Posted on 08/22/2021 10:44:01 AM PDT by Absolutely Spiffing Old Bean
A network of "hundreds of thousands" of people, including analysts using satellite imagery to locate Taliban checkpoints surrounding the Kabul airport, are coordinating to evacuate Afghan interpreters from the country, an Afghanistan war veteran and member of the coalition told Fox News.
These interpreters, now targeted by the Taliban, were essential U.S. allies during the Afghanistan war and played roles much larger than simply acting as translators, according to Matt Zeller. The Biden administration has faced fierce criticism that the U.S. hasn’t made their evacuation more of a priority.
"These people that we’re talking about … they were our eyes and ears on the battlefield," Zeller told Fox News. He said they’d hear Taliban communications ordering fighters to shoot the interpreters first.
"From the Taliban’s perspective, they won," Zeller, a former CIA analyst, continued. The Afghan interpreters "are the people who have been helping us to kill them over the last 20 years."
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Should have kept it under wraps, though.
Why is this even being discussed?
This is nice, but the media and the govt are focused on Afghans and not Americans first.
Uh...why is this out in the public?
Should we wait for Biden’s plan? .... Bwhahahahahahahahahaha
Nothing anyone can do. Nobody knows who is helping. The taleebon already knows who the people are. Likely not a secret there. As long as the names aren’t named then it shouldn’t matter. But yeah, it could be more secretive..
So does that mean there are no more Americans but tens of thousands of Afghan interpreters? Did each American get 10 interpreters over there?
STFU!
Recall that loose lips were exactly how bin Laden escaped and how the One-eyed Mullah avoided being pulverized — US politicians and military experts rushing to microphones/TV cameras to tell the world that they (enemy) were being tracked by cellphones, etc.
The Taliban are likely less 7th Century regarding military communications than we think.
Afghan Joe to take credit in 3…2…1…
Americans might try to disguise themselves as interpreters, in order to get a better spot in line to evacuate. The Biden Administrations has it in for Americans.
Hi.
“Should have kept it under wraps, though.”
Correct. Encrypted, frequency specs, password etc.
The Tallyban may live in the six century, but they’re not stupid.
5.56mm
Loose lips sink ships.
Right!
Why give out this info?
Stupid, we aren’t entitled to every detail
Yep.
Why not get the UN to go and rescue people and bring them to the airport?
Disinformation?
Why is Matt Zeller going on Fox & announcing this? He could just say that people are trying to help without giving any details. Why not save the details for after the rescue mission is over?
And that just might be true, but mainly because around 90% of the American civilians I knew over there were not left wingers but mostly common sense, Old School, patriotic, American conservatives who despised the Left. On another note, I seriously doubt if there are 15K of them stranded there. My guess is 1-3K.
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