With the situation within the airports borders worst then outside….
Theatre Commander Gen. Frank McKenzie stuck a deal with the Taliban to not attack the Kabul airport or any aircraft flying out with evacuee’s…
This begins the efforts for both the West , led by the US military and the Taliban which will have to govern and show that it NOT just gonna have a revenge spree….
The U.S. has reached a deal with the Taliban to ensure that evacuations from Kabul’s airport can take place without interference from the group, according to a report by The Associated Press.
The deal was reached in talks in Doha, Qatar, between senior Taliban officials and Gen. Frank McKenzie.
The two sides apparently agreed to a “deconfliction mechanism” in which operations at the airport in Kabul are permitted to continue without interference from the Taliban.
McKenzie reportedly told the Taliban that any interference would be met with force from the U.S. military, who would move to defend the airport if necessary.
Defense Department spokesman John Kirby told reporters on Monday that he would not discuss the specifics of McKenzie’s conversation.
“But I can tell you that the general was very clear and firm in his discussions with Taliban leaders that any attack on our people or on our operations at the airport would be met swiftly with a very forceful response, and I think I’ll leave it at that,” Kirby added.
At least seven people are believed to have died at the Kabul airport since the Afghan government fell and hundreds of Afghans rushed to evacuate the country.
The American flag at the U.S. Embassy has been taken down and all U.S. personnel have reportedly been evacuated to the airport.
Video from the airport showed desperate Afghans running alongside and clinging to planes as they taxied….
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“Tomorrow and over the coming days, we will be transferring out of the country thousands of American citizens who have been resident in Afghanistan, as well as locally employed staff of the U.S. mission in Kabul and their families and other particularly vulnerable Afghan nationals,” the Department of Defense and the State Department said in a joint statement….
top image ….Credit…Wakil Kohsar/Agence France-Presse — Getty
bottom image a screen grab of a US Air Force C-17 taxing among the crowd at Kabul Airport before ops where stopped to a hold on the situation there…The Guardian
Tucker Carlson Labels Afghans Trying to Flee as ‘Invaders’
Tucker Carlson called the Afghans trying to flee the Taliban “invaders” on his Fox News show last night, adding that they will probably be coming to “your neighborhood.”
Said Carlson: “If history is any guide, and it’s always a guide, we’ll see many refugees from Afghanistan resettle in our country in coming months, probably in your neighborhood. And over the next decade, that number may swell to the millions. So first we invade and then we’re invaded.”
Laura Ingraham continued the theme: “Is it really our responsibility to welcome thousands of refugees from Afghanistan?”
Administration officials told a bipartisan group of Senate staffers Tuesday that there are an estimated 10,000 to 15,000 U.S. citizens still in Afghanistan, according to two Senate aides, with no current plan to evacuate those who are still outside the capital….
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