Posted on 08/15/2021 9:13:09 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. embassy staff in Kabul were leaving the compound and moving to the airport, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Sunday, as Taliban insurgents entered the Afghan capital and officials said President Ashraf Ghani had left the country.
There were reports of sporadic gunfire around the city, but there was no significant fighting and the Taliban said they were waiting for the Western-backed government to surrender peacefully.
U.S. diplomats were being ferried by helicopter to the airport, where U.S. troops were providing security amid an exodus of Americans and their local allies and other foreigners.
Sources told Reuters that most U.S. staff would be evacuated from Kabul in the coming day or two.
“We’re working to make sure that our personnel are safe and secure. We’re relocating the men and women of our embassy to a location at the airport,” Blinken told ABC news.
More U.S. forces had been sent in to get U.S. officials out of the country “in a safe and orderly fashion” while maintaining a “core diplomatic presence,” Blinken said.
France, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden all said on Sunday they were moving their diplomats from their embassies.
A NATO official said the group was maintaining its diplomatic presence in Kabul and helping to keep the airport running.
‘NOT SAIGON’
A U.S. intelligence assessment earlier in the week had said Kabul could be encircled in 30 days and could fall to the Taliban within 90 days, but the insurgents captured most of Afghanistan’s major cities in less than a week and entered the capital on Sunday.
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So, that’s the embassy staff. But there are other non-embassy Americans also in Kabul? Who in their right mind thought that was a good idea?
Expect a Bounty to be offered by the Tallyband for Americans with money Biden gave them
We need to protect our soldiers - to hell with the elite Embassy staff... Elites didn’t do crap for anyone but themselves...
Airport taking fire is report out of State Department website.
They shoudl send swishy intern guy....
I am sure he would become a bachi bazi
😳😳😳
Bidenistas and their BLM Obama Sec of Defense plant just intentionally
handed over black hawks and hardware to invade Israel.
Mission Accomplished .
Is this the same peson who had purple hair at the time that was sitting next to Blinken when he met with the Chinese in Alaska?
is Joe still with the 9 year old, JUST LIKE THE TALIBAN?
Who IS that guy?
“... just intentionally
handed over black hawks and hardware ...”
I doubt the equipment will be usable for very long. Our stuff requires lots of maintenance and spare parts.
Just trying to avoid the optics of a helicopter leaving the embassy.
The Democrats do not want a scene with multiple military helicopters rescuing embassy personnel and their local aides then being taken to the airport. So I assume that those hundreds of civilians and government people are being taken to the airport on airport shuttle buses.
https://blog.theveteranssite.greatergood.com/embassy-vietnam/
It should be OK, Biden has appointed a new ambassador.
And now the embassy in Kabul is telling those not already at the airport or embassy to shelter in place.
https://af.usembassy.gov/security-alert-u-s-embassy-kabul-afghanistan-15/
Location: Kabul
Event: The security situation in Kabul is changing quickly including at the airport. There are reports of the airport taking fire; therefore we are instructing U.S. citizens to shelter in place.
U.S. citizens wanting assistance in departing the country should register for any option that might be identified to return to the United States, and must complete this Repatriation Assistance Request for each traveler in their group. Spouses and minor children of U.S. citizens in Afghanistan who are awaiting immigrant visas should also complete this form if they wish to depart. Please do so as soon as possible. You must complete this form even if you’ve previously submitted your information to the U.S. Embassy in Kabul. Do not call the U.S. Embassy in Kabul for details or updates about the flight. This form is the only way to communicate interest in flight options.
He’s a gay Tik Tok “influencer” that the WH contracted to make a video (with Psaki) encouraging gays to get vaccinated. He’s supposed to be a tranny WH intern in the video.
Sorry you asked?
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