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2021-08-25 Arabia
Qatar air base holding Afghan refugees is a 'sweltering living hell' covered in 'rats, feces and urine', leaked US Central Command memo reveals
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • An official working at USCENTCOM sent the memo the same day that US flights were temporarily halted because of overcrowding at the Qatar base

  • Al Udeid Air Base outside of Doha has a capacity of roughly 10,000 people

  • Officials described the location as a desert with nothing else around

  • Doha embassy staff reportedly claim Afghans are 'in a living nightmare'

  • The leaked memo comes as the Biden administration touts increased evacuation numbers out of Kabul, after wide criticism of the president's handling of it

  • One anonymous official accused the White House and State Department of 'inadequate forethought and contingency planning' over conditions at the base


[TWITTER]

Security screeners at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
have detected that at least one of the Afghans who was evacuated from Kabul Airport has potential ties to ISIS, a U.S. official confirmed to Defense One.

Moreover, the Defense Department’s Automated Biometric Identification System has flagged up to 100 of the 7,000 Afghans evacuated as prospective recipients of Special Immigration Visas as potential matches to intelligence agency watch lists, a second official said.

At least 6,000 fleeing Afghans have been evacuated to Al Udeid and thousands more have been flown to other temporary staging bases throughout the Middle East and Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
by U.S. military aircraft. At those bases, Customs and Border Patrol screeners are checking evacuees’ IDs and biometric data against law enforcement databases, the first official said.

Ultimately, thousands of those Afghans will come to the United States, where they will be initially housed at several military bases, such as Fort Bliss in Texas, Fort McCoy in Wisconsin and Fort Lee in Virginia.
Posted by Skidmark 2021-08-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [18 views ]  Top

#1 
Posted by Dron66046 2021-08-25 05:43||   2021-08-25 05:43|| Front Page Top

#2 More: The Defense Department’s Automated Biometric Identification System has flagged up to 100 of the 7,000 Afghans evacuated as prospective recipients of Special Immigration Visas as potential matches to intelligence agency watch lists, @DefenseOne has learned


...1.43% of 7k seems a tad, oh, I dunno, low.

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2021-08-25 05:58||   2021-08-25 05:58|| Front Page Top

#3 So, just like invaders in Texas, Arizona, et al.
Posted by Procopius2k 2021-08-25 07:05||   2021-08-25 07:05|| Front Page Top

#4 What if all these "refugees" had put their efforts into changing the places they are now trying to leave for the better. Easy to say, sure, but for most of them "plan A" was always to come to Uncle Sugar's 24/7 Strip Club, where the milk and honey flow free as long as you are not an eeeeevil white person.
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-25 07:23||   2021-08-25 07:23|| Front Page Top

#5 Like start some mini Iran or spread some f*cking disease

- One in a Million, Guns n Roses
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-25 07:26||   2021-08-25 07:26|| Front Page Top

#6 but for most of them "plan A" was always to come to Uncle Sugar's 24/7 Strip Club

Exactly.
Posted by Dron66046 2021-08-25 07:27||   2021-08-25 07:27|| Front Page Top

#7 So it's a warmer Afghanistan?
Posted by Rob Crawford 2021-08-25 08:07||   2021-08-25 08:07|| Front Page Top

#8 Some of those 100 may have actually been legitimate US intelligence assets.
Posted by Glenmore 2021-08-25 10:44||   2021-08-25 10:44|| Front Page Top

#9 Given the current state of the US IC, what's "legitimate" mean?
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-25 11:23||   2021-08-25 11:23|| Front Page Top

#10 a 'sweltering living hell' covered in 'rats, feces and urine'

So, how was it before?
Posted by JohnQC 2021-08-25 17:02||   2021-08-25 17:02|| Front Page Top

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