Posted on 08/30/2021 1:20:51 AM PDT by Mount Athos
Hundreds of students and alumni of the American University of Afghanistan were told “there will be no more rescue flights” on Sunday, prompting many to go into hiding.
Students were further alarmed upon learning that the U.S. military had given a list of their names and passport information to Taliban officials guarding the airport in Kabul, according to a report from the New York Times.
“They told us: we have given your names to the Taliban,” a 24-year-old sophomore studying business administration told the Times. “We are all terrified, there is no evacuation, there is no getting out.”
About 600 students and alumni had gathered at a safehouse on Sunday to gather before attempting to flee the country. However, upon arriving at the airport, they were turned away due to evacuation flights ending as the U.S. focuses on removing its personnel ahead of the Aug. 31 deadline.
“I regret to inform you that the high command at HKIA in the airport has announced there will be no more rescue flights,” an email shared with the Times from the university administration read.
The university was founded in 2006 and has since expanded to have a student body of about 1,700 full and part-time students from all 34 provinces of Afghanistan.
The university has been a target of the Taliban for several years. In August 2016, the Taliban launched an attack on the campus, killing 15 people, seven of whom were students. Earlier that month, an American and Australian professor working at the university were kidnapped and remained in captivity until 2019 when they were released in exchange for three Taliban prisoners.
According to the Times, on Aug. 15 —when the Taliban took over Kabul — the group posted a photo of them standing at the entrance of a university building, saying they were “where America trained infidel ‘wolves’ to corrupt the minds of Muslims.”
Ian Bickford, the president of the university, who fled Afghanistan two weeks ago, said the deadly attack at Kabul’s airport had complicated the campus evacuation efforts.
Bickford added that students will be able to finish their degrees remotely.
The students and alumni told the Times that they had “struggled emotionally” in recent days “as their status changed from college students to fugitives overnight.”
Sound criminal. Like murder.
This is an impeachable offence. Joe Biden must go.
Wow, that’s a relief!
The president of the institution, from a remote safe location abroad, actually said the “students will be able to finish their degrees remotely”???
You have to be joking, right??!
That’s some rich, dark humor there.
I hope Heaven has internet.
Fear not!! Any deceased students will receive Honorary degrees and diploma, suitable for framing by next of kin.
After being gangraped in every orifice by hundreds of Taliban fighters who were promised sex slaves.
I guess there will be a little pause while the Taliban ‘takes care of’ the (alleged) seven busloads of American women and children that the military commanders at the airport turned away.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3990230/posts
Yawn. “American University” of anything is more social welfare for the third world.
Being left behind as collateral damage is a horrible event for these students and their families, but I believe I recall reading in late June, the US advised American citizens in Afghanistan to leave.
Examples will be made ...
No problem: Biden will simply include them among those not wanting to leave Afghanistan.
Biden State Department rep in Kabul Airport probably asked “ All Americans who want to leave the country to please raise your hands.”
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South & Central Asia
US and Britain Ask Citizens to Leave Afghanistan
By Ayesha Tanzeem
August 07, 2021 09:12 AM
The advisories are consistent with past positions of both countries.
In April, the U.S. ordered all embassy staff that can work from elsewhere out of the country.
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Lyons warned that the war was “reminiscent of Syria recently or Sarajevo in the not-so-distant past,” and she said that without the UNSC’s support, the country could descend “into a situation of catastrophe so serious that it would have few, if any, parallels in this century.”
https://www.voanews.com/south-central-asia/us-and-britain-ask-citizens-leave-afghanistan
The entire DNC is complicit in this along with their BLM insurrection.
They ALL must go,
a 24-year-old sophomore studying business administration told the Times.
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Let that sink in for just a moment
The white president of the university fled two weeks ago (too late then) and these geniuses waited until now? BTW, the only thing “American” about that university is the name. Notice they didn’t name the 24 yo sophomore, not even an alias like Mohammed or Ahmed.
Some people work to save money, or serve in the armed forces for a GI bill, before going to college.
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