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2021-08-27 Afghanistan
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Tory MPs join US Republicans in condemning President's Afghanistan 'betrayal'
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[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] The UK Government is now in a race against time to airlift nearly 2,000 Afghan interpreters and other staff who worked for Britannia out of Kabul amid a growing backlash at Joe The Big Guy Biden
 ...46th president of the U.S. We get to suffer the consequences. So does Afghanistan, aka Biden's Bungle...
over his decision to stick to his August 31 withdrawal deadline. The interpreters are understood to have been deemed eligible to come to the UK and have passed security checks but remain on the ground at Kabul airport.
The Pentagon briefed this afternoon that there are currently 10,000 people in total waiting at the airport for a flight out of the capital.
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Mr Biden sparked fury yesterday by 'point blank' refusing G7 calls to push back the exit date for US forces, with Washington of the belief that an extension would leave troops at too great a risk of attack from the Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
or Isis.
His decision has angered some Tory MPs who have questioned Mr Biden's 'intellectual fitness' to do the job, with one backbencher labelling the US President 'gaga'.
Meanwhile,
...back at the buffalo wallow, Yellow Wolf clutched at his chest and fell from his horse...
over in the States, Biden also came under fire today from House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy
...the GOP house minority whip. He replaces Eric Cantor, who got whupped because his politix are like Kevin McCarthy's...
, who accused the Democrat president of 'turning his back' on his duties as commander-in-chief, on American citizens stranded in Afghanistan and on the local allies who helped US troops.
McCarthy criticised the president for walking away from a presser about Afghanistan last night without taking any questions from the media.
'He turned his back and walked away - an image that has come to define him and his presidency,' he said.
'He turned his back on our own citizens stranded in Afghanistan, he's turned his back on our allies and partners, he's turned his back on his duties as a Commander-in-Chief.'
And Biden could now face more backlash, as his Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, appeared in a presser tonight to blame Americans still on the ground for not leaving fast enough after first being warned earlier this year to leave Afghanistan.
He said: 'For many years we have urged Americans not to travel there. We've repeatedly asked Americans who are in Afghanistan to enroll (at the embassy in Kabul).
'And since March of this year, we've sent 19 separate messages to American's enrolled in the embassy, encouraging them and then urging them to leave the country. We've even made clear we would pay for their repatriation,' he added.
It comes as last night Mr Biden warned the Taliban that it must 'continue to co-operate' with the US evacuation mission but there are growing fears that a crackdown by the group is already underway.
There are claims from people on the ground in Kabul that Afghans are being prevented by Taliban fighters from accessing the city's airport for evacuation. Yesterday the holy warriors issued an edict banning nationals from leaving the country. They also blocked roads and set up check-points around Kabul airport.
Meanwhile,
...back at the buffalo wallow, Yellow Wolf clutched at his chest and fell from his horse...
video footage emerged showing a bloodied man who claimed to be an Australian citizen who had apparently been beaten by Taliban guards as he tried to reach the airport.
Some 19,000 people were extracted from Kabul yesterday, taking the overall number since the operation began to 88,000, with the UK having brought more than 10,000 individuals - including more than 5,500 Afghans and their families - to Britannia.
Meanwhile, Dominic Raab, the UK's Foreign Secretary, this morning admitted the evacuation mission is in its final stages.
Mr Raab said the UK is working 'as fast as we can' to maximise the number of people who can flee, saying 2,000 were taken to safety in the last 24 hours and almost all single-nationality Britons are now out. He declined to say when the last UK flight will be leaving.
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Former chief of the defence staff Lord Richards said he believes even after the last official flight the British military will 'sneak others in who arrive late along with their own people'.
Mr Biden's decision to stick with the withdrawal date has sparked Tory fury, with MP Bob Seely telling MailOnline: 'If this does destroy Biden's presidency, you have to question his fitness for the role.
'You have got to question Trump's moral fitness for the role, but you have got to address Biden's intellectual fitness and health fitness for the role.
'I'm sorry, he is just gaga… he doesn't have a grip. How many slip ups before people think, yep, he can't do the job.' 
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