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Latest on the chaos at Kabul airport (Update)
BBC News ^ | August 15, 2021

Posted on 08/15/2021 5:24:14 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

There are scenes of utter panic and chaos at Kabul's Hamid Karzai international airport as tens of thousands of people try to fly out of the country.

People have been flocking there since last evening in a last desperate effort to escape the Taliban.

There were earlier reports that civilians had been injured on the tarmac as the attempts to flee at times resembled a stampede.

The 6,000 US troops tasked for security duty in Kabul will now instead be sent to secure the entire perimeter of the airport, reports say.

The US Department of State and Department of Defense on Afghanistan have said they are "completing a series of steps to secure the airport... to enable the safe departure of US and allied personnel from Afghanistan via civilian and military flights".

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; afghanistandebacle; bidenadm; bidensfault; election2020; epicfail; kabul; quagmire; taliban
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To: ConservativeInPA

Non entity. I haven’t watch Fox News in years. I don’t think in those terms
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Well what news programs do you watch? And in what terms do you think? Just curious.


21 posted on 08/15/2021 5:59:38 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat ("It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins." Ben Franklin)
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To: ConservativeInPA
60,000+ at the airport. No food. No water. No sanitation. No where to sleep.

And those are the least of their worries.

22 posted on 08/15/2021 6:05:23 PM PDT by Rightwing Conspiratr1
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To: ConservativeInPA

You must’ve left before Shep did. He hasn’t been there in years either


23 posted on 08/15/2021 6:06:55 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: fortes fortuna juvat

I read FR. Watch Americas Voice, Newsmax, and new media. To hell with the establishment traitors at Fox News. They are everything that is wrong with the news media.


24 posted on 08/15/2021 6:10:30 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” ― Thomas Jefferson)
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To: BushCountry

No. The sobs will sent our very finest sons.

The rest are doing community service and sleeping with each other.


25 posted on 08/15/2021 6:13:33 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“The 6,000 US troops tasked for security duty in Kabul will now instead be sent to secure the entire perimeter of the airport...”

Will that keep out the mortars, artillery, rockets etc we gave the Taliban?


26 posted on 08/15/2021 6:15:05 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: ConservativeInPA

You should...you might learn something.


27 posted on 08/15/2021 6:19:16 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Bonemaker

Sell crazy elsewhere. I know a hell of a lot more than anyone who watches Fox News and I am able to think for myself. If you watch Fox News you support the enemy. You are a traitor.


28 posted on 08/15/2021 6:23:20 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” ― Thomas Jefferson)
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To: ConservativeInPA

You don’t like Maria Bartiromo, Steve Doocey, Peter Doocey, Lawrence Jones, Brian Kilmeade, Tyrus, Greg Gutfeld, Ainsley Earhardt, Dagen McDowell,Stuart Varney, Elizabeth McDonald, Gen. Keane etc?

Go watch Rachel Maddow already.


29 posted on 08/15/2021 6:36:40 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Bonemaker
Learn what? That Biden won Arizona with just 6% of the vote in?


30 posted on 08/15/2021 6:40:27 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Florida: America's new free zone.)
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To: Bonemaker

No, I do not. They support the stolen election. They support pimping vaccines. That are establishment types one and all. Well except Gutfeld.


31 posted on 08/15/2021 6:41:21 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” ― Thomas Jefferson)
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To: ConservativeInPA

Oh geez!


32 posted on 08/15/2021 6:42:42 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Sequoyah101
"No. The sobs will sent our very finest sons."

I've noticed that over the years. The left sacrifices our finest soldiers to keep their scummiest scum in power.

33 posted on 08/15/2021 8:03:18 PM PDT by Enterprise
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“The 6,000 US troops tasked for security duty in Kabul will now instead be sent to secure the entire perimeter of the airport, reports say.”

But not until they pass a 10 hour exam on Critical Race Theory


34 posted on 08/15/2021 8:44:58 PM PDT by Scaramouch
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To: Enterprise

They usually don’t send little girls, dykes, trannies, assorted fudge packers and woke swells to fight. Instead they promote them and keep them for REMFs.

They send the guys they hound with diversity training and pass over for promotion until they need someone who can do the job.


35 posted on 08/15/2021 8:46:58 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.)
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I’m watching Sky News, and they are spinning hard that poor old Joe inherited this terrible pullout from “his pree-decessor Donald Trump.”

Even british media are carrying water for the democrats.


36 posted on 08/15/2021 11:35:32 PM PDT by onemiddleamerican
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To: ealgeone

Send Geraldo along with him


37 posted on 08/15/2021 11:57:23 PM PDT by Citizen Soldier
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To: fortes fortuna juvat

I don’t watch news


38 posted on 08/16/2021 12:03:02 AM PDT by wardaddy (Girls...in the end ....it's about them )
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To: Enterprise

Because our finest are less than nothing to them.

Don’t doubt me on this.

Who used to say that?

My hero Rush.


39 posted on 08/16/2021 10:53:50 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.)
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