Afghanistan – Aug. 17th: Terror Threat is Rising There and Abroad Under Taliban Sharia Law

[UPDATE – Aug 17, 10:25Z] – Russia, China can moderate crash landing of ‘puppet Afghan government,’ expert says The Afghan government was fully dependent on Washington and was destined to collapse, but Moscow and Beijing can help stabilize the situation in the region, Professor of international law at the University of Illinois Francis Boyle said. “The so-called Afghan government was nothing more than a puppet government that the Americans set up, it had no real independence to speak up,” he pointed out. “It basically was a house of cards destined to collapse,” the expert noted. According to Boyle, “Russia and…