US Embassy Staff Voice The 'Brutal Experience’ That They Had To Endure En Route To Kabul Airport From The Embassy

Taliban fighters stand guard at a checkpoint near the US Embassy that was previously manned by American troops, in Kabul, Afghanistan. AP  

NBC News: Afghan staff at U.S. Embassy losing faith in evacuation efforts, diplomatic cable says 

Exclusive: “It would be better to die under the Taliban’s bullet,” said one local staff member quoted in the cable. 

WASHINGTON — Local staff members at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul are “deeply disheartened” by U.S. evacuation efforts and have expressed a sense of betrayal and distrust in the U.S. government, according to a State Department diplomatic cable obtained by NBC News. 

The cable, which was sent Saturday, said memos were sent Wednesday inviting Afghan staff members at the embassy to head to Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul.

It told them to take food and to prepare for difficult conditions. 

“However, no one anticipated the brutal experience that occurred,” the cable said. 

Staffers reported being jostled, hit, spat on and cursed at by Taliban fighters at checkpoints near the airport, it said, adding that criminals were taking advantage of the chaos while the U.S. military tried to maintain order “in an extremely physical situation.”  

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Update: US Embassy staff face ‘brutal experience’ en route to Kabul airport (NYPost)  

WNU Editor: The foreign media are experiencing the same thing .... Washington Post reporter reveals how she and her team were rescued by brave BRITISH troops after Biden banned US forces from venturing out of Kabul airport (Daily Mail).