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2021-08-29 Afghanistan
Taliban largely seal off Kabul airport as airlift winds down
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Posted by trailing wife 2021-08-29 01:47|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ]  Top
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#1 Urgent threat warning just issued, Kabul Airport.. "Circle(?) gate" and nearby petroleum facility.
Posted by Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 2021-08-29 02:53||   2021-08-29 02:53|| Front Page Top

#2 The last lift out should be closely followed by 30 day B-52 bombardment.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-08-29 03:54||   2021-08-29 03:54|| Front Page Top

#3 Three Days Left: U.S. Embassy’s Website Alert Page Down, Gives ‘404 Error’ to Stranded Americans
Posted by Skidmark 2021-08-29 07:42||   2021-08-29 07:42|| Front Page Top

#4 The communications blackout begins.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-08-29 08:40||   2021-08-29 08:40|| Front Page Top

#5 ^ The tightest communications blackout may be around Dover AFB.
Posted by Matt 2021-08-29 12:03||   2021-08-29 12:03|| Front Page Top

#6 Plugs and Kam going to Dover to meet the KIA ?
Posted by Besoeker 2021-08-29 14:30||   2021-08-29 14:30|| Front Page Top

#7 Plugs definitely went to Dover, along with Milley, Blinken, etc. According to CNN Plugs watched "stoically". But I haven't seen any detail about the reception he got.
Posted by Matt 2021-08-29 14:42||   2021-08-29 14:42|| Front Page Top

#8 Thanks Matt.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-08-29 14:47||   2021-08-29 14:47|| Front Page Top

#9 I'm thinking that for greeting the commander-in-chief on this occasion the command "Hand...Salute!" may have been changed to "Extend...the Finger!".
Posted by Matt 2021-08-29 14:59||   2021-08-29 14:59|| Front Page Top

#10 Now this is just great. Biden checks his watch during the transfer. Time for your nap, Big Guy? These dead Marines are just a waste of time?
Posted by Matt 2021-08-29 15:13||   2021-08-29 15:13|| Front Page Top

#11 ^ "When is my lid? Somebody call my lid. I want my ice cream cone and a nap"
Posted by Frank G 2021-08-29 15:15||   2021-08-29 15:15|| Front Page Top

#12 A touch of real class. The poor, helpless SOB.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-08-29 15:20||   2021-08-29 15:20|| Front Page Top

#13 His press handlers ten minutes before the ritual: "This will be great! Photo-ops of him looking Presidential during a time-honored ritual! He doesn't even have to say anything."

His press handlers ten minutes after the ritual: "Don't you dare finish off that Jameson's, Bob! We only got three more bottles."
Posted by Matt 2021-08-29 15:33||   2021-08-29 15:33|| Front Page Top

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