your neighbors in America or were you doing it so they could fight for their own country defend their own country keep terrorism at Bay and when Afghanistan is free and Safe America is safe it's linked look at what happened on 9/11 terrorism was in Afghanistan America was attacked now the same thing has happened again now what some people are actually doing right now is they're even evacuating the Afghan Commandos they're evacuating or lobbying to evacuate Afghan Intelligence Officers Afghan Commandos tactical teams Pilots the very very individuals who took the o to defend the constitution of Afghanistan the people of Afghanistan now they're evacuating them and bringing them here to the United States and once they come to the United States they're not going to be Pilots they're not going to be CIA they're not going to become uh Generals in the US military they probably won't even be able to join the military so what they end up doing here is gas station clerks Uber drivers nothing wrong with those jobs but and nothing wrong with some of those individuals all of those individuals being here but if you zoom out and look at the bigger picture trying to justify to me that bringing these professionals trained individuals here is better than for them to be in their own birth country and their homes with their families and fight for their country defend their country save their country and once again when Afghanistan is safe America is safe what do our former allies think of us now it depends on who you talk to depends some are very pissed some feel naturally very very betrayed and abandoned because it's not the first time the America has done something like this to the people in Afghanistan America abandoned the people in Afghanistan after the Cold War you know 2 million Afghans died in that war that was not a cold war between Afghanistan and the Soviet Union you know Afghans made so much sacrifices in that war for freedom but once the war was over America abandoned Afghanistan in 2001 1996 when the Taliban came to power there was many things America could do America betrayed Afghanistan abandoned it 2001 after we went in there we didn't give the Afghan people what they wanted a decentralized system of Governors instead we gave them Mr hammed Karai we gave him ashh we gave him during the bun conference we gave him what we thought was good for Afghans what America thought what Salma Khal thought was good for Afghans we gave him that and now 2020 2021 after so between 2001 and 2021 the evacuations do you know how many Afghan soldiers laid down their lives made the ultimate sacrifice half of the Afghan Army were killed by the Taliban between that time 2001 to 2021 half the Afghan Army and then Mr Joe Biden decides to abandon them and you know what he said when he was was doing this he said we America gave them everything we could one thing we could not give them was the will to fight we gave them everything we could we could not give them the will to fight you know the people in Afghanistan were fighting the Taliban and alqaeda long before Joe Biden even knew what alqaeda and Taliban was I doubt he still knows what Taliban and alqa are because if he did he would not be calling him good Taliban he would not be saying from the White House Podium that America is working with the Taliban this is chaos Sean I know it is and it's happening before everyone's eyes and people are not even noticing it so during the evacuations what became known as the abig gate bombing um a few days before this the national resistance front the resistance that are already been declared members of the Afghan government intelligence Commandos were there they received reports and they notified the US that the Taliban will carry out suicide bombings at the airport and this is the only way the Taliban will be able to take control of the airport and push America out and they may blame it on alqaeda Isis or any of their other buddies but there were warnings coming from the resistance that the Taliban were planning suicide bombings now 13 members service members died in that attack that's not going to change we cannot bring them back to life it's it's a tragedy what happened many many American soldiers were wounded Sergeant Tyler Vargas Andrews look at that kid look at what happened to him about 200 Afghans were for those that don't know he's lost a leg he's lost his arm an arm yeah he's lost all his friends yes entire life is different now it is completely but they say Isis did this attack they were so quick to say Isis carried out this abig gate bombing attack it may be right it may be wrong but but why are you not talking about the fact that Taliban had a thousand suicide bombers positioned all over hkaya 1,000 suicide bombers their Commander was Hadi Taliban Commander named Hadi he's with the hakani network hakani sarudin hakani his nickname is the father of suicide bombers he was 10 minutes away from the airport you were we the Biden Administration were very quick into saying this is based on intelligence our intelligence this is Isis that did this attack now it's the same intelligence that Mr Biden received in order to it's the same intelligence after the abig gate bombing he ordered a a strike against The Mastermind of that ISIS attack and the same individuals who told them this is an ISIS attack also told them the Mastermind is right there in cabal he's planning more attacks so Mr Biden orders a drone strike against that vehicle carrying the Isis Mastermind and everyone in that vehicle dies General Mark Millie at the Pentagon he said we can confirm that this was an is this was the Isis Mastermind and he was on his way to carry out more terror attacks more uh uh ID attacks uh and how we know this is because of the secondary explosions there were journalists in Afghanistan and some of them decided to go and investigate this the aftermath of that attack it turned out that that supposed that Mastermind of Isis Master Mastermind was a Aid worker I remember this the people in the back seat seven children innocent children what they called the secondary explosions were water bottles water splashing everywhere so that was the intelligence that's how wrong the intelligence was at that time and yet they were so quick into saying this is an Isis terrorist attack did we even have any intelligence in that country at that time or had everybody had everybody moved into into the airport Mr Biden and his State Department were relying on the Taliban for intelligence there were so so the US hold on so the US's intelligence in Afghanistan at that time was coming from the Taliban a terrorist organization I don't say this the state department says this Mr Thomas West the current US Special Envoy to Afghanistan says this that he at the airport was working with the Taliban relying on the Taliban the US it was losing we were losing the intelligence collection capability in Afghanistan as this thing was happening and today 2 and a half years after all of this America has lost 98% of its collection capability in Afghanistan 98% absolutely so we have virtually zero Intelligence on the ground in Afghanistan which is essentially a breeding ground for how many terrorist organizations 27 terrorist organizations and growing every day where do you get your intelligence from so the national resistance front the last Democratic forces in Afghanistan led by his Excellency Commander Ahmed mud it's a resistance it has a battlefield Wing Battlefield uh headquarters it has an intelligence Wing a political Wing the best intelligence the most most reliable accurate intelligence comes from the national resistance front no one has anything close to it there is no one else it's only the resistance versus 27 different terrorist organizations how are you involved in the resistance I am a member of the NRF um I lead the organization vets foreign RF which is a US veter an organization that uh gives voice and supports the last Democratic forces in Afghanistan led by Commander masud we're all in support of them we uh we support them the NRF and the continuation of the war against terrorism we believe as veteran I believe this war has not ended and the resistance on the ground they don't think this war has ended they see that this war has not ended on a daily basis they're carrying out operations against alqaeda Isis Taliban hakani and all of these other Terror networks in fact I have brought a uh list of all the recent operations for you I'll give that to you in the month of March and you will see dates time location how many Taliban terrorists were killed how many Al-Qaeda were killed and this is continuing the resistance is continuing against them what kind of equipment does the resistance have everything that they had been assigned by the Afghan government so the bulk of the NRF is Afghan Commandos kka the and Intelligence Officers from NDS uh regular Afghan Army and then volunteers from Afghanistan so their equipment is a mixture of weapons from and this is not a lot a few uh from the last resistance again the Taliban from 1996 and then they have some uh of those weapons that those soldiers were able to bring with them as the country was uh Province was uh falling to the Taliban and they were coming into PIR they started bringing in some of their vehicles ammo uh m4s M16s uh heavy weapons they brought all of them to P share but it's not enough what happened to all of the equipment the weapons the vehicles the ammunition the night vision that the US had their stockpiled that we were using for the past 20 years what happened to all that the Taliban have all of them and it's not just the Taliban the Taliban we're talking about $86 billion doll worth of bases equipment military equipment and the items that you mentioned all were left for the Taliban and the Taliban are very generous with their uh with their brethren in alqaeda and Isis and so Isis has those weapons alqaeda has them uh Hamas has them hakani has them Pakistani Taliban Taliban they have them lashar Kashmir jihadist in Afghanistan have them Anar Tajikistan is in Afghanistan they have weapons the Taliban have given those weapons to everyone those weapons that America left behind they're even found in places like Yemen they're found in North Africa they're found in the current conflict between uh Israel and and Hamas all of these weapons were left behind this is basically the the way I look at it it's the last gift wrapped item that Mr Biden left for the Taliban and they're using that against the Afghan people and once again I I I will say it once again once they're done with the Afghan people they're going to continue marching West we'll get into that on that note let's take a quick break ladies and gentlemen it has been a minute since I've done a bubs Naturals commercial but it has not been a minute since I've taken the best of my entire life actually just knocked one out this morning it was amazing and I'm going to give you the secret you ready here's the secret you want the 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about a very powerful country who doesn't leave evidence behind not that easy so it's hard to pinpoint it but you could say this thing started around 2006 2007 maybe 2005 the Taliban started their operations against uh America when did you start noticing Chinese officials just blatantly negotiating with Taliban and Cabell you see uh that happening after the evacuation so I'll tell you this so President Biden ordered the withdrawal and it took place on August 31 21 two days later on September 2 a plane took off from China landed in Bagram Airfield in pan Province large huge uh military installation built originally by the Russians when they had invaded Afghanistan and then it's such a strategic and important location that was the US's headquarters and during this entire time that we were there America was there and so billions of dollars have been spent on this backround mfield it has a 12,000 ft Runway one of the busiest air uh uh runways during the war any anywhere in the world was Bagram Airfield Bagram is so huge uh I don't know if you have ever been there but it yeah as you know it can house 15 20,000 Personnel it's a huge base there were there are restaurants shops everything is inside that base it's a very modern city inside Afghanistan and so this plane from China landed in Bagram Airfield carrying about 150 Chinese Nationals and they immediately started giving life back to Bagram so when the US had left a few months ago left Bagram not Afghanistan just Bagram abandoned it the Taliban who were under the Safi mountains around Bagram came in and to some extent destroyed Bagram and then as the evacuations were happening the Taliban decided to release all the prisoners alqaeda and Isis that were also on bgram so those prisoners started damaging the base and so two days after uh the withdrawal September 2 2021 This Plane carrying 150 Chinese that landed in backround and it started rebuilding it within about 2 weeks more planes from China landed in Bagram Mayfield and since then there has been a consistent amount of approximately 350 Chinese Nationals in Bagram and they never leave they have no reason to leave so would you say September 21 is the first time that the Chinese overt L showed presence in Afghanistan September 2 September two days after we left yeah I meant September of 2021 yeah and that's not all though it's worse than that China is helping the Taliban build a military division China's uh there's a defense company in China called norenko it's a big defense company weapons manufacturer they have held so many meetings with the taliban's defense Ministry now the taliban's defense minister is Mula yakub son of the founder of the Taliban Mula Omar son today is the uh defense minister in Afghanistan he has held many meetings with norenko and so have other Taliban uh officials and so norenko is known as a company that gives arms military equipment surveillance equipment in exchange for minerals these are called arms for minerals deals and so they come they have been giving the Taliban uh uh new technology Huawei a Chinese company uh through nor enco has built has installed over a 100,000 cameras in cabal alone and also in elsewhere in strategic places in Afghanistan they have given the Taliban a state-of-the-art surveillance system did you just say a 100,000 yes cameras in kabble is this these AI type cameras that with facial recognition it's surveillance system they have it in China they're giving the same thing to the Taliban and that's not even it the Chinese are involved and they have signed with the Taliban billions of dollars worth of contracts to extract minerals from Afghanistan all of these are illegal mining extractions and so the Chinese are uh have uh are involved in extracting lithium and Afghanistan is the world's largest it has the world's largest deposit of lithium and so it's lithium Chinese are extracting gold uh other Rare Earth minerals in Afghanistan copper for those that don't know lithium is what all of the batteries are made out of that uh you hear about the green initiative that that people are pushing that's the interest so here in the US Chinese are producing all of our green initiative power supplies by basically infiltrating Afghanistan and creating these these these minerals for weapons deals with the Taliban absolutely in fact that phone in your pocket right now that has a lithium battery and so in China extracts all of this lithium who are they going to sell it to back to the United States yes and it's not even the end the talibans uh the Taliban sent one of their uh commanders a terrorist to China who met with the president of China XI jingpin and the Chinese president accepted his credentials and handed over to him the embassy of Afghanistan in China similarly the Taliban Chinese have sent their own ambassadors to Kabal who has been recognized by the leader of the Taliban they have short of that official officially the president of that country that Communist Party saying I have recognized the Taliban short of that statement there is relationships on so many levels military political business between China and the Taliban controlled Afghanistan Chinese are building warehouses in Afghanistan in the in the middle of nowhere in the middle of nowhere so as a investor from America as an H EST businessman you wouldn't go and spend $500 in that place it's in the middle of nowhere but not China this is all part of that Roden belt initiative of China trillion dollar worth of project a huge project that intends to connect all of Asia to Europe so China has long-term goals and now you want to know what the US is doing to counter China nothing no nothing yes State Department said they're doing nothing is China is China helping the Taliban build infrastructure within the major cities and provinces as well I know they're doing a lot of that in Africa or is it solely weapons for minerals so they are building infrastructures like I said now again it's really hard to tell without I mean like I said Road systems yes I'm not just talking about the mining camps absolutely everything that is required to connect all of Central Asia to Europe all of it everything that is required warehouses roads China is investing they're building it for the Taliban to help the Taliban because not this not only helps the Taliban it's you can say this China doesn't really care about the Taliban China has bigger plans than Taliban Taliban is a useful idiot to China they're using him but it is happening right now like I said what worries me the most is that China's intention is not just Afghanistan is bigger than that way bigger than that it's America and America has done nothing in Afghanistan to counter even that uh part of this the Chinese part of it yeah yeah very uh troubling let's talk about when it's smart on their part yes very smart let's talk about how the US is funding Taliban oh that's a hard statement to say right yes it is so briefly I'll tell you this there is when this evacuation was happening the Afghan people had about $7 billion of their money uh in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York for safekeeping after the evacuations President Biden decided to cut this money in two send $3.5 billion doar to Switzerland he said the reason he did this was because the survivors of uh and the family members of the victims of the terrorist attack of 9911 their lawyers were trying to get a portion of this money because now that the Taliban were in in in in in power in kabble and because the Taliban had being had a role in 9/11 by giving Safe Haven to Ben Laden and support Bin Laden well then they can sue the Taliban now but the way the rest of us saw this is America is a system there's there are course there are laws it's not easy for somebody to take for one victim to just take money from another victim you know it's not the right thing to do and it will not happen in any court so the money was safe right here that money being here in the United States meant that money would not go to terrorists in control of Afghanistan but what Mr Biden did is he cut it into two kept three and a half billion here in the US and then transferred the other $3.5 billion dollar to Switzerland in a bank account that is called the Afghan trust fund now he assigned one individual from the state department on the board one individual from the um Switzerland government is on the board and then there are two Afghans one of those Afghans is an Afghan American his name is shaabi now sh rabi his job the the whole point of this trust fund is to make sure that this money benefits the Afghan people not the Taliban now sham rabi has is a board member of the Afghan trust fund at the same time he's a board member currently serving he's a member of the Taliban Supreme Council at the central bank at the Taliban controlled Central Bank the other individual anir aadii he is he's a very weird man he believes in one party rule in Afghanistan where he thinks only one tribe in Afghanistan has the authority to rule in Afghanistan he's he's with some ways you could say he's very racist but this other individual anari he used to work for the Taliban during the first Taliban Reign now he's in charge of the $3.5 billion do and this $3.5 billion dollar it it has been accumulating generating interest it's been there for over two and a half years it has generated about $200 million in interest now what is their plan what they have or are doing with that interest money some of that is used to I'll back up a little bit Afghanistan's money is not printed in Afghanistan it's printed in Poland and in France okay now there is cost associated with printing with printing currency Afghan currency and so they have offered to pay for the printing cost of that fund that money unlimited amount of money that will go to the Taliban controlled Central Bank another way they have offered uh they have offered to give um pay for the booklets the passport booklets Afghan passports the booklets are not printed in Afghanistan they're also printed in Europe now there's a cost associated with that they have offered to pay for that now once those passport booklets millions and millions of them are printed they're shipped to Afghanistan and given to none other than saraj hakani his passport department and then he issues it every Thursday holy Warrior day at the passport department he gives it to them generating more money is this negligence or is this on purpose knowing that Mr Biden is very familiar the Secretary of St Anthony blinkin is very familiar with one of the board members and his wife from the time when Mr Joe Biden was chairman Joe Biden of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee now the wife of that board member anari is none other than FMA gilani Fatima galani is a very interesting woman if you just Google her name you will be surprised with the things she has to say that support the Taliban her Pro Taliban statements she has known Mr Joe Biden since 2001 right after the 911 attacks in fact Joe Biden very heavily relied on the advice of Fatma gani while he was Senator Foreign Relations Committee making decisions that would affect the future of Afghanistan there are a number of key individuals in this whole thing from going back to the first uh the resistance against the Soviet Union those same individuals were there when 9/11 happened they were there when America was about to go at War they were they had a very important role IND the and propping up hammed Karai to be the president they were friends with ashra gani they in fact had roles in the Afghan government and then during the evacuations these same individuals were involved and now when the Taliban are back in power those same individuals are the decision makers anir aadii sham rabi fattima galani Z someone needs to look into all of these individuals they're not unknown Z KH he was investigated by the FBI for moneya laundering while he was the US ambassador for Afghanistan so this is a negligence it's by design it looks that way from my point of view I don't see how you could see it any other way I agree but then again it's all up to the American people I what I can do through the Shan Ryan show through your platform is give the people this people that I love so much give them this information it's their government now what you do at this point after you have investigated these matters that's the only thing that matters you have that right to put that man in the White House and you did now you have the right to take him out of the White House and put him back in his basement now I I'm only speaking as an American Veteran now I have to be careful I will it will be against every value that I have have as an Afghan as an American Veteran values that I was Tau in the Army I will not call myself a man if I vote for this man for Joe Biden I will be betraying every value that I have if I vote for this man I know if I if Mr Biden wins this election the Taliban will stay in power for another four years there's a good chance chance that Taliban will stay in power for another four years Mr Joe Biden has had so many opportunities to correct this with just one phone call he has not he can pick up a phone today call Commander masud call Mr Amah Sal the acting president of Afghanistan end this he has not and I don't think he will and so I'm only going to talk to Veterans at this point look like all of you guys went and you served in Afghanistan and you sacrificed and you did all of these things which are appreciated by the Afghan people now ask yourself the question is not if the Afghan people if we support if we appreciate your sacrifices because we do and Commander masud has said this on Scott man's podcast he's very grateful to the American Veteran for their sacrifices ask if your commanderin-chief if the current commander-in-chief appreciates your sacrifices and then decide based on that decide whether you want to vote for this man once again that's a damn good point look and the simplest way I could say it right here right now American taxpayer money your tax dollars are funding the Taliban right now and this has been going on since September 2021 on a weekly basis the United States the current Administration Mr Joe Biden has been sending $40 million not from his own checkin account it's the US payers Americans tax dollars he's sending them $40 million cash every week that ends up in Afghanistan and it's a very complex system the money goes to the Afghanistan International Bank that lacks any authority to convert this dollar to Afghani to auction it right and so this money aib gives it to the Taliban controlled Central Bank of Afghanistan when I say Central Bank think federal reserves so the money goes there now who is in charge of Afghanistan's Central Bank right now uh NAD sanctioned terrorist sanctioned by the United States for financing IED attacks against our soldiers that killed American soldiers he runs the Central Bank he gets $40 million every week now once the money reaches the central bank they hold what is called a bidding and auctioning session where they invite uh individuals that are involved with the haala system uh licens money dealers uh they invite them and they're they're bidding everyone bids on who wants to buy this dollar and for how much now the ones they invite are all individuals affiliated with the senior leadership of the Taliban or with the hakani network they invite these individuals and since 2021 consistently the winner every week is individuals linked to the hakani network they get the money they auction it they convert it to Afghani and hakani gets a portion and then this money the remaining is given to what is called NOS local implementing Partners in Afghanistan now they these NOS that are in Afghanistan about 900 or so all of them came into existence after America left these are all NOS that their licenses were issued to them by the Taliban so if basically when I I'm saying is this if you go to Afghanistan today to help our Afghan allies our friends and you want to open up an NGO the Taliban will not give you a license here Sean Ryan are these NOS also Chinese mining camps I'm not sure I'm not sure could it be possible that the US is not only funding Taliban but also Chinese mining camps I am not sure is that a possibility everything is possible in Afghanistan right now it's an NGO but these NOS they're all Affiliates of the Taliban their licenses were given to them by the Taliban and the Taliban will not give you a license will not give me a license they only give their own supporters licenses so now this money reaches these Nos and from there it's not even the end of sory at that point these NOS they either give a cut directly to the Taliban or they distribute the aid in areas where there are Taliban fighters suicide bombers would be suicide bombers and suicide bombers who are already in Hell their families get ate and so US taxpayer money right now is funding the Taliban now your viewers may be shocked and they may say oh Legend is lying it's it can't be possible that I am with the resistance so I may be biased I'm trying to help the resistance don't take my words for it listen to John sapco the special Inspector General for Afghanistan reconstruction he's neither piri John sapco is not a member of the Taliban he's certainly not a member of the NRF he his office came into existence because Congress mandated his office he reports directly to the United States congress not to the administration John stco testified before the United States Congress and said I cannot assure the American people that their tax dollars are not funding the Taliban listen to him it is happening right now and it's like I said it's your tax dollars it's your tax dollars going to the very individuals who killed hundreds and thousands of American soldiers injured so many Americans killed hundreds of thousands of Afghans and right now they're hosting alqaeda and Isis and everyone else who are planning to attack you again and you're funding it I'll tell you this the situation is so bad back during the first reign of the Taliban we used to say the resistance used to say if pakist Pakistan used to be the main supporter Financial supporter of the Taliban back then and the Afghans used to say if Pakistan stopped supporting the Taliban the Taliban will crumble in one year today I'm telling you if America stops supporting the Taliban stopped sending 40 million to the Taliban you will see the Taliban crumbling in under year the Taliban is a dying regime the only thing that's keeping it alive at the moment since 2021 is this $40 million injection that the US keeps giving putting in the arms of this dying Taliban every week it's that bad what about China we already discussed that China I mean they're also helping yes yes but what is the what do the regular Afghan then the what are the regular Afghan people of the Chinese coming in what do they think of that and help the Taliban and if they are building infrastructure that does improve the country are they pro-chinese well you said a few things first they're not building anything for Afghans they're building stuff for that red Roden belt initiative and surveillance system which helps the Taliban China is not there helping your your Afghan Ally they're helping the Taliban everything they're doing either helps China's rod and belt initiative or it helps the Taliban they realize that thean people of course realize it but you're talking about a poor oppressed people who the moment they say something in in in an hour the Taliban will execute them there is no freedom of speech in Afghanistan what I have said to you right now if I had say 2% of this publicly in Afghanistan I would be executed by now yes so the Afghans they don't have a voice here now we are their voice you are their voice you can be their voice and this is something that can be stopped right now this cash could be stopped right now it just takes one phone call from the president but it's not happening do you have anything more to say on Pakistan Taliban relations oh yes a lot let's go into that I'll tell you this Sean what the veterans don't realize veterans actually do realize this it's the American people that don't realize it the amount of pain Pakistan has inflicted upon America has never happened before behind all of the problems that America had in that region and still faces all the threats is the hand of the Pakistani government the General headquarters and the Pakistani isi their CIA Pakistani CIA basically look at what the pakistanis did how they harbored the Taliban and Bin Laden when we went in so going back to 2001 now all the Taliban commanders went into uh Pakistan they were given Safe Haven and queta and pesha and Islamabad protected by the pakistanis they held weddings in Pakistan out in the public the pakistanies knew about it they didn't do anything now 2003 2004 when the Taliban started coming back to Afghanistan to carry out attacks who funded them the pakistanis all of the veterans listening to this they know what I'm talking about when I say ID attacks in Afghanistan they all faced it where did the ammonium nitrate for those IDs come from Afghanistan does not produce ammonium nitrate in fact ammonium nitrate has been banned in Afghanistan since the days of the king and ammonium nitrate is the main component in that ID where did it come from it didn't come from Mars it didn't land in Afghanistan somebody gave that to the Taliban now investigate that Pakistan produces ammonium nitrate and it was a it everyone knew this no one did anything about it everyone knew that Pakistani isi and general and their army was giving uh ammonium nitrate to the dealers in Pakistan and they were shipping it across the border to Afghanistan which were used in Killing American soldiers look at Congressman Brian Mast of Florida if you ever go in Congress and you see him you will quickly realize that the guy is a wounded veteran he used to be staff sergeant Brian Mast now he's Congressman he doesn't have legs what happened to his legs he was deployed to Afghanistan he served in Helmand and and kandar there was an ID attack he lost his legs where did the ium nitrate come from back then he was staff sergeant Brian Mass he didn't have authority to do anything about it now he's Congressman Brian M he's in a position to get the answers for all the other Veterans for me for you for himself where did that ammonium nitrate come from talk about the August uh 27th attack abig gate bombing where did the ammonium nitrate come from that look at Tyler VG Andrews and his condition right we spoke about him earlier where did that demonium nitrate come from Pakistan while pakistanies were doing this you know what the US government was doing under President Bush to some extent a lot under President Obama the US government gave upwards of $70 billion to the Pakistani military and isi while they were funding the Taliban while they were hosting Bin Laden while the Taliban were carrying out attacks against American soldiers American government was giving money to the top to the pakistanis for counter terrorism purposes they called it do you know where Bin Laden was found outside of Pakistan's West Point Pakistan's West Point they were hosting him that same year that seals you guys went and killed Bin Laden that same year Pakistan was given about $3 billion for counterterrorism purposes and they used that same money and they gave it to the Taliban and it ended up in Afghanistan in form of uh ammunition and ammonium nitrate and it killed American soldiers there is so much that the Pakistani government has done it's just unimaginable the amount of pain that they have caused those gold star families those wounded veterans 50,000 wounded veterans from the Afghan war about 70% of all the casualties 60% of all the casualties our casualties American casualties in Afghanistan or as a result of IED if you go to Arlington National Cemetery and look for the graves of 100 American soldiers from the Afghan war out of those 160 of them died the result of ammonium nitrate as a result of ammonium nitrate that was given to the Taliban by the Pakistani isai no one is talking about it well there will be now I hope so does Iran tie into this at all yes how so there some makees sent well the reason Pakistan supported Taliban were for different reasons ideological reasons the reason Iranians to a certain extent and I'll give you a bit background during the first reign of the Taliban when the Taliban had first come to power in 1996 Iran used to support the resistance to fight against the Taliban they had no links with the with the Taliban Iran and fact back then almost went to war they had their forces at the border and were about to go and and destroy the Taliban regime you know who stopped it the United Nations but Iran at that point was supporting the resistance the reason certain factions along the border of Iran started supporting the Taliban while we were there was to put pressure on America to leave now keep in mind America was in Iraq America was in Afghanistan Iran is right in the middle I don't agree with what the Iranians did the government of Iran did as far as supporting the Taliban while we were there but their reason was not the same as the reason of the pakistanis Iran wanted America out of the picture and I think they made a mistake because they didn't think about the second order effect of their decision so they gave money to the Taliban not a lot some and the you to put pressure on the US to leave and we left and now Iran is left with the Taliban and so they cannot stop the support for the Taliban all of a sudden and they certainly don't want to give any funding to the Taliban so they're stuck They Don't Know What to Do America left Taliban are there and they pose a threat to everyone the the Iranians the pakistanis there are suicide bombings inside Pakistan on a daily basis the Taliban attack Pakistani and they kill Pakistani soldiers on a daily basis Pakistan raised a snake it fed a snake hoping and thinking that this snake would only bite its neighbor to the west in Afghanistan now that snake has come to Pakistan it's like chickens come home to roost right now America is making the same mistake that the pakistanis made now America is funding the Taliban hope that the Taliban will not go International but oh they will go International it's coming that next big attack against America is coming that snake Mr Biden is funding right now will turn around and bite us there's not a doubt in my mind how do you envision that happening is it going to look like what just happened in Russia a couple weeks ago that was a tragedy right what happened in Russia ISIS attack Isis horasan claim the responsibility will it look like that maybe I'll tell you one thing that um we discussed this on a podcast with Lieutenant Colonel Scott man commander masud and Congressman Walts and I say it there whatever the next big attack is against America I don't know when it is coming but I'll tell you this it's going to make 9911 look like a dress rehearsal it's going to make 911 look like a walk in the park none of these guys as Lieutenant Colonel Scott man says None of these guys want to come in second place if you look at their history and the attacks they have carried out against America Embassy uh consulate generals then moved on to USS coal then that first world trade bombing and then the big 911 so it keeps increasing so that next one whatever it is whenever it comes it's gonna make that 911 attack look like a dress rehearsal is it going to be planes again going into buildings we don't know maybe maybe it will be at the border individuals coming from the southern border maybe there will be an attack at LAX airport at Ronald Reagan Airport maybe it will be multiple I mean that's how I Envision it happening I Envision lots and lots of incidents like what we just saw in Russia all scattered throughout the United States it puts a lot of fear into everyone Lone Wolf attacks small cells pressure cooker bomb like the Boston Marathon bombing that post night club Yes except plenty of them do you have any idea how many terrorists have infiltrated the us up to this point the CIA knows the FBI knows I'll tell you this since 2021 withdrawal about 40 to 50 individuals on FBI's watch list on terror watch list have been apprehended at the southern border trying to cross into the United States those were the ones that were caught out of the 8 million that tried to get in in this time frame since Mr Biden's Administration started now in that group of 40 something individuals there are individuals military age male males with Afghan passports passports that were issued to them after we left by none other than sarudin hakani and these are the guys like I said that were caught how many getaways are they and Idaho are they in Wyoming in Montana I don't know and these are not necessarily Afghans people who were born in Afghanistan within a week I can make you Mah Shan Ryan you just need money give it to hakani network give it to S and he's going to make you Shan Ryan M Shan Ryan give you a different date of birth give you a passport who controls the passport department in Afghanistan Sani wanted terrorist wanted by the FBI $10 million bounty on his head wanted by the state department 10 million bounty on his head he controls the passport department he's been issuing passports since 2021 in fact I'll tell you this and you may not know this every Thursday since 2021 withdrawal in Afghanistan is called holy Warrior day at the passport department where the office is Clos for the rest of the public it's only open to Holy Warriors Taliban Isis alqaeda I am not kidding it's holy Warrior Day do you know how much money hakani made saraj hakani and the hakani network made issuing passports since 2021 no $40 million and profits he made another $5 million issuing Afghan tasira ID cards like driver license who controls Cabell airport sjin hakani Kabul let me add this correction Kabul International Airport who controls it sakani Sani think of sakani as this and his role in the security of Kabal international airport he's the TSA of cabal international airport we have TSA you know we have TSA all over in every airport in the US I mean they have made life hell for travelers for Americans but they're there for a reason they're looking for terrorists in their mind maybe the terrorists will come again and uh come through the airport take a flight and come here and they will arrest them so they're the last line of defense no one is focused on even in the case of 9/11 no one talks about how those individuals left wherever they came from who gave them us visas they didn't come illegally they came with us visas somebody gave them us visas is anyone focused on that part of it and now just like we have a TSA here at LAX at Nashville Airport who's keeping an eye on cabble International Airport the departure destination you're focused on the landing destination not on the departure destination in fact the departure destination is controlled by saraj aani am I making sense yeah it's hard to believe but you're making a lot of sense I mean it's uh when do you think we'll start to see these attacks if we compare the first reign of the Taliban to today and the presence of foreign terrorist in Afghanistan in terms of timeline and history I would say we're somewhere in 1999 maybe a year two year alqaeda is in Afghanistan Isis is there you're already seeing it you've seen attack suicide bombings in Iran you've seen suicide bombings in Pakistan you have seen suicide bombings in Moscow there was an attempt to blow up uh if I'm not mistaken your Swedish Parliament by ISIS it's already happening there was a a young man from the state of Maine not too long ago he picked up a machete and started attacking New York cops because he was inspired by the Taliban there are gangs in California who are receiving inspiration from the Taliban they're talking about how they went to the Pak how the 12 of Taliban controlled Afghanistan and they're showing Taliban Flags they're talking about the uh repression of women carried out by the Taliban but they don't see it as repression this is Islamic they say this is part of Islam you literally have American Youth brain Washed by the Taliban right here they think what happened in 2021 was a victory of the Taliban a militarily victory of the Taliban a military Victory they think the Taliban are glorious Heroes this is really what's happening right here what do you think they're waiting for why haven't they hit us yet it's a long-term thing and like I said don't say they haven't already attempted they have like I said individuals on terror watch lless were apprehended now if they had that many people coming across the border it is impossible to keep tabs I me they have no idea who's coming through exactly none whatsoever and so to be able they caught 50 out of how many did you say was it 8 is it 16 million I can't remember the number changon getaways I think is it 8 million 8 million that have illegally so they caught 50 yeah and these are the 50 po of 8 million people I'll tell you this in San Diego in jail there uh border patrol honorable brave men and women border patrol they caught one about two weeks ago and he's still in jail it doesn't uh that that that threat that this individual his passport issued to him by hakani Network he's on a teror watch list this has not made headlines none of the mainstream media are talking about it the American people they don't even know I don't know if they want to know I think the I think the American people are becoming very accustomed to just they want to be lied to they want to be told everything's okay and it's just it's getting worse do you think that maybe that the the terrorist organizations haven't struck yet because things are wide open right now it's easy to infiltrate do you think they'll wait until there's stronger leadership until until infrastructure begins to lock up and not allow them through what are they patient enough for that they're very patient they're very patient but is that why they haven't I'm not going to say I I honestly I can take guesses but I don't know maybe the day you release says there will be a terrorist attack do I think it is coming absolutely do I know exactly why they haven't done it I don't know but are they here yes do you think that Taliban and or other terrorist organizations are infiltrating our government do you think they are getting involved in local elections like the cartels I don't know I don't know maybe not but do they have lobbyist support ERS Taliban and and neck ties and suits in Washington DC absolutely yes they they're there they have been there for so long just have a look at the speech of the current US Special uh Envoy to Afghanistan Mr Thomas West he's really whitewashing the Taliban zai khalad he wants more collaboration with the Taliban the US Char to Afghanistan Karen out of Doha she's whitewashing the Taliban in fact she meets with representatives of hakani and Taliban all the time in Doha and this is the same individual who says there shouldn't be a resistance against terrorists in Afghanistan and that she will not support any armed resistance against terrorism in Afghanistan she's the same woman who said who was asked by one of the most famous journalist of Afghanistan Sam Mahi he asked him on AMU TV said what about saraj aani is the US still trying to kill him arrest him put him in jail is saraj aan is still a terrorist she says I cannot answer Sami Mahi asked her well you work at the state department the state department is looking for him there's a $10 million Bounty issued by the state department for information on his arrest that would lead to sani's arrest she says oh this is very complicated she refuses to call the man a wanted terrorist so your question was are there a Taliban here and involved in the elections I say they're in official they hold official offices and they're here just have a look at their statements and then you tell me if these people are not Taliban sympathizers or if they're not whitewashing the Taliban man that's scary is there anybody in our government I mean I know you're very well connected are there any is there anybody within the federal government that is against this that's that's that's that's trying to stop the funding I know I think Congressman Tim burett has a some type of a bill coming that's trying to that's trying to stop funding the Taliban is that correct corre familiar Congressman Tim burett great guy um he is at the house Foreign Affairs committee he already got a bill passed uh introduced at house Foreign Affairs committee and it passed it's supposed to go to the house floor I don't know why it hasn't gone to the house floor but are there individuals yes that uh uh are against the Taliban very loud Congressman Mike walz Colonel former US Army Special Forces deployed to Afghanistan he is the most vocal supporter of the resistance of commander masud and he is very much against the Taliban and he's very loud Congressman Brian Mast wounded uh veteran of the Afghan word Dan Cranshaw you have a lot of veterans there are even veterans doesn't matter which party they belong to take for example uh from Colorado um James Crow I hope I'm not I I have his name correct James Crow he's a Democrat from Colorado in Congress now when it comes to the Taliban he is he's a veteran of the Afghan war you compare his statements with the statements of all the other Democrats his colleagues you'll just be shocked man so the Democratic party right now is Towing the party line they're refusing to say that the Taliban is is a terrorist group but these veterans who are in the Democratic party in Congress I tell you Sean their conscience will not allow them to say that the Taliban is a good the Taliban is not a terrorist group that the Taliban is there's such a thing as a Taliban 2.0 their conscience will not allow them they have seen what the Taliban do to women to children they know what the Taliban did to their own battle buddies their conscience will now allow them to say everything that the rest of the democratic party is saying so you have Veterans of the Afghan war who are elected officials in Congress and they're in support of the commander masur and the national resistance front and they're against the Taliban one of those individuals like I said and that includes um Congressman Tim burett and there are many many others chairman Michael mcll the chairman of house Foreign Affairs committee he's a true gentleman he cares about not only veterans but he cares about what happened and how Afghanistan was abandoned he has held several hearings on Afghanistan have you ever watched one of those hearings from bits and pieces so have a look at like the first 15 minutes of it and you'll be shocked so you have chairman Michael mcll in the middle saying Taliban is a terrorist group they have killed thousands of Americans they gave Safe Haven to Bin Laden he's saying all the right right things and then he hands over the floor to his colleague the ranking member uh of HVAC a congressman from New York Gregory Meeks and now listen to his speech he he refuses to call the Taliban a terrorist group he does not support us I don't know if he suppor us or not on a personal level publicly he's Towing the party line he says the exact opposite of what chairman mcll says and he comes from the state of New York you know the state that was attacked on 9911 and he has already forgotten now I say this and I'm saying this not as a member of NRF uh I'm saying this as an American Veteran isn't there a single American Veteran to challenge Gregory mi in New York a single what are the anti-taliban Democrats honestly where are the anti-taliban Democrats at this point this is what I want to know other than these veterans that I named who are Democrats who like I said their conscience will not allow them Sean but where are the rest where are those who care about women rights they say they care about women rights where are they no women anywhere in the world are as oppressed as the women in Afghanistan right now no women the most insulted women are the Afghan women the most oppressed women are the Afghan women no one in the resistance is saying Sean Ryan suit up and come and help me defeat the Taliban no one is saying this no one is saying you give me weapons or I will stop the resistance all we're saying is stop supporting the Taliban and if you say you're for women's rights well then stand with women's rights stand against the Taliban forget about your party for a moment just forget about the party there's something beyond the party there's values Visions things that make you who you are we have reached a point Sean where I'll tell tell you honestly I think people in America have forgotten who they are they don't even know who they are they don't know they forgotten what this country stands for how this this country how this Vision started they have forgotten that and if you don't know who you are there's no way you can know who your enemy is you don't even know who you are so it's left up to honestly me at this point to give you an example I I come from a bombed Village and P Afghanistan I came here this country a very generous country accepted me gave me a home gave me trust gave me an education allowed me to serve gave me security clearance gave me everything now is I am the one reminding them look your founding fathers or your Patriots the guy whose statue you want to go and Destroy and burn George Washington Patrick Henry Thomas Jefferson They're Your Heroes you call them racist slave owners you have forgotten who you are all this Freedom that you have here all the freedom veterans shed so much blood for to try to defend this why do veterans join it's not for paycheck why do people volunteer and join the military it's not for because we get a lot we the pay the money is too much it's not that it's for this idea this idea what makes America America in order to keep this We join we sacrifice but the people here they actually have forgotten like I said who they are they don't know who they are they don't understand their own history if they did things would be very different today man what does the NRF need from the US right now right now I'm not going to I'm going to surprise you I'm like I said I'm not going to say weapons I'm not going to say money at the minimum stop sending money to the Taliban at the minimum and you will see signs of Taliban crumbling in under a year but if as a veteran now I will say I'll will say this to you as a veteran you know unconventional warfare you know what a resistance requires and needs sniper rifles drones surveillance equipment medical kits uniforms resistance needs all of these things so we're not even there yet we're saying at first the first step stop supporting the Taliban but if you really want to go and support well then you want to just turn the tables then these are the things that every resistance requires and needs and keep in mind that what is happening in Afghanistan it's not just for Afghanistan the battles that are being fought there the resistance that is fighting terrorism this is an international terrorist group it's not even about Afghanistan at this point there's nothing else what I mean by that is there's nothing else that Taliban alqaeda Isis and akani could do to us at this point that they haven't done already our children are already in madrasas brainwashed they're going through this brainwashing school to become the future terrorists suicide bombers our daughters cannot go to school 20 million women in Afghanistan are not part of society the Taliban brought in everything they could against the NRF and they failed they brought Pakistani air support they brought hakani alqaeda Isis they couldn't do anything we're still alive and we're still resisting it's no longer about Afghanistan at this point it's about America it's about what it means to be an American it's about these guys are coming for you what are you going to do it's about who you are as an American keep this in mind and I say this as a person who came from Afghanistan and this country took me in and what I have seen in America when lights go off in America lights go off everywhere it's no longer about us it's about you Legend I got one last question I think we've I think we've pretty much covered just about everything but my last question is I think there is a very high probability that the us is going to have to intervene within the Afghanistan borders again in the future our kids are going to be fighting there how are the Afghan people going to receive the American people the American Military when we go back in there after we've abandoned them the Afghan people naturally as any other people would be they're pissed they have been abandoned their hearts are broken they they see their family members die and get raped on a daily basis but these people are very resilient they're very generous and forgiving people they have seen this before all of these people have put their trust into this one man commander masud in the National resistance front now that man will not refuse help if you offer help so when America goes and America offers help he will accept the help but it doesn't even have to get there Sean you don't have to go back to Afghanistan the whole point that you were in Afghanistan all these veterans served in Afghanistan was to create a force who after we left would keep terrorism at Bay and you succeeded that force is now the national resistance front there's a leader there is operations against terrorism every day you don't have to go back there no one is asking for the us to come back there is a force you can solve this by supporting that resistance start with the political office of the NRF start anywhere but we don't have to go there our kids don't have to go there our kids could stay here focus on everything else Afghanistan is it has the force it needs it just needs our support our voice well Legend um do you do you have any any closing remarks that we missed I would like yes a few if you let me as a veteran I know what all these other veterans are going through the sacrifices they have made in Afghanistan I know what the gar families are going through honestly I know what the Afghan people are going through I know what the Americans are going through and it's tough it's tough a lot of them ask if this was in vain if it mattered I tell you it did matter I go there I still go there I'll be going there very soon again back to Afghanistan and I tell you it matters it mattered it mattered to the people there it matters to the NRF it mattered to the Afghan Army it mattered so don't think that it was all in vain don't think that it is over and there's nothing else to be done here it's not true Afghanistan has not collapsed it's not over there's still things you can do right now give us your voice get behind the NRF that is that was the whole objective the mission to have this force that we would go we would sacrifice and train and this force will save Afghanistan which in turn would save America and you succeed eded so all of those sacrifices that you made Scott man made Travis Peterson all of these soldiers it mattered you succeeded we're at a juncture where at this point you can either say oh it didn't matter and look the other way and the Taliban will agree with you it didn't matter or you could believe me your fellow veteran a member of the NRF a person from Afghanistan telling you that absolutely it mattered and the people in Afghanistan are forever grateful for your sacrifices well thank you for saying that Legend I just want to say it's a it's an honor to have you here and and uh man I don't even know how to say this but uh I'm just sorry for how things turned out over there I'm sorry too we can change it though we are changing [Music] it sure we'll meet again God bless you keep up the good [Music] work no matter where you're watching sha Ryan Show from if you get anything out of this please like comment subscribe and most importantly share this everywhere you possibly can and if you're feeling extra generous please leave us review on Apple and Spotify podcasts