Afghan citizens are being relocated to Maine after being evacuated from their home country following the Taliban takeover last month.
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Maine Voices: Twenty years after 9/11, ‘unthinkable’ looks a lot different
President Biden’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan has redefined what our greatest threat is.
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Posted inNation & World
Grief comes home to U.S. towns week after Afghanistan war ends
Americans are beginning to honor and bury the 13 service members killed in a suicide bombing in Kabul two weeks ago.
Posted inNation & World, News
Taliban form all-male Afghan government of old guard members
Appointed to the key post of interior minister was Sirajuddin Haqqani, who is on the FBI’s most-wanted list with a $5 million bounty on his head and is believed to still be holding at least one American hostage.
Posted inNation & World, News, Politics
White House asks Congress to pass emergency funding for disaster aid
The White House is asking for $14 billion in aid to respond to natural disasters that occurred before Hurricane Ida, as well as $6.4 billion to pay for the ongoing relocation of tens of thousands of Afghans who partnered with the U.S. during the war in Afghanistan.
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U.S. working to speed up chartered evacuations from Afghanistan, Blinken says
As the extremist Taliban took control of the capital, the U.S. military and its allies evacuated more than 124,000 people, including nearly all of the estimated 6,000 U.S. citizens in the country.
Posted inAmerican Journal, Forecaster Opinion, Lakes Region Weekly
Here’s Something: Remember the Maine ties to Sept. 11
They say as people get older, they get wiser. I don’t think so. There are many wise young people and too many old fools. I also don’t see politicians getting wiser as they age. They callous over. They spin lies. They believe their own fairy-tale views of the world. Proof of that is last month’s […]
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Bill Nemitz: A fire pit, a circle of friends and an ‘International Chat’
Each week on the edge of Portland Harbor, young adult immigrants share their thoughts on this troubled world.
Posted inLocal & State, Nation & World
20 years later, they’re haunted by their encounters with 9/11 hijackers
Those who crossed paths with two of the World Trade Center terrorists reflect on what happened in Maine in the hours leading up to the worst attacks on American soil.
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Maine Voices: Not so ancient history: First the plague, then the troops
If we want to understand how COVID has influenced our world, we should study the impact of early disease outbreaks in classical Greece.