'Unwilling to fight' Afghans are fighting Taliban at the Panjshir Valley

Ahmad Shah Massoud

President Joe Biden may have handed the Taliban most of Afghanistan, but there remains a group of incredibly brave Afghans who are unwilling to go along with Biden's program. 

These fighters have proven Biden wrong in his lie that Afghans are not willing to fight as they resist the terrorists in the Panjshir Valley although they are totally surrounded. Senior Taliban scumbag Amir Khan Motaqi has called on the residents there to lay down their weapons but unlike Biden, they are unwilling to go along with the Taliban program. They know they can't trust these Seventh Century barbarians and are apparently willing to fight to the death. 

[H/T BBC]

Scores of Taliban terrorists have been killed in skirmishes along its borders since mid-August, when Kabul fell and the fighting there continues attesting to Biden's perfect score of never being right about anything.

The valley is located in eastern Afghanistan. It has become the home of the National Resistance Front (NRF), a multi-ethnic group consisting of militias and former Afghan security force members, numbering in the thousands. They appear well-armed and well-trained.

The NRF has been joined by former vice-president Amrullah Saleh, a real leader who, unlike Ghani, didn't run from Afghanistan with carloads of cash when Biden pulled our military out of the country. He is now considered to be the acting president.

The leader of the resistance is Ahmad Massoud, whose father was known as teh "Lion of Panjshir," an Afghan patriot who held off the Soviet invasion in the 1980s and kept the Taliban out in the 1990s. He was killed on September 9, 2001, just two days before 9/11.

His son - a 32-year-old King's College London and Sandhurst Military Academy graduate - is now determined to follow in his father's footsteps and keep the Taliban out.  Earlier this year he met France's President Emmanuel Macron, likely in a bid for allies as the U.S. withdrawal was coming closer.

Support of the resistance has begun to appear on social media.

The Taliban and the NRF have been negotiating but, although both sides say they want to avoid war, no settlement was reached, and talks have given way to open fighting. Although the Taliban, known for lying, claims to have taken control of certain areas in the valley, but the NRF dismissed the claims.

Meanwhile, the Taliban is trying to cut supply routes into the valley, hoping for the resistance to give up so they can shoot them when they do.

Panjshir is one of Afghanistan's smallest provinces. It's home to almost 200,000 people, situated behind mountain peaks that rise 9,800 feet above the Panjshir River. It's largest ethnic group are the Tajiks but is home to a range of folks who have a historical reputation for bravery.

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