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US special operations forces race to save former Afghan comrades in jeopardy
ABC News ^ | 22 Aug 2021 | James Gordon Meek and Matt Seyler

Posted on 08/23/2021 3:08:19 AM PDT by blueplum

The current and former military members are getting people out "one at a time."

Current and former U.S. military special operations and intelligence community operatives are using their own networks of contacts to get elite Afghan soldiers, intelligence assets and interpreters to safety as they've become increasingly disillusioned and fed up with the U.S. government-led evacuation effort in Kabul, ABC News has learned.

One informal group, dubbed "Task Force Pineapple," began as a frantic effort last weekend to get one former Afghan commando into Hamid Karzai International Airport as he was being hunted by Taliban who were texting him death threats. ...

...Other former members of the military and CIA have consolidated their own efforts with a separate group calling itself "Task Force Dunkirk," a reference to the massive evacuation of British and other Allied forces from France in 1940 under threat of the Nazi juggernaut....

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; military; tfdunkirk; tfpineapple
prayers up for the efforts of Task Force Pineapple and Task Force Dunkirk and the others not yet named. the people these guys are getting out not only are brain assets, who's intelligence and connections are advantageous to us, they are guys who saved our guys lives.
1 posted on 08/23/2021 3:08:19 AM PDT by blueplum
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To: blueplum

Looks like Biden is using the Apollo 13 gambit. Turn one of the worst disasters in American history into one of the greatest triumphs.


2 posted on 08/23/2021 3:14:54 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (I got the shot. Not because I wanted to. Because I had to, in violation of my civil rights.)
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Task Force Pineapple sounds like something out of McHale’s Navy.


3 posted on 08/23/2021 3:26:35 AM PDT by Doofer
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Not possible. Even getting everyone out wouldn’t make the images good.


4 posted on 08/23/2021 3:26:38 AM PDT by Bayard
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To: blueplum

Loose lips sink ships


5 posted on 08/23/2021 3:47:21 AM PDT by exnavy (grow some thick skin, i do not care for whiners)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

No, Biden is not doing that. “are using their own networks” They are going around the brain dead idiot.


6 posted on 08/23/2021 4:09:27 AM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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To: blueplum

Re-seize Baghram


7 posted on 08/23/2021 4:10:07 AM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: blueplum

Just saw on DM that one of the major reporters there had to be saved by the Brits


8 posted on 08/23/2021 4:17:11 AM PDT by RummyChick (Bagram was the most logical exit point. Stand up and justify your decision (hat tip Larrytown))
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To: LeoWindhorse

Agree, Bagram seems to be essential.


9 posted on 08/23/2021 4:46:36 AM PDT by mcshot (What was once thought impossible is now here. The possibilities are frightening.)
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Bagram was essential

Too late

We cant go back and get it now.

Now we are at the mercy of the taliban

Trump would have never let this happen


10 posted on 08/23/2021 4:54:52 AM PDT by RummyChick (Bagram was the most logical exit point. Stand up and justify your decision (hat tip Larrytown))
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To: Bayard

You send 6000 troops there as a photo op? The outcome is not going to be good.


11 posted on 08/23/2021 4:57:40 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: mcshot

it was extremely stupid to abandon Baghram


12 posted on 08/23/2021 11:14:03 AM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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