Afghans Cling to U.S. Jets, At Least Seven Die Trying to Flee the Taliban
The footage is horrifying.
Afghan civilians swarmed a military landing strip and clung onto a jet in hopes of escaping the Taliban.
At least seven people died:
U.S. troops Monday sought to gain control of the international airport in Kabul after thousands of Afghans rushed through the civilian side and swarmed the military landing strip. At least seven people have died in the mayhem.
Senior U.S. military officials say the dead include some who fell from a departing American military transport jet, according to the Associated Press. Videos show people clinging to the sides of a U.S. military plane as it taxied, as well as falling from a plane as it took off.
There are about 3,000 U.S. troops at the airport who are attempting to set up barriers to separate the military portion of Hamid Karzai International Airport from the civilian terminal and its landing strip, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to comment publicly.
The airport had no physical barrier between its civilian and military operation, although they are separated by a significant distance. Huge crowds of Afghans desperate to flee the country and its new Taliban leadership entered the civilian side of the airport and swarmed a U.S. Air Force C-17 as it taxied on a runway.
Satellite images show chaotic scenes unfolding at airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, with panicked people gathering on the tarmac. Images: @Maxar
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— ABC News (@ABC) August 16, 2021
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So far Biden has achieved ’75 Saigon with an option on ’79 Tehran
Correction: Whoever is running the show in the fake Biden presidency has achieved …
Addition: achieved “75 Saigon with an option on ’79 Tehran as well as rescue from Louisana Superdome after Katrina.
It’s not fake anymore, boy. The hell with ballot count, we got what we got, and evermore.
Screw democracy without limits. Major tyranny is tyranny. We the people is ONE PERSON, one by one, with respect to rights.
No. This is not the Saigon Embassy. This is DIEN BIEN PHU!
Kabul ’21 is the same foreign policy he fought for in ’75, and put into play in Iraq ’11, IIRC.
Pull out suddenly, leave the women, children, allies and guns behind for the enemy to have their way with them.
Kamala achieved a ‘69 in ‘94.
In a brownstone…
Would that be a Willie Brown-stone?
And the Afghans and Americans that will be massacred by the thousands, will have the voters that put Biden & Co. in office. Ignorance is the most dangerous thing.
Comrade Biden to address the nation at 3:45 EST.
He’ll blame Trump. And then take a nap.
They are willing to risk death to avoid the Taliban. Seems a shame they didn’t use some of that equipment we left behind to tey to avoid the Taliban.
Not meant to be a reply, sorry about that.
It’s good the way it is. Dat duzn’t hurtz at all.
I couldn’t help but notice that those swarming the airport are young males of military age. How many ditched their uniforms within the last 2 days?
POS Biden and Harris are responsible for “The footage is horrifying”, we have not seen the worst of it.
Afghans cling to U.S. jets: Some fall off
Democrat cling to power: Some fall off
Oh- this will get much worse. In the US I mean.
There are no adults in charge.
Did Biden contract Spirit Airlines to do the evacuations?
@RichardEngel reports the Taliban has “taken over the civilian side of the airport” while the U.S. military is evacuating from the military side.
What’s crazy is that we could wipe them all back out in like 3 days, but they are completely emboldened to not even worry about that retaliation happening.
I’m reading they’ve had to stop the military evacuation because of the deaths and the people on the runways
Nobdy could have foreseen the chaos. Supposed to organized like a peacful protest or an antifa rally.
People fear the Taliban enough to risk their lives hanging onto landing gear and we have a bunch of folks at home that hate America. Can we make a trade?
Starting with Biden/Harris and all their staff? Throw the Squad in for good measure?
Biden is all tangled up in puppet strings. It would take ages to cut him free.
Load the San Antonio c40s with the unemployed misfits and, no joke, deplane them in the tarmac in Kabul.
They’ll never be hungry again.
Refugees from Nicaragua are having flashbacks form the 70’s, when Carter handed over the country to the Sandinistas, today represented by the pig Daniel Ortega and his wife, Rosario Murillo the ‘witch’ as the locals call her.