According to some sources, former puppet president Ashraf Ghani fled Afghanistan with $169 million in looted cash, forgetting $5 million on the tarmac of Kabul airport.
Ghani was welcomed in the UAE, a global Mecca of smuggling, money laundering and racketeering.
In the US, $9.5 billion in Afghan Central Bank reserves was blocked, so government salaries and imports can't be paid. This will surely hurt the Afghan population, who might escape the inevitable hunger and inflation by migrating to the EU, in line with the macro strategy of Biden's handlers.
It's interesting to speculate who will take the $9.5 billion in loot (the bankers or the Afghan government in exile?).
The negotiations to form an “inclusive” government with the Taliban, are led (on the non-Taliban side) by a council of 3: former President Hamid Karzai; the leader of the High Council for National Reconciliation Abdullah Abdullah; and warlord-turned-politician and twice prime minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar:
https://www.globalresearch.ca/forever-w ... ey/5753857
See Gulbuddin Hekmatyar with at his feet: left - Rached Al-Ghannouchi (leader of the Tunisian Muslim Brotherhood movement Ennahdha, current president of the Tunisian National Assembly); and right - Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (current Turkish president), probably from 1985 (there is even a video of this meeting).
https://youtu.be/RuVAMAhj94Q
Handing over the power of the poppy growing Afghanistan was already concocted more than a year ago with the February 2020 Doha Agreement.
Afghan-born neocon Zalmay Khalilzad has been devising the US policy in Afghanistan from the 1980’s when the CIA was training Taliban Mujihideen Islamists to the 2001 US/UK/Netherlands invasion of Afghanistan to the current orchestration of the Afghan refugee crisis.
In 2018, the Trump Administration selected Khalilzad as Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation.
Khalilzad made an exclusive deal with the Taliban in Doha Qatar, after he had successfully demanded that Pakistan release the co-founder of Taliban, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, so that Baradar could lead the "peace talks" with Khalilzad in Doha, without the official Afghanistan regime.
Baradar signed the February 2020 “deal” in which the US and NATO agreed to a total withdrawal.
See U.S. envoy for peace in Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad, shaking hands with leader of the Taliban delegation Abdul Ghani Baradar (with the beard of course!) after signing the deal in Doha, Qatar, 29 February 2020.
During the latter part of the 1980’s, when the CIA was working with extremist Islamist Mujahideen and Taliban mercenaries, Khalilzad became one of the most influential US policy makers on Afghanistan. Khalilzad became Executive Director of the Friends of Afghanistan lobby where Brzezinski and Kissinger associate Lawrence Eagleburger were members. At that time he became close to the infamous Zbigniew Brzezinski.
In 1988, Khalilzad became the State Department’s “special advisor” on Afghanistan under then Vice President George Bush Sr.
During the Clinton administration, Khalilzad was board member of the Afghanistan Foundation, which advocated that the Taliban join forces with the "anti-Taliban" Mujahideen. In 1996, the Taliban would conquer Afghanistan after being armed through Khalilzad since the 1980s.
During the end of the Clinton Presidency, Khalilzad was involved in devising the military agenda of the coming Bush Jr. president, with his role in the Project for a New American Century (PNAC), together with Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, Don Rumsfeld, and Jeb Bush.
In May 2001, Bush National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice named Khalilzad as “Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Gulf, Southwest Asia and Other Regional Issues”. Khalilzad's former boss, Wolfowitz, was Number 2 at the Bush Jr. Pentagon and former Khalilzad consulting client, Don Rumsfeld, was Defense Secretary.
In early 2002, Khalilzad was named Special Presidential Envoy to Afghanistan and installed CIA asset Hamid Karzai as Afghan president in 2002. Hamid’s opium dealing warlord brother was on the payroll of the CIA at the time.
In November 2003, Khalilzad even became US Ambassador to Afghanistan.
In another one of those strange "coincidences", the exiled current (or former?) Afghan puppet President Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, was a classmate of Khalilzad at the American University of Beirut in the early 1970s (orginal deleted):
https://web.archive.org/web/20211018102 ... st2021.php
Kamal Alam, a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council (that also includes Zalmay Khalilzad), has made some less than flattering comments on the Afghan "hero" that has turned Afghanistan over to the brutal Taliban:
One man responsible for the chaos and destruction raging across Afghanistan is Zalmay Khalilzad. He should be investigated for alleged financial corruption.
There are American senators and senior congressmen, who urge the White House not only to oust him but also interrogate him for his actions. There are allegations of massive corruption concerning his actions.
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In 2014, in Austria Khalilzad was accused of money laundering related to corruption in Iraq and the UAE.
The Pakistani writer Ahmad Rashid has also criticised Khalilzad for “acting like a British viceroy” (Governor-General) as the US ambassador in Afghanistan Iraq:
https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/what- ... tory-49260
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https://archive.is/G5OUt)
At the University of Chicago, Zalmay Khalilzad studied closely with Albert Wohlstetter, a prominent atomic bomb fear-monger. Wohlstetter introduced Khalilzad to the notorious RAND Corporation.
From 1993 to 2000, during the Clinton presidency, Khalilzad was the director of the Strategy, Doctrine, and Force Structure at RAND and helped found RAND's Center for Middle Eastern Studies.
On 18 May 2021, at a U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Afghanistan, Khalilzad falsely informed US Congress:
If they [Taliban] pursue, in my judgment, a military victory, it will result in a long war, because Afghan security forces will fight, other Afghans will fight, neighbors will come to support different forces.
I personally believe that the statements that the [Afghan] forces will disintegrate, and the Talibs will take over in short order are mistaken. The real choices that the Afghans will face is between a long war and negotiated settlement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zalmay_Khalilzad
In the 1990s, Zalmay Khalilzad was a consultant to big oil company Unocal, that was negotiating with the then Taliban government for a pipeline across Afghanistan. Because the Taliban wanted more than Unocal was willing to offer, they didn't reach a deal.
Shortly after Hamid Karzai was installed as puppet president of Afghanistan the pipeline was approved...
Khalilzad was also a consultant for ChevronTexaco in Iraq, that a couple of years later acquired Unocal:
https://www.democracynow.org/2005/4/7/w ... _khalilzad
