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PICTURED: 640 Afghan refugees who ran onto US evacuation jet before soldiers could close the ramp on them as Taliban took Kabul
dm ^ | 8/16/2021 | smith

Posted on 08/16/2021 2:05:53 PM PDT by RummyChick

The first photos have emerged of crammed US cargo jets with nearly hundreds of terrified Afghan refugees on board after they ran onto the aircraft before military personnel could close ramps on them on Sunday in their escape of the Taliban.

The US has so far flown at least two C-17 cargo jets out of Kabul and more flights are expected throughout Monday night and later this week despite chaos on the ground on Monday which involved eight people dying and flights being halted.

On Sunday, one of the first flights out was RCH 871 which flew from Kabul to Qatar.

As it was preparing to take off on Sunday, hundreds of terrified Afghan nationals ran onto the plane, up the ramp, and settling on board.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; biden; lastflightoutusa; refugees
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1 posted on 08/16/2021 2:05:53 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: RummyChick

Glad to see some women and children made it out, thought only males escaped.


2 posted on 08/16/2021 2:08:18 PM PDT by madison10
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To: RummyChick

Someone should tell Biden they’re crammed together without masks.


3 posted on 08/16/2021 2:08:39 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: RummyChick

At least there are some women there. We haven’t seen any in the crowd pictures from the airport.


4 posted on 08/16/2021 2:09:09 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: RummyChick

I see people on the plane with full face covering. How opposed to the Taliban are they? Imagine someone on that plane with a suicide belt. Not that it would take down the plane, but that’s a dense crowd.


5 posted on 08/16/2021 2:09:42 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (We have two Democrat parties. 50% of the US population has no political representation.)
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To: RummyChick

Terrifying nightmare

Lord, have mercy.


6 posted on 08/16/2021 2:10:34 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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In a gentler, more civilized time, it would have been women and children first.

In a gentler, more civilized time, those cowardly, military age men would have been told to pick up a weapon and man the line to do their duty or be summarily shot on the spot. These are not those times. Pity that.

7 posted on 08/16/2021 2:10:45 PM PDT by rdcbn1
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So the US is preparing to take 30,000 Afghan refugees in TX and WI airbases. Then what? Off to freebie land with the illegals? Full college, medical, cigs and beer in public housing?


8 posted on 08/16/2021 2:11:41 PM PDT by albie
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

But at least they weren’t on top of the US Embassy, so it was no Saigon!


9 posted on 08/16/2021 2:12:09 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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On Sunday, one of the first flights out was RCH 871

Callsign was REACH 871.

Reach is a common callsign for C-17s.

10 posted on 08/16/2021 2:12:28 PM PDT by SIDENET (ISAIAH 5:20)
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To: RummyChick

How many Taliban?


11 posted on 08/16/2021 2:12:37 PM PDT by 3RIVRS
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Why do these people have to come to the west? Why can’t they settle in their own area? Saudi Arabia? Jordan? UAE? Qutar? Why do they have to come over here? Settle them in the great enlightened countries of the Middle East.


12 posted on 08/16/2021 2:13:01 PM PDT by JudyinCanada (Aim low, avoid disappointment.)
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If they fly them to Methico they could avoid a lot of paperwork to come across.


13 posted on 08/16/2021 2:13:53 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: JudyinCanada

Send them to Obama’s place in Taxachusetts.


14 posted on 08/16/2021 2:14:31 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: RummyChick

Xi Jinping is certainly getting his money’s worth from his investment in Hunter.


15 posted on 08/16/2021 2:14:47 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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To: RummyChick

Sadness.

“[W]hen the wicked bear rule, the people mourn.” Prov. 29:2.

(But...When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice Id.]

REINSTATE TRUMP AS THE LEGITMATE POTUS!!


16 posted on 08/16/2021 2:15:07 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: RummyChick

Payday!


17 posted on 08/16/2021 2:16:49 PM PDT by moovova (Yo GOP....we won't forget.)
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640 Afghan refugees who ran onto US evacuation jet before soldiers could close the ramp on them as Taliban took Kabul

Appears that about 630 of them are men of fighting age.

18 posted on 08/16/2021 2:18:02 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: rdcbn1
In a gentler, more civilized time, it would have been women and children first.

That's western civilization. It's not universal.

Neither is "the Golden Rule." That's western civilization too.

19 posted on 08/16/2021 2:18:29 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: RummyChick

I would have preferred the aircraft be full of Americans first.


20 posted on 08/16/2021 2:18:35 PM PDT by PeteB570 ( Islam is the sea in which the Terrorist Shark swims. The deeper the sea the larger the shark.)
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