Marines with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) search luggage during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul, Afghanistan on Aug. 18, 2021. US Marine Corps Photo
* US should extend its Aug. 31 deadline to get more people out, said NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg
* NATO chief added that the difficulty was not so much transport out of the airport but getting people to it
* British, French and German elite forces have been speeding into Kabul in armored convoys to rescue people
* Meanwhile, American soldiers appear to be under strict orders not to leave the airport
* Republican lawmaker Newt Gingrich said this was 'humiliating' for US troops and called Biden 'timid'
* Women and children were trampled in stampedes at the airport today as the chaos continues
* A German civilian was also shot on the way to the airport, is receiving treatment and will be flown out 'soon'
* Kaisa Markhus, a Norwegian who returned from Kabul today, said she saw babies passed to the troops
* The children 'must have been handed over to soldiers by their desperate mothers,' she told MailOnline
* Biden, who will speak later today, faces mounting fury across the world for abandoning Afghans to their fate NATO has begged
Joe Biden not to leave Kabul and urged the US to stay at the airport to get as many people out as possible - as American forces are accused of hiding behind the wire while British and European troops mount recuse missions into the city.
The US was urged to extend its August 31 deadline to save more evacuees from the Taliban by NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg at a press conference on Friday.
America is by far the strongest military power in Nato and it is unusual for the alliance to publicly issue requests to the White House.
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Update #1: Limited Coordination Between U.S., NATO Allies in Getting Afghanistan Evacuees to Airport (USNI News)
Update #2: NATO pledges to speed evacuations from Afghanistan as criticism mounts (Reuters)
WNU Editor: It looks like there is some cooperation. And it also looks like it everyone is out for themselves.
2 comments:
Which nations are sending troops?
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We are at high risk for not getting all our citizen back.
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