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Afghanistan updates: Taliban militants ordered to enter Kabul
ABC News ^ | August 15, 2021, 10:52 AM | Guy Davies,Sohel Uddin, andLuis Martinez

Posted on 08/15/2021 8:57:09 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Taliban militants have been ordered to enter Kabul, following earlier assurances by Taliban officials that they do not intend to take Afghanistan's capital by force

According to a statement, the Taliban ordered its fighters to enter the city because "now there are reports that districts in Kabul have been evacuated, police have left their job of providing security, ministries have been evacuated, and security personnel from the Kabul administration have fled."

"So that God forbid the common thieves and robbers in Kabul do not mix, the abusers do not harm the people, the Islamic Emirate ordered its forces to enter the areas of Kabul from which the enemy went and areas there is a risk of theft and robbery," the statement continued.

The Taliban went on to tell Kabul residents that they should not fear these troops and that none would enter anyone's homes or harass anyone.

Earlier Sunday, the Taliban reported that its leaders were at the presidential palace to negotiate a transfer of power.

Despite the Taliban moving into the last major city that remained under government control, U.S. officials said earlier Sunday that U.S. airport operations in Kabul will continue. A U.S. official added that American forces at the airport are properly secured and that despite the latest developments, there is no expected direct impact on U.S. operations there.

On ABC's "This Week," Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday that U.S. personnel are being relocated from the U.S. Embassy in Kabul to the airport "to ensure they can operate safely and securely," but still maintain a core diplomatic presence there.


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1 posted on 08/15/2021 8:57:09 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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2 posted on 08/15/2021 8:59:51 AM PDT by GraceG ("If I post an AWESOME MEME, STEAL IT! JUST RE-POST IT IN TWO PLACES PLEASE")
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watch July 8, 2021: Biden Says Taliban Takeover of Afghanistan Not Inevitable And The Government Won’t Collapse

https://rumble.com/vl63jt-biden-makes-prediction-about-afghanistan.html


3 posted on 08/15/2021 9:00:09 AM PDT by janetjanet998
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Heck of a job, Blinky!


4 posted on 08/15/2021 9:01:27 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods ( comment might be sarcasm, or not. It depends. Often I'm not sure either.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The airport is under attack. Good job dick weeds.


5 posted on 08/15/2021 9:03:19 AM PDT by DownInFlames (G)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I guess this administration is only willing to go after those people who won’t fight back ... conservatives!


6 posted on 08/15/2021 9:05:16 AM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Relocated? He’s making it sound like the airport is a workspace with cubicles & stuff
What a disaster!


7 posted on 08/15/2021 9:05:32 AM PDT by rainee (Trump won! )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
"The Taliban went on to tell Kabul residents that they should not fear these troops and that none would enter anyone's homes or harass anyone, they are just going to chop off the heads of anyone who cooperated with the Americans."
8 posted on 08/15/2021 9:05:50 AM PDT by red-dawg (The difference between protests and insurrections is who’s in charge.)
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Despite the Taliban moving into the last major city that remained under government control, U.S. officials said earlier Sunday that U.S. airport operations in Kabul will continue. A U.S. official added that American forces at the airport are properly secured

“Properly secured “ with what? Biden stolen ballots? Or by Biden's new elite LGBT “Republican Guards”?

9 posted on 08/15/2021 9:08:46 AM PDT by SmokingJoe ( )
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To: GraceG
The Taliban will spin it that the USA was there to uphold sexual deviancy. And though that was not the initial pretext, they will be right.

Expect mass executions of anyone even slightly associated with the US backed regime.

10 posted on 08/15/2021 9:09:35 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a "slippery slope" if it was part of the program all along. )
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The Taliban will spin it that the USA was there to uphold sexual deviancy.

Are they wrong?

11 posted on 08/15/2021 9:10:05 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

America the JV team


12 posted on 08/15/2021 9:10:19 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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Relocated? He's making it sound like the airport is a workspace with cubicles & stuff

The embassy has covid so they are putting the staff under lockdown at the airport.
Chuckle.

13 posted on 08/15/2021 9:11:16 AM PDT by SmokingJoe ( )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

But, the women....Oh, the horror. Didn’t we go to war with Afghanistan to protect the women, according to the media and Dem identity politics narrative? Does this mean virtuous progressives here are flooding recruiting offices to volunteer to head to Afghanistan to protect the women? Highly doubt they are going to give up their unemployment checks and rent free eviction free apartments to do anything for anyone other than themselves.


14 posted on 08/15/2021 9:13:33 AM PDT by chuckee
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To: SaxxonWoods

Actually caught part of Blinken’s interview, and was amazed that the CNN guy seemed rather disgusted with Blinken’s answers to his questions.


15 posted on 08/15/2021 9:13:46 AM PDT by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement! )
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16 posted on 08/15/2021 9:19:59 AM PDT by GraceG ("If I post an AWESOME MEME, STEAL IT! JUST RE-POST IT IN TWO PLACES PLEASE")
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Biden paid the ransom.

Obama paid the ransom at Benghazi.

The Democrat Party Crime Syndicate will get their cut of the ransom money.


17 posted on 08/15/2021 9:36:49 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: DownInFlames

This is Afghan General Dostum’s House. 2 MINUTES!
READ THE DESCRIPTION!!!
https://www.bitchute.com/video/rAss8mPktMcX/


18 posted on 08/15/2021 9:53:33 AM PDT by Dick Bachert
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To: SmokingJoe

“Or by Biden’s new elite LGBT “Republican Guards”?

You write as if a bunch of properly trained and equipped homos can’t hold off a bunch of goat humpers.

And the Afghans practically invented homosexual pedophilia.


19 posted on 08/15/2021 10:01:25 AM PDT by Mariner (War criminal #18)
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You write as if a bunch of properly trained and equipped homos can't hold off a bunch of goat humpers.

Except that the motley bunch of “goat humpers” as you call them, are busy kicking the butts of the “properly trained, well equipped (by the US at a cost of some $100 Billion)” as we speak.
Chuckle.

20 posted on 08/16/2021 3:54:47 AM PDT by SmokingJoe ( )
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