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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: Justa

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


21 posted on 08/25/2021 1:22:15 PM PDT by RummyChick (Bagram was the most logical exit point. Stand up and justify your decision (hat tip Larrytown))
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To: RummyChick
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.

22 posted on 08/25/2021 1:22:17 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: RummyChick

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


23 posted on 08/25/2021 1:23:02 PM PDT by A Navy Vet (USA Birth Certificate - 1787. Death Certificate - 2021. )
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To: SeekAndFind
"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.

24 posted on 08/25/2021 1:23:06 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: RummyChick

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


25 posted on 08/25/2021 1:23:10 PM PDT by mware (RETIRED)
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To: RummyChick

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


26 posted on 08/25/2021 1:23:26 PM PDT by tennmountainman ( Less Lindell Lies, More AZ Style Audits)
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To: RummyChick

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


27 posted on 08/25/2021 1:23:47 PM PDT by TBall
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To: RummyChick

At this moment I see no planes flying over the country

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


28 posted on 08/25/2021 1:23:51 PM PDT by hoosierboy (I am not a gun nut, I am a firearm enthusiast!!!)
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To: PGR88

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

Maybe this


29 posted on 08/25/2021 1:24:54 PM PDT by taterjay
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

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


30 posted on 08/25/2021 1:25:29 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: SeekAndFind

Biden voters


31 posted on 08/25/2021 1:25:32 PM PDT by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportiongte tfo mother's actual parenting of children)
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To: RummyChick

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.


32 posted on 08/25/2021 1:26:28 PM PDT by setter
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To: 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”

20,000+ just yesterday


33 posted on 08/25/2021 1:28:15 PM PDT by setter
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To: SeekAndFind

They missed turn at Albuquerque.


34 posted on 08/25/2021 1:30:05 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (FI miss out mean tweeting, man spreading, room owning President…)
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To: SeekAndFind
Maybe they were there to paint globalist utopia murals for the UN's Agenda 2030


35 posted on 08/25/2021 1:30:15 PM PDT by Pollard (#*&% Communism)
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To: V_TWIN

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


36 posted on 08/25/2021 1:32:39 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Diogenesis

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.


37 posted on 08/25/2021 1:34:53 PM PDT by rovenstinez
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To: PGR88

They are probably Afghans or of Afghan descent.


38 posted on 08/25/2021 1:35:40 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: RummyChick
And that asshat gave him the medal of freedom.


39 posted on 08/25/2021 1:36:16 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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