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BUTEFLIKA: THE DEATH OF ANOTHER "HISTORIC"   The small number of the so-called "historical" leaders of the Algerian revolution lost another of its members on Friday: former President Abdelaziz Buteflika, who had been physically disabled since he suffered a stroke in April 2013. Precisely, last week another of those characters died, Yacif Saadi, who was head of the autonomous area of ​​Algiers of the nationalist guerrilla; mythical character from the "Battle of Algiers" who starred in his own role in the battle of the same name. Buteflika did not play a major role in the guerrilla confrontation with the French troops, since he was sent to the front of the Sahara, where the only task was to get volunteers for the military wing of the Algerian Liberation Front (FLN). If he rose in the nomenclature of the guerrillas, that was given to the protection that the colonel, Huari Bumedien, also mythical head of the guerrilla army, gave him without fail. T...

 he US State Department has announced the shipment of 64 million dollars to Afghanistan in "humanitarian aid." If this money were to alleviate the sufferings of Afghans after the Taliban takeover, it could not be criticized. But it is to be feared that the money will go into the pockets of the Taliban and, in this sense, it will be a complicity with Islamist terrorism, Because the Taliban is a terrorist movement, with complicity with Al Qaeda, and although it claims ISIS is its enemy, there is no evidence that there is no complicity with that great terrorist galaxy. Biden makes mistake after mistake. After the chaotic departure from Afghanistan this country is on the way to becoming a sanctuary for terrorists. And the consequences will be dire. The United States should have kept the Bagran base as a fixation point and not abandoned it. The Afghan government, with its cowardly armed forces and unwilling to fight, could have hired a mercenary force (why not?) That would have pl...

The hearing made by the Secretary of State, Antony Blinklen, before congressmen and senators confirms that the debacle of the chaotic exit of the United States forces from Afghanistan, by order of President Joe Biden, has been one of the saddest pages in the United States history. Biden and General Milley believed that the Afghan government forces had the capacity to stand up to the Taliban, but they were flatly wrong. Now, Biden and Blinken argue that they could maintain relations with the Taliban, forgetting that they are another face of Islamic terrorism. The Taliban is a terrorist movement that supports Al Qaeda and that will allow Afghanistan to once again become a sanctuary for terrorism. And Qatar, which has been the Arab country that has supported the Taliban from the beginning, also bears a good deal of responsibility for the triumph of the Taliban, although it appears as a simple mediator between them and the United States. 

                                                                 IN MEMORY OF THE VICTIMS OF 9/11 Today, wherever you are, it is a duty to remember the victims of the attacks on the Twin Towers in New York, the attack on the Pentagon and the third attack in which thousands of innocent people died. These attacks were promoted and financed by the terrorist of Saudi origin, Osama Bin Laden, then also supported by the Afghan Taliban. Let us not forget that the complicity between the Taliban and Al Qaida existed and still exists. The Taliban have seized Afghanistan after the infamous flight of the Afghan government forces and the chaotic departure of the US military on the orders of President Biden. The Taliban is today another face of terrorism, and we have to accept that.