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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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1 posted on 08/15/2021 5:24:14 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What an absolute clusterf*ck.


2 posted on 08/15/2021 5:26:08 PM PDT by hercuroc
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

60,000+ at the airport. No food. No water. No sanitation. No where to sleep. Shades of the Super Dome at Katrina.


3 posted on 08/15/2021 5:26:15 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” ― Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Don’t worry. They’re just the Junior Varsity.


4 posted on 08/15/2021 5:26:22 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Another Benghazi, but “What difference does it make?”


5 posted on 08/15/2021 5:27:27 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: ConservativeInPA

Will they resort to cannibalism like the MSM reported?


6 posted on 08/15/2021 5:28:04 PM PDT by hercuroc
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

See, see! Trump’s racist and homophobic tweets again!!


7 posted on 08/15/2021 5:28:25 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Free Republic: The Internet's 1st social media platform. Since 1996.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Biden paid the ransom money.

The Democrat Party Crime Syndicate will receive a cut of the ransom money provided by US taxpayers.


8 posted on 08/15/2021 5:29:53 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: hercuroc

WHAT THE F*CK
"Shooting in the air by US soldiers at an airport #كابل , in an attempt to control thousands of Afghans who want to escape" -- video via https://t.co/Vj0gnhQA6o pic.twitter.com/vDorlBBrdR— crabcrawler (@crabcrawler1) August 15, 2021


9 posted on 08/15/2021 5:35:57 PM PDT by KC_Lion
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Hopefully, we send our hardened, woke transgender troops there.


10 posted on 08/15/2021 5:36:00 PM PDT by BushCountry (thinks he needs a gal whose name doesn't end in ".jpg")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The wily Taliban waited until the fearsome Joe Biden went on vacation.


11 posted on 08/15/2021 5:39:33 PM PDT by jdsteel ("A Republic, Madam, if you can keep it." Sorry Ben, looks like we blew it.)
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Funny, if it weren’t so sad.


12 posted on 08/15/2021 5:41:31 PM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation.)
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To: ConservativeInPA

Except those people in New Orleans were told and told to leave way ahead of time.

They poo-pooed the idea.


13 posted on 08/15/2021 5:44:36 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: ConservativeInPA

can we send shep there??


14 posted on 08/15/2021 5:50:48 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: BushCountry

Sounds like a case for those vaunted social workers!


15 posted on 08/15/2021 5:51:24 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: ealgeone

Who is shep?


16 posted on 08/15/2021 5:51:32 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” ― Thomas Jefferson)
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shephard smith....he wet his pants covering katrina.


17 posted on 08/15/2021 5:51:56 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: ealgeone

Non entity. I haven’t watch Fox News in years. I don’t think in those terms


18 posted on 08/15/2021 5:53:12 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” ― Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Luke21

Ironically, if we all remember, Obama was unavailable during Benghazi. In fact, to this day it has never been disclosed where he was during the attack.


19 posted on 08/15/2021 5:54:40 PM PDT by Toespi
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This catastrophe is a direct result of the stolen 2020 election and the astounding success of Marxist ideological indoctrination of the imbeciles who comprise the Democrat Party and others on the American Left.


20 posted on 08/15/2021 5:55:02 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat ("It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins." Ben Franklin)
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