Posted on 08/15/2021 5:12:43 PM PDT by 11th_VA
A video has emerged that appears to show U.S. troops at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul shooting into the air as they try to keep civilians off the flightline.
Throngs of Afghans trying to flee the country are presently stranded at the airport, which is currently being run entirely by the U.S. military and has been closed to commercial aircraft.
The airport has become an island of foreign control within the Afghan capital, which is otherwise all but entirely under de facto control of the Taliban.
You can read more about the Taliban's advance into the city and the U.S. and other foreign evacuation operations that have been going on all day in The War Zone's initial reporting on the still-developing crisis here.
The video clip in question, seen in the tweet following the satellite image below, was reportedly shot at Hamid Karzai International Airport earlier this evening. It is taken from the perspective of a crowd of Afghans.
Right at the beginning, a burst of automatic weapon fire is heard, followed by what sounds like American troops shouting "get back" in English. It can be extremely dangerous to have people milling about like this on or along active aircraft movement areas, which can force aircraft to abort movements, damage aircraft, or worse.
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The situation is under control due to the amazing planning of our fearless leader.
Anyone who even hints otherwise is a right wing extremist terrorist.
Scared people trampling over each other to escape death.
Prayers up for all involved except the taliban who I hope get a bad case of Covid
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
Will this horror reach the dimwitted American public via their precious captive Leftist news media?
Or just “long term Trump errors led to takeover.”
Stolen elections have stolen consequences.
Joseph Stolen is an idiot.
Nobody would DARE attempt to enforce “Proper Masking and Social Distancing Protocol” at that airport at this time.
“Abdul, your Mask, please! Or you will not be permitted to board this flight!”
Democract/media/big tech corruption destorys Afghanistan.
This is a very bad, no-win situation to throw our military into.
Of course, they’ve been doing those for the last 70 years, so at least they are accustomed to it.
Most of the media can’t get their heads out of the covid ass long enough to show the truth about Afghanistan.
So the ‘Adults are in charge now ?’ ... how’s that working out ? LOL !!!
Biden didn’t pay any ransom money for the locals.
“Women, children, and government workers with visas cannot get out of the country because the U.S. is blocking them.”
At this point, for this US regime, the ONLY objective is to minimize US deaths, due to the political fallout from those deaths. The fate of our Afghan helpers is irrelevant to them. If a 100 Afghan civilians must die (even if by American fire) so that one American can reach an evacuation plane, then so be it.
Supposedly there are 60,000+ at the airport. No food. No water. No sanitation. No where to sleep. Thanks Joe Biden for the fluster cuck.
I'm watching CBS news tonight. WH reporter (sounding desperate) on Kabul airport scene: 'Congressional Hearings' ... 'Will be written about for years" ... So yeah, blood in the water ... this could sink Biden
Biden had a lot of help from Bush and Obama.
They'll blame Trump.
“This is a very bad, no-win situation to throw our military into.”
The Taliban is bursting with excellent US weapons, far more than we can hope to get there...once they start moving them towards the airport, we’ll have a serious fight on our hands.
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