Americans In Afghanistan Warned To Get Out Now, US Can’t Help

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Kabul rocked by twin explosions near airport: At least a dozen killed and four Americans wounded in blasts

 

At least four Americans were injured, a dozen people reportedly killed, and many more wounded after two explosions rocked the Abbey Gate of Hamid Karzai International Airport in Afghanistan and a hotel near the gate.

The first explosion, which U.S. officials said was perpetrated by a suicide bomber improvised explosive device, or "complex SBIED attack," was reported to be "large" in size. The U.S. Embassy sent out an alert regarding the threat at around 5:18 p.m. local time.

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Fleeing Christians turned away at airport in Kabul amid fears of Taliban religious violence

Amid fears of Taliban religious violence in Afghanistan, humanitarian aid groups have been scrambling to get Afghan Christians out of the country as U.S. evacuation efforts wind down but have reportedly been thwarted by the State Department. 

 

Since Aug. 20, Christians in Afghanistan have tried to board flights leaving the country. "Among a group that began with more than 100 people are 22 leaders in the Afghan church whom the Taliban have identified and in some cases targeted with its Aug. 15 takeover of the city," World Magazine reported on Aug. 25.

They haven't been able to leave because "U.S. forces have repeatedly turned away Afghan Christians at airport entrances, despite the group's following instructions from the State Department and U.S. military" according to the Christian news site edited by author Marvin Olasky, an intellectual architect of "compassionate conservatism."

The Catholic News Agency also reports Christians are being turned away by U.S. officials, even though they have the required paperwork.

Acting with urgency, several nonprofits and private groups are evacuating as many Christians as they can. 

Conservative commentator Glenn Beck's Nazarene Fund has raised more than $30 million to rescue Christians. This week Beck went to Afghanistan and reported on conditions on the ground. 

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Private American Citizens Are Risking Their Lives in Afghanistan Doing What our Troops Should Be Doing

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Behold! Your State Department Is On The Job!

 

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BTW 3 guesses how The Haqqani Network makes its money?

 

Here's A Hint.

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Dan Crenshaw, Lara Logan Bring the Most Disturbing Reports Out of the Kabul Airport Yet

 

Rep. Dan Crenshaw is a retired Navy SEAL who served and was wounded in Afghanistan’s Helmand province during his third deployment, in 2012. He lost his right eye and his left eye was badly damaged in an IED attack. Crenshaw is held in extremely high regard in the veteran and active-duty communities.

Lara Logan is a long-time award-winning journalist now working for Fox News who has spent much of her career covering war zones including Iraq and Afghanistan. Between the two of them, Logan and Crenshaw have spent years in and around Afghanistan. Due to their experience there, both are likely to have credible sources on the ground at the Kabul airport.

Both Logan and Crenshaw are independently reporting that Americans have been turned away from safety at that airport over the past couple of days.

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American University of Afghanistan students attempting to flee could not reach airport: Report

Students and affiliates of the American University of Afghanistan attempting to leave the country were unable to do so after school officials informed them civilian evacuations at Hamid Karzai International Airport would end on Monday.

Current and former students of AUAF congregated at a safe house on Sunday and rode buses to the airport, waiting seven hours for clearance before facing rejection from airport clearance officials, according to a report from the New York Times.

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H/T Instapundit

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This is making Saigon 1975 look like a sunday school picnic.

Is it possible for this to get any worse?

The answer is Yes. Just wait until the PRC gets a look at what we left behind.

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They Openly Mock Us Now: Taliban Hangs “Traitor” by the Throat From US Helicopter in Kandahar Left Behind by Joe Biden

 

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Animal welfare groups slam reported U.S. abandonment of military working dogs in Kabul airport

 

American Humane president said she was "devastated by reports" U.S. withdrawal from Kabul is "leaving behind brave U.S. military contract working dogs to be tortured and killed at the hand of our enemies."

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Report: Taliban gives US tanks, military equipment to Iran

 

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‘It looked apocalyptic’: Crew describes Afghan departure

LOLITA C. BALDOR

Sept. 2 2021

WASHINGTON (AP) — It looked like a zombie apocalypse.

For the U.S. military pilots and aircrew about to make their final takeoffs out of Afghanistan, the sky was lit up with fireworks and sporadic gunfire and the airfield littered with battered shells of airplanes and destroyed equipment. Stray dogs raced around the tarmac. And Taliban fighters, visible in the darkness through the green-tinged view of night vision goggles, walked the airfield waving an eerie goodbye.

Lined up on the runway at the Kabul airport Monday night were the five last C-17s to leave the country after a chaotic and deadly airlift evacuation that marked the end of America’s involvement in the Afghanistan war. In the final hours, there were no more rocket defense systems to protect them on the runway, and no one in the airport control center to direct them out.

“It just looked apocalyptic,” said Air Force Lt. Col. Braden Coleman, who was in charge of monitoring the outside of his aircraft for artillery fire and other threats. “It looked like one of those zombie movies where all the airplanes had been destroyed, their doors were open, the wheels were broken. There was a plane that was burned all the way. You could see the cockpit was there, and the whole rest of the plane looked like the skeleton of a fish.”

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IT WAS A TOTAL SUCCESS!

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Sorry, The Afghan War Isn’t Over Until We Rescue All Those Left Behind

In what can only be called a shocking lack of self-awareness, President Joe Biden this week bragged about his “extraordinary success” in Afghanistan. Now his handlers and the Democratic Party are urging Americans and, of course, the media to “move on.” But there is no moving on from his botched departure from Kabul, whose ill effects will be felt by Americans for decades.

Far from a success, the “evacuation” was in fact an ill-planned, incompetently executed, chaotic dash to cram as many human beings as possible onto planes and transport them away from Kabul. The new talking point is that “only” 100 or so Americans may have been left behind, despite Biden’s explicit promise that none would be.

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State Dept trying to steal credit for rescue of 4 Americans from Afghanistan, organizer says: 'Total lie'

Cory Mills and a private team of military veterans led the effort to rescue Mariam and her three children from Afghanistan

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Lawmakers sound alarm over Americans stranded in Afghanistan

 

State Department 'refusing to actively assist' Americans left behind, claims GOP Rep. Dan Crenshaw, as department touts its 'unprecedented' global evacuation effort.

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Last Jew in Afghanistan Rescued by Private Security Firm and Civil Rights Group

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EXCLUSIVE — Darrell Issa: Biden Administration ‘Disingenuous’ on Number of Americans Stranded in Afghanistan, Could Be 1,000

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) told Breitbart News Saturday the Biden administration is being completely “disingenuous” on the number of Americans stranded in Afghanistan, estimating the number to be hundreds more than officially claimed.

He added that Republicans are currently working to make the identity of the suicide bomber who killed 13 U.S. servicemembers and hundreds of Afghans public, because the American people deserve to know who was behind the attack.

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EXCLUSIVE — Darrell Issa: Biden Administration ‘Disingenuous’ on Number of Americans Stranded in Afghanistan, Could Be 1,000

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) told Breitbart News Saturday the Biden administration is being completely “disingenuous” on the number of Americans stranded in Afghanistan, estimating the number to be hundreds more than officially claimed.

He added that Republicans are currently working to make the identity of the suicide bomber who killed 13 U.S. servicemembers and hundreds of Afghans public, because the American people deserve to know who was behind the attack.

 

Here's the thing We may Never know the Real Number.

Good Job Joe! All this so he could give a speech on Sept. 11 2021.

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Plane carrying 100 Afghan evacuees being held by US at Abu Dhabi airport, organizer says

A US-bound charter plane carrying over 100 Afghan evacuees, including Americans, was being held Tuesday at a United Arab Emirates airport after its landing rights were revoked, flight organizers said.

The flight, chartered by non-profit group Project Dynamo, departed Kabul airport and got held up for over 14 hours at Abu Dhabi airport with 117 people aboard, including 59 children, the group’s founder Bryan Stern told Reuters.

Stern said the plan was to transfer the passengers to a chartered Ethiopian Airlines plane for another flight to John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens.

But the US Customs and Border Protection agency switched their clearance to Dulles International Airport outside Washington, before revoking landing rights anywhere in the US, according to Stern.

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More Than 100 Americans, Initially Denied Entry into U.S. after Evacuating Afghanistan, Land in Chicago

 

The group of more than 100 U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents who escaped from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan this week with the help of a private rescue group arrived in Chicago on Thursday afternoon after a temporary holdup in the Abu Dhabi airport.

The plane carrying 116 Afghanistan evacuees – mostly U.S. passport and green-card holders, along with some Afghans with special immigrant visas – landed in Chicago around 2 p.m. The rescue mission was led by Project Dynamo, one of the dozens of civilian groups that has organized over the last two months to help rescue people from Afghanistan before and after the U.S. military’s withdrawal from the country.

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Maj Gen Ordered 50+ Evacuees off One of Last Flights out of Kabul to Make Room for Taliban Souvenir

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Biden’s Afghanistan decisions caused aircraft to depart with empty seats while abandoning over 100,000 Afghan

Airplanes repeatedly left Kabul with empty seats during the evacuation, yet more than 100 Americans and likely well over 100,000 Afghan allies were ultimately stranded in Afghanistan.

Meanwhile, American officials stopped many prescreened Afghans with credible documents, including some U.S. residents, from boarding aircraft, while others that hadn’t been vetted were allowed through, international aid experts told Fox News.

"Mistakes were being made by good-meaning people, but operating under very tough circumstances," John Sifton, the Asia Advocacy Director for Human Rights Watch, told Fox News.

 

The Kabul airport was flooded with people trying to flee the nation, causing intense chaos that led to U.S. officials making mistakes when reviewing documents, international aid experts told Fox News.

"The U.S. government did not have a plan going into this," International Stability Operations Association President Howie Lind told Fox News. "It just turned into this haphazard — some got in, some didn't."

President Biden’s orders, along with the Taliban’s unexpectedly fast seizure of Afghanistan, were the primary factors that led to the rush, according to the experts.

And since the airlift ended, there have been reports that male refugees have sexually abused child brides, possibly married at the last minute in a desperate attempt to flee the country. Others were flagged after evacuation as possibly being ineligible for entry into the U.S., with some in limbo at military bases abroad.

Many abandoned Afghan allies, meanwhile, are in hiding from the Taliban.

"This is a prime example of what it looks like when we don't have a game plan, when we do it fast and loose," Rep. Yvette Herrell, a New Mexico Republican, told Fox News.

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There are California students still stuck in Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover

Sacramento-area students

There are dozens of Sacramento-area families still in the country, according to the San Juan Unified School District. Recently, three families — including seven students — made it back to the U.S. But about 38 students are still there.

“We continue to remain hopeful of their safe return soon,” Raj Rai, director of communications for the school district, told me last week.

The nearby Sacramento City Unified School District told The Times that an Afghan immigrant family with three children enrolled at Ethel I. Baker Elementary sought help in fleeing. The students have not yet returned to the school.

 

“We are closely working with our congressional representatives, and appreciate their tireless efforts to help these students and their families,” Sacramento City Unified Supt. Jorge A. Aguilar said in a release. “We remain hopeful that our students will soon be able to safely leave Afghanistan, come home to the U.S. and return to school in Sacramento.”