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WASHINGTON — More than 120,000 people of all nationalities were evacuated from the Kabul airport as the U.S. military withdrew, but initial figures suggest that only about 8,500 of those who left Afghanistan in recent months were Afghans, according to numbers released by the Biden administration and estimates from advocates. That is a small percentage of the tens of thousands of Afghans who worked for the U.S. government or U.S. organizations and applied for special U.S. visas, and an even smaller percentage of the Afghans eligible to apply.... ... The administration says U.S. and allied aircraft evacuated more than 123,000...

When Kabul fell, the Taliban offered the Biden administration a deal. Either the United States could control the city until August 31, the terror group’s deadline, or the Taliban would.The Taliban may have been testing Biden, wary of a direct military confrontation with a large concentration of American forces, but if so they quickly learned that they had little to worry about. Instead of maintaining control over Kabul so that Americans could be speedily evacuated, the Biden administration and its cronies turned over the city to the Taliban.And the Taliban turned to their most professional and deadliest assets. The Haqqani...

Photos emerged Tuesday showing Taliban supporters in Afghanistan holding a mock funeral while hoisting coffins draped with flags from the U.S. and other NATO countries. Reuters obtained some of the photos that were taken in Khost on Tuesday, less than a day after the last U.S. troop left the country after a nearly 20-year engagement.... ...The Reuters report said footage from the mock funeral was shared widely on social media.... ..."The world should have learned its lesson..," Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban spokesman, said in a livestream video.

From senior US source: house-to-house executions in Kabul following US mil departure. There are no words for what this administration has done to all of us - Afghan and American.

Kirby responds this morning Biden Pentagon Spox John Kirby: “We Have Americans That Get Stranded In Countries All The Time” VIDEO AT LINK................. ‘We just didn’t have enough time’ Clarissa Ward [CNN] tries hard not to blame Biden VIDEO AT LINK........................

"This msg is for you! I know my face is etched into your brain! I was able to look you straight in the eyes yesterday and have words with you. After I lay my son to rest you will be seeing me again! Remember I am the one who stood 5 inches from your face and was letting you know I would never get to hug my son again, hear his laugh and then you tried to interrupt me and give me your own sob story and I had to tell you “that this isn’t about you so don’t make...

It's easier to manufacture relatability than it is to take responsibility. The families of 13 brave young men and women are just a few moments into a grieving process that will last the rest of their days, after an ISIS-K suicide bomber stole the lives of these American service members and 170 civilians in Afghanistan last week. On Sunday, President Joe Biden met with the families of these fallen heroes at Dover Air Force Base as flag-draped caskets descended from the plane where their beaming children in uniform should have been. Those meetings reportedly didn’t go very well. Although the...

51 U.S. Contract Military Dogs were left behind in Afghanistan Follow updates here as this story develops over the next 24 hours… Latest update 2 am eastern Tuesday morning… .@VetSheepdogsUS #kabul #Afghanistan #SemperFi pic.twitter.com/Gd3HBFl9PV — Joshua T. Hosler for American Veterans 🇺🇸 (@JoshuaHosler) August 31, 2021 There was room on the planes. They were released on the tarmac today. #CharlotteMaxwellJones and her service animals were LEFT in #Kabul. The SERVICE dogs were released on the tarmac. They were at the airport for SIX DAYS beforehand! There was room on those planes. I’m ashamed of you @POTUS @VP @SecDef #OperationHercules #NoAmerican...

Maj. Gen. Christopher Donahue, commander of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, and Ambassador Ross Wilson, charge d’affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, were the final Americans to step aboard the last U.S. military C-17 cargo jet shortly before it lifted off from the Afghan capital’s sole international airport Monday. All told about 6,000 U.S. citizens were evacuated from Afghanistan. They represent the “vast majority” of those who wanted to leave the war-torn country, Marine Corps Gen. Frank McKenzie, commander of U.S. Central Command, told reporters Monday. “There’s a lot of heartbreak associated with this departure. We did not get...

It’s payback time. And like the famous “Devil’s Brigade” of Second World War fame, they know full well they may not survive the coming battles. According to British media reports, 40 of the bravest men in the world — elite Special Air Service elite troop — have asked to stay in the wartorn country to avenge the deaths of their fallen comrades. The 13 US Marines killed in a suicide bomb at Kabul airport in Afghanistan. One source told the Sunday Mirror: “The Marines who died were from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Force. “That unit has given assistance to the...

My headline about sums it up. This is what is so infuriating about the Kabul arrangement, and our so-called political and military leaders MUST be held to account. WHERE ARE THE RESIGNATIONS?We must not stop calling-out those who KNOWINGLY placed our Marines into a Kill Box, the result of which was NOT a surprise. Why did Biden agree to have 9/11 TERRORISTS manning the checkpoints for our Marines on that street in Kabul? We shall honor these Marines by continuing to seek accountability for their deaths. NEVER STOP!Team TaliBiden GIFTING THOSE WHO ATTACKED US ON 9/11 with thousands of weapons...

U.S. military planes at Kabul airport, file screen image, August 26, 2021. “Taliban commander: last US military planes – four in all – have departed from Kabul airport – airport is now under Taliban control” Taliban commander: last US military planes – four in all – have departed from Kabul airport – airport is now under Taliban control — علی مصطفی | Ali Mustafa (@Ali_Mustafa) August 30, 2021 Translation: “Now congratulations to you. The last American plane has also left.” اوس مو.نو مبارک شه د امریکایانو اخیرنۍ طیاره هم لاړه نور د کابل هوای میدان ددې نجسو پاک شو الحمدلله...

Taliban showing off their kill.

(snip) For Joe, though, the truth would be inconvenient. Admitting that his newfound partner, international terrorist Khalil Haqqani had just blown up a bunch of Americans, might prompt calls for a swift and forceful response. Somebody might even suggest that since we now knew where Khalil was and that he had yet again killed Americans it might be a good time to take him out.

Trash heaps throughout the city, feces on sidewalks, and armed guards at every street corner to hand out beatings — welcome to the new Kabul. The once-modern capital of Afghanistan with a growing middle class has been plunged back into the Dark Ages, literally, as electricity is shut off at night, plunging 4 million people into darkness. This is life under the Taliban after their takeover two weeks ago.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told top Pentagon leaders to prepare for a potential 'mass casualty event' 24 hours before a suicide bomb rocked the hurried U.S. evacuation at the Kabul airport, new internal DOD documents reveal. The documents, which the Pentagon condemned as a leak of classified information and urged the media not to report, detail top military officials trying to sort out security in a situation they already deemed a major risk. 'I don't believe people get the incredible amount of risk on the ground,' Austin said on the call. Austin told more than a dozen leaders who joined...

Well, the fiasco that erupted concerning the safe evacuation of American citizens from Afghanistan could have been much less chaotic. The Washington Post had a lengthy piece Sunday detailing the fall of Kabul. It circles back to everything you already know. The Taliban were racing toward reconquering the country. The Afghan government was totally aloof. And everyone in the Biden orbit was on vacation when calamity hit. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani dithered on getting his act together, more concerned about the digitization of the economy than the Taliban threat. The publication noted that he agreed to step aside days before...

“Tell people DO NOT go to the airport now. Last US wheels leave in 15 minutes. After that, it will be overrun by TB.” ☝️Latest on Kabul airport from an international safety and security officer for one of the world’s largest relief organizations — Emily Miller (@emilymiller) August 30, 2021 “Some of the plane nerds are saying 3 C‑17s are inbound. Appears to be the case on flight radar, but they look to be maybe 30 away. No one knows how long they will be on the ground. My advice remains go nowhere near the airport now. It will be...

Reflections on the Biden/Harris team's vacations as Kabul burned... In the weeks and years to come, books will be written on the American mishandling of Afghanistan under the Biden/Harris regime. Much of the focus will be on the political decisions of the Biden/Harris team, focused on the top brass of the military – a group of woefully misguided left-wingers in uniform who identify more with modern woke culture than with the Armed Services they were appointed to lead. But with the news that alleged Secretary of State Antony Blinken was vacationing in the Hamptons when Kabul fell, many rightly began...

President Joe Biden attended the dignified transfers of the U.S. service members at Dover Air Force Base on Sunday, with the family members in attendance. After the ceremony, Biden met with some of the families but according to the Washington Post, one meeting did not go well. The service members, which comprised of Marines, a Navy Corpsman, and a solider, were killed on Thursday after a suicide bomber and gunman attacked the Abbey gate at Hamid Karzai International Airport. Over 100 Afghan civilians were also killed in the attack. The family of Lance Cpl. Rylee McCollum — his sisters Roice,...