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Yousuf Rashid, CEO of Free and Fair Election Foundation of Afghanistan (FEFA), has become the latest victim in an ongoing assault on public figures and key workers in Kabul after being killed by gunmen on Wednesday morning in PD7 in Kabul.
Rashid was targeted as he was leaving home on Wednesday morning. His driver, who was with him at the time, was also shot, but survived the attack.
In a separate incident earlier, a police officer was killed and two others wounded in PD12 of Kabul in an IED explosion that targeted their vehicle.
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A short video clip on social media shows that Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, deputy leader of the Taliban, addressed a gathering and said that peace talks are being conducted in consultation with clerics and leaders of the Taliban.
“In the negotiations, that we are busy with, I will assure you that your sacrifices will not be compromised,” Mullah Baradar reportedly said to the wounded militants.
Meanwhile, Rahmatullah Nabil, former head of National Directorate of Security (NDS) said in a tweet that Mullah Baradar met Tor Zainullah, the head of Taliban’s provincial commission for Daikundi, in Pakistan.
The natural gas storage report from the EIA for the week ending December 11th indicated that the quantity of natural gas held in underground storage in the US had decreased by 122 billion cubic feet to 3,726 billion cubic feet by the end of the week, which left our gas supplies 284 billion cubic feet, or still 8.3% higher than the 3,442 billion cubic feet that were in storage on December 11th of last year, and 243 billion cubic feet, or 7.0% above the five-year average of 3,483 billion cubic feet of natural gas that have been in storage as of the 11th of December in recent years..the 122 billion cubic feet that were drawn out of US natural gas storage this week was less than the average forecast from an S&P Global Platts survey of analysts who had expected a 127 billion cubic foot withdrawal, but was higher than the average withdrawal of 105 billion cubic feet of natural gas that have typically been pulled out of natural gas storage during the same week over the past 5 years, and the
Fire From the Sky: The Afghan Taliban’s Drones
Despite ongoing peace negotiations, the Taliban continue their attacks, recently incorporating weaponized commercially available drones into their arsenal.
December 22, 2020
A commercially available quadcopter drone raises a Taliban flag reportedly somewhere in the southern Afghan province of Helmand; date unknown, shared on Twitter on November 9, 2020
Credit: Twitter
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SAYED KARAM, PAKTIA, AFGHANISTAN While the Taliban have since at least 2016 used camera-equipped commercial drones to film propaganda footage, it was, as far as it could be determined, only in early October 2020 that they began to use such unmanned aerial vehicles for attacks. Although, as of writing, there have been few such attacks with weaponized commercial drones, they are significant for several reasons. They exemplify that the Taliban remain despite engaging the Afghan government and other Afghan stakeholders in pe