CNBC: Deadly firefight erupts at Kabul airport as evacuation chaos continues into second week
* The U.S. military said Monday that no U.S. or NATO coalition forces were injured after a brief firefight broke out at one gate into Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport.
* The last week at Kabul’s airport saw images of panic and desperation as mothers handed their babies to foreign soldiers over barbed-wire walls and Afghan civilians clung to airplanes as they took off in desperate attempts to flee their country.
* The administration is considering extending the deadline for the complete troop withdrawal beyond its original Aug. 31 date, Biden said Sunday.
The U.S. military said Monday that no American or NATO coalition forces were injured after a brief firefight broke out at one gate into Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport where troops are assisting with emergency evacuations of Western citizens and at-risk Afghan nationals.
Navy Capt. William Urban, a spokesman for U.S. Central Command, the combatant command that oversees American military operations in the region, said the incident “appeared to begin when an unknown hostile actor fired upon Afghan security forces.”
The violence comes as the Biden administration grapples with a torrent of criticism over the fallout of its pullout from Afghanistan.
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WNU Editor: I am surprised that it has taken this long to have a firefight.
More News On A Deadly Firefight Erupting At Kabul Airport
Firefight at Kabul airport: One Afghan soldier is killed and three wounded in battle between gunmen and US and German forces -- Daily Mail
Amid Kabul evacuation chaos, Biden under pressure to extend deadline -- Reuters
Deadly shooting at Kabul airport’s north gate, German military says -- FOX News
Germany says firefight involving US forces erupts at Kabul airport -- NYPost
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Although the situation can be described as a Mongolian clusterf@¢£ this could get really really bad. The Essex Regiment & its camp followers, 1600 all told, were wiped out a couple of centuries ago doing exactly the same thing in the same country against the Talibans ancestors. Any monumental cock up could, from now on, be accurately described as a Joe Biden just like that idiot Gordon Bennett. Hence whenever something went terribly wrong, cockneys would exclaim Gordon Bennett! I wonder what the Taliban are getting from the yanks in return for no massacres just yet. They could extend the evacuation to end on September 11th on the dot. The ball is in their court. What a humiliation that would be. Keep ducking 🙉
Just the beginning.
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