Posted on 08/29/2021 2:48:17 AM PDT by blueplum
The last remaining British troops have been evacuated from Afghanistan, bringing the UK's two decades of military involvement in the country to a close.
Video and pictures from inside military aircraft shared online by The Parachute Regiment and the Ministry of Defence last night showed exhausted British troops leaving Kabul ...
In a bid to put a positive gloss on Britain's hasty retreat, the Prime Minister vowed to 'use all the diplomatic and humanitarian tools at our disposal to preserve the gains of the last 20 years'.
Government sources insisted Britain's absence from the war-ravaged country was only temporary....
...Operation Pitting, the largest UK military evacuation since the Second World War, airlifted more than 15,000 people in a fortnight on more than 100 RAF flights.
It included 5,000 British nationals and their families and more than 8,000 Afghan former UK staff and their relatives. Around 2,200 children were evacuated, the youngest just a day old.
Afghan 'sleeper' agents who fed intelligence to MI6, including information about the suicide bomb attack at Kabul airport last week, have also been whisked to safety....
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
'When I reached the light the British forces took me and my family over the barbed wire....'
Before his escape, the Afghan father had spent more than four days trying to find a way to the airport's Abbey Gate"
good luck to him !
What a disaster.
But at least puppies are SAFE!
/s
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