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UK evacuation flights 'could stop within next 48 hours', MPs believe
SKY News ^ | August 23, 2021

Posted on 08/23/2021 9:59:13 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Some 270 MPs from all parties have been briefed on the crisis in Afghanistan today, according to Sky's chief political correspondent Jon Craig.

Many have since spoken to Sky News and said they had come away with the impression UK evacuation flights will end "very soon".

There's a strong indication the US may start taking out their troops within the next 48 to 72 hours, MPs believe, and the UK will then follow suit.

It means we could see evacuation flights stopping within 48 hours.

Craig says the decision on when the air bridge will end will be agreed at the G7 meeting tomorrow.

One senior diplomatic source told him the UK exit could be soon if Joe Biden's response to a plea from Boris Johnson and other G7 leaders is negative.

The decision from the US might not come until Wednesday, but there is a lot resting on tomorrow's virtual summit.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; biden; chaos; taliban
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1 posted on 08/23/2021 9:59:13 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Biden is giving a press conference today, probably talk about mandating the Pfizer vac.


2 posted on 08/23/2021 10:00:10 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
There's a strong indication the US may start taking out their troops within the next 48 to 72 hours...

WUT?

3 posted on 08/23/2021 10:01:56 AM PDT by AAABEST (NY/DC/LA media/political/military industrial complex DELENDA EST)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Because after 20 YEARS, waiting another week or two to save peoples lives is just too much.


4 posted on 08/23/2021 10:05:00 AM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The press, except for Fox, isn’t covering this.

Ask your Democrat friends and relatives what’s going on in Afghanistan.

No idea.

Nations hostile to US➡️Soros➡️Clintons➡️Democrat Party➡️Press


5 posted on 08/23/2021 10:06:16 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: blueunicorn6

The press and Democrats think they are being loyal to the Clintons.

They are helping the nations hostile to the US.


6 posted on 08/23/2021 10:07:54 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The US froze the Afghan Central Bank’s 9.3 billion. The Obozo mussies calling the real shots want an excuse to give those funds to the Taliban (fellow travelers) so are setting up a huge hostage scenario.


7 posted on 08/23/2021 10:08:29 AM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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> The press, except for Fox, isn’t covering this. <

CNN has been doing a surprisingly good job covering the Afghan debacle. And that’s especially true of their reporter in Kabul, Larissa Logan. Logan was telling it exactly like it was.

Now here’s the thing. Logan left the country a couple of days ago. Was that for her own safety? Or was she pulled out for being too honest?

Inquiring minds want to know.


8 posted on 08/23/2021 10:14:18 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Leaning Right

Heard it was for safety, but who knows.


9 posted on 08/23/2021 10:16:00 AM PDT by freespirit2012
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To: Leaning Right

What are Americans seeing on the channels they watch?


10 posted on 08/23/2021 10:16:25 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: blueunicorn6

Sorry, the CNN reporter in my post #8 is Larissa Ward. I don’t know where I got “Logan” from.


11 posted on 08/23/2021 10:16:45 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: blueunicorn6; Al

Damn it anyway. I messed it up again. That CNN reporter’s name is Clarissa Ward. I think I’d better go take a nap. Or maybe I’ll apply to be Biden’s press secretary.


12 posted on 08/23/2021 10:19:12 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Leaning Right

Won’t get it. You circled back too fast.


13 posted on 08/23/2021 10:23:32 AM PDT by pas
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14 posted on 08/23/2021 10:24:46 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. P144:1)
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To: BiglyCommentary
Because after 20 YEARS, waiting another week or two to save peoples lives is just too much.

Because after 20 YEARS, waiting another week or two to save AMERICAN lives is just too much.

15 posted on 08/23/2021 10:27:01 AM PDT by GOPJ (Iran, China, North Korea and Pakistan are reverse engineering captured AMERICAN weapons as we type.)
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To: Leaning Right

LOL. Happens to everyone. Sometimes you are in such a hurry to correct yourself that you make another mistake.


16 posted on 08/23/2021 10:29:53 AM PDT by alternatives?
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To: Chode

It’s worth noting that Ward put on that Muslim dress because she was walking around Kabul itself. That took a bit of courage. She wasn’t in some studio in New York, or standing behind the barbed wire at Kabul airport.

I am not, in general, a fan of CNN or its reporters. But I’ve got to give credit where credit is due.


17 posted on 08/23/2021 10:33:28 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: alternatives?

> Sometimes you are in such a hurry to correct yourself that you make another mistake. <

And it ain’t over yet. I posted a correction in my post #12. And I wanted it to go to “All”. But I typed “Al” instead. Now some Freeper named Al is going to get my post #12, and wonder why.


18 posted on 08/23/2021 10:38:32 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Leaning Right

i’ll give her that

i still think it’s pushing trusting the Talib tooo far, she’s just lucky...

Laura Logan, bless her, should have been a cautionary tale


19 posted on 08/23/2021 10:42:00 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. P144:1)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So, they are going to actually abandon Americans behind enemy lines, and abandon tens of thousands of Afghanis? Does this make us, as a nation, guilty of subsequent deaths, rapes, and so forth?


20 posted on 08/23/2021 10:42:21 AM PDT by Reno89519 (Buy American, Hire American! End All Worker Visa Programs. Replace Visa Workers w/ American Wo)
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