Taliban set Afghan woman on fire for poor cooking: Report



Members of the Taliban reportedly set an Afghan woman on fire for what they said were her poor cooking skills, according to reports.

What are the details?

Former judge and women's rights advocate Najla Ayoubi said that members of the Taliban set a local woman on fire on Thursday after they deemed her cooking unacceptable.

"They are forcing people to give them food and cook them food," Ayoubi revealed. "A woman was put on fire because she was accused of bad cooking for Taliban fighters."

Calling the conditions across the country a "nightmare," Ayoubi added, "There are so many young women ... in the past few weeks being shipped into neighboring countries in coffins to be used as sex slaves."

Ayoubi said that she fled the country as soon as it became apparent that the Taliban would rise to power through force.

“They also force families to marry their young daughters to Taliban fighters," she added. "I don't see where is the promise that they think women should be going to work, when we are seeing all of these atrocities."

What else?

Last week, an unnamed Kabul-based female lecturer told the Associated Press that the Taliban has been visiting local homes to check its residents.

"They have been starting to go door to door, checking people's houses, sometimes forcing in," the woman recalled. "They are saying they are leaving the population alone, but that's an indication that this is not true."

Women's rights activist Fawzia Koofi — a member of the Afghan delegation working to negotiate peace during the U.S. withdrawal — insisted that Afghan women will greatly suffer under the new brutal regime and that chaos could have been avoided if the U.S. had delayed its exit for just four more weeks.

Koofi said that while she realized it was not "sustainable or logical" for the U.S. to remain in Afghanistan, the abrupt withdrawal was "so untimely."

"President [Joe] Biden could have delayed this to wait for a political settlement," she said. "For even just another month, just get the political settlement first. They could have come to a deal. ... Afghanistan is the victim of back-to-back mistakes."

She continued, "We all want international forces to leave. It's not sustainable or logical from any point of view to have a foreign force protecting your country, but this is so untimely for the U.S. to have chosen now, in the middle of negotiations and before we get a settlement."

Oklahoma mom flies to Afghanistan, rescues members of all-girls Afghan robotics team



An Oklahoma mother of 11 children dashed to Afghanistan in early August to rescue 10 members of the country's all-girls robotics team as the country fell to the Taliban's control, according to a report from the New York Post.

What are the details?

Allyson Reneau, a 60-year-old Harvard graduate with a master's degree in international relations and U.S. space policy, flew into Qatar on Aug. 9 to see if she could intercept the girls before the Taliban could get to them.

Reneau was previously in contact with the team in 2019 when she worked on Explore Mars' board of directors, the outlet reported.

She said that she knew she needed to do something for the promising young women, who are 16 to 18 years old, before the Taliban could do their worst.

Reneau said that she first called the office of Oklahoma Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe to discuss a possible intervention, but the senator — who serves on the Armed Services Committee — became inundated with requests for help from American citizens in Afghanistan.

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That's when lightning struck, she said.

"I remembered my former roommate in D.C. a couple of years ago was transferred to Qatar," she recalled. "She said she worked in the U.S. Embassy in Qatar. ... She was sure her boss would approve helping the girls. ... She wrote up a request and I got all of their passports together. She went back to the Embassy at midnight and worked all night to prepare the documents [and] packets for the girls."

Reneau said that she was thrilled to help out the girls on the team.

"It's a very narrow window of opportunity," she said. "I knew that if I didn't run through that door now — it's now or never. Sometimes you only get one chance."

The young women were able to fly out of the Kabul airport and were transported to a "secure location" in the United States, where they will pursue higher education, Reneau reported.

The outlet reports that Reneau is still working to secure safe passage to America for 25 more girls from the team.

Afghani whose remains were discovered in US plane's landing gear identified as 19-year-old former national soccer player: Report



The Afghani stowaway whose remains were discovered in the landing gear of a U.S. Air Force C-17 has been identified as former national soccer player, Zaki Anwari, according to reports.

Anwari, just 19 years old, was reportedly trying to flee Taliban-controlled Afghanistan and attempted to leave the country while clinging to the aircraft's landing gear.

What are the details?

The New York Post on Thursday reported that the remains of Anwari, a former player for Afghanistan's national youth soccer team, were discovered in the C-17's landing gear bay after an emergency landing in Qatar.

Journalist Babak Taghvaee tweeted about Anwari's death, citing, "The Afghan refugees who were riding on the landing gear bays of the #USAF's C-17A transport aircraft to flee from #Kabul, #Afghanistan filmed the moments before their death. Very sad to hear that one of the youths who tried to leave #Kabul through grabbing the landing gear bay of a #USAF's C-17A transport airplane few days ago was a player of #Afghanistan's National youth soccer team, Zaki Anvari. His body parts were found in the landing gear bay."

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The outlet reported that Anwari's final Facebook post said, "You're the painter of your live [sic]. Don't give the brush to anyone else."

The country's national soccer team also acknowledged Anwari's death in a Facebook update, the Post reported.

A Facebook translation of the post said, "The player of Afghanistan's national junior team among the victims of the crash from the US military plane! It is said that Zaki Anwari is one of the players of the national youth team of the country among the victims of the crash from the US military airplane. Two days before and after the capture of Kabul by the Taliban, to go to America and find a better future, he rode on the cycles of the American airplane with several other compatriots who fell to the ground while flying with several other compatriots. They did and were martyred. May his soul rest in peace and his memory be remembered."

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Shot, stabbed Afghan woman whose eyes were knifed out by Taliban says they 'torture us,' feed remains to dogs



An Afghani woman by the name of Khatera says that the Taliban will not respect or honor women's rights despite the terrorist group's assertions otherwise.

What are the details?

In a Monday interview with India's News18, Khatera, 33, recalled the horrific attack that took place in 2020 when her father — a former Taliban fighter — tipped off the Islamist militant group that his daughter was employed.

Women, under Sharia law, are not permitted to work.

In October, Khatera said that her father, who remains unnamed at the time of this reporting, purportedly conspired with the Taliban to stage an attack on her as she returned home from work one day.

During the attack, Khatera — who worked for the police at the time — was shot at least eight times, stabbed, and had her eyes knifed out of their sockets before Taliban fighters left her for dead.

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She was pregnant during the horrific attack.

"It's tough for the world to imagine what we built in the past 20 years," she told the outlet. "We built dreams. Now they are gone. It's all over for us. Women who work with the government or police were being hunted and threatened even before the Taliban had taken over the country. Now, the concern has gone beyond letting women work. At this point, I am scared if they would leave these women alive. They don't just kill women — they make animals feed on their bodies. They are a blot on Islam."

Khatera said that the Taliban does not view women as "living, breathing human beings," but "merely some meat and flesh to be battered."

"[The Taliban] first torture us and then discard our bodies to show as a specimen of punishment," she said. "Sometimes our bodies are fed to dogs. I was lucky I survived it. One has to live in Afghanistan under the Taliban to even imagine what hell has befallen on women, children, and minorities here."

After the attack, Khatera fled with her husband and child to Delhi, where she continues to be treated for injuries sustained in the attack.

"The Taliban don't allow women to visit male doctors, and at the same time, don't let women study and work," she told the outlet. "So then what is left for a woman? Left to die? Even if you think we are just reproductive machines, there is not common sense but pure hate. How does a woman deliver her child according to the dictum of these men with guns without medical care?"

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(H/T: The Daily Caller)

Two Afghan stowaways who plunged to their deaths after clinging to US plane ID'd as teen brothers who scavenged from trash to care for mother: Report



The two people who fell to their deaths from a U.S. Air Force plane on Monday were reportedly identified as a pair of teen brothers, ages 16 and 17 years, who sold watermelons and scavenged from trash bins in order to provide for their mother.

Video footage captured the moments desperate Afghans climbed onto departing planes in order to flee Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.

On at least two documented occasions, a body was seen falling from the sky to the ground below.

What are the details?

According to a Wednesday report from the Daily Mail, the brothers — who remain unnamed at the time of this reporting — sold watermelon at Kabul's central market to help provide for their mother.

The bodies of the teens have reportedly been recovered and turned over to their family.

The report cited a Twitter user who reportedly knew the young men.

"Genuinely in tears right now," the user wrote according to the outlet. "Two young boys who fell whilst clinging onto U.S. planes were my Aunts neighbors. Both boys aged 16 & 17, bodies have just been brought home to their parents. Both boys would sell watermelons in Kabul markets and feed off the bins to survive and provide for their mother. The 2 boys were their mother's only children. She has no other family and has no idea how she will survive under Taliban regime."

What else?

On Monday, the Air Force confirmed that human remains were discovered in the wheel well of a C-17 aircraft that fled Kabul on Monday.

The plane in question was said to be departing Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul after having delivered equipment to aid the evacuation of Americans.

Ahead of its departure, the Daily Mail reported, Afghan civilians surrounded the aircraft and attempted to board the plane in a desperate bid to flee the country.

"In chaos on the ground, at least five more people were killed, including two shot dead by U.S. troops and three run over by taxiing jets," the outlet added.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Tuesday said that there is no guarantee that all U.S. citizens stranded in Afghanistan will be able to leave the country before U.S. troops depart on Aug. 31.

"Our focus right now is on the task at hand, and that is day by day getting as many American citizens, SIV applicants, as many of the vulnerable population who are eligible to be evacuated to the airport and out on planes," Psaki said.