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Pentagon hints troops may begin operations OUTSIDE Kabul airport to rescue US citizens as Taliban leader arrives in Kabul: Biden will address the nation at 4pm and stranded Americans in Afghanistan tell him 'we need help'
UK Daily Mail ^ | August 22, 2021 | Keith Griffith

Posted on 08/22/2021 5:20:05 AM PDT by C19fan

The Pentagon appears to be inching toward expanding its rescue mission in Afghanistan outside of the walls of Hamid Karzai International Airport, as the situation grows dire for US citizens now unable to reach the airport.

The US Embassy in Kabul on Saturday issued an alert warning citizens not to attempt to reach the airport on their own, where four people were killed in a crushing stampede. It came as Taliban leader Abdul Ghani Baradar arrived in Kabul and fears grew of Islamic State cells operating freely in the country.

A senior US official said that small groups of Americans and possibly other civilians will now be given specific instructions on what to do, including movement to extraction points where they can be gathered up by special operations teams.

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


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; kabul
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Freepers enjoy making fun of the French for their propensity to surrender starting in 1940. But Paris is actually making the effort to extract their citizens while our government is sitting on their hands.
1 posted on 08/22/2021 5:20:05 AM PDT by C19fan
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That is true about the French. I heard Biden is going to speak on the Tropical Storm today.


2 posted on 08/22/2021 5:22:33 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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French and British.

Our guys are completely capable, it’s the shitbirds not giving the orders.


3 posted on 08/22/2021 5:23:23 AM PDT by EEGator
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What utter humiliation.

Worse, of course, for our citizens getting readying to be torn to pieces. 😥

4 posted on 08/22/2021 5:26:46 AM PDT by KC_Lion
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Looks like a helicopter op is underway near Kabul airport.

https://www.flightradar24.com/N243XX/28df202b


5 posted on 08/22/2021 5:26:54 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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Both the French and British are going outside “the wire” at the Kabul airport to rescue their citizens.

They’re not wasting time to placate demented pedo-Joe and the Obamunists.

Tony Blair called the JoeBama actions in Afghanistan “imbecilic.” The U.K. Parliament condemned JoeBama.

More to come.


6 posted on 08/22/2021 5:27:01 AM PDT by romanesq (TRUSTY THE PLAN! ChiCom Joe is the Plan? Que magnificent! 👹)
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The Pentagon appears to be inching toward expanding its rescue mission

Thinking about it....

Eventually....

.....mabye....

7 posted on 08/22/2021 5:27:22 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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The Pentagon appears to be inching toward expanding its rescue mission in Afghanistan outside of the walls of Hamid Karzai International Airport, as the situation grows dire for US citizens now unable to reach the airport.

A week after the British, the French and the Germans have been getting their citizens safely out of from outside the airport? And Dementia Joe is still only “inching” towards doing it? Look we know Joe Dementia is old, slow, weak and decrepit but even a dying snail can do better than Joe Biden right now.

8 posted on 08/22/2021 5:27:28 AM PDT by SmokingJoe ( )
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finally doing something because of bad poll numbers. yep, he’s a leader.


9 posted on 08/22/2021 5:29:54 AM PDT by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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expanding its rescue mission in Afghanistan outside of the walls of Hamid Karzai International Airport
Oh boy, fighting in a muslim terrorist controlled city, this could turn into another Fallujah.
10 posted on 08/22/2021 5:33:01 AM PDT by dblshot
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Almost certainly, these American round-up missions will result in shooting combat with the Taliban.

So much for the end of hostilities.


11 posted on 08/22/2021 5:34:09 AM PDT by Gnome1949
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They will somehow spin this their way and the talking empty heads at CNN and MSNBC will joyfully comply and praise our leader............and blame trump


12 posted on 08/22/2021 5:34:10 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (“When the people fear the government you have tyranny, when the government fears the people you have)
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“Inching”

Inch worm inch worm....


13 posted on 08/22/2021 5:34:18 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (DEMs cheated so we could have this?)
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I pray that if our boys are shot at that they shoot back. More evidence of this incompetent operation. I’m glad that my son served when the rules of engagement were clear and deadly.


14 posted on 08/22/2021 5:35:32 AM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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He is going to speak about the lack of diversity and equity in the NFL in the pre-season games that he watched yesterday.


15 posted on 08/22/2021 5:45:17 AM PDT by silent majority rising
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The ROEs should be there are no ROEs…


16 posted on 08/22/2021 5:45:24 AM PDT by EEGator
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“..finally doing something because of bad poll numbers. yep, he’s a leader....”

^THIS^
But even worse than the bad polling numbers, the optics from around the entire world are just humiliating.
The Joint Chiefs are nothing but “woke jokes”.....gutless, just like pedoJoe and the rest of his little band of merry communists, especially Milley. She/he/it is a disgrace to the country, the uniform and to the men/women forced to serve under it. It should be arrested/tried for sedition and treason. IF there was even a small modicum of honor, the POS would have already resigned.


17 posted on 08/22/2021 5:51:49 AM PDT by lgjhn23 (Pray for America....)
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I dont think there is any REAL Americans left .

These people are Afghans who got a green card and where playing tye game Mexicans do,
Get US welfare and go back to their real country .


18 posted on 08/22/2021 6:01:08 AM PDT by ncalburt (Gop DC Globalists are the real danger )
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Yeah. Kill em All and let Allah sort em out.


19 posted on 08/22/2021 6:02:14 AM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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What kind of complete idiot would think it is best to get troops out FIRST and leave everyone and everything behind for LAST extraction? This is the TALIBAN we are dealing with.


20 posted on 08/22/2021 6:13:47 AM PDT by odawg
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