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Secret CIA Compound Known As ‘The Salt Pit’ Used To Avoid Taliban Checkpoints And Evacuate Thousands
dailycaller.com ^ | 9/1/2021 | Virginia Kruta

Posted on 09/01/2021 12:45:12 PM PDT by rktman

A secret CIA compound outside Kabul reportedly served as a base of operations for evacuations that avoided Taliban checkpoints.

Eagle Base — which until 2004 was home to the notorious prison known as the Salt Pit — was used from Aug. 15-Aug. 28 to assist with evacuation efforts after the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, according to a report from The New York Times published Wednesday.

“Russian-made Mi-17 helicopters flew evacuees from the compound to Kabul airport to avoid Taliban checkpoints. Flight data shows that three Mi-17s made at least 35 flights there since the Taliban took control on Aug. 15,” Evan Hill, a visual investigator for the NYT, tweeted Wednesday.

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


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KEYWORDS: afghanistan; cia; saltpit; stranded; taliban
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Hmmmmm. But, not the 24 kids.
1 posted on 09/01/2021 12:45:12 PM PDT by rktman
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The kids are with family and we don’t even know if they are US or Afghan citizens—just that they are California students.

So, who cares?


2 posted on 09/01/2021 12:46:31 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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Brave folks to fly in a Russian chopper.


3 posted on 09/01/2021 12:46:42 PM PDT by RetiredArmy (Free Will. GOD gives you the choice I accept or reject Him! Choose Him. It depends on you.)
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And we are telling the whole world about this because?


4 posted on 09/01/2021 12:47:03 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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Count on Biden using this talking point to add to his “victory lap”. Biden is less than a snake, and more than a traitor. This entire affair cannot be un-f**ked up, regardless of what the liars say. There’s no walking this back, Joe. RESIGN!


5 posted on 09/01/2021 12:50:22 PM PDT by Richard Axtell (As if.)
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And we are telling the whole world about this because?
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Because the Biden regime is choking off escape routes, like China told him.


6 posted on 09/01/2021 12:50:32 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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The kids are with family and we don’t even know if they are US or Afghan citizens—just that they are California students.

24 Child brides and their handlers/relatives, sent to Afghanistan to be auctioned off for USA green-card and chain-migration purposes.

We even have a sitting Congresswoman who married her own brother for Immigration and Welfare fraud, so as Lily Tomlin said - no matter how cynical I become, I can't keep up.

7 posted on 09/01/2021 12:50:41 PM PDT by PGR88
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Billions in US aid went into the pockets of a bunch of Afghans. I'd guess many of the Afghans evac’d before the Americans paid for the privilege.
8 posted on 09/01/2021 12:51:46 PM PDT by Fido969 (45 is Superman!)
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Jen said the evacuees included Afghans and Americans, but of course couldn’t provide details because I imagine it was very few Americans.


9 posted on 09/01/2021 12:52:37 PM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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and who did they bring out?? Us Citizens?? Afghan interpreters w/families?? - or Afghan nationals many of whom had no identification papers.


10 posted on 09/01/2021 12:53:07 PM PDT by elpadre ( )
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Yup. IIRC they were visiting family.


11 posted on 09/01/2021 12:54:04 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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There are still people in country! So much for that secret.


12 posted on 09/01/2021 12:55:33 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (Claiming Racism, the antidote to personal responsibility)
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And we are telling the whole world about this because?

My thoughts exactly. What a freakin’ circus!

13 posted on 09/01/2021 12:55:50 PM PDT by Allegra
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Disclosing this before the CIA has finished the job is endangering lives. When the CIA screws up, they deserve accountability. When they are getting it right, we do not need to know until long after it is over.


14 posted on 09/01/2021 1:02:35 PM PDT by Widget Jr
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Daily calling is spewing fact making myths for the CIA branch of the deep state.

The Mi-17 is designed for a passenger load of 24 troops.

Thirty five trips at 24 passengers each amounts to 840 evacuees ferried between the CIA base and Kabul airport, NOT “thousands” as the report states.

The number 840 sounds more like the CIAs own in-country personal than any unrelated evacuees.

Translation: DailyCaller = deep state smoke and mirrors.


15 posted on 09/01/2021 1:06:19 PM PDT by Wuli
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And we are telling the whole world about this because?

Because someone told the august DNC 'newspaper of record', the New York Times! They are so eager for the truth to be set free (for values and biases thereof)! At least it was not Abu Ghraib right? (I know, different country!) Now the ISIL & Taliban know, so that is another corridor closed!

16 posted on 09/01/2021 1:10:46 PM PDT by SES1066 (Ask not what the LEFT can do for you, rather ask what the LEFT is doing to YOU!)
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Why would someone print this?


17 posted on 09/01/2021 1:24:24 PM PDT by McGavin999 (biden is not my president )
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true that


18 posted on 09/01/2021 1:27:03 PM PDT by ßuddaßudd ((>> ☼ << "What the hell kind of country is this if I can only hate a man if s/he's white?")
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And yet, 1000s of Americans still in Afghanistan......yeah, okie dokie.


19 posted on 09/01/2021 1:28:06 PM PDT by cranked
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OR the 51 dogs...which have more training than the 24 kids will EVER get.


20 posted on 09/01/2021 1:37:39 PM PDT by ridesthemiles ( )
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