Posted on 08/22/2021 2:30:15 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
At least seven people have been killed in a crush at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul as desperate Afghans continue to attempt to flee the country one week after the Taliban seized power, the British military reported on Sunday.
There have been several stampedes which resulted in people being crushed in recent days as thousands of people continue to crowd the airport hoping to be among those lucky enough to be flown out of Afghanistan.
“Conditions on the ground remain extremely challenging but we are doing everything we can to manage the situation as safely and securely as possible,” the British Defense Ministry said in a statement.
Meanwhile, the Associated Press reports that US military aircraft are performing dive bomb landings at the airport in response to an emerging threat from the Islamic State affiliate in Afghanistan, while aircraft deploy flares upon takeoff to avoid being shot down by heat-seeking ...
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“Meanwhile, the Associated Press reports that US military aircraft are performing dive bomb landings at the airport in response to an emerging threat from the Islamic State affiliate in Afghanistan, while aircraft deploy flares upon takeoff to avoid being shot down by heat-seeking missiles.”
Looks as though the Taliban is starting to move some hardware closer to the airport, and are probably getting some help from China too.
Bottom line - they are ‘encouraging’ President Biden to keep to his plan and be out by the end of the month.
NO ONE is being killed in Kabul.
Joe Biden
Some famous soccer player was one of those that fell off that plane a 2000 feet.
You can’t soccer players aren’t smarter than football players./sarc
That was truly horrifying to see, for sure
People trampled?? That was like four, five days ago! Come on, man!
Its probably a lot more. We see people getting trampked at concerts.. And this is far worse
Evil still lives in the world.
“NO ONE is being killed in Kabul.”
Translation: Those people (sic) being killed are nobodies. Rag heads whose lives don’t matter.
And the evil called racism does, too. And the worst culprit is Joseph Gropy Grabby Hair-sniffy Stolen and his degenerate son. That’s why he just left these poor people in the lurch, along with those icky Americans stuck in Afghanistan, who probably voted for Trump.
Based on what, the US “intelligence assessment”?
Probably...although that wasn’t my post.
But I saw pedo Joe knock on wood!
Did that not work???
He was playing with his woody on TV?
Is The Who playing there?
Very true
“He was playing with his woody on TV?”
The only way he sees a woody is to watch Toy Story.
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