Posted on 08/15/2021 1:43:06 PM PDT by conservative98
The Taliban took control of the presidential palace in Kabul on Sunday — brazenly posing for pictures inside vacated Afghan government offices and meeting rooms.
The images show heavily armed fighters from the extremist Islamic group standing around one Taliban leader as he sits at the desk of departed President Ashraf Ghani, who fled the capital city, according to reports.
Another photo shows more than a dozen rebels sitting at a long conference table inside the Afghan government building, Al Jazeera reported.
The group announced from the palace that they will reestablish the Islamic emirate that was disbanded after US forces invaded in 2001.
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P-sack will be out front blaming Trump tomorrow…
And if you wondering how those troops will get out, well, I bet pretty quickly we'll see a little demonstration of why the V-22 Osprey was developed. Except we probably won't actually see it, at least not right away.
Nice ! Armed with M4’s decked out with suppression and night vision scopes. Thanks Sleepy Joe !
the fighter on the left is carrying an M16A4 with ATN MARS-HD 384/640 thermal optic.
So much for our edge on night fighting. You wonder how many will be sold all over the world now.
“They don’t look happy about their success. The should be high-fiving and crushing beer cans on their foreheads.”
They don’t strike me as fun-loving people.
I wonder if they are thinking, “what do we do now?”.
Nazi Pelazi needs to set up some phony kangaroo court and impeach these insurrectionists.
An eyewitness described the scene at Kabul airport to the BBC:
The departure hall turned into chaos after people said boarding passes were being printed secretly for officials and high-profile people who showed up at the airport.
I saw three former MPs, a few deputy ministers and some celebrities queuing up. Some didn’t even have a booking. We waited for almost eight hours, until airport staff started leaving their desks - first the check-in counters and then the migration and passport desks… different rumours created chaos. Some escaped from the airport and some rushed towards the gates.
No-one was in any of the passport check cabins and the QR scan doors were destroyed. There wasn’t a security check before getting to the gates.
We walked through and saw that the big glass doors between the gates and the airplanes were shattered. People ran towards the last plane (it seems the first plane, which was ours, was filled by officials and took off) and there was a second flight which people started to board.
It was almost a stampede.
We walked back and saw many hopeful passengers just sitting under the airplane near the runway. People were shocked and didn’t know what to do, running from one plane to the other.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1427000691407654914
We then walked towards the exit to get in the car. Armed men in plain clothes were guarding the airport.
People were very desperate, some were running towards the airport, some were escaping. In order to stop people from getting into the airport, the guards opened fire into the air.
When I was getting out, there was a guy shooting in the air. A few minutes away on the airport’s road, I saw several police vehicles left alone on the road with doors open.
I can still hear sporadic gunshots and helicopters.
Taliban to declare ‘Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’ soon – report
The Taliban, who have rampaged across Afghanistan in recent days and earlier today entered the capital, Kabul, are on the verge of declaring that they have taken control of the country and that it is now the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, according to Press Association reports citing a Taliban official.
Wonder how Throughly Modern Milley feels about now.
“...the fighter on the left is carrying an M16A4 with ATN MARS-HD 384/640 thermal optic.”
I’m not even sure if those optics can be imported, never mind exported. They really got a great haul!
It’s truly remarkable how a bunch of uneducated, but determined people outsmarted hundreds of Ivy-league educated experts pulling down mid-six figures.
“President Biden receives update on the situation in Afganistan”
Well, it doesn’t look like anyone wants to sit with him now...bunch of fair-weather friends, I’d say.
Success has many fathers; failure is a bastard.
What a smelly , ugly group of characters in both pictures.
At least when they run the country back to the Stone Age, we’ll know it’s intentional.
“Disturbing idea: Biden resigns?”
Well, we could temporarily turn Camp David into a Jao Gitmo’ if he refused to leave and get back to “The Peoples’ Bidness” in the White Basement.
Those guys look pretty Caucasian.
All the isolationists over the past 5 years want us to stay in Afghanistan.
Hopefully the Woke Milley will have it all sighted in for him. /sarc
Totally agree! 😆
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