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BREAKING NEWS: Up to 1,500 Americans including 24 California school students are STILL stuck in Afghanistan: Blinken blames citizens for not leaving earlier as CIA and US helicopters start conducting missions to get everyone out
dm ^ | 8/25/2021 | By ELIZABETH ELKIND, U.S. POLITICAL REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM and CHRIS PLEASANCE and SAM BAKER FO

Posted on 08/25/2021 1:13:56 PM PDT by RummyChick

Up to 1,500 Americans are still trapped in Afghanistan and the U.S. is still relying on the Taliban to allow safe passage to Kabul airport with just six days before the August 31 deadline, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said in a press conference on Wednesday.

Blinken gave an updated on the airlift operation and the bid to get all citizens and Afghan allies out amid reports the CIA has joined U.S. troops in rescue missions outside the airport perimeter.

Thousands of people are still trying to leave Afghanistan as U.S. troops start leaving and evacuation flights begin to wrap up, but are being stopped and beaten by insurgents on their way.

Among those left are 24 school children from California who visited on a summer trip and haven't been able to leave.

Blinken appeared to blame Americans still on the ground for not leaving fast enough after first being warned earlier this year to leave Afghanistan as soon as possible.

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; afghanistandebacle; americansstranded; biden; bidenganistan; blinken; rop; stinken; taliban; thebidenplan; uswithdrawal
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To: sergeantdave

The SD paper said they were Afghan refugees returning there to check in with family.
Jihad skills have to be refreshed occasionally, right?


81 posted on 08/25/2021 3:43:41 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: SeekAndFind

Them being there is lunacy.


82 posted on 08/25/2021 3:54:28 PM PDT by FreedomForce
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To: RummyChick

Anyone that stupid to be on a field trip to Afghanistan gets what’s coming to them.

Guess what? You are now their pet goats.


83 posted on 08/25/2021 3:59:15 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: nascarnation

I guess so.


84 posted on 08/25/2021 4:14:57 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Federal courts no longer have any standing in America. )
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To: RummyChick
How it was: Pres. Trump: "Do Not Try Us"

How it is post Election Fraud without a nanogram of accountability:


85 posted on 08/25/2021 6:44:10 PM PDT by Diogenesis (Tuitio Fidei et Obsequium Pauperum)
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To: RummyChick

MTG said there are over 50,000 still there today on Warroom.


86 posted on 08/25/2021 7:49:27 PM PDT by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (Dems: We cheated fair and square!!!)
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To: ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton

So why a bunch of California’s students in Afghanistan while we are planning on withdrawing during covid? Don’t compute.


87 posted on 08/25/2021 7:53:34 PM PDT by CJ Wolf ( what is scarier than offensive words? Not being able to say them...God wins. Trump always wins. . )
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