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US special forces vets launch mission to get Afghan allies out amid Biden's chaotic withdrawal: Pentagon pushes on with evacuation of 8.5K despite threat of ANOTHER ISIS attack after suicide attacks killed 13 American troops and 170 other people
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[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] - US flights will continue on Friday to get the remaining Americans and Afghan allies out
- Between Thursday and Friday morning, US jets removed 8,500 people from Kabul airport
- Other countries evacuated 4,000 - bringing the total for the day to 12,500 after the two bomb attacks
- The last of the British evacuation flights will leave Kabul on Friday, with some people still left behind
- A group of American Afghanistan veterans are in Kabul on a volunteer mission getting people to the airport
- Between Wednesday and Thursday, they were able to get 500 Afghan Special Forces troops and their families to the airport
- Some of them were wounded in Thursday's attack but it's unclear if any of them died
- Canada stopped flying people out on Thursday, France is finishing on Friday and so is Denmark
- Some Canadian Embassy staff are staying in Afghanistan to help the Afghan allies who can't get out
- Biden has promised not to leave while any American who wants to leave is still on the ground
- There are as many as 1,000 US citizens still there but it's unclear how many want to go and who wants to stay
- An additional 5,000 Afghan allies and green card holders were still to be evacuated on Thursday when the bombs hit
Posted by: Skidmark 2021-08-27 |
