Sunday, August 22, 2021

Chaos At Hamid Karzai International Airport In Kabul Continues

 

 Daily Mail: Military planes evacuating Afghans drop flares and make 'diving combat landings' amid fears of ISIS missile attacks as TWENTY die including girl, two, at Kabul airport in stampede to escape Taliban before US lifeline ends 

* At least 20 Afghan civilians have been killed in the past seven days in and around Kabul airport 

* The situation has taken a turn for the worse, with four Afghan women crushed to death on Saturday 

* Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul has been the focal point for thousands trying to flee the Taliban 

* MoD looking at establishing processing 'hubs' for Afghan refugees in countries such as Pakistan and Turkey * However, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace says Afghans fleeing the Taliban may have to escape themselves 

* It comes amid fears of an August 31 rescue deadline, when it is believed the US will pull its remaining troops 

* The 900 British troops in Afghanistan cannot remain without logistical support of 6,000 US soldiers in Kabul 

* They will therefore have to finish the evacuation before that point to allow them to safely escape Afghanistan 

Military planes making evacuation runs into Kabul are dropping flares and carrying out nosedive combat landings amid fears that Islamic terrorists may try to shoot one down as Afghans trying to flee the Taliban have described at least 20 civilians being killed in the chaos. 

US military planes are doing rapid diving combat landings to beat the threat of a missile attack, with video showing a French transport plane yesterday deploying flares designed to confuse heat-seeking technology which may have been stolen by Islamic State in Afghanistan.  

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More News On The Evacuation Of Foreigners And Afghans From Afghanistan  

Crush at Kabul airport kills 7 as Afghans try to flee -- AP  

British military says seven Afghans killed at Kabul airport, US commercial planes to help transport evacuees -- ABC News Australia  

Several killed near Kabul airport as thousands of Afghans flee prospect of Taliban rule -- France 24  

7 Afghans killed trying to enter Kabul airport, British military says - The Hill  

Pentagon hints troops may begin operations OUTSIDE Kabul airport to rescue US citizens as Taliban leader arrives in Kabul: Biden will address the nation at 4pm and stranded Americans in Afghanistan tell him 'we need help' -- Daily Mail  

American mom trapped by Taliban describes horrific violence, pleads for Biden to solve evacuation crisis -- FOX News  

Taliban blame US for airport chaos as Afghans face 'impossible' race to flee -- AFP  

US military finds 'alternative routes' to Kabul airport amid threats: reports -- The Hill  

Pentagon reveals only 2,500 US citizens out of 15,000 have been evacuated since Kabul fell a week ago: Biden puts commercial airlines on notice that the Civil Reserve Air Fleet could be activated to help get them out -- Daily Mail

Pentagon activates Civil Reserve Air Fleet: Six commercial airlines including American and Delta are told to loan 18 planes to help Afghanistan evacuation efforts -- Daily Mail 

Pentagon orders civilian airlines to assist in Afghanistan evacuation -- The Hill

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Living in the UK I agree,
BUT.. it was really the corporate/state media that lied us into these wars.
But I agree, we are all at fault for voting these people in. Just that I think the state, whatever these people are, some deep state military industrial complex wanted this war, and the media colluded - again - with them.
That's why I do not trust the vaccines either, if the state media tells me to tell them, I don't need a degree to stay the fck away given their track record ON VACCINES..
That's why for years we have been brainwashed too about "vaccine spetics". Fully ignoring the long and deadly history of vaccines gone wrong.. and still going wrong.
THAT is the inconvenient truth and as long as the media tells me vaccines always work and are safe, I know for a fact - just by reading history - that they are lying through their goddamn teeth

Back to the war though.. what's even worse is that this was such an illegitimate war that it opens also legitimately the question of reparations.. my guess is that when all things are said and done this war ends up costing 3trillion, not 2.2T

And it brought us nothing. Zip. Even worse, it hurt the West.. at this point we have to assume a compromised government. You cannot be that incompetent, that wrong ON ALL ASPECTS, from economy to security to the wellbeing of your own people.. unless you are in some satanic death cult