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Posted on 08/16/2021 8:14:42 AM PDT by Red Badger
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Thousands of Afghans rushed onto the tarmac of Kabul's international airport Monday, so desperate to escape the Taliban capture of their country that they held onto an American military jet as it took off and plunged to death in chaos that killed at least seven people, U.S. officials said.
The crowds of people rushing the airport came as the Taliban enforced their rule over the wider capital after a lightning advance across the country that took just over a week to dethrone the country's Western-backed government. While there were no major reports of abuses, many stayed home and remained fearful as the insurgents' advance saw prisons emptied and armories looted.
The Taliban swept into Kabul on Sunday after President Ashraf Ghani fled the country, bringing an end to a two-decade campaign in which the U.S. and its allies had tried to transform Afghanistan. The country's Western-trained security forces collapsed or fled, ahead of the planned withdrawal of the last American troops at the end of the month.
Residents raced to Kabul's international airport, where the “civilian side” was closed until further notice, according to Afghanistan’s Civil Aviation Authority. The U.S. military and other Western forces continued to organize evacuations.
Videos circulating on social media showed hundreds of people running across the tarmac as U.S. troops fired warning shots in the air. One showed a crowd pushing and shoving its way up a staircase, trying to board a plane, with some people hanging off the railings.
In another video, hundreds of people could be seen running alongside a U.S. Air Force C-17 transport plane as it moved down a runway. Some clung to the side of the jet just before takeoff. Another video showed several falling through the air as the airplane rapidly gained altitude over the city.
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If this had happened under PDJT, I’m sure Nancy Pelosi and the MSM would have chalked it up to “the fog of war” and let it slide.
Stolen elections have consequences.
Lightning advance? The Afghan army just quit in mass. The Taliban thoroughly infiltrated the Army and at the precise moment resigned to the enemy. They were not vetted prior to joining. Our intelligence agency totally flubbed this.
Is shillary there dodging sniper fire?
MSM is This is likely lowballing the “7” dead. This is blood directly on this regime’s ands.
Reports coming out point to the Taliban bribing their way into power across many areas.
Did the money come from the Pakistan ISI or the ChiComs?
You decide.
The Democrats spent Donald Trump’s entire presidency trying to smear to mean investigate and impeach him
They proceeded to steal the election boldly right in our face everybody knows it
Since they stole the election all they’ve been focusing on his domestic policies
opening the border
stealing as much money as they can
pushing the LBGTQXYZ agenda
screwing up the military and things like that
Well geewhiz now all the sudden foreign events have taken over the news
Funny how things like that get in the way of a good criminal enterprise
We’ll have to ask Brian Williams........................
Imagine the smell.
Biden lied people died. I was skeptical of the videos but I saw it’s front page bbc and now ABC is running with it. Will the press hammer Biden like they would’ve Trump or even W? This has been a blackeye to American power abroad as well as trust and security.
Target rich if we had a President who ever left the basement.
7 killed...so far. Probably going to be adding a zero or two to that number before this is all over. Then the Taliban will add another zero or two as they re-assert their brand of control...
Will Doc Fauci excoriate these maskless super spreaders?
What a mess! This is sad.
I’m sure they won’t take revenge or anything. 😏
Who are we supposed to be evacuating on those military transport planes and where are they being taken? The videos I’m seeing of throngs of people mobbing the aircraft on the tarmac appear to be Afghanis yelling in their own language.
What the hell is this all about?
And we left five thousand American citizens on the ground in Kabul with no military protection, with the State Department telling them they had to go online to fill out “forms” to request evacuation, and to “shelter in place”?
Have we lost our minds?
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