A man holds a certificate acknowledging his work for Americans as hundreds of people gather outside the international airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021. There was no sign of any US plane on Tuesday and there remain 40,000 Americans and 30,000 Afghan refugees in need of rescue
* Defense officials claimed on Tuesday they'd remove between 5,000 and 9,000 people on US planes every day
* But only 1,400 have been removed in the three days since the Taliban claimed the city of Kabul on Sunday
* Overnight, only 700 were removed - including 165 Americans who had been waiting for a flight out
* There are now grave concerns over how the remaining US citizens in various parts of the country will get out
* Former CIA Director and retired General David Petraeus called the race to evacuate 'a Dunkirk moment'
* Bush's Asst. Secretary of State Robert Charles said between 15,000 and 40,000 Americans are stranded
* On Tuesday, there was no sign of any US planes at Kabul Airport, which the US still controls but that is being circled by the Taliban
* Gen. Hank Taylor said 7 C-17 jets flew out overnight carrying between 700 and 800 passengers in total
* One jet of the same capacity took 640 Afghans out of the region on Sunday
The US evacuated only 165 Americans from Afghanistan overnight and has removed just 1,400 people from Kabul since the Taliban claimed the city on Sunday in a shambolically slow rescue mission that defense experts say is creating a dangerous race to get everyone else out before it's too late.
At a briefing on Tuesday morning, US Army Major General Hank Taylor revealed 700 people were flown out of the region overnight on seven C-17 jets. The number included 165 US citizens and the rest were for foreign nationals.
He claimed between 5,000 and 9,000 people will be removed every day on one flight per hour but there was no sign of any US plane at the airport on Tuesday while Indian, French and British jets were taking off.
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WNU Editor: This is the advice that the US State Department is giving .... State Department tells Americans stranded in Afghanistan to shelter in place and NOT go to the Kabul airport as US works to 'regain positive control' of evacuation flights (Daily Mail).
8 comments:
Joe Biden's and the Democrats Dunkirk moment and the Germans/Taliban win.
Time for the Democrats to get drunk. I bet Jen Psaki is. She is resetting. There is so much cognitive dissonance she is getting drunk and wiping those memory banks clean.
Well...maybe no one is in charge?
More and more surreal.
Trump will fix it all
Where is trump now that he is needed?
Trump is not a Democrat. He doesn't break the law.
3:29
and that is why he so quickly turned over his tax returns to congress and to NY State and to the public..and called fxor insurrection that has now had over 500 people arrested after following what Mr Law said to them!
At the rally Trump said be peaceful. There were hundreds of thousands there. Most took hios advice.
Also, you being a fucked up jack off are inflating your number with people who were waved in by the capitol police or merely walked around taking selfies.
You usually do not put people in solitary confinement for 7m months pre trial for walking around like the shaman. That guy is a little nuts, but he is not dangerous.
You lost your law and order card when you allowed federal police by be assaulted for months at Portland. Some of them are permanently blinded.
Also at capitol Hill there were Leftists. So we do not have a clear picture as to who all did what as there are 16,000 hours of tape the feds won't release. They are very selective releasing tape to weaponize it politically. Release it all
In America it is said you can indict a ham sandwich. We have seen how political the governor of NY, the AG of NY and the NYC mayor have been. Would you release your tax returns to those thieves and liars? Two out 3 of those liars are in the process of being booted. For the AG it will take 2 to 4 more years.
"peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard." - Trump
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