Afghan citizens (or Afghan Americans) are no longer permitted to travel to Kabul airport to leave Afghanistan via any foreign military planes. Nobody. Those already at Hamid Karzai International Airport must leave and return home without delay.
Biden will not extend the August 31st deadline for withdrawal and will leave Americans and allies behind. The development came shortly after a meeting between Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar and CIA Director William Burns in Kabul. There will be “no extensions” to the Biden administration’s August 31st deadline, a senior US official told Fox News’ Lucas Tomlinson.
U.S. troops on August 31st will go to “zero.”
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid says he does not think that the 31st August deadline for evacuations from Kabul will be extended. He adds there is enough time to get foreign nationals out in time and that the Taliban are “not in favor” of allowing Afghans to leave anymore.
At a news conference, he said crowds at the airport should go home and their “security would be guaranteed.”
British soldiers at Kabul Airport have now been told to expect the Taliban to become increasingly more aggressive towards crowds near the perimeter.
TENS OF THOUSANDS of at-risk Afghans are now effectively trapped without any options. Dual nationals will face extreme difficulties getting to Kabul airport too.
The Taliban blame the airport chaos on the US inviting people to the airport to board planes. “We ask the Americans, don’t encourage Afghans to leave… We need their talent.”
Afghans are no longer permitted to leave the country or travel to Kabul Airport.
Afghans beg for their safety from a putrid sewage channel outside Kabul Airport in #Afghanistan earlier today, August 24th 2021.#AfghanistanCrisis pic.twitter.com/wMCD0IdwTG
— Alex Tiffin (@RespectIsVital) August 24, 2021
Meanwhile, Fox reports US troops are beginning withdrawal.
The Embassy says US citizens to leave or they are on their own, only to be recalled 30 minutes later.
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1430248672504201216
Apparently from Daily Caller only a “THIRD” of Americans have been evacuated. But we are told it’s all “fluid”.
Live an die by the political sword. There was an intelligence briefing, and it amounted to pointing fingers every which way. No Responsibility and no Professionalism. When your Political Hide is on the line, you are incapable of considering options that are removed politically. The political class, in its entirety, needs to be marginalized to such an extent they are… Read more »
The Pentagon for some time has been nothing but a “political ladder” for officers. From the bottom to the top it’s all about how much ordnance was spent, which translates to “successful operations”. It’s not about – How many Taliban did you kill today. So you could have extreme success in ordnance deployed yet not killed a single Taliban. Those… Read more »
Getting organized, let’s have a group hug struggle session first.
When it’s time that every soldier is on the way out the US should have every A-10 Warthog on scene ready to unleash “terror” on the Taliban.
Kirby talks about how it “takes time” to organize an evacuation, while they’ve also said this began in July. Only in the past few days have flights increased substantially, US and many other nations, including Afghan Air Lines. The UK seems to be close to the number of US flights.