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Born:Constance Frances Marie Ockelman,
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U.S. officials in Kabul gave the Taliban a list of names of American citizens, green card holders and Afghan allies to grant entry into the militant-controlled outer perimeter of the city's airport, a choice that's prompted outrage behind the scenes from lawmakers and military officials.
The move, detailed to POLITICO by three U.S. and congressional officials, was designed to expedite the evacuation of tens of thousands of people from Afghanistan as chaos erupted in Afghanistan's capital city last week after the Taliban seized control of the country. It also came as the Biden administration has been relying on the Taliban for security outside the airport.
But the decision to provide specific names to the Taliban, which has a history of brutally murdering Afghans who collaborated with the U.S. and other coalition forces during the conflict, has angered lawmakers and military officials.
"Basically, they just put all those Afghans on a kill list," said one defense official, who like others spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive topic. "It's just appalling and shocking and makes you feel unclean."
Gerthudion the Prolific5181 submitted another article on the subject, commenting:
Our supposed Best and Brightest, educated at a cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars at our elite institutions, can't compete with illiterate 7 century savages.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain ||
08/26/2021 17:44 ||
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#5
Everybody knew this shi@ was going to go down badly. Saturation bomb everything but the airport to a depth of 5 miles in all directions. Rubblize the entire city. Start immediately.
#8
President Biden on 8/20/21: "Look, we've made clear to the Taliban that any attack -- any attack on our forces or disruption of our operations at the airport will be met with a swift and forceful response."
Posted by: Matt ||
08/26/2021 15:10 Comments ||
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It begins. #5 I think it has only just started to go badly and while I entirely endorse and sympathize with your sentiments they are about 18-19 years late.
#10
Bomb safe passage routes to the airport. Several of them. Tell everybody (US Persons and Euros) to make their way to the airport via leather cadillacs immediately. Fok everybody else, just fok their sorry arses. Patrol the routes with drones to monitor progress.
#11
Yeah, don't make them string out on a 25 mile walk to an evac point outside the city. Get them all bunched up in urban terrain. Brilliant. (do I need to put a /sarc on that?)
#12
Agree with #9. Yes late, but it's time to act today. Send them all to hell. Invite others VIC Spin, Kandahar, Bagram, and Moz to join them. Clean foking sweep. Just do it and be done with it.
#13
There's a Pentagon briefing going on here, but other than that the regime has gone full radio silent as far as I can tell. No Blinken, no Psaki, and of course no big guy. Der Fuhrer schlaft.
Posted by: Matt ||
08/26/2021 15:31 Comments ||
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Tell the CIA abd DOS people they have a new mission relative to the Taliban, Graves Registration. Give them shovels and get their arses to digging. Give those worthless foks something to remember as well.
#17
And by the way, where the heck is the Marine leadership? Commandant Berger, you just lost half a platoon. Your guys. Got anything to say?
Posted by: Matt ||
08/26/2021 15:39 Comments ||
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Der Fuhrer schlaft. If only der Fuhrer knew. If only der Fuhrer was capable of knowing.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 ||
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They need help. Send me a set of orders. I have 175,000 Delta Sky miles. One more deployment, no problem. I'm old, but not dead. I can call in air, drones or manned surveillance, or FO work. Be happy to support soldiers, Marines, USAF, watever. Make my foking day.
#21
So for the last couple days the CIA et al has been handing over cash for safe passage, and they have deceived and been planning this obviously coordinated battering ram. Meanwhile, US forces had strict orders to not leave the airport so they were not able to set up even rudimentary anti-vehicle stops.
So now they can't wake der fukr and if they did, he wouldn't be in mind for a serious top down decision.
#22
"Since I spoke to you on Monday, we have made significant progress. We've secured the airport, enabling flights to resume, not just military flights but civilian charters from other countries, and the NGOs taking out civilians and vulnerable Afghanis," said Biden in his televised speech set for 1 pm that ran behind schedule. 8/10/2021
“You graduated either the lowest or almost the lowest in your class. Don’t ever use the word smart with me,” Trump said during the first presidential debate. “Don’t ever use that word. Because you know what? There’s nothing smart about you, Joe."
All I can picture is a committee knowing they are getting buttfucked on international TV, watching an aerial asset live, in a zoom meeting, unable to make a decision because nobody want to chance being the patsy, while The White House tries to wake der fukr and get him into makeup prep.
#29
The briefing at 5PM (or whenever the meds kick in) is probably when Biden's going to announce the "swift and forceful response" he promised on August 20. /sarc
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08/26/2021 16:54 Comments ||
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besoeker you have plenty of reason to rant
Posted by: Chris ||
08/26/2021 16:58 Comments ||
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While a few hard core dead-end commentators will continue to reel off knee-slappers about how this is "Trump's fault," the vast majority of people understand Joe and the people who actually voted for him own it. I don't know if a fake ballot can get what it was cast for "good and hard."
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
08/26/2021 17:00 Comments ||
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#32
Biden will do nothing
Posted by: Deacon Blues ||
08/26/2021 17:03 Comments ||
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No apologies, Besoeker, any American is furious and why not. This isn't incompetence this is malice, straight up. Abandon the strategic air base on 4 July...tut, tut just bureaucratic oversight, after all it's just a date. With the ultimate hand off on the 20th of 9/11? Dates may not mean much in the fevered gay bar scene of DC, but they do to the enemy.
I'll say it again, this is malice. Just like the 47 genders that you BETTER respect. The ruination of any and all standards until even if you would strive and aspire it's beyond unclear as to what.
This is malice. Making fear a public virtue and othering a major part of the population unto the most ludicrous, vitriolic hatred.
The c0chsucker Biden has been a blowhard and corrupt hack his entire career in public life. But this is malice from him, and the people that installed him and the money behind them
This is malice from people that hate you so much they want you dead but want your taxes more so they imagine they control and immisserate you. This is malice.
#34
This is what *fraud* buys. This is what the fraudulent and their silent-go-alongers purchased. This is what the nice ladies in the church pews that fretted about "mean tweets" bought with their votes. This is what the "sensitive" men who were too weak-kneed to be a real man bragged to their co-workers that they supported (in a desperate effort to gain the admiration of others). This is what the socialites paid for, all because "that Trump guy has no manners". I spit on all of them.
#35
^ Yes, and never let them forget it. Slam them so hard over it that most of them never even think about voting again. If you know any Gold Star parents, ask your neighbor who bragged about voting for Bidet if he has been over to apologize to them yet. For starters.
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08/26/2021 17:19 Comments ||
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Ref #28: BREAKING: Biden Admin Gave Taliban List Of ‘American Citizens, Green Card Holders And Afghan Allies’ That Needed To Get Into Airport:
But, but, but the gov't acknowledges there are sill American CITS there? Gives the TB a list of names and addresses? WTF bloody fok ?
Why not give the names and addresses to JSOC and let THEM go get'em ?
#44
He did take questions. It wasn't pretty. Nobody asked what flavor cone he's going to have tonight.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
08/26/2021 17:58 Comments ||
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Taking one for the team:
Biden on now (about 5:30). sympathy for the families, remembers Beau. Promises to hunt down bad guys...I warned you it was dangerous... mission will go on... has granted everything the military asked for... told them to protect troops...Quotes "send me"...moment of silence..."we have so much to do within our capacity to do it...(?)" they gave me a list of who to call on...takes question about adding forces...told military I will give them whatever they need...military all subscribe to the mission as designed...may know where the ISIS leaders are...takes question from Reuters...inherited situation...no mistake in cooperating with Taliban...major things we've asked Taliban for (trails off).. counting on Taliban self-interest, not trusting them...no evidence so far that Taliban has concluded with ISIS in this attack...takes question from AP...Question starts with you have spoken powerfully, ends with why should we stay another day...'cause more people to get out...opportunity to get them out by 8/31...military has concluded we should get them out despite attacks...and provide other avenues for escape...not many left that want to come out, some Americans want to stay...Question what do you stay to the Afghans who want to get out? We'll try to get you out by 831...Lots of afghans would like to leave...can't guarantee getting them all out...Questions about info to the Taliban and holding Bagram...I gather up all mil guys and ask for their best judgment. They concluded that Bagram was "not much value added." On occasion our military has told Taliban a bus was coming through...there may have been a list of names...question about 12 dead marines-- do you have any responsbility? "Here's the deal: former president made deal with the Taliban" Reporter doesn't buy this. Biden redirects question to deal Trump made...sticks by decision to pull out. Alternative is to pour thousands of troops into war we had already won...never wanted to sacrifice American lives for democracy in a A-stan. If OBL had launched attack out of yemen we wouldn't have gone to A-stan. Mission was to prevent AQ...It was time to end 20-year war...Shouted questions, Biden walks off. 5:57
Posted by: Matt ||
08/26/2021 18:00 Comments ||
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How long you think before some lefty commentator grouses about Joe quoting Bible verses?
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
08/26/2021 18:03 Comments ||
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Joe keeps bringing up "we got bin Laden," never mind that he counseled against it when Bath House was basically cornered by the brass telling him it was a done deal.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
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The part about Bagram having no added value (then why did we build it?) floored me, but much worse was that, as far as I could see, he doesn't really give a damn about the lost Marines. He put on a token frowny face at the start, but that was it: no anger, no sorrow, nobody home.
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08/26/2021 18:43 Comments ||
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dead-end commentators will continue to reel off knee-slappers about how this is "Trump's fault,"
#58
Malice, yes
Gross incompetence
Mendacity
and Treason
As Isaiah says:
Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers
How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers
Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water
Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards
#59
"On two occasions, Biden brought up his late son Beau – who was deployed to Iraq as a military lawyer, and died of cancer in 2015 – to show that he carries the 'burden' of ordering troops into and out of battle."
F--k this despicable lying asshole. Trying to make hay out of his son's malady and death, at this moment, is nothing short of obscene. He dishonors the marines whom his incompetence and cowardice have killed.
[PJMedia] There are multiple reports of a second explosion near the Kabul airport, this one at the nearby Baron Hotel.
Glenn Beck reports that three U.S. Marines have been injured in the blasts and one infant has been killed. He is live on air from the region and stated that the 82nd Airborne is beginning to evacuate as we speak. Private planes from his non-profit, assisting in the evacuation, are still at the airport, and confusion and chaos abound.
Jen Griffin from Fox News reports that the first explosion was a suicide bomber, and there is now an open firefight.
There are thousands of people in and around the airport, according to multiple eyewitness reports. According to Beck’s staff on the ground, these include Americans, our Afghan partners, and those desperate to escape the Taliban.
Journalist Lara Logan is also in the region attempting to assist in facilitating evacuations. In monitoring the situation, she reports speaking to special operations officers who are vomiting as they realize they will be evacuated and leave Americans and their allies behind. The State Department told Americans to leave the airport last night and warned them not to approach the facility unless contacted to do so.
Jason Buttrill, with Beck in the region, reported that the Taliban security forces are diverting Americans and allied Afghans to a hotel near the airport. Sources on the ground said it was about a kilometer away, and those waiting to evacuate were traveling on foot. It was unclear at the time the purpose of this diversion. No further details from reporters and assets on the ground are available.
The apparent evacuation is well ahead of the August 31 deadline announced by President Biden. Beck reports that British and French troops are still in the country rescuing their citizens and allies. Humanitarian groups also remain. It is not clear how many American citizens and allied Afghans remain.
[KhaamaPress] Sources have said that a bomb went kaboom! on Thursday afternoon in the northern gate of Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ...One of the more egregious mistakes of the post 9-11 era... International Airport based in Kabul and has inflicted casualties.
As per the sources, tens of bodies were scattered on the roads after explosions.
sporadic gunshots were also heard for a while in the scene.
Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby has also confirmed the incident and added that there is still no information about the casualties.
The US had warned people against the terror an attack on airport and had asked them not to come through, there was a large number of people at the gate.
More from PJ Media: at Abbey Gate, mixed gun and bomb attack, three American troops wounded.
Please don’t go to Kabul airport now, Heavy explosion in front of Abby Camp, shooting has started, USA troops used 6-8 gas bomb on people on east gate and lots of women got injured and burned, I was there pic.twitter.com/hGEFlLP08b
#7
I can imagine the Taliban Emirate reaching out to the US in the near future to talk about 'bringing the ISIS to justice' for this outrage. And an ensuing long verbal fuss devolving into an aid package for developing 'counter-terror capabilities' against the IS-K.
#9
Ref #7: I can imagine the TalibanEmirate CIA, Foggy Bottom, and White House reaching out to the US Taliban in the near future to talk about 'bringing the ISIS to justice' for this outrage. And an ensuing long verbal fuss devolving into an aid package for developing 'counter-terror capabilities' against the IS-K.
#10
Well, we've been giving them money all along so why should we stop now?
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But I think most likely is this is the typical muslim tactic of letting "splinter" groups carry out the terror attacks while the supposedly "responsible" Taliban condemn the attack in English, claim they have no control over their radical brothers. Meanwhile they funnel American and European money to their radical brothers and praise them to Allan in their native tongue. Didn't the Paks do the same with the Taliban? Remember how Yasser Arafat used to tut-tut every time Hamas splodydopes killed Israeli civilians? And the Soddies condemed Osama bin Laden. Ri-i-i-i-i-g-h-t.
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4 Us Marines killed and 3 wounded. Perhaps this explains the accelerated US troop withdrawls now apparently underway. Cut and run mindset from a White House determined to just get this mess behind them and rely on the MSM to bury it quickly as we worry about gender and masks....
#13
Michael Yon is calling it The Swarm, the instinct to chase down retreating enemies.
The best I could analyse it as, explaining to those who would be just tuning in, is say your city's sports team won the supertrophy for the first time in 20 years, really not even making the playoffs until last year. That year making the playoffs, you see a lot more team swag than ever before. Now they win the supertrophy and people you didn't even knew liked the game have on the team colors. Then the parade, and everyone gets in on the team colors, even those who don't even like that sport.
And now, the dholes, they smell blood.
For our white and our excellent nights--for the nights of swift running,
Fair ranging, far seeing, good hunting, sure cunning!
For the smells of the dawning, untainted, ere dew has departed!
For the rush through the mist, and the quarry blind-started!
For the cry of our mates when the sambhur has wheeled and is standing at bay!
For the risk and the riot of night!
For the sleep at the lair-mouth by day!
It is met, and we go to the fight.
Bay! O bay!
#17
“With all due respect, the fact is, we had four ten(?) dead Americans. Was it because of a protest or because of guys out for a walk one night who decide to kill some Americans, what difference at this point does it make?"
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08/26/2021 14:32 Comments ||
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This should help people who don't know much about such stuff to understand how hard it is to hold a position in "Indian country."
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#5
Dumb answer. They have a mushroom shaped plug you just plop down on. Seriously though the Hueys had a quick release lap belt. I’m sure they have upgraded harnesses by now.
[BBC] We've got more from UK Armed Forces minister who says there could be an "imminent, highly lethal" terror attack at Kabul airport within hours.
The Foreign Office last night issued new guidance telling anyone near the airport to "move away to a safe location and await further advice".
James Heappey earlier told the BBC: "There is now very, very credible reporting of an imminent attack."
He later told us: "The credibility of the reporting has now reached the stage where we believe that there is a very imminent, highly lethal attack possible within Kabul."
Asked by Sky News whether an attack could occur in the coming few hours, Mr Heappey replied: "Yes."
Stressing the "severe" nature of the threat, he told the BBC that it had created an "extraordinarily challenging situation, both on the ground and as a set of decisions to be taken in Whitehall".
"People are desperate, people are fearing for their lives anyway, and so I think there's an appetite among many in the queue to take their chances," he said.
[Washington Examiner] Blackwater founder Erik Prince is offering an alternative arrangement to evacuate eligible Afghans out of Kabul, but it comes at a hefty price.
With President Joe Biden sticking to the Aug. 31 deadline to withdraw U.S. military forces, the United States has prioritized flying passport-carrying U.S. citizens from Afghanistan before other eligible refugees or special immigrant visa applicants. This has created a situation contributing to widespread desperation around the Hamid Karzai International Airport to escape following the Taliban 's recapture of power.
Obama? He just gave the region to the Russians.
They'll start the 'rare earth' mining and refining industry using cheap local labor. China will have competition, Russia can upgrade their electronics and own the world chip shortage. US demand will wash $$ through the sellers into the failing Russian economy.
[Blaze] Allyson Reneau is a mother from Oklahoma who has already helped save 10 members of an all-girl robotics team from Afghanistan. But now, more and more desperate women are asking for her help.
Allyson joined Glenn Beck on the radio program to detail what it took to help the girls robotics team escape. And she also explained her next goal: To help evacuate more than 200 female judges who fear that the Taliban who they sentenced to jail are coming for them first.
"Because of the media coverage I've had over the last few days, the cries for help from within Afghanistan, from women who are in hiding, professional women, who have been fired, who are being hunted, who are being tortured. [There were] reports last night of two killed and shot. And these are professional, educated women. Some beaten to death. Some blinded," Allyson told Glenn.
"I was back at ground zero again," she added. "What worked for the girls I helped was not going to work for these people that were in hiding. I said, 'Send me the list. I'm not going to leave one behind.' And I thought there would be 20 people. It was 212 women Afghan judges in hiding, Supreme Court [judges]. And I asked my commander friends on the ground, that are helping me, and they said, 'Yes. They will be the first to die.' The first to die, because they have imprisoned men. They have imprisoned people who were beating their wives. And all those prisoners have been released. These women are being hunted, and it was 212 women."
Glenn offered to assist through the Nazarene Fund's ongoing rescue efforts in Afghanistan. (Read the latest updates on the Nazarene fund's rescue operation here.)
#1
we should go into the next decade with resolve to cut loose the moslem world. it's just not worth trying to bring them into civilization. such a waste of blood and treasure.
[KhaamaPress] Anti-Taliban ...Arabic for students... forces fire a mounted heavy machine gun into a deep valley from the top of a rocky mountain that has defied foreign invaders for decades.
They are members of the National Resistance® Front (NRF), which has emerged as the most visible Afghan opposition organization since the Taliban took control of Kabul ten days ago.
They are called the National Resistance® Front (NFR). The NRF has put up machine gun nests, mortars, and monitoring stations protected with sandbags in anticipation of a Taliban attack on their bastion, the Panjshir Valley, with militia fighters and former government soldiers among its ranks.
Its fighters patrol the region in US-made Humvees and technicals — pickup trucks with machine weapons mounted on the back — many of them are dressed in military fatigues.
Assault rifles, rocket-propelled grenades, and walkie-talkies are among the weapons carried by many. Some people in the valley, which begins approximately an hour north of Kabul, pose atop their vehicles against a stunning backdrop of snow-covered peaks.
"We are going to rub their faces in the ground," one fighter declared from a vantage point on the Panjshir heights, citing previous triumphs over the Taliban.
His other soldiers then raised their hands and chanted, "Allah O Akbar."
"If Taliban warlords launch an assault, they will, of course, face staunch resistance from us," Ahmad Massoud, one of the NRF leaders, said in a Washington Post op-ed last week.
He is the son of Tajik leader Ahmad Shah Massoud, who is credited with transforming the Panjshir Valley into an anti-Soviet and anti-Taliban stronghold.
Panjshir Province is in control of NRF. At least two former government members are there, including the defense minister and the first vice president.
This happens at a time when there are reports on the ongoing negotiations. Although the Taliban have said that they wish to resolve the problem amicably, media reports on Tuesday claimed that the Taliban had sent hundreds of bully boyz to the Panjshir Valley.
Panjshir has been surrounded by three sides, according to the Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid. Amrullah Saleh, the first vice president, tweeted that "Talibs aren’t allowing food & fuel to get into Andarab valley.", resulting in thousands of women and kiddies fleeing to the mountains.
Ahmad Massoud said that they have arms and ammunition but he added that without help from the outside world, his fighters would not be able to withstand the Taliban’s siege for long.
"We know that our military forces and logistics will not be sufficient," he wrote.
In comments at the link several people claimed the students and parents involved are Afghan-Americans gone to visit the Olde Countrie over summer vacation. I have no idea if this is so.
[TheHill] More than 20 students and 16 parents from the Cajon Valley Union School District in El Cajon, Calif., visited Afghanistan on summer vacation. Now they are among thousands of people who are waiting to leave the country amid the chaotic U.S. withdrawal that has caused political unrest across the nation, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Cajon Valley Superintendent David Miyashiro alerted school board members on Tuesday that he would be meeting with Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) to discuss the situation, the Times noted.
Miyashiro told the news outlet that the families traveled to Afghanistan on special visas for U.S. military service and that the school district was able to provide government officials with information on the families as they work to locate them.
The stranded students reportedly attend different schools within the school district.
Mike Serban, who works with refugee families in the district and heads the Family and Children Engagement program, was the first person to hear about the students’ predicament.
Serban contacted to Miyashiro last week and told him that multiple families had reached out to him concerned that their students would lose out on classroom instruction due to being in Afghanistan, according to the Times.
"Congressman Issa and his staff are working diligently to determine the facts on the ground, any bureaucratic barriers that can be removed, and the best ways to help those stranded leave Afghanistan and return home safely. We won’t stop until we have answers and action," an Issa spokesperson informed Miyashiro in an email, the Times reported.
Cajon Valley School Board President Tamara Otero told the Times that the students and their families had plans to fly out of Afghanistan and had already purchased tickets.
"But, unfortunately, they were not able to get to the airport," Otero said.
Cajon Valley School Board member Jo Alegria said that the students had planned to return home before the start of the new school year, which commenced on Aug. 17, according to the Times.
#2
“Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.”
― Robert Heinlein
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Do I hear wedding bells in their future and lots of dancing boys?
#7
#6 Woke parents perhaps? To gain a "grassroot understanding" of the local culture in order to make Western society more sensitive about inclusivity, diversity, intersectionality, pyaaz, lehsun etc.
#8
The story mentions their source is a guy who works with "refugees", so they do sound like transplanted tribals. Not much of a refugee if you feel safe to go back -- they can stay.
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"Whew, glad to be in Kabul where we can take the masks off and do what we want, eat at a restaurant sitting next to each other, talking about life."
-Taliban rolls in-
"Masks on! Get into right clothes! Get into your rooms! No talking!"
[Town Hall] The Taliban has set up checkpoints around the airport in Kabul. You can’t get to it. It’s not easy. Americans are having their passports seized. They’re being beaten by Taliban forces. It’s not safe. On top of this fiasco, al-Qaeda and ISIS are on the hunt as well. Everything that Biden has said about Afghanistan has been refuted by EVERYONE, including liberal media outlets. It’s a disaster—and Joe seems to be more concerned about build back better. That’s all you need to know about how much Joe cares; he doesn’t.
With Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem machine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family... lost in space and Americans still trapped, US forces, what’s left of them, and the CIA are conducting risky rescue operations to bring our people home (via WSJ):
The Central Intelligence Agency and the U.S. military are conducting extraction operations to evacuate Americans using helicopters and ground troops as the window begins to close for rescuing all people at risk in Afghanistan.
The CIA has launched clandestine operations to rescue Americans in and outside of Kabul in recent days, according to U.S. and other officials. The missions are using American military helicopters but under the operation and control of the CIA, a typical arrangement in such operations.
A congressional source knowledgeable about the evacuation effort said U.S. troops had gone into Kabul on joint missions with other allies to designated locations where they have picked up U.S. citizens, green-card holders, and Afghans who hold special visas for helping the U.S. military.
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#1
Nice to know that our guys are doing the right thing.
#4
Given the previous posture of our government, I'm a bit skeptical of this story. Unless there is some unspecified reason for fetching these particular people...
#5
Biden is not in charge in AFG, or much of anything else. The CIA (shadow gov't) has always been in charge of this conflict. The Department of Defense, the historical nemesis of the CIA, played a clearing and support role. The Agency was instrumental in convincing the Russians to leave. They were the first people back in. They will be the last people out.
While certainly encouraged to see it happen, I am hesitant to attribute the rescue of Americans outside the wire to CIA altruism.
#8
I kind of question how much of an American these people really are. I mean are they 'American' in the sense that Tlaib and Ilhan Omar are 'Americans', forever with an allegiance to a foreign power?
There's got to be a reason that they were in Afghanistan to begin with. Notwithstanding the imbecilic school that sent students there for a summer trip.
#12
I have read news snippets all over the net from various US citizen Afghans who were visiting relatives in Afghanistan 15 August. Apparently they thought their visits were safe.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 ||
08/26/2021 15:45 Comments ||
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#13
they should learn to read the news.
Posted by: Chris ||
08/26/2021 17:04 Comments ||
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[Al-Rooters via Post Millenial] "Mostly peaceful"
Danish Siddiqui, an award winning Reuters photojournalist working in Afghanistan to cover the Taliban takeover of the country, has reportedly been killed and mutilated by Taliban fighters.
According to the Daily Mail, Siddiqui was killed during the Taliban's takeover of Spin Boldak in southern Afghanistan.
It is believed that Siddiqui was injured by rocket shrapnel and subsequently left behind by the retreating Afghan army he was embedded in before falling into the hands of the Taliban.
Siddiqui had reportedly asked to be sent to Afghanistan, telling his bosses, "If we don't go, who will?"
He arrived at a Kandahar Afghan Special Forces base on July 11, and was embedded in a unit of several hundred elite commandos that were attempting to flush out Taliban fighters that were capturing territories.
Two days later, Siddiqui was in a convoy returning from a mission to rescue a surrounded policeman, when the convoy was attacked with rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs).
Siddiqui captured the moment on video when an RPG struck the Humvee he was traveling in. The attack destroyed three other vehicles in the convoy.
On July 16, Siddiqui was photographing an Afghan offensive in Spin Boldak when he was caught in the crossfire. It is believed that he was injured by shrapnel from a rocket during that offensive attack.
Siddiqui was rushed to a local mosque for treatment. Major-General Haibatullah Alizai, the commander of Afghanistan's Special Operations Corps, said that his soldiers withdrew from Spin Boldak.
The retreating troops left behind Siddiqui and the two commandos accompanying him, mistakenly thinking they had joined the retreating convoy. "They were left there," Alizai said.
Based on photographs shared online, Afghan security officials and Indian government representatives told Reuters that it appears Siddiqui's body was mutilated after his death.
Philip Boyce of Forensic Equity, a British ballistics expert consulted by Reuters, compared the photographs to pictures and x-rays of Siddiqui's body after being recovered from the Taliban.
Boyce concluded it was "evident that he was shot multiple further times after he was killed," the Daily Mail wrote. "It's our culture. Who are you to judge?"
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The United States has evacuated more than 4,000 American passport holders plus their families from Afghanistan in the ongoing airlift from Kabul, Pentagon front man John Kirby said on Tuesday.
"We expect that number to grow in coming days," Kirby said.
There was a delay in reporting the figures because U.S. officials were focused on getting people out of Kabul as quickly as possible, a senior State Department official said Tuesday.
Pentagon officials expressed confidence the airlift, which started on Aug. 14, can get all Americans out by next Tuesday, Aug. 31, the deadline President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. We get to suffer the consequences... had set long before the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... completed their takeover. But unknown thousands of other foreign nationals remain in Afghanistan and are struggling to get out.
With the full U.S. withdrawal looming, the Pentagon said several hundred U.S. troops have been withdrawn because they are no longer needed to complete the evacuation mission. Kirby said these are headquarters staff, maintenance personnel, and others. "It will have no impact on the mission at hand," he said.
The Taliban, who have wrested control of the country back nearly 20 years after being ousted in a U.S.-led invasion after the 9/11 attacks, insist the airlift must end on Aug. 31.
In Kabul, Taliban front man Zabihullah Mujahid told a news conference the United States must stick to its self-imposed deadline, saying "after that we won’t let Afghans be taken out" on evacuation flights. He also said the Taliban would bar Afghans from accessing roads to the airport, while allowing foreigners to pass in order to prevent large crowds from massing.
Blinken estimates 1,500 Americans may still await evacuation from Afghanistan
[IsraelTimes] United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday that as many as 1,500 Americans may be awaiting evacuation from Afghanistan, a figure that suggests this part of the US-led airlift could be completed before US President Joe Biden’s Tuesday deadline. Untold thousands of at-risk Afghans, however, are struggling to get into the Kabul airport.
Blinken said that the US State Department estimates there were about 6,000 Americans who wanted to leave Afghanistan when the airlift began August 14, and that about 4,500 of them have been evacuated so far.
The 6,000 figure is the first public estimate by the State Department of how many Americans were seeking to get out when the Taliban completed its takeover of Afghanistan.
About 500 Americans have been contacted with instructions on when and how to get to the chaotic Kabul airport to catch evacuation flights.
In addition, 1,000, or perhaps fewer, are being contacted to determine whether they still want to leave. Blinken said that some of these may already have left the country, some may want to remain and some may not actually be American citizens. Of the 1,000, the number who are “actively seeking assistance” to leave Afghanistan “is lower — likely significantly lower,” Blinken said.
The US Embassy in Kabul has been evacuated. Staff are operating from the Kabul airport, and are to leave by August 31.
However, refugee groups are describing a different picture when it comes to many Afghans: a disorganized, barely-there US evacuation effort for Afghan allies that leaves the most desperate to risk beatings and death at Taliban checkpoints.
Just days are left before the US military is set to start shutting down its anchoring role in a massive operation that the White House says has evacuated 82,300 Afghans, Americans and other foreigners, on a mix of US, international and private flights.
Kirby said that the US military will preserve as much airlift capacity at the airport as possible in the coming days, ahead of Tuesday’s deadline. The military will “continue to evacuate needed populations all the way to the end,” he said.
He added that, in the final days and hours, there will have to be a balance in getting out evacuees, as well as US troops and their equipment.
Maj. Gen. Hank Taylor, the deputy director of regional operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said US forces had conducted another helicopter mission beyond the perimeter of the airport to pick up people seeking to evacuate. He said that the operation happened in Kabul during the night and that the people were now safely at the airport awaiting an evacuation flight. Taylor provided no other details, but Germany’s top military commander, Gen. Eberhard Zorn, said separately that 21 German citizens had been extracted by the US helicopter. He said that the helicopter crew was American and that German troops picked up the evacuees.
US military and diplomatic officials appear to still be compiling a list of eligible Afghans but have yet to disclose how — and how many — they may be getting out, private Americans and American organizations said.
“We still have 1,200 Afghans with visas that are outside the airport and haven’t got in,” said James Miervaldis with No One Left Behind, one of dozens of veterans groups working to get out Afghans who worked with the US military during America’s nearly 20 years of combat there. “We’re waiting to hear from the US government and haven’t heard yet.”
Marina LeGree of Ascend, a US-based nonprofit that worked to develop fitness and leadership in Afghan girls and young women, described getting calls from US officials telling the group’s interns and staffers to go to the airport for evacuation flights, only to be turned away by American forces keeping gates closed against the throngs outside. One Afghan intern who went to the airport with her family saw a person killed in front of them, and a female colleague was burned by a caustic agent fired at the crowd, LeGree said.
“It’s heartbreaking to see my government fail so badly,” said LeGree, the group’s American director, who is in Italy but in close contact with those in Kabul.
The number of US troops at the airport has dropped by about 400, to 5,400, but the final withdrawal has not begun, Kirby said on Wednesday.
At the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, NBC News reports that State Department officials have detailed five cases where Afghans attempted to use fraudulent American passports to try to get on flights bound for the U.S.
In addition, NBC News reports that vital biometric screening of Afghans looking to come to the U.S. is not being conducted at the airport in Kabul.
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Leftist site Politico, accuses the Biden Admin of Gaslighting [Politico] The definition of gaslighting’: As chaos unfolds at Kabul airport, Biden team projects calm. “I don’t think the president’s rhetoric matches the conditions on the ground,” one former State Department official said.
Tens of thousands of Afghans awaiting U.S. visas and thousands of American citizens are still stuck in Kabul, unable to find safe passage through frantic crowds, Taliban checkpoints and Afghan guards stationed outside the airport.
Gunfire erupted outside of the north gate of Hamid Karzai International Airport on Monday, killing a number of Afghan security forces. American officials have repeatedly had to close the gates for extended periods, leading guards to turn away even U.S. passport holders.
Multiple sources point to deteriorating conditions inside the airport, including lack of power and sanitation. And tension has emerged between American troops on the ground and State Department officials trying to extract U.S. citizens and Afghan allies.
Meanwhile, the West Wing is looking increasingly disconnected from reality as the Biden White House strives to project a sense of calm competence — even as the Taliban tighten their grip on Afghanistan.
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[Breitbart] President Joe Biden’s administration is planning to bring about 50,000 Afghans to the United States who do not have visas and who have not completed their immigration processing.
According to three officials who spoke to Bloomberg News, Biden will use the little-known "humanitarian parole" tool to bring roughly 50,000 Afghans to the U.S. The plan is a last-minute effort to bring as many Afghans to the U.S. as possible, as this group does not have Special Immigrant Visas (SIVs), P-2 visas, or refugee status.
Instead, Afghans on humanitarian parole will arrive in the U.S. without having first secured visas and completing their immigration processing. After having humanitarian parole for a year or so, the thousands of Afghans would be able to adjust their status. Many are likely to take advantage of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to remain in the U.S.
It is unclear how many Afghans the Biden administration has already paroled into the U.S
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Afghan Special Forces, American Special Forces, British SF, Mossad? Even one of the groups that make up the Taliban, who reportedly don’t like ISIS... So many possibilities!
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A number of important ISIL CDRs were assassinated outside of Bagram prison after Taliban took control of the prison and let the doors open. Not clear who murdered these ISIL CDRS some from eastern KUNAR who had travelled 2Syria&Iraq and met with Baghdadi. I spoke to @AJEnglishpic.twitter.com/JLEOhrv17b
[IsraelTimes] A French government spokesperson says La Belle France will continue its evacuation operation in Kabul "as long as possible" ahead of American August 31 withdrawal date.
Gabriel Attal doesn’t provide a date for the end of the French operation, saying only "we will likely need to anticipate a few hours, maybe a few days ahead" of the American forces’ departure from Kabul airport.
"We will continue as long as possible," he says. "Due to extreme tension on the ground... and the scheduled departure of American forces, these evacuations are a true race against time."
Attal declines to elaborate on how many people are still waiting for evacuation by La Belle France in Kabul.
A 10th flight carrying evacuees landed in Gay Paree today, with 21 French and 220 Afghan nationals, including 130 children, onboard, according to the French Office of Immigration and Integration.
In total, at least 1,720 Afghans and a hundred French people have been evacuated by La Belle France since the beginning of the operation last week.
French President Emmanuel Macron promised La Belle France would evacuate Afghans who worked for the country as well as activists and others under threat.
[EN.ALGHADEERTV.NET]Iraqi security forces blasted a headquarters of the terrorist organization of ISIS, the Security Media Cell (SMC) reported on Wednesday.
In a blurb issued earlier today, SMC said that the Intelligence agency launched earlier today a sequel of the security operation it started on August 23 in al-Ayth in the governorate of Salahuddin.
"The operation resulted in destroying dens used by the terrorist organization as a launchpad for its operations, hospital, and operations chamber," SMC explained.
"Security forces found bodies of dead forces of Evil killed in the previous offensive," it continued, "Operations are still underway to clear the territory from the remnants of the terrorist gangs."
[IsraelTimes] 14 said injured in riot, following similar event over the weekend in which an Israeli border guard was shot in the head
Over 1,000 Paleostinians demonstrated on the border between the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip and Israel on Wednesday, burning tires and occasionally rushing the security fence, though the level of violence was largely kept in check by members of the Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, terror group’s so-called restraint force.
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A Palestinian who was shot by the IDF Saturday at the #Gaza security fence and died from his wounds today was a member of Hamas' al-Qassam Brigades. pic.twitter.com/iY5KsPXKCe
According to Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... health officials, the dear departed was Osama Khalid Adaeej, 32, a resident of Jabaliya Refugee Camp in the northern Gaza Strip. It was not clear how and where Adaeej was maimed during last Saturday’s festivities.
Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",’s military wing, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, claimed Adaeej as a member in a statement published on its Telegram channel. Adaeej’s body, wrapped in a Hamas flag, was borne through Jabaliya on Wednesday morning, surrounded by armed Paleostinians wearing military fatigues.
Palestinian factions in Gaza — including the enclave’s Hamas rulers — held a protest Saturday near the Israeli border in which thousands participated. Senior officials in the Hamas and Islamic Jihad terror groups attended, including Hamas’s deputy Gaza chief Khalil al-Hayya.
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[NPASYRIA] On Tuesday, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) arrested two members of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) in the countryside of Deir ez-Zor, eastern Syria.
A military source in the town of Thiban, 50 km east of Deir ez-Zor, said that special units of the SDF, with the support of the US-led Global Coalition, arrested two ISIS members in the al-Latwa neighborhood in the center of the town.
The source added that the two members are from the Thiban town and are ISIS intelligence members, where they confessed, during the initial investigations, of carrying out liquidations and attacks against SDF military points.
The SDF units found Kalashnikovs, PK machine guns and various ammunitions, in addition to ISIS documents and papers, threatening letters and giving businessmen an option between paying in the name of zakat royalties or being killed, according to the same source.
On August 14, the SDF and the Global Coalition forces arrested an ISIS leader in the western countryside of Deir ez-Zor.
Recently, the SDF and the Global Coalition have intensified their security operations to pursue ISIS sleeper cells in the countryside of Deir ez-Zor.
[NPASYRIA] Hours after the implementation of an agreement between the Central Committee in Daraa and Russian military police, it collapsed on Tuesday after two individuals, whom the government demanded be deported to the Syrian north, refused to leave Daraa al-Balad.
Two individuals refused to be deported from Daraa al-Balad, causing the collapse of the reached agreement, Adnan Musalema, the official front man for the Central Committee in Daraa, claimed on his Facebook account.
Muhammad al-Musalema "Hafo" and Mo’ayad Harfoush "Abu Ta’ja," whom the government demanded be deported, got on the bus, and hours later, they got off, local sources told North Press.
The bus, which carried eight individuals, most of which were defectors from the government forces, headed towards the Syrian north, according to the sources.
The terms of the reached agreement included deporting some people who refused settlements, establishing a settlement office in Daraa al-Balad, the withdrawal of Iranian-backed factions that are besieging Daraa al-Balad, the opening of al-Saray checkpoint, and monitoring the implementation of the agreement by Russian military police, accompanied by members of the Eighth Brigade.
After having al-Saray military checkpoint opened for the bus to exit, government forces closed it and opened fire on residents who had gathered on both sides of the checkpoint, killing 34-year-old Abdulkarim Jamal al-Masri and wounding others, according to the sources.
The observation post, which Russian military police and the Eighth Brigade established in al-Bahhar neighborhood on the southern outskirts of Daraa al-Balad, withdrew after it was intended to remain until last term of the agreement is implemented, the same sources indicated.
After the removal of the Russian observation post, Iranian-backed factions besieging Daraa al-Balad, Tariq al-Sad, and the camps renewed their shelling of populated neighborhoods.
[NPASYRIA] The recent military escalation in Syria’s north indicates that there is an unannounced agreement between The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... and Russia, and suggests the continuation of the escalation, Northern Democratic Brigade front man Mahmud Habib said Wednesday.
The Northern Democratic Brigade is affiliated with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), with most of its murderous Moslems hailing from the city of Idlib and its countryside in northwest Syria.
Although Turkey and Russia are guarantors of ceasefire agreements, they are sharing in the escalation and shelling of civilians in several areas in the Syrian north, Habib told North Press.
The front man pointed out that there is Russian-Ottoman Turkish complicity in which Syrian civilians have been victimized, and it was matched by "ambiguous international silence and unclear reasons, even by the Global Coalition present in northeastern Syria."
SDF has the right to response to the sources of attack within the framework of legitimate defense for themselves and civilians in areas which are exposed to Ottoman Turkish shelling, according to Habib.
Washington is in contact with Turkey regarding its military escalation in northeast Syria, a source in the US State Department said on Sunday.
These contacts tackled "the recent Ottoman Turkish targeting of the Qamishli area and the attacks carried out by Ottoman Turkish-backed factions in the area," it added to North Press.
During the past few days, Ottoman Turkish forces and Ottoman Turkish-backed Syrian armed factions have intensified their shelling of areas in Syria’s northeast in addition to drones’ targeting of military headquarters, and officials’ cars.
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[NPASYRIA] On Wednesday evening, the Ottoman Turkish army and their affiliated opposition factions bombed populated villages west of Tel Abyad, north Syria.
The villages of Qaz Ali, the silos of Qaz Ali, Kajal Obaid, Arida, Afdiko, Korek, and others on the contact line with the factions were bombarded with artillery and missiles, a military source in the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) told North Press.
The indiscriminate shelling began from eight and continued to nine o’clock in the evening and caused damage to homes, but no casualties have been reported, the source added.
Last week, the western villages of Tel Abyad countryside witnessed repeated shelling by the Ottoman Turkish forces and the opposition factions.
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[Politico] The definition of gaslighting’: As chaos unfolds at Kabul airport, Biden team projects calm. “I don’t think the president’s rhetoric matches the conditions on the ground,” one former State Department official said. 
[EN.ALGHADEERTV.NET]Iraqi security forces blasted a headquarters of the terrorist organization of ISIS, the Security Media Cell (SMC) reported on Wednesday.
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