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

[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.

[RummyChick]

ahh...that makes more sense that some hippie kids going to Taliban land

[Governor Dinwiddie]

I don't believe a damn word Biden says about anything. Seriously.

However, only American military personnel should have been in Aftrashistan. Dependents and nonessential personnel and diplomats should have left weeks ago. As for "California Students" (WTF!?), they had no business being there. It is some kind of modern New Age ethos where folks can be "tourists" anywhere they damn well please. I hope their next tourist stop is Hell.

[A Navy Vet]

Now this on top of Kamle’s cackling. The lunatics are truly running the asylum.

[mass55th]

"What on earth are California students doing in Afghanistan?"

Passing out pre-filled absentee ballots with votes already checked for Newsom, that the Afghanis can cast once they get State-side.

[mware]

Doosey asked Jen P why the president thought that was so funny.

[tennmountainman]

It’s a lot more than 1500. More like 15,000.

[TBall]

1,500? I’ve been reading the number was in the tens of thousands. They must have evacuated a lot of people since yesterday.

[hoosierboy]

At this moment I see no planes flying over the country

https://www.flightradar24.com/34.45,68.78/9

[taterjay]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib-Qiyklq-Q

Maybe this

[lodi90]

The “California students” are of Afghani extraction. This isn’t our parents America. The enemy is inside the wire.

[AbolishCSEU]

Biden voters

[setter]

As someone mentioned earlier all the Americans will be rescued if all we are down to is 1500. Biden is going to look like a hero.

[setter]

“1,500? I’ve been reading the number was in the tens of thousands. They must have evacuated a lot of people since yesterday”

20,000+ just yesterday

[gov_bean_ counter]

They missed turn at Albuquerque.

[Pollard]

Maybe they were there to paint globalist utopia murals for the UN's Agenda 2030

[EEGator]

Amazing that it’s a round number too.
What a statistical luck out!...

[rovenstinez]

seeing posts, of Helicopters abandoned in airports, and Afghanistan soldiers not knowing how to pilot them. I wondered WHY..didn’t they get the hardware out of the country, and offer it for sale on eBay, rather than hand it all over to the Taliban. This was just crazy. Poor planning that the Generals did...scratching my head.

[PghBaldy]

They are probably Afghans or of Afghan descent.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

And that asshat gave him the medal of freedom.