SuziQ
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US will only allow 'Americans or Green Card holders onto Kabul flights starting Monday' | Daily Mail Online
US will 'stop letting Afghan refugees board evacuation flights TODAY': 20,000 people are still waiting at Kabul airport but troops are rushing to get remaining Americans out first before August 31 deadline
- There are as many as 20,000 people at the airport in Kabul, all waiting to board flights on US or NATO jets
- The US has no total for how many Americans remain in Afghanistan at the airport or in Taliban-held cities
- Overnight, 10,400 people total were flown out on 28 US flights - an average of 371 people per flight
- The US is insisting on people having the right paperwork before they let them onto planes
- An unnamed official cited by CNN said only US or NATO citizens or Green Card holders will be let through
- The US has promised to take up to 22,000 Afghan refugees but it can't issue their SIV visas fast enough
- Over the last few days, nameless, digital SIV visas were issued which caused chaos because they were replicated en-masse
- Despite shipping tens of thousands of people out over the last week, the crowd at the airport is unrelenting
- Most of them are Afghans who do not have a guaranteed seat on any flight but are hoping to escape
- President Joe Biden is expected to speak about the crisis at 1.30pm
UK scrambles to complete Kabul airlift as envoy flags risk of provoking Taliban
Aug 2021 17.52 BST
RS BM:
"A warning that a handful of people deemed “a direct threat” to the UK had presented themselves to British authorities handling resettlement claims. Kevin Foster, a junior immigration minister, said there had been more hits on the “no fly” list “in the last week in the context of Afghanistan and trying to travel via this operation than we would normally expect in a year of normal flights and travel”.
I'm not a Daily Mail enthusiast, but they do have some good pictures, including this one
Embassy staff feels 'betrayed' by US and rather be killed by Taliban than face Kabul airport chaos | Daily Mail Online
I feel betrayed. We can not leave US Citizens in Kabul, they will be killed, for sure. All my humble opinion.
My heart breaks for those trapped. They are someone's child, father, mother, sister , brother, best friend.
I am watching the Pentagon/ Defense Department Briefing currently on C-span. The continued and purposeful evasiveness of the question repeatedly asked by reporters, " How many American citizens have currently been evacuated?" is deliberate, IMO. Why?
https://www.c-span.org/video/?514208-1/defense-department-briefing-taliban-takeover-afghanistan&live
I've cried and prayed so much. It brings back the Vietnam war. I had a childhood friend held in captivity for years and tortured, he was reported MIA, but actually was a prisoner. His wife, lead our community and we fought to bring him home, ALIVE.I agree 100%. This is just devastating.
I've cried and prayed so much. It brings back the Vietnam war. I had a childhood friend held in captivity for years and tortured, he was reported MIA, but actually was a prisoner. His wife, lead our community and we fought to bring him home, ALIVE.
My cousin was left by the military, trapped in the jungle in Cambodia for two years. No one can imagine what he ate and how he survived. He was listed MIA, his mother had a breakdown.
We can not leave our fellow citizens to possibly be tortured or killed. To much pain and agony for so many.
I'm really having a hard time.
Moo...
This is behind a pay wall so I can't read the entire article. When Biden took office he whipped out his pen and undid everything that Trump did. I'm supposed to believe that Biden couldn't do the same here? You just do not pull out troops before your citizens are out. There are a lot of mental gymnastics needed to blame this on Trump, who hasn't been in office for 7 months. Who gave the order to pull out on July 2nd? Who ordered the air base to be closed? Who ignored Intel that the Taliban would swoop in and take over? And as far as State Department warnings to leave, those warnings happen so often all over the world it is merely crying wolf. I would ask my son about those when they would pop up when he would call home. What's going on? What does this mean? Is the situation getting worse? He would say it is just another day in the Middle East.