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2021-08-23 Afghanistan
Live from Kabul Airport
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Death toll at Kabul airport chaos grows to 20 — NATO official
[IsraelTimes] A panicked crush of people trying to enter Kabul’s international airport has killed seven Afghan civilians in the crowds, the British military says, showing the danger still posed to those trying to flee the Taliban’s takeover of the country.

At least 20 people have been killed at the airport in the past week, a NATO official says.

“The crisis outside the Kabul airport is unfortunate. Our focus is to evacuate all foreigners as soon as we can,” the anonymous NATO official tells the Guardian.





Militants send special forces to Kabul airport
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited
[REGNUM] Militants of the Taliban movement sent a special-purpose detachment to the Kabul airport. Reported by Al Jazeera.

According to the agency, the purpose of the terrorists is to disperse people who are trying to leave the country on American and Pakistani planes involved in the evacuation of foreign citizens working for the United States.

"In order to overcome the chaos and restore order at the Kabul airport, all flights have been canceled," the terrorists said in a statement.

We will remind, at the present time at the Kabul airport there are about 800 representatives of NATO countries, as well as the military of the United States, Great Britain and Turkey.

US plans to close doors as thousands still waiting outside Kabul airport
[KhaamaPress] Thousands of men, women, and children are still waiting in the blazing heat to enter Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai
...Former president of Aghanistan, part of the problem not part of the solution...
International airport and fly out of Kabul to save their lives.

US state department has announced that the airport will remain closed for 48 hours to evacuate those who have already entered the airport and then the operation will be resumed.

The sky of Kabul is still dominated by flights that are flying over the Afghan capital day in and day out, a desperate scene down on the ground for millions at homes and thousands sitting at the doors of the airport.

The worst humanitarian situation around the Kabul airport is at its peak and thoroughly unprecedented in history as 12 people have been reported to be either rubbed out or have been suffocated in past seven days.

The US and other countries have guided their nationals not to come to the airport as it is almost impossible to push through thousands of people and enter the main gate.

There is reportedly new guidance planned for those who tend to enter the airport which is said to be with the help of specific taxi drivers who will bring passengers to the gates.

On the other hand, the pentagon has hinted that US troops might begin operations outside Kabul airport to rescue citizens.

Bagram airfield, once the US’s largest aerial base in Afghanistan is the closest airport to Hamid Karzai International Airport.
Posted by Fred 2021-08-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [17 views ]  Top
 File under: Taliban/IEA 

#1 Firefight at Kabul airport leaves one Afghan officer dead, German military says
Posted by Skidmark 2021-08-23 07:04||   2021-08-23 07:04|| Front Page Top

#2 Taliban reportedly refuse extending Aug. 31 deadline for troop pullout : LIVE UPDATES
Posted by Skidmark 2021-08-23 07:06||   2021-08-23 07:06|| Front Page Top

#3 Special operations helicopters from unit that helped kill Bin Laden gather at Kabul airport - but Biden still hasn't let them off the leash to rescue Americans who can't get to evacuation flights
Posted by Skidmark 2021-08-23 07:39||   2021-08-23 07:39|| Front Page Top

#4 US Embassy Tells Americans: Do Not Go to Kabul Airport You're Screwed
Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-08-23 12:00||   2021-08-23 12:00|| Front Page Top

#5 Gee, if only we had a large airbase, secured by American troops....
Posted by Frank G 2021-08-23 13:01||   2021-08-23 13:01|| Front Page Top

#6 ^ Frank, that would make so much sense that it's easy to see why Team Biden didn't do it.

As I'm not the first to say, the stuff is really going to hit the oscillator when we get to the point of having to airlift the Marines and airborne and leaving everyone else behind.

Assuming, as I pray, that we can airlift the Marines and airborne. If not, break out your Chosin Reservoir handbooks.
Posted by Matt 2021-08-23 14:47||   2021-08-23 14:47|| Front Page Top

#7 So 14,500 "Not on the chart" evacuated.
Posted by swksvolFF 2021-08-23 16:14||   2021-08-23 16:14|| Front Page Top

#8 
Biden is an old trout, he wouldn't know how to win even if all the cards were stacked in his favor.

I'm done, call me when Kamala Harris rises to the office, i.e. The Four Horseman of the Apocalypse will be in full gallop by then.
Posted by Whulet Hupailing5376 2021-08-23 16:33||   2021-08-23 16:33|| Front Page Top

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