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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Afghan president <keyword id="11893447" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="ashraf-ghani" source="Orion">Ashraf Ghani</keyword> lived in a 5* hotel in the UAE after fleeing the Taliban, per The WSJ.</li><li>Ghani left on August 15 last year as the Taliban began to seize control of Kabul.</li></ul>Afghan president Ashraf Ghani spent months holed up in a five-star hotel in the United Arab Emirates after fleeing his country as the Taliban began to take control, <a href="https://affiliate.insider.com?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Farticles%2Fhigh-ranking-afghan-officials-escaped-to-luxury-homes-abroad-11655112600">The Wall Street Journal reported.</a>Ghani <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/afghanistan-president-ghani-flees-taliban-enters-kabul-2021-8">fled Kabul on August 15</a> following a months-long surge by the Taliban in which the militant group took over <a href="https://www.insider.com/how-taliban-quickly-took-over-afghanistan-2021-8">swathes of the country</a> from his government after US forces left.When they reached Kabul, the city was given up without a fight.Ghani's whereabouts were unknown for several days. He eventually surfaced in the UAE, which <a href="https://www.mofaic.gov.ae/en/mediahub/news/2021/8/18/18-08-2021-uae-statement">said at the time</a> that it had let in Ghani on humanitarian grounds. Once in the UAE Ghani took up residence in a luxury suite at the five-star St. Regis Hotel in Abu Dhabi along with his wife, according to The Journal.Ghani stayed there for months, The Journal reported, while his wife selected a private villa for their permanent residence that was provided by the Emirati government.<div type="image" title="St regis abu dhabi" height="1371" width="2742" msid="92204255" hostid="261"></div>After feeling Kabul, Ghani <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ashraf-ghani-apology-said-fled-afghanistan-keep-guns-silent-2021-9">said in a statement</a> that he fled to prevent bloodshed and "keep the guns silent."However, Russia <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/russia-says-afghan-president-fled-with-cars-helicopter-full-cash-ria-2021-08-16/">accused Ghani of fleeing</a> with four cars and a helicopter, and alleged that he took large amounts of cash with him.An investigation led by the US Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction <a href="https://www.sigar.mil/pdf/evaluations/SIGAR-22-28-IP.pdf">said it could not say for sure whether Ghani took money with him</a>.But the official did confirm that at least $5 million went missing from the presidential palace and that tens of millions of dollars were taken from the National Directorate of Security.

Ousted Afghan president lived in a 5-star Abu Dhabi hotel after fleeing the Taliban, report says

<ul class="summary-list"><li>The <keyword id="16945" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Taliban">Taliban</keyword> took over Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, on Sunday. </li><li>The <keyword id="6355005" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="news">news</keyword> struck a chord with US veterans who spent years on the ground trying to protect Afghans.</li><li>Vets told Insider that political leaders failed them and Afghan allies.</li></ul>Jen Burch, an Air Force vet who deployed to Afghanistan from September 2010 to March 2011, said she has seen the "absolute worst of war." During her time there, she served as a volunteer working with the trauma team in the hospital to help the wounded fighting for their lives."I also volunteered in mass casualty events and saw a lot of deaths, the most gruesome parts of death," Burch told Insider. "And when I came home, it hit me like a ton of bricks. I have night terrors still to this day - 10 years later, I can wake up in the middle of the night screaming and probably at least once a week."Burch said she had spent the last several days processing her emotions after news broke that <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/videos-kabul-airport-show-chaos-taliban-takes-power-people-flee-2021-8">the Taliban gained control over Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, last weekend</a>, and grim <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/videos-kabul-airport-show-chaos-taliban-takes-power-people-flee-2021-8">videos</a> showed chaos on the ground as thousands of Afghans attempted to flee the city. She called the situation "heartbreaking.""I definitely have been shedding some tears off and on just watching the stories unfold out of there," Burch said, adding that the news has triggered "faces" and smells" that she hasn't thought about in years with the help of therapy."It's frustrating, I'm upset, I have anger and just getting hit by a wave of emotions right now," she added.<div type="image" title="Jen Burch dressed in scrubs while serving as a volunteer medic in Afghanistan." height="540" width="720" msid="85442390" hostid="261"></div>The Taliban's rapid insurgency across Afghanistan comes after President Joe <keyword id="60973" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Biden">Biden</keyword>'s administration <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-plan-withdraw-us-troops-afghanistan-911-report-2021-4">withdrew remaining troops from the countr</a>y, making room for the Taliban to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-blame-for-afghanistan-troop-pullout-kabul-taliban-2021-8">make a move</a>. Despite the criticism on how his administration carried out the withdrawal, Biden doubled down on his decision and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-to-address-afghanistan-crisis-as-taliban-seizes-power-2021-8">blamed the country's leadership for the catastrophic fallout</a>.While political leaders have debated what went wrong, Burch said veterans aren't solely pointing a finger at Biden's decision to pull US military troops out of Afghanistan."Most of us aren't complaining about ending the war. We're upset and frustrated because of the way that it's been executed and that a lot of this what happened shouldn't have happened and could have been prevented," Burch said." It just feels completely disorganized and like he's completely failed us."US veterans, including Burch, have also called out America's inadequacy to protect <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/military-members-outraged-us-not-doing-more-save-afghan-allies-2021-8">Afghan interpreters and allies</a> amid fears of <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/the-interpreters-left-for-dead-in-afghanistan-2021-6">retaliation from the Taliban</a>."We promised them safety and now I worry as the Taliban goes door to door and trying to find all the Afghans that have helped the government and so forth, what's going to happen to them," Burch said. "What's going to happen to their families?"Dr. Tony Brooks, a former Army Ranger who was deployed in Afghanistan during the summer of 2005 and author of "Leave No Man Behind," told Insider he's "at a point where not only am I extremely disappointed in how our political leadership handled it.""I'm a bit angry," Brooks said. "I almost feel the same anger I felt on 9/11 all over again and it's bothersome."The Taliban takeover renewed fears of <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/the-taliban-beheaded-17-afghan-civilians-for-dancing-and-playing-music-at-a-party-2012-8">ruthless attacks</a> on women and their rights under the militant group's regime. On Tuesday, a leader of the group <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/taliban-urges-women-to-join-government-but-afghans-deeply-wary-2021-8">reportedly</a> suggested women joined its government, leaving many to be leery based on their past actions. Since their new reign, more women have been staying indoors, and those who do step out, are dressed in conservative attire, as <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/17/asia/afghanistan-kabul-streets-under-taliban-intl/index.html">CNN reported</a>.Brooks said based on his experience, he knows "what the Taliban is capable of" and has gone through "every single emotion" over the past few days."I went from being happy that troops were coming home to disappointment seeing that maybe it was all for nothing to sadness," Brooks said. He added that he felt "a lot of sadness just for the people of Afghanistan and the Gold Star Families and specifically the women of Afghanistan - women, and children."<div type="image" title="Tony Brooks dressed in uniform in Afghanistan." height="1800" width="1800" msid="85442392" hostid="261"></div>He added: "There's a 20-year-old girl somewhere out there that was born after the war had started, had freedom her whole life, and now she's going to be under Taliban rule, which she has never experienced. I just can't even imagine being that 19- or 20-year-old young woman that's gone through school, is educated, is about to make a life and now she's going to be forced to do something that she probably doesn't want to do."Brooks, like many veterans, has looked back on the 20-year war, the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/middle-east-business-afghanistan-43d8f53b35e80ec18c130cd683e1a38f">thousands of US casualties and billions of dollars spent</a>, and questioned its worth."We went over there to rid the world of the Taliban. To watch them come back that fast, it feels like a complete waste of time," Brooks said. "It was very disheartening. I don't even really care about the money - it's all the work and all the lives that were lost and changed forever."

US veterans who served in Afghanistan are left disappointed and heartbroken by Taliban takeover: 'I almost feel the same anger I felt on 9/11 all over again'

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="480125" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Ashraf-Ghani">Ashraf Ghani</keyword> in a May interview was confident that the government could fend off the <keyword id="16945" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Taliban">Taliban</keyword>.</li><li>In April, <keyword id="1533678" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="President-Joe-Biden">President Joe Biden</keyword> announced that US troops would withdraw from Afghanistan by September.</li><li>"If I did anything, it was to prepare our forces for this situation," Afghanistan's ex-president said at the time.</li></ul>Ashraf Ghani, the former president of Afghanistan who fled the country on Sunday as the Taliban captured all the provincial capitals and advanced into the capital city of Kabul, said only months ago that the government could withstand attacks from insurgents "forever" without the US assistance.President Joe Biden in April <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-plan-withdraw-us-troops-afghanistan-911-report-2021-4">announced</a> that he would pull all US troops out of Afghanistan by September.<a href="https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/interview-with-afghanistan-president-ashraf-ghani-i-know-i-am-only-one-bullet-away-from-death-a-82dc3dd6-3c27-4f93-97c9-d6cddf0cd117">During a May interview</a> in Der Spiegel, a German news magazine, Ghani was optimistic that the country could stand on its own when the US would eventually retreat from having a substantial presence in the region.When asked if the country could resist the Taliban's attacks without US support, Ghani had a quick response: "Forever.""If I did anything, it was to prepare our forces for this situation," he added. "We have already effectively resisted the first wave of attacks in May. But are you writing about that too? We are defensible. The fundamental issue was actually the ambiguity of whether the Americans would stay or leave. That went on for two years. Now there is clarity, now a new chapter is being opened and new rules of the game apply."Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-conflicts-wealth-corporate-clients-ethics-2021-8">We've got your guidebook to the wealth - and potential ethical conflicts -of 31 top Biden appointees</a>When pressed about whether the country could devolve into a civil war, similar to the failed Soviet <keyword id="455857" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="war-in-Afghanistan">War in Afghanistan</keyword> that went on from late 1979 until 1989, Ghani didn't rule it out, but was intent on focusing on how the country had continued to function."The probability of a civil war is there," he told Der Spiegel. "But it doesn't have to come to that. You know, when the combat mission officially ended in 2014 and was modified as a training mission, everybody already saw the demise of the republic coming. But we made it work. Please take into consideration that all of this is also a question of narrative: The more the scenario of destabilization is spread, the more we are confronted with violence here."Ghani, who previously served as Afghanistan's finance minister, was first elected to the presidency in 2014 and won reelection in 2019.While the Taliban had made key advances in recent days, the pace of the insurgency over the weekend was stunning.On Saturday, Mazar-i-Sharif, the fourth-largest city in Afghanistan and the government's last northern stronghold, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/taliban-captures-mazar-i-sharif-afghanistan-insurgents-military-kabul-2021-8">fell to the Taliban</a>, as insurgents carried out a sweeping <keyword id="6359526" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="military">military</keyword> campaign in seizing provincial capitals.Taliban forces that same day captured Jalalabad, the capital of the eastern Nangarhar province.As the insurgents approached Kabul, Ghani fled the country by plane and headed for Tajikistan, according to Reuters. The Taliban took control of the presidential palace, almost 20 years after being ousted from power by US-led forces.

Former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said in May that the country's government could resist the Taliban 'forever' without US assistance

Prime Minister <keyword id="6354477" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Narendra-Modi">Narendra Modi</keyword> has sent birthday greetings to Afghanistan President <keyword id="480125" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Ashraf-Ghani">Ashraf Ghani</keyword> - some 96 days before the occasion. 
 
Modi greeted the Afghan leader through a tweet which said, "Happy Birthday @ashrafghani. Praying for your long life and exceptional health and a joyful journey ahead." 
 
An obviously surprised Ghani, who was in Munich, responded, "@narendramodi Greetings from Munich Mr PM. Although, my birthday is on 19th May, but I'd still like to thank you for for your gracious words :)" 
 
Image credit: Indiatimes

Oops! Narendra Modi wishes Afghan President Ashraf Ghani 96 days before his birthday

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><a href="https://twitter.com/vicenews/status/751525596841275392">Screenshot/Twitter</a>A photo of Micah Xavier Johnson, who Texas state officials identified as the lone shooter in the Dallas ambush that left five police officers dead.</div></div></div>New details have emerged about Micah Xavier Johnson, the man who shot twelve police officers in Dallas last Thursday, killing five. In an <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/07/11/exclusive-parents-of-dallas-cop-killer-micah-johnson-speak-out-for-first-time-since-attack/">interview with The Blaze</a>, Johnson's parents and stepmother said his behavior changed noticeably after he left the US army in 2014. Johnson served six years in the military, including a seven-month deployment in Afghanistan. Johnson wanted to become a police officer growing up, according to his mother, Delphine. He became enthusiastic about joining the military and "wanted to protect his country."But during his service, Johnson's idealistic view of the government turned resentful. His family can't trace the change to a single incident, but they contrasted the extroverted personality of his youth to his more recent state as a "hermit." "The military was not what Micah thought it would be," Delphine told The Blaze. "He was very disappointed, very disappointed. But it may be that the ideal that he thought of our government, what he thought the military represented, it just didn't live up to his expectations."Johnson's Army Reserves engineering unit <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/07/09/inside-the-fall-of-the-dallas-shooter.html">didn't see combat in Afghanistan</a>, and some have speculated that this contributed to Johnson's shame. But his exit from the army resulted from a sexual harassment complaint filed against Johnson by a female corporal - which accused him of stealing women's underwear and recommended he receive mental health treatment. He was sent home early from Aghanistan. The sexual harassment charges were eventually dropped, but Johnson was discharged from the military.Johnson's 2014 return to the US coincided closely with the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, and the beginning of the Black Lives Matter movement. Johnson began to take a deep interest in black history, and he <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/07/11/micah-johnson-was-blacklisted-by-black-power-groups-as-unstable.html">tried to join black power groups</a> that urge armed resistance against white society, especially police.But multiple black nationalist and black liberation groups wouldn't recruit Johnson because he was discharged from the Army due to sexual harassment. "Once you're blacklisted by the alert that we put out, that's a wrap," Ken Moore of the Collective Black People's Movement <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/07/11/micah-johnson-was-blacklisted-by-black-power-groups-as-unstable.html">told The Daily Beast</a>.Moore speculated that Johnson's rejection from several black power groups left him "ostracized" and led to a "psychological break."<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Pix 11/FacebookMicah Johnson remained affiliated with black power groups online.</div></div></div>Johnson remained loosely involved with the groups and attended events and protests in the area. On Facebook, he had liked The New Black Panther Party and the African American <keyword id="6354810" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="Defense">Defense</keyword> League. And his account - which has since been deleted - featured photos of Johnson posing with a clenched fist, a symbol of the black power movement. The Daily Beast has speculated that the letters Johnson <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/new-details-about-dallas-police-shootings-2016-7">wrote on a wall in his own blood</a> the night of the shootings, "RB", were short for "RBG", or "red, black, and green" - the colors of the Pan-African flag and an acronym used by the Black Riders Liberation Party, which Johnson followed on Facebook.Johnson's family told the Blaze he had never expressed anger towards white people. His stepmother, Donna, is white. But the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile seem to have pushed him over the edge. According to Dallas Police Chief David Brown, Johnson <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/new-details-about-dallas-police-shootings-2016-7">had been planning a larger attack</a> but expedited his plans in the wake of last week's police killings. Police found bomb-making materials, ballistic vests, rifles, ammunition, and a personal journal of combat tactics in Johnson's home. Johnson told police after the shooting that he was seeking retribution for Sterling and Castile's deaths. But his father, James Johnson, told The Blaze that he couldn't understand his son's motives."I don't know what to say to anybody to make anything better. I didn't see it coming," he told The Blaze. "I love my son with all my heart. I hate what he did." <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-navy-developed-a-shark-repellent-2016-6">Here's what the US Navy learned about shark attacks during World War II</a></h3> <div> <div> <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="dxcW1nNDE6ERqvi2SYKqSSgk8I3_OzCK" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div> </div> </div> </div>

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"Any time we take military action, there are risks involved - especially to the servicemen and women who carry out these missions," said Obama. "But I want the American people to understand how this effort will be different from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It will not involve American combat troops fighting on foreign soil."
In addition to his promise there would not be "combat troops" on the ground fighting ISIS, Obama emphasized three other elements that would distinguish this conflict from the War on Terror in Iraq and Aghanistan
Critics of the Bush administration regularly <a href="http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,457147,00.html">mocked the size of the so-called "coalition of the willing"</a> that was allied with the U.S. following the 2003 invasion of Iraq. In his speech, Obama emphasized a "broad coalition" of allies would join America to combat ISIS.
"This is not our fight alone," Obama said. "American power can make a decisive difference, but we cannot do for Iraqis what they must do for themselves, nor can we take the place of Arab partners in securing their region."
Since launching airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq last month, Obama has stressed his military operations against the group are "targeted." Obama compared his strategy for ISIS to American missions in Yemen and Somalia. He suggested those operations, as well as others that have occurred during his time in office, were successful. 
"Over the last several years, we have consistently taken the fight to terrorists who threaten our country. We took out Osama bin Laden and much of al Qaeda's leadership in Afghanistan and Pakistan. We've targeted al Qaeda's affiliate in Yemen, and recently eliminated the top commander of its affiliate in Somalia," said Obama. "We've done so while bringing more than 140,000 American troops home from Iraq, and drawing down our forces in Afghanistan, where our combat mission will end later this year. Thanks to our military and counterterrorism professionals, America is safer."
Finally, in addition to stressing U.S. "combat troops" would not be deployed on the ground in Syria and Iraq, Obama emphasized his plan called for efforts to back local forces in those countries. Though he called for sending "an additional 475 service members to Iraq," Obama said they would have the same mission as the "several hundred American service members" he sent to Iraq in June.
"We will not get dragged into another ground war in Iraq," Obama said.

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