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The US media blasted Joe Biden today for his 'blame shifting' over the Afghanistan crisis after the President criticised Afghan leaders and military for refusing to fight while defending his decision to withdraw troops. The Wall Street Journal said in an editorial that Mr Biden 'refused to accept responsibility for the botched withdrawal while blaming others' and the 'one group he conspicuously did not blame was the Taliban'. A Washington Post editorial said he could have listened to the 'many seasoned hands' giving him alternatives to withdrawal, adding that him blaming others was 'unseemly' given that 2,448 US service members...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday defended President Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan as Taliban fighters began entering the capital, Kabul. In a series of interviews on Sunday talk shows, Blinken said the US succeeded in its mission of bringing those responsible for the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks to justice and argued that remaining in the country was not sustainable. “Remaining in Afghanistan for another one, five, 10 years was not in the national interest,” Blinken said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” While many have started comparing Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan to...

VIDEORelax! Joe Biden has Afghanistan's back. Or at least that is what he assured us only a few weeks ago. What could be wrong? Well, only the credibility of the entire military-intelligence deep state. Oh, and Joe Biden too.

The U.S. embassy in Kabul tells Americans to shelter in place and not to come to the embassy or airport amid reports of the airport taking fire. https://twitter.com/alexsalvinews/status/1426925292375973892

Video of military helicopters evacuating US embassy in #Afghanistan today. https://twitter.com/JasonMBrodsky/status/1426861041481302018

While Biden Adminstration tries rushes 3,000 Marines to Afghanistan in the hopes of protecting the U.S. Embassy, it is my personal belief that the Embassy is already lost and surrounded! As I told a friend the other day, "The only thing that is factual in Afghanistan is loyalty to one's clan." and with the Taliban less that 50 miles from the capital, "How long do we expect Government Officials and the laughable Afghan Security Forces to hold on to the fantasy that they can stop the Taliban?" With 1,000s of refugees are currently flooding into Kabul daily expect the security...

Germany will reduce the number of staff at its Kabul embassy to the “absolute minimum,” Foreign Minister Heiko Mass said Friday as Taliban forces set their sights on the Afghan capital. The announcement came as more German lawmakers appeal for quick action to get staff out of Afghanistan. Senior Christian Democratic Union (CDU) lawmaker Norbert Röttgen urged the German authorities to “not abandon a single local employee” in danger of “torture and death.” It also comes as the German Federation of Journalists asked for Afghan journalists to be granted residence. After the Taliban took the second and third largest cities...

Evoking scenes from the movie Argo, staff at the U.S. embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, have reportedly been directed to begin the process of destroying computers and sensitive documents in preparation to evacuate the outpost.A memo obtained by National Public Radio outlines the steps American diplomats are taking:The memo was written for staff at the embassy and shared with NPR on condition of anonymity.Most will be evacuated by 3,000 U.S. troops on their way to Kabul to ensure a safe and orderly departure. The embassy will be evacuated and a very small consular staff will work in Kabul, the memo noted.The...

With security in Afghanistan deteriorating rapidly, U.S. troops were dispatched Thursday to evacuate personnel from the embassy in Kabul, according to a U.S. official. U.S. troops are being sent to the Kabul airport where they will provide air and ground support to help process Americans hastily exiting the country. The move comes alongside news that the Taliban have seized the country's third largest city of Heart, a strategic provincial capital near Kabul.

John Haltiwanger Thu, August 12, 2021, 12:31 PM·3 min read Taliban Taliban fighters have been seizing territory across Afghanistan. Allauddin Khan/AP The US embassy in Kabul is reportedly considering relocating employees to the airport. The embassy is set to be evacuated as the Taliban makes rapid gains. The US will temporarily send in 3,000 additional troops to help with the process. The US is taking steps to pull personnel from the US embassy in Kabul, the State Department confirmed on Thursday, and additional troops will be sent in to assist with the process. "We are further reducing our civilian footprint...

The U.S. Marine Security Augmentation Unit has deployed twice in the past 30 days to support and protect embassies in Africa and the Caribbean. (excerpt) These two missions marked the 106th and 107th missions for the MSAU since the group was founded in 2013, Task and Purpose reported.

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden on Monday ordered the State Department to create a working group to review U.S. remittance policy to ensure that money that Cuban Americans send home makes it directly into the hands of their families without the regime taking a cut. He also ordered a review of the viability of increasing staff at the U.S. Embassy in Havana. The White House is hopeful that a boost in staffing could help it better facilitate civil society engagement following one of the communist island's biggest antigovernment demonstrations in recent memory. The actions were detailed by a senior...

A mob of pissed off Haitians has amassed outside the U.S. embassy in Port-au-Prince. They are asking for answers. Corrupt MSM will never show you this truth. pic.twitter.com/C6h87iNMfy — 🇺🇸 Antoine Tucker for U.S. Senate (@montaga) July 12, 2021 VIDEO AT LINK................................

An American 'mercenary' and former head of security at the Canadian Embassy in Haiti is among the six 'assassins' who have been arrested over the murder of President Jovenel Moïse, according to a government official. James Solages, a US citizen of Haitian descent and president of a local charity, was taken into custody over Wednesday's early morning raid on Moïse's mansion in the hills above Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Haiti's Minister of Elections and Inter-party Relations Mathias Pierre told the Associated Press. Solages is the 35-year-old president of the board of directors of Jacmel First, a charity founded in south Florida in...

Honduras joins United States, Guatemala, Kosovo in establishing Jerusalem embassy.. Honduras will move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem by the end of June, joining the United States in the historic decision to open a diplomatic post in Israel’s capital. Senior adviser to the Israeli minister of regional cooperation David Aaronson tweeted Tuesday celebrating Honduras's decision to move its mission to Jerusalem. Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández Alvarado will arrive in Israel on June 23, According to Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom. Hernández announced in 2019 that the Latin American country would move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, but...

An al Qaeda operative at Fort Bragg By JOHN SULLIVAN and JOSEPH NEFF Raleigh News & Observer November 13, 2001 FORT BRAGG, N.C. - A former sergeant at Fort Bragg who became a close adviser to Osama bin Laden obtained sensitive documents describing how U.S. special operations units function. Ali A. Mohamed, a trusted trainer in bin Laden's al Qaeda network, walked the halls of the U.S. military's top warfare planning center at Fort Bragg for more than two years as an Army sergeant. From 1987 to 1989, he acquired sensitive documents describing how special operations units work and a...

Tehran, 17 Jan. (AKI) - One of the five Iranians arrested last week by the US army in the northern Iraqi city of Erbil is wanted in Austria in connection with the assassination of Kurdish leader Andol Rahman Ghassemlu in 1989. Mahommad Jaafari Sharoudi was one of five Iranian officials detained last week in the Kurdish-controlled city on charges of being connected to a faction of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, the Pasdaran, that funds and arms insurgents in Iraq. Abdol Rahman Ghassemlu, the historic leader of Iranian Kurds, was killed in an apartment in the outskirts of the Austrian capital...

Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.), Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.), and Tom Carper (D., Del.) were the only senators to oppose a bipartisan resolution in favor of making Jerusalem the permanent home for the U.S. embassy in Israel. The Senate overwhelmingly voted Thursday night in favor of keeping the U.S. embassy in Israel’s capital city. The 97-3 vote came as part of an amendment offered to a massive budgetary bill passed in an overnight session of the Senate. The amendment, introduced by Sen. Jim Inhofe (R., Okla.), allocated money in the bill to maintain the embassy in Jerusalem, effectively preventing the...

Trump Tweets Surprise Threat To Iran After Latest Attack On Baghdad Embassy President Trump in a surprise late Wednesday tweet has directly blamed Iran for the Sunday rocket attack on the US Embassy in Baghdad, which according to prior reports involved eight ground-fired rockets targeting the compound. It comes as the USS Georgia nuclear submarine is currently deployed to the Strait of Hormuz in very open signaling that the Pentagon is prepared to react to any possible escalation form the Islamic Republic. Trump cited intelligence chatter in his latest statement on Twitter, saying, “Our embassy in Baghdad got hit Sunday...