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Pakistan seems to have outnumbered most other countries here. Pakistan is one of the Elephants in the Room that is seldom mentioned in the western press (check out timesofindia.com and you get another perspective). There are of course more than just one Elephant around, look at Saudi Arabia for example, a major importer of western weapons to kill/mame/destroy people in Yemen for example. But Pakistan sticks out, it's a nuclear power after all.
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Chris Alexander has a sober opinion and experience on the matter
August 11, 2021
Afghanistan’s elusive peace: Measures to end proxy war
Chris Alexander served as Deputy Special Representative to the United Nations Secretary General for Afghanistan between 2005 and 2009. His recent publication is Ending Pakistan’s proxy war in Afghanistan. ADN
In June 2021, the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team of the United Nations Security Council released a report on relationships between Al-Qaeda and the Taliban and how they have been operating and enjoying ‘unbreakable ties’. Based on the report, Al-Qaeda is active in at least 15 out of 34 provinces. There are up to 10,000 foreign fighters mainly from Central Asia, the north Caucasus region of Russian Federation, Pakistan and the Xinjiang Uighur autonomous region of China fighting the Afghan government.
The Monitoring Team of the UN Security Council report has discussed the Taliban leadership councils which are based in Pakistan, the Al-Qaeda-Taliban nexus, international terrorism, and the elusive peace efforts since the signing of agreement between the US administration and the Taliban in February 2020 in Doha.
The report, however, fails to identify the ‘principal and underlying’ cause of the war in Afghanistan. In a virtual conversation with Chris Alexander, the author of “Ending Pakistan’s Proxy War in Afghanistan” and the former Deputy Special Representative to the United Nations Secretary General for Afghanistan between 2005 and 2009, Afghan Diaspora Network (ADN) asked him what his thoughts are on the findings of the Monitoring Team of the UN Security Council report; and what the root causes of the Afghan conflict are.
ADN: What is your reaction to the Monitoring team of the UN report and its findings?
Chris: It’s a report that continues not to talk about the elephant in the room, not to name the real problem by its name. Some of the Al-Qaeda leaders are said to be living in Afghanistan and Pakistan border area and that is absolute hog wash. We know from countless sources documented, verified, journalists, researchers, Pakistani officials, serving and former that these people living in Pakistan and the organisational structure of Al-Qaeda is based in Pakistan and has been since it was founded in 1998. There was a long set of articles four years ago about how Aiman Al-Zawahiri lives in Karachi. All of these groups whether they are Al-Qaeda, Islamic states in Khurasan Province, any splinter groups we have talked about, Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, any of the leadership groups, the Haqqani Network, the leadership group that trying to split off the Taliban – they are all based in Pakistan and they all have a common back office as it were and supply chain which belong to directorate of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). These people who are monitoring the sanctions will not be doing their jobs until they start to document the truth about how these groups operate and they operate from Pakistan with Pakistani state support.
Now this Monitoring Sanction Team efforts has been dubious in my eyes from the beginning because it always ignored these issues and the last time years ago, there was an ISI officer who was a member of Monitoring Sanction Team. So if you want to know why this is not being reported, it’s because of that.
ADN: Why the report did not mention the presence of Taliban and Al-Qaeda leaders in Pakistan?
Chris: If they mentioned it then we might start to deal with real issues which Pakistan is waging proxy war in Afghanistan and that proxy war is a threat to international peace and security and countries that are interfering through armed groups in the internal affairs of their neighbors should face consequences under the UN Charter starting with political sanctions. Iran has been sanctioned by most countries in the world because it’s engaged in proxy war in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Gaza, Yemen and couple of other places. We could also talk about Saudi Arabia and Turkey engaging in proxy wars today and there should be probably a discussion about that but the scale and the involvement of Pakistan in this proxy war in Afghanistan is much greater than other countries. It deserves the international response that is appropriate to uphold the internal integrity and sovereignty of Afghanistan.
Look at Vladimir Putin, he invaded Ukraine in 2014 and was immediately faced with sanctions. Those are in Russian states responsible for that invasion and face a growing range of sanctions from a very wide range of countries. Pakistan should face at least that and no one want to punish the Pakistani people. The people of Pakistan for the most part do not even know that this is happening in their name because it’s a covert war using irregular tactics. If you talk about it in the Pakistani press, you are killed and certainly censored. They (Pakistani state) work very hard to make sure the UN report doesn’t mention the reality. To make sure news reports do not show the reality, to make sure Afghans who report on this are intimidated or killed or certainly there is no freedom of press on these issues in Pakistan.
ADN: Are you surprised with the high number of Al-Qaeda and other terror groups mentioned in the Monitoring Team report and their association with the Taliban?
Chris: Reports on numbers always subject to the nuance analysis. I don’t doubt that many people are involved in one way or another in the fight, but they are not active in any given day. Many of them end up being injured or killed. Let’s be honest! Thousands of them get killed every year. A lot of them spend time going back to their families, running areas across the border or earning a living because they cannot pay their bills from what they receive as proxy warriors for Taliban. I think they cross over between Taliban and Al-Qaeda. It’s very easy to understand because from the ISI perspective, the most reliable group that they have been working with in the last 20 years with certain degree of ideological brutality on the battlefield and willingness to do extreme things like killing of large number of civilians, is the Haqqani Network. Haqqani is the group closely associated with the Al-Qaeda. Even though the Haqqanis are Afghans from Paktia province, from Zadran tribe, they have operated from Pakistan throughout the years. Haqqanis associated themselves with Al-Qaeda because it was a source of money and international military capacity. That relationship has continued, and I think there is some evidence that the Haqqani group is taking some of the principles of Al-Qaeda leadership after 9/11. They are indeed partners of Al-Qaeda from the very beginning. It is not surprising to see ISI is designating Sirajuddin Haqqani in Afghanistan as of both principal leader of the Taliban military command and a major interlocutor for them with Al-Qaeda.
ADN: What has been the biggest achievement of U.S.-Taliban peace deal in your view since it was signed in February 2020?
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Chris: The only achievement is that the US has been able to withdraw its troops without being under attack and that thousands of Taliban fighters have been released most of whom rejoined the fight. That is a disastrous record. You know the goal of ISI and the Taliban in these talks have been to get US and NATO out of Afghanistan so that they can continue to fight and impose the military solution.
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ADN: What does the unconditional withdrawal of U.S. and NATO troops signal to Taliban?
Chris: It signals that we have lost our way in dealing with major terrorist threats. Not just terrorist threats, but it is also a state-to-state war being waged. I think this is the issue that we are missing. We have treated Afghanistan as an issue of terrorism and the United States wanted to withdraw on a condition that Afghanistan would never be used against the US and its allies.
Until we start talking about the real problem, there would be no peace deal. We fought the Islamic State because it was a terrorist threat. We fought in Afghanistan for over ten years quite in a large scale because the Taliban and their allies posed security threats and these threats have not gone away. The only way is to ensure that they don’t rise again and threaten their region and the broader world. The solution is to have functioning states that are committed to ensuring that their countries are not used in this way.
ADN: How do you see the future of Afghanistan after the withdrawal of foreign forces?
Chris: The Taliban would continue to fight. I think the Afghan state will resist quite effectively the way Dr Najibullah’s (former Afghanistan president Mohammad Najibullah Ahmadzai) government resisted for a while, but the Afghans would be caught in the crossfire. We had a decade of fighting and a decade of talking to the Taliban. Now the focus should be on the relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan particularly Pakistan’s role in organising, funding, arming a proxy army that is engaged in the proxy war. There is really no credible voice today that denies Pakistan’s role. You remember that in the month of May, Afghan president Ashraf Ghani gave an interview to Spiegel where he said Pakistan is the size of enabler of the Taliban. They (Pakistan) have the choice to make and if they make the wrong choice, then the countries like Germany should impose sanctions. Look at what is happening in Pakistani politics right now. The war has cost Pakistan as well not only lives but reputation and prosperity.
ADN: Do you think an interim government is a solution for Afghanistan? If it is not a solution, then what is a solution?
Chris: Yes, this is a solution if it changes the Pakistani policy. If it leads to a ceasefire. It is really a solution because in a condition of a ceasefire, there can be elections and the Afghans will be able to choose their government and for the Taliban to explain themselves and they have full confidence in Afghans to choose those who sincerely want to turn the page and distinguish between those who have sincerity and those who don’t, but power sharing is the wrong approach if fighting does not stop. It does not help if a group of Taliban are inside the government and another group of Taliban are still armed. Ceasefire is all it matters. If the price of that is power sharing, so be it, but I don’t see military wing in Pakistan is agreeing to a ceasefire or allowing a ceasefire to happen unless and until they come under a lot of pressure.
This edited article is from the Afghan Diaspora Network website.
source:https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50913411/a ... proxy-war/
What the Report does not mention is the other big sponsor of the war in Afghanistan and that is Saudi Arabia among others. I don't think that Iran plays a role in this conflict but only "allah" knows for sure.
Another long read for Twitter addicted news fans.
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Chris Alexander has a sober opinion and experience on the matter
August 11, 2021
Afghanistan’s elusive peace: Measures to end proxy war
Chris Alexander served as Deputy Special Representative to the United Nations Secretary General for Afghanistan between 2005 and 2009. His recent publication is Ending Pakistan’s proxy war in Afghanistan. ADN
In June 2021, the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team of the United Nations Security Council released a report on relationships between Al-Qaeda and the Taliban and how they have been operating and enjoying ‘unbreakable ties’. Based on the report, Al-Qaeda is active in at least 15 out of 34 provinces. There are up to 10,000 foreign fighters mainly from Central Asia, the north Caucasus region of Russian Federation, Pakistan and the Xinjiang Uighur autonomous region of China fighting the Afghan government.
The Monitoring Team of the UN Security Council report has discussed the Taliban leadership councils which are based in Pakistan, the Al-Qaeda-Taliban nexus, international terrorism, and the elusive peace efforts since the signing of agreement between the US administration and the Taliban in February 2020 in Doha.
The report, however, fails to identify the ‘principal and underlying’ cause of the war in Afghanistan. In a virtual conversation with Chris Alexander, the author of “Ending Pakistan’s Proxy War in Afghanistan” and the former Deputy Special Representative to the United Nations Secretary General for Afghanistan between 2005 and 2009, Afghan Diaspora Network (ADN) asked him what his thoughts are on the findings of the Monitoring Team of the UN Security Council report; and what the root causes of the Afghan conflict are.
ADN: What is your reaction to the Monitoring team of the UN report and its findings?
Chris: It’s a report that continues not to talk about the elephant in the room, not to name the real problem by its name. Some of the Al-Qaeda leaders are said to be living in Afghanistan and Pakistan border area and that is absolute hog wash. We know from countless sources documented, verified, journalists, researchers, Pakistani officials, serving and former that these people living in Pakistan and the organisational structure of Al-Qaeda is based in Pakistan and has been since it was founded in 1998. There was a long set of articles four years ago about how Aiman Al-Zawahiri lives in Karachi. All of these groups whether they are Al-Qaeda, Islamic states in Khurasan Province, any splinter groups we have talked about, Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, any of the leadership groups, the Haqqani Network, the leadership group that trying to split off the Taliban – they are all based in Pakistan and they all have a common back office as it were and supply chain which belong to directorate of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). These people who are monitoring the sanctions will not be doing their jobs until they start to document the truth about how these groups operate and they operate from Pakistan with Pakistani state support.
Now this Monitoring Sanction Team efforts has been dubious in my eyes from the beginning because it always ignored these issues and the last time years ago, there was an ISI officer who was a member of Monitoring Sanction Team. So if you want to know why this is not being reported, it’s because of that.
ADN: Why the report did not mention the presence of Taliban and Al-Qaeda leaders in Pakistan?
Chris: If they mentioned it then we might start to deal with real issues which Pakistan is waging proxy war in Afghanistan and that proxy war is a threat to international peace and security and countries that are interfering through armed groups in the internal affairs of their neighbors should face consequences under the UN Charter starting with political sanctions. Iran has been sanctioned by most countries in the world because it’s engaged in proxy war in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Gaza, Yemen and couple of other places. We could also talk about Saudi Arabia and Turkey engaging in proxy wars today and there should be probably a discussion about that but the scale and the involvement of Pakistan in this proxy war in Afghanistan is much greater than other countries. It deserves the international response that is appropriate to uphold the internal integrity and sovereignty of Afghanistan.
Look at Vladimir Putin, he invaded Ukraine in 2014 and was immediately faced with sanctions. Those are in Russian states responsible for that invasion and face a growing range of sanctions from a very wide range of countries. Pakistan should face at least that and no one want to punish the Pakistani people. The people of Pakistan for the most part do not even know that this is happening in their name because it’s a covert war using irregular tactics. If you talk about it in the Pakistani press, you are killed and certainly censored. They (Pakistani state) work very hard to make sure the UN report doesn’t mention the reality. To make sure news reports do not show the reality, to make sure Afghans who report on this are intimidated or killed or certainly there is no freedom of press on these issues in Pakistan.
ADN: Are you surprised with the high number of Al-Qaeda and other terror groups mentioned in the Monitoring Team report and their association with the Taliban?
Chris: Reports on numbers always subject to the nuance analysis. I don’t doubt that many people are involved in one way or another in the fight, but they are not active in any given day. Many of them end up being injured or killed. Let’s be honest! Thousands of them get killed every year. A lot of them spend time going back to their families, running areas across the border or earning a living because they cannot pay their bills from what they receive as proxy warriors for Taliban. I think they cross over between Taliban and Al-Qaeda. It’s very easy to understand because from the ISI perspective, the most reliable group that they have been working with in the last 20 years with certain degree of ideological brutality on the battlefield and willingness to do extreme things like killing of large number of civilians, is the Haqqani Network. Haqqani is the group closely associated with the Al-Qaeda. Even though the Haqqanis are Afghans from Paktia province, from Zadran tribe, they have operated from Pakistan throughout the years. Haqqanis associated themselves with Al-Qaeda because it was a source of money and international military capacity. That relationship has continued, and I think there is some evidence that the Haqqani group is taking some of the principles of Al-Qaeda leadership after 9/11. They are indeed partners of Al-Qaeda from the very beginning. It is not surprising to see ISI is designating Sirajuddin Haqqani in Afghanistan as of both principal leader of the Taliban military command and a major interlocutor for them with Al-Qaeda.
ADN: What has been the biggest achievement of U.S.-Taliban peace deal in your view since it was signed in February 2020?
========================================================================
Chris: The only achievement is that the US has been able to withdraw its troops without being under attack and that thousands of Taliban fighters have been released most of whom rejoined the fight. That is a disastrous record. You know the goal of ISI and the Taliban in these talks have been to get US and NATO out of Afghanistan so that they can continue to fight and impose the military solution.
========================================================================
ADN: What does the unconditional withdrawal of U.S. and NATO troops signal to Taliban?
Chris: It signals that we have lost our way in dealing with major terrorist threats. Not just terrorist threats, but it is also a state-to-state war being waged. I think this is the issue that we are missing. We have treated Afghanistan as an issue of terrorism and the United States wanted to withdraw on a condition that Afghanistan would never be used against the US and its allies.
Until we start talking about the real problem, there would be no peace deal. We fought the Islamic State because it was a terrorist threat. We fought in Afghanistan for over ten years quite in a large scale because the Taliban and their allies posed security threats and these threats have not gone away. The only way is to ensure that they don’t rise again and threaten their region and the broader world. The solution is to have functioning states that are committed to ensuring that their countries are not used in this way.
ADN: How do you see the future of Afghanistan after the withdrawal of foreign forces?
Chris: The Taliban would continue to fight. I think the Afghan state will resist quite effectively the way Dr Najibullah’s (former Afghanistan president Mohammad Najibullah Ahmadzai) government resisted for a while, but the Afghans would be caught in the crossfire. We had a decade of fighting and a decade of talking to the Taliban. Now the focus should be on the relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan particularly Pakistan’s role in organising, funding, arming a proxy army that is engaged in the proxy war. There is really no credible voice today that denies Pakistan’s role. You remember that in the month of May, Afghan president Ashraf Ghani gave an interview to Spiegel where he said Pakistan is the size of enabler of the Taliban. They (Pakistan) have the choice to make and if they make the wrong choice, then the countries like Germany should impose sanctions. Look at what is happening in Pakistani politics right now. The war has cost Pakistan as well not only lives but reputation and prosperity.
ADN: Do you think an interim government is a solution for Afghanistan? If it is not a solution, then what is a solution?
Chris: Yes, this is a solution if it changes the Pakistani policy. If it leads to a ceasefire. It is really a solution because in a condition of a ceasefire, there can be elections and the Afghans will be able to choose their government and for the Taliban to explain themselves and they have full confidence in Afghans to choose those who sincerely want to turn the page and distinguish between those who have sincerity and those who don’t, but power sharing is the wrong approach if fighting does not stop. It does not help if a group of Taliban are inside the government and another group of Taliban are still armed. Ceasefire is all it matters. If the price of that is power sharing, so be it, but I don’t see military wing in Pakistan is agreeing to a ceasefire or allowing a ceasefire to happen unless and until they come under a lot of pressure.
This edited article is from the Afghan Diaspora Network website.
source:https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50913411/a ... proxy-war/
What the Report does not mention is the other big sponsor of the war in Afghanistan and that is Saudi Arabia among others. I don't think that Iran plays a role in this conflict but only "allah" knows for sure.
The worst country in the world would probably be any island that would take less than a day to run around.
This is an interesting read and lends support to logos' nomination:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Pearl
The Pakistani government is considering releasing the murderer of journalist Daniel Pearl. His murderer is a violent fundamentalist who was convicted of kidnapping western tourists in India in the 90s.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Pearl
The Pakistani government is considering releasing the murderer of journalist Daniel Pearl. His murderer is a violent fundamentalist who was convicted of kidnapping western tourists in India in the 90s.
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Luton.
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"I don't care what the people are thinking, i ain't drunk i'm just drinking"
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Any area in any European city or town with an immigrant population over 10% then.Bradford,London,Luton etc.
Highgate is not a shithole Hounslow is. Hampstead is not a shithole Harlesden is.
Highgate is not a shithole Hounslow is. Hampstead is not a shithole Harlesden is.
Very limited cow-rustllng opportunities in those places Fred.Fred Edwards wrote: ↑Fri Sep 17, 2021 2:10 amAny area in any European city or town with an immigrant population over 10% then.Bradford,London,Luton etc.
Highgate is not a shithole Hounslow is. Hampstead is not a shithole Harlesden is.
Can you emigrate again, or has your passport been revoked?
I’m sure Fred has posted that he lives in Tower Hamlets, which is the most ethnically diverse area in the U.K.
The obvious question is why? Why choose to live in such a shithole by his own definition?
The obvious question is why? Why choose to live in such a shithole by his own definition?
Because it is public housing for those unable to support themselves.
That is how they keep the cattle safe.
Put the rustlers where you can contain them.
That is how they keep the cattle safe.
Put the rustlers where you can contain them.
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Whitechapel is in tower hamlets:Tower Hamlets wrote: ↑Fri Sep 17, 2021 1:59 pmI’m sure Fred has posted that he lives in Tower Hamlets, which is the most ethnically diverse area in the U.K.
The obvious question is why? Why choose to live in such a shithole by his own definition?
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/t ... 55204.html
A man had his hand cut off after being attacked with his own machete by angry vigilantes, according to locals.
A 19-year-old man was found with “life-changing injuries” after it was alleged a machete was used to strike his hand off at the wrist in Golding Street, Whitechapel at 5.45pm on Sunday.
Grisly footage on social media showed a hooded man sitting on a curb nursing his arm and surrounded by a pool of his own blood.
Two men were taken to hospital. Police have launched an investigation into the footage, which is too gruesome to be shared, but said no arrests had been made at this time.
A councillor wrote on Facebook that locals had cornered a man who had reportedly brought a machete to the scene.
He wrote: “Yeah...you don’t mess with the people of Tower Hamlets.
“On a more serious note: Armed with machetes, this group has allegedly targeted innocent people in that area a few times. Locals decided to take matters into their own hands.
“Nobody should ever condone vigilantism like this but it should also be a lesson for people who carry knives: your weapon can easily be turned against you.”
A nearby shop owner said police closed off the street very quickly and he had heard from customers the man’s hand was cut off.
Drill rapper Ak6ix7even said people had released “fake news” of him being involved in the attack after a photo emerged of him being arrested.
He said on an Instagram live: “There is a viral image saying I stole a car. I went to buy a car simply and got caught up in this bull****t.
“I was arrested for possession it wasn’t for any of that. There’s a guy with his hand getting all chopped off I don’t even know who that is. Guys coming at my name because I’m a musician.
“I do not harm or bother civilians. Stealing cars has nothing to do with me I went to buy a car simply.”
We’re aware of a video being shared online showing a male with a serious arm injury following an assault in Golding Street, E1 on Sunday evening.
Detectives are investigating and we’d urge people to avoid speculating as to the circumstances while that investigation takes place.
— Tower Hamlets Police (www.gov.uk/coronavirus) (@MPSTowerHam) September 13, 2021
A Metropolitan Police spokeswoman said: “We are aware of a video on social media showing a male who is visibly injured on a street in Tower Hamlets, followed by officers making arrests.
“The first half of the video appears to have been filmed following an incident in Golding Street, E1 that is under investigation. Officers attended with London Ambulance Service paramedics and found a 19-year-old man with a significant knife wound to the arm.
“A second man, aged 20, was found with a knife wound in nearby Christian Street. Both men were taken to hospital – neither man’s condition is life-threatening but the 19-year-old man’s injuries are likely life changing.”
She added: “We are aware of commentary on social media about the circumstances that led to the incident. An investigation is ongoing and we would urge people not to speculate.”
A London Ambulance Service spokeswoman said: “We sent an ambulance crew and two medics in cars to the scene. We treated a man at the scene and took him to a major trauma centre.
“A second patient, a man, was treated on Christian Street and taken to hospital
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'Life changing injuries...'
To say the least, I mean getting your hand chopped off, farking ouch. Hope he doesn't lose a grip on things.
To say the least, I mean getting your hand chopped off, farking ouch. Hope he doesn't lose a grip on things.
Fred Edwards wrote: ↑Fri Sep 17, 2021 3:43 pmWhitechapel is in tower hamlets:Tower Hamlets wrote: ↑Fri Sep 17, 2021 1:59 pmI’m sure Fred has posted that he lives in Tower Hamlets, which is the most ethnically diverse area in the U.K.
The obvious question is why? Why choose to live in such a shithole by his own definition?
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/t ... 55204.html
A man had his hand cut off after being attacked with his own machete by angry vigilantes, according to locals.
A 19-year-old man was found with “life-changing injuries” after it was alleged a machete was used to strike his hand off at the wrist in Golding Street, Whitechapel at 5.45pm on Sunday.
Grisly footage on social media showed a hooded man sitting on a curb nursing his arm and surrounded by a pool of his own blood.
Two men were taken to hospital. Police have launched an investigation into the footage, which is too gruesome to be shared, but said no arrests had been made at this time.
A councillor wrote on Facebook that locals had cornered a man who had reportedly brought a machete to the scene.
He wrote: “Yeah...you don’t mess with the people of Tower Hamlets.
“On a more serious note: Armed with machetes, this group has allegedly targeted innocent people in that area a few times. Locals decided to take matters into their own hands.
“Nobody should ever condone vigilantism like this but it should also be a lesson for people who carry knives: your weapon can easily be turned against you.”
A nearby shop owner said police closed off the street very quickly and he had heard from customers the man’s hand was cut off.
Drill rapper Ak6ix7even said people had released “fake news” of him being involved in the attack after a photo emerged of him being arrested.
He said on an Instagram live: “There is a viral image saying I stole a car. I went to buy a car simply and got caught up in this bull****t.
“I was arrested for possession it wasn’t for any of that. There’s a guy with his hand getting all chopped off I don’t even know who that is. Guys coming at my name because I’m a musician.
“I do not harm or bother civilians. Stealing cars has nothing to do with me I went to buy a car simply.”
We’re aware of a video being shared online showing a male with a serious arm injury following an assault in Golding Street, E1 on Sunday evening.
Detectives are investigating and we’d urge people to avoid speculating as to the circumstances while that investigation takes place.
— Tower Hamlets Police (www.gov.uk/coronavirus) (@MPSTowerHam) September 13, 2021
A Metropolitan Police spokeswoman said: “We are aware of a video on social media showing a male who is visibly injured on a street in Tower Hamlets, followed by officers making arrests.
“The first half of the video appears to have been filmed following an incident in Golding Street, E1 that is under investigation. Officers attended with London Ambulance Service paramedics and found a 19-year-old man with a significant knife wound to the arm.
“A second man, aged 20, was found with a knife wound in nearby Christian Street. Both men were taken to hospital – neither man’s condition is life-threatening but the 19-year-old man’s injuries are likely life changing.”
She added: “We are aware of commentary on social media about the circumstances that led to the incident. An investigation is ongoing and we would urge people not to speculate.”
A London Ambulance Service spokeswoman said: “We sent an ambulance crew and two medics in cars to the scene. We treated a man at the scene and took him to a major trauma centre.
“A second patient, a man, was treated on Christian Street and taken to hospital
Which just prompts the same question again. If you think it's so horrible, why do you live there? Who chooses to live in an area they hate, surrounded by immigrants they resent? It makes no sense.
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I don't live there. I may have mentioned Tower Hamlets in the past as I used to work there.
It sounds like you're in agreement with me that having a certain percentage of immigrants in the area turns into a shithole.
It sounds like you're in agreement with me that having a certain percentage of immigrants in the area turns into a shithole.
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