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Afghanistan
US special forces vets launch mission to get Afghan allies out amid Biden's chaotic withdrawal: Pentagon pushes on with evacuation of 8.5K despite threat of ANOTHER ISIS attack after suicide attacks killed 13 American troops and 170 other people
2021-08-27
It’s not insubordination if they’re retired. Bless them for what they are doing.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
  • US flights will continue on Friday to get the remaining Americans and Afghan allies out

  • Between Thursday and Friday morning, US jets removed 8,500 people from Kabul airport

  • Other countries evacuated 4,000 - bringing the total for the day to 12,500 after the two bomb attacks

  • The last of the British evacuation flights will leave Kabul on Friday, with some people still left behind

  • A group of American Afghanistan veterans are in Kabul on a volunteer mission getting people to the airport

  • Between Wednesday and Thursday, they were able to get 500 Afghan Special Forces troops and their families to the airport

  • Some of them were wounded in Thursday's attack but it's unclear if any of them died

  • Canada stopped flying people out on Thursday, France is finishing on Friday and so is Denmark

  • Some Canadian Embassy staff are staying in Afghanistan to help the Afghan allies who can't get out

  • Biden has promised not to leave while any American who wants to leave is still on the ground

  • There are as many as 1,000 US citizens still there but it's unclear how many want to go and who wants to stay

  • An additional 5,000 Afghan allies and green card holders were still to be evacuated on Thursday when the bombs hit
Posted by:Skidmark

#9  BREAKING: Drone strike supposedly against Isis in Afghanistan.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589   2021-08-27 21:57  

#8  Kurt on twitter a while ago, in response to an article about one of the Marines Biden killed:

"Inside me, bottomless sadness is competing with cold fury right now."
Posted by: Matt   2021-08-27 20:14  

#7  Running that story tomorrow. Of course he was instantly relieved. Bet he's reached 18 year lock-in for retirement so whatta they gonna do....send him to Vietnam ?

Bet his bars on it. Hat tip to him.
Posted by: Besoeker   2021-08-27 20:00  

#6  Marine demands senior leaders accept 'accountability' for Afghanistan, gets removed from position
Posted by: Skidmark   2021-08-27 19:07  

#5  How many were there originally? I am under the impression none really knows. The US State Department and its Afghan branch were mostly interested in flying rainbow flags.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843   2021-08-27 15:33  

#4  The number of American citizens seems to keep changing
How many were there originally?
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom    2021-08-27 14:41  

#3  Scott Adams
@ScottAdamsSays

When Biden says he will "hunt down" ISIS-K, are we doing that so we can give them our extra weapons the Taliban didn't want?
Posted by: 3dc   2021-08-27 12:31  

#2  Looking forward to the day the US Marines escort Biden out of the Whitehouse in cuffs.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454   2021-08-27 11:55  

#1  I would trust these guys to not bring us any unnecessary problems in the form of lone wolves and sudden jihadis.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-08-27 11:21  

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