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[All About Argentina 🛎🇦🇷 @AlbicelesteTalk]

The players chanting for Leo Messi on the bus. 🩵🇦🇷

"Lionel Messi, we want to sing to you,
You’re eternal, just like that night in Qatar.

"Don’t leave, think about it one more time,
That’s what everyone at the Monumental is asking of you.”

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🥺📲 Leo Messi's IG story on his father:

“You have no idea how much we missed you last night…” 💔

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📲💔 Lisandro Martínez on IG:

“What a privilege it was to have shared the pitch with the greatest athlete of all time.

The greatest of all is leaving us. We’ll miss you for the rest of our lives, Leo. 😭 I love you with all my heart!!!”

[Ronaldinho @10Ronaldinho]

Qué placer y qué alegría haber formado parte de tu historia desde el primer día hermano! Nos hiciste sonreír y disfrutar tanto del fútbol!!! Tu nombre está en la historia de tu país, de todo el mundo... Solo nosotros sabemos la alegría que sentimos al cumplir nuestro sueño de infancia, representar a toda nuestra nación y ser campeones del mundo!!!! Lo diste todo por tu selección y por tu país... Te entiendo perfectamente y sé que todo lo relacionado con la familia nos hace replantearnos las cosas... Disfruta de la vida, hermano. Te deseo lo mejor, hoy y siempre

[We Are Messi 🔟 @WeAreMessi]

GOAAAAALLLLLLLLLL LEO MESSI! 🐐

HE HAD TO SCORE IN HIS LAST GAME 😍🇦🇷 https://t.co/hdTBbuIerH

[All About Argentina 🛎🇦🇷 @AlbicelesteTalk]

🚨🩵 Leo Messi: "To everything I've done in the sport. And well, for me, to have been able to receive it, to be able to say I'm an honorary doctor… So thank you very much, honestly.

"It's a very special day for me. I know it's going to be hard, and I'm going to try to enjoy it. I'm calm, but as the time of the match gets closer, it gets a bit harder.

"And starting the day this way, with this recognition, makes it much more special too. So, well, thank you so much, really. Warm regards to everyone. Thank you."

[All About Argentina 🛎🇦🇷 @AlbicelesteTalk]

🚨🇧🇷 BREAKING: Neymar Jr on IG:

“Anyone who loves football has enjoyed you throughout all these years…

"Today is your final game wearing the shirt of your national team, your country, and I hope you enjoy every second of it and that all the tributes today make you happy.

"It’s not only Argentina that thanks you, the whole world thanks you for everything you’ve done for football.

"Thank you for making me love football even more. It was an honor to have played against you, and even more so to have made history alongside you.

"THANK YOU, Leo Messi. 🐐”

[All About Argentina 🛎🇦🇷 @AlbicelesteTalk]

🚨 BREAKING: Lionel Messi has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate (Doctor Honoris Causa) by the University of Buenos Aires today. 🇦🇷🎓

DR. LIONEL MESSI.

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🚨🤯 Dibu Martínez pays tribute to Leo Messi with an “M” carved into his new haircut. ✂️

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🚨🥹 LEO MESSI: "I LEAVE IN PEACE, I GAVE IT MY ALL..."

[The Hollywood Handle @HollywoodHandle]

‘DIGGER’ opened with $8M domestically.

• One of the biggest flops of 2026 & of Tom Cruise’s career

[delaney @tweetyenergy]

when tom cruise thinks you’re in distress so he checks on you but you were just doom scrolling and got the surprise of a lifetime 😂

TikTok @ klementina_|le

[Cinema Tweets @CinemaTweets1]

Tom Cruise is 64.

Brad Pitt is 62.

Each Are Starring In Huge Releases In The Next 7 Days.

No Signs Of Slowing Down From Two Hollywood Legends.

[All About Argentina 🛎🇦🇷 @AlbicelesteTalk]

🚨❤️ Lionel Scaloni 'pushed' for Leo Messi to have a farewell match with the Argentina National Team:

"I think a player like him deserves this. Personally, I did my part. We pushed for him to be able to play in this match. We knew everything he was going through, but even so, he wanted to come and say goodbye to his people. I think if we’re going to pay tribute to him, it has to be now. What he represents will never go away, but maybe the magic won’t be the same later on.”

“I spoke to him and tried to convince him that it should be now, because you never know what might happen later. AFA and the president also did their part. It’s something beautiful, and he deserves it.”

[All About Argentina 🛎🇦🇷 @AlbicelesteTalk]

🚨 The tickets for Leo Messi's farewell game was sold in 4 minutes. @TNTSportsAR 🇦🇷

[Film Updates @FilmUpdates]

Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro and Daniel Day-Lewis unite for a group photo.

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Lionel Scaloni. 👋🇦🇷

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6th October.

It will all be over.

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(🌕) CONFIRMED BREAKING: AFA have offered Lionel Scaloni a new long-term deal until the 2028 Copa América, with an option to extend until the 2030 World Cup.

The final decision is now up to Scaloni. @FabrizioRomano 🚨🚨🇦🇷

[Sarah Adams @sarahadams]

Battle Damage Assessment of Pakistan’s September 21 Strikes in Afghanistan

There has been significant misinformation about Pakistan’s September 21 airstrikes in eastern and southeastern Afghanistan. The current battle damage assessment (BDA) confirms 19 terrorists killed and 11 wounded across three locations in Paktika and Kunar Provinces.

The strikes hit a suicide-bomber training camp, a madrassa converted into a combat training site, and a joint facility used by Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and the Islamic State. The dead include 13 members of TTP and affiliated branches, as well as six members of the Islamic State network.

The most senior terrorist currently identified among the dead is Hanzala Wazir, a senior member of TTP’s Military Commission for South Waziristan. The Military Commission is the organization’s operational command structure, responsible for directing terrorist operations, assigning commanders and fighters, coordinating training, and helping determine where and how attacks will be carried out.

Here is what was struck, who was killed, and what the Taliban is trying to conceal.

The September 21 Strikes

At approximately 2:55 to 3:00 a.m. local time on September 21, Pakistani fighter aircraft struck three locations in Paktika and Kunar Provinces. The first target was a suicide-bomber training camp in the Torkandi area of Barmal District, Paktika Province.

The second was Farouqia Madrassa in the Rukha area of Paktika. The site was previously used as a religious school but had been converted into a combat training camp for foreign terrorists.

The third target was in Patan village in Nurgal District, Kunar Province. This location was being used jointly by Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) and TTP personnel. Terrorists at the site were being trained to wear suicide vests, handle explosives, and conduct suicide attacks.

There was initially some uncertainty over whether the sites belonged primarily to TTP or ISKP. The training infrastructure in these areas is principally associated with TTP and Lashkar-e-Islam. ISKP personnel, however, were also receiving suicide-attack training at the camps.

The presence of both organizations at the same location reflects how terrorist collaboration has evolved in Afghanistan. This is now the norm, not the exception. Groups increasingly rely on dual-hatted personnel and share trainers, facilitators, suicide bombers, and the infrastructure used to prepare them for attacks.

On The Networks Operating in the Area

Lashkar-e-Islam merged with TTP in late 2021 following the death of its leader, Mangal Bagh. On April 11, 2025, Lashkar-e-Islam became the second-largest component of Ittehad-ul-Mujahideen Pakistan, an alliance bringing together three major Pakistani jihadist networks:

(1) The Hafiz Gul Bahadur Group
(2) Lashkar-e-Islam
(3) Harakat Inqilab-e-Islami Pakistan

The relationship between the Orakzai networks of TTP and the Islamic State predates the September 21 strikes. Personal, tribal, and operational relationships have continued despite changes in organizational affiliation. These connections allow fighters, trainers, facilitators, and suicide-bomber infrastructure to move between networks or operate alongside one another.

Many of the Islamic State fighters and suicide bombers associated with the Orakzai branch come from Islamic State Pakistan Province (ISPP). The branch’s senior leadership and operational direction, however, remain tied to ISKP.

Describing the sites as exclusively TTP or exclusively ISKP misses what was happening there. The camps supported overlapping networks preparing fighters and suicide bombers for future attacks.

Terrorists Killed

The BDA confirms that 13 members of TTP and its affiliated networks were killed:

1. Hanzala Wazir, TTP Military Commission for South Waziristan
2. Kaka Waziristani
3. Siddiq Umar Muhajir
4. Farooq Madakhel
5. Muawiya
6. Huzaifa Mehsud
7. Abu Zarar
8. Maroot Abu Bakr
9. Ghazi Umar Waziristani
10. Qari Yaser
11. Hafiz Shoaib
12. Muawiya Bajauri
13. Mufti Fayyaz

Six members of the Islamic State network were also killed:

1. Azzam al-Khorasani
2. Abu Nasr Orakzai
3. Abu Ahmad Bajauri
4. Salahuddin Logari
5. Hanzala al-Kunduzai
6. Mufti Nadeem al-Badakhshani

Note: The names listed above are aliases used by terrorist organizations to conceal the legal identities, nationalities, movements, and family connections of their members.

In addition to the 19 terrorists killed, 11 foreign terrorists were wounded in the strikes. The dead and wounded were transported to the former Forward Operating Base Bostick, originally known as FOB Naray, in Naray District, Kunar Province. The site now houses a facility known as the National Security Hospital, which is affiliated with the eastern zone of the Taliban’s General Directorate of Intelligence (GDI) and operated by the Haqqani network. The former base also houses a Taliban Ministry of Defense battalion and an al-Qaeda madrassa.

The Civilian Casualties

A civilian home near the targeted location in Kunar was also struck. Sadly, Noor Ahmad, his wife, and their young daughter were killed. Noor Ahmad’s son and three other family members were wounded. Their deaths should not be minimized, but they should not be separated from the reason terrorists were operating in and around a civilian home.

The Taliban allows foreign terrorists to use civilian homes as safehouses, transit points, meeting hubs, and temporary staging locations. Some households may cooperate willingly. Others are pressured or forced by Taliban officials and armed commanders and have no meaningful ability to refuse.

This is not simply a matter of terrorists hiding among civilians without the Taliban’s knowledge. Before a strike, civilians provide physical cover, allowing terrorists to move, meet, rest, and prepare for operations without using easily identified compounds. After a strike, civilian casualties provide political cover. The Taliban conceals the terrorists who were present, portrays the location as entirely civilian, and places the dead family at the center of the story.

Taliban officials then take the civilian casualties to the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), international media, and GDI propaganda channels. The deaths in this case were used to accuse Pakistan of indiscriminately attacking Afghan civilians, while the terrorists operating there, the purpose of the targeted sites, and the Taliban’s role in placing them among civilians gets ignored.

The civilians are used twice: first as physical cover and then as political cover. That does not make Noor Ahmad or his family responsible for what happened. It means the Taliban deliberately put them in danger. The Taliban knows civilian casualties will generate international pressure against Pakistan and make other countries more reluctant to conduct similar operations in the future.

Once the image of a dead family becomes the headline, the Taliban’s version becomes the international media narrative. That is not an unintended consequence. It is the result of a covert influence operation conducted by a terrorist group.

We have to do better when reporting BDAs involving terrorist targets. Civilian casualties must be acknowledged, but they cannot be allowed to erase the terrorists, the targets, or the deception that placed civilians in danger.