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BREAKING: U.S. Suspends Flights At Kabul Airport After Afghans Swarm Runway, Cling To Departing Planes
https://www.dailywire.com ^ | Aug 16, 2021 | By Tim Pearce

Posted on 08/16/2021 7:40:34 AM PDT by Red Badger

Edited on 08/16/2021 7:53:27 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

The United States has suspended operations at Karzai International Airport in order to clear the airfield of Afghans attempting to flee from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.

The U.S. took control of airport operations over the weekend after Taliban militants took over Kabul and toppled the Afghan government. The airport has become the center for embassy operations as well after U.S. officials and personnel abandoned the U.S. embassy on Sunday.


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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; kabul
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1 posted on 08/16/2021 7:40:34 AM PDT by Red Badger
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AP: Biden administration is currently in negotiations with Boeing (NYS-BA) to retrofit it’s military transport planes with external seatbelts. The administration is seeking fastening belts attached to the outside of the planes for easy runway access.


2 posted on 08/16/2021 7:41:32 AM PDT by kjam22
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A complete fustercluck.

Utter disaster.

L


3 posted on 08/16/2021 7:42:30 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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To: Red Badger

They think a plane ride is like a train ride ?


4 posted on 08/16/2021 7:42:56 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Red Badger

This is going well.


5 posted on 08/16/2021 7:44:01 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: Red Badger
"Sen. Tom Cotton’s (R-AK) office told New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman that his office is receiving calls from United States citizens trapped behind Taliban checkpoints"

Dementiajoe's puppetmaster has already planned for them to be be sacrificed to the Taliban.

6 posted on 08/16/2021 7:45:04 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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Any live video feeds from the airport?


7 posted on 08/16/2021 7:46:12 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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A complete fustercluck. Utter disaster. L

America? Afghanistan? The White House? Or, all the above?

8 posted on 08/16/2021 7:46:38 AM PDT by LouAvul (Lying headlines from fake news articles written by pimps masquerading as journalists.)
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To: butlerweave

They live in the 7th century........................


9 posted on 08/16/2021 7:47:06 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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Maybe the Dems are thinking twice about shutting down that base

IDIOTS.

Dems own this.


10 posted on 08/16/2021 7:47:08 AM PDT by RummyChick (R.I.P. https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3974843/posts?q=1&;page=1)
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they should have just taken off and let idiots find out they win the Darwin award for stupidity


11 posted on 08/16/2021 7:48:30 AM PDT by RummyChick (R.I.P. https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3974843/posts?q=1&;page=1)
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To: TornadoAlley3

https://youtu.be/Wh_R_p3vH6I


12 posted on 08/16/2021 7:50:11 AM PDT by READINABLUESTATE (CENSORSHIP = VIOLENCE)
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Visions of Saigon!


13 posted on 08/16/2021 7:50:12 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: RummyChick

Yet the news media is blaming it all on Trump.


14 posted on 08/16/2021 7:50:27 AM PDT by Newbomb Turk
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To: Red Badger

Is the Biden Admin planning to bring these things to the US ?


15 posted on 08/16/2021 7:51:04 AM PDT by butlerweave
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They think a plane ride is like a train ride?

I was reminded of those 9/11 photos of people jumping from the Twin Towers. Jumping from a skyscraper was actually preferable to the horror of staying inside the burning building.

Now you have people who would prefer to hopelessly cling to a departing jet aircraft than to face the horror of the incoming Taliban.

16 posted on 08/16/2021 7:51:09 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (Give me a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer)
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A failure of Progressive, DC bureaucrat thinking all the way back to Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter and Zbigniew Brzezinski first got the USA into Afghanistan, supplying the “Afghan rebels” and goading the Soviets into an invasion.


17 posted on 08/16/2021 7:51:10 AM PDT by PGR88
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The Russians used to have troops ride on the wings of planes. Maybe byedone should look into that.


18 posted on 08/16/2021 7:51:12 AM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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I believe they are really afraid of planes being shot down during landing or take off.


19 posted on 08/16/2021 7:53:17 AM PDT by oil_dude
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