AFGHANISTAN UPDATES: US Officials Gave Taliban Names of Americans, Afghan Allies to Assist in Evacuation
“Adam Khan says some people appeared to be missing body parts. He says he was about 30 meters (yards) from Thursday’s blast.”
Two explosions hit Kabul’s airport on Thursday. Fox News’s Jen Griffin confirmed the terrorist attack killed at least 12 soldiers.
Top points:
- At least 10 Marines and soldiers killed
- Explosion at or near Baron Hotel where 169 rescued Americans are staying. Owner says no casualties or damage to the property inside.
- U.S. Embassy tells Americans to stay away
- Reports say 13 dead, including children
- Kabul emergency hospital: 30 people injured, six died on the way to the hospital.
- US Officials gave the Taliban a list of names of Americans, Green Card Holders, and Afghan Allies “to grant entry into the militant-controlled outer perimeter of the city’s airport.”
- ISIS claims Kabul bombings
- Taliban says “several explosions” were detonated by US Troops destroying assets
Hawley Calls for Biden to Step Down
My further statement on Joe Biden’s abject failure in Afghanistan that is costing American lives by the hour pic.twitter.com/KaHVMYbKTe
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) August 26, 2021
10 Marines and Soldiers Dead
Jen Griffin just confirmed the terrorist attack killed in the terrorist attack.
Four U.S. Marines Killed
Fox News’s Jen Griffin confirmed the terrorist attack killed four U.S. Marines and injured three others.
Statement on this morning's attack at #HKIA: pic.twitter.com/Qb1DIAJQJU
— John Kirby (@PentagonPresSec) August 26, 2021
NY Times reporter: 40 Dead
BREAKING: Kabul attack update:
•At least 40 people dead in explosions
•120 people injured at Kabul hospitals
•60% of injured in critical conditionVia @fahimabed of @nytimes
— Alex Salvi (@alexsalvinews) August 26, 2021
No Casualties at Baron Hotel
This is great news.
As the owner of The Baron Hotel Kabul, I confirm there are no casualties or damage to the property inside. The explosion was outside the hotel & I regret the loss of innocent lives #Kabul #kabulairport #explosion @cnni @SkyNews @BBCBreaking @ramsaysky
— Mumtaz Muslim (@MumtazMuslim) August 26, 2021
Wounded Taken to the Hospital
Here is a video of people helping the wounded to Kabul’s emergency hospital.
Injured people arriving at a hospital in #Kabul after two suicide bombings outside the airport. A Taliban spokesperson confirmed 13 people including children have died. pic.twitter.com/vQ1eS1wgjD
— Gwen Baumgardner (@NewsGirlGwen) August 26, 2021
New Security Alert
The U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan told U.S. citizens not to travel to the airport and stay away from airport gates:
The US Embassy in Kabul just sent an alert saying, “US citizens who are at the Abbey Gate, East Gate, or North Gate now should leave immediately” in the wake of a blast at the Hamid Karzai International Airport Thursday.
“There has been a large explosion at the airport, and there are reports of gunfire,” the security alert said.
“U.S. citizens should avoid traveling to the airport and avoid airport gates at this time,” it added.
Three Injured Marines
Fox News reported U.S. officials confirmed the explosion by Abbey Gate injured three Marines. An Afghan man said a baby girl died in his arms.
Airport Picture
Sky News published this picture of the airport.
Explosion Outside of Airport
The Associated Press spoke to witnesses:
An Afghan man says he saw several people who appeared to be killed or wounded in an explosion among crowds waiting outside one of the gates to Kabul airport.
Adam Khan says some people appeared to be missing body parts. He says he was about 30 meters (yards) from Thursday’s blast.
The explosion occurred as Western nations are struggling to evacuate people following the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.
Twitter Updates
Here are some updates we’re seeing on Twitter. This is a fast-moving story.
🔴 More than 30 patients have arrived at our #Kabul Surgical Centre so far. 6 others already dead on arrival. We have activated all mass casualty protocols. #Kabulairport #Afghanistan
— EMERGENCY (English) (@emergency_ngo) August 26, 2021
We can confirm that the explosion at the Abbey Gate was the result of a complex attack that resulted in a number of US & civilian casualties. We can also confirm at least one other explosion at or near the Baron Hotel, a short distance from Abbey Gate. We will continue to update.
— John Kirby (@PentagonPresSec) August 26, 2021
Please don’t go to Kabul airport now,
Heavy explosion in front of Abby Camp, shooting has started, USA troops used 6-8 gas bomb on people on east gate and lots of women got injured and burned,
I was there pic.twitter.com/hGEFlLP08b— Ali Hassani (@Ali2994078) August 26, 2021
FoxNews is now reporting a second explosion at Kabul airport. pic.twitter.com/FszzzZ4cq0
— For America (@ForAmerica) August 26, 2021
Fox News reporting a second explosion near the hotel Americans were gathering at for rescue operations.
— Kassy Dillon (@KassyDillon) August 26, 2021
JUST IN – Four or more U.S. service personnel may have been injured or killed in the explosions outside #Kabul airport, according to the U.S. State Department.
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) August 26, 2021
At least 13 killed, including children. At least 4 American troops injured/killed
— Anna Ahronheim (@AAhronheim) August 26, 2021
Clouds of smoke and gunfire heard in live shot from Kabul Airport after the explosion, this was appearing to show the first blast at the airport pic.twitter.com/2hrNCFKjO2
— ELINT News (@ELINTNews) August 26, 2021
ISIS Claims Kabul Bombings
Update: ISIS has now formally claimed responsibility for the Kabul bombings and has provided a photo of at least one alleged suicide bomber.
— Evan Kohlmann (@IntelTweet) August 26, 2021
Politico reports that US Officials gave the Taliban a list of American, Green Card Holder, and Afghan ally names to assist in evacuation:
From Politico:
U.S. officials in Kabul gave the Taliban a list of names of American citizens, green card holders and Afghan allies to grant entry into the militant-controlled outer perimeter of the city’s airport, a choice that’s prompted outrage behind the scenes from lawmakers and military officials.
The move, detailed to POLITICO by three U.S. and congressional officials, was designed to expedite the evacuation of tens of thousands of people from Afghanistan as chaos erupted in Afghanistan’s capital city last week after the Taliban seized control of the country. It also came as the Biden administration has been relying on the Taliban for security outside the airport.
But the decision to provide specific names to the Taliban, which has a history of brutally murdering Afghans who collaborated with the U.S. and other coalition forces during the conflict, has angered lawmakers and military officials.
“Basically, they just put all those Afghans on a kill list,” said one defense official, who like others spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive topic. “It’s just appalling and shocking and makes you feel unclean.”
A spokesperson for U.S. Central Command declined to comment.
Taliban says “several explosions” were detonated by US troops
JUST IN – Taliban spokesperson: "Several explosions have been heard tonight in Kabul, they were controlled detonations carried out by US troops who are destroying their assets at #Kabul airport." https://t.co/40E0fDTFJO
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) August 26, 2021
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Just saw some footage. Man holding a dead infant, bodies everywhere, total carnage. “Officials” report 3 Marine casualties. Ongoing firefight.
God Damn Joseph Biden and his entire cursed “administration”.
Paraphrasing Carl Jung:
“If you want to find the motive, look at the result.”
This is all intentional. All of it.
Look to Pelosi destroying the US economy and our society once and for all – with McConnell’s DIRECT help.
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/mcconnell-house-democrats-infrastructure/2021/08/24/id/1033606/
Biden should be impeached and NOW.
If only we had an air force base there that could be used for evacuations.
Hopefully that reporter Biden mocked yesterday was, indeed, the first to know.
So how do Americans get evacuated when they are told by their government not to go to the only airport being used for evacuations?
“Oh well, they should have gotten out sooner. We told them over and over to leave. Going all of the way back to May. They decided to stay.
Yes, I know, only a month ago Biden said they government won’t fall to the Taliban. That it could not and would not happen. But Americans in Afghanistan should have known better. Too bad. They f’d up. They trusted us”
— Pcircle Back Psaki
“Too bad. They f’d up. They trusted us”…”
Like the old parable about rescuing a poisonous snake and then it bites and kills you.
They have to first buy a painting from Hunter Biden.
Biden is compromised and is doing the bidding of Communist China.
Unfortunately it was just a matter of time. The enemy is emboldened in the face of abject cowardice. You have to be really stupid to believe the what the Taliban says, in its “good will”. Anyone ever hear of taquiyya?
This is going to complicate the “miraculous Afghanistan airlift” narrative the Biden* junta has been promoting.
Not at all. They’ll just point out that everyone who “wanted” to leave is already gone. The people injured here chose their own fate.
And they’ll say it with straight faces.
They are welding the gates shut. They are abandoning Americans throughout Afghanistan. The White House will say that Americans left behind stayed by their own choice.
Mark my words: You will see Americans abandoned in Afghanistan beheaded to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of 9/11.
“Reports say 13 dead, including children”
The rule for newspapers long ago was that foreign mishaps gave a death count and added “including X Americans.”
Domestic mishaps gave a death count and added “including X children.”
Here it’s sort of a mixed genre, both an American genre and a foreign genre. News media give both tags.
Pretty sure Afghanistan’s economy in the short term will be driven by hostage ransom payments by Western governments, which is why Biden doesn’t give two shits about who is left behind. This was a done deal months ago.
That. And arms sales.
Agreed the deal was done months ago. Pallets of cash are probably being loaded on the planes as I write this.
If you don’t think Biden is paying off the Taliban to use the Airport until 8/31 then you are not paying attention.
Who is drafting articles of impeachment.
No one.
The correct answer is “crickets”
The universally-ignored Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Marjorie Taylor Green was even prior to this event.
C’mon man, where is my ice cream cone?
I know you meant well, but, this is hardly funny anymore.
Our Chief Executive has all the cognizance of a retirement home Alzheimer’s patient. This is a whole lot of Not Good.
I think the timeframe for his removal has moved up a notch or two.
But the problem is that even if you remove Biden who is there to replace him. Harris? She’s as much a psychopathic dim-bulb as Biden so I can’t see where that would be an improvement. Then Pelosi. Another psychopathic dim-bulb. Then President pro tempore of the Senate, Secretary of State, Sec. of Treasury, Sec. Defense, Attorney General, Secretaries of Interior, Agriculture, Commerce, Labor, HHS, HUD, Transportation, Energy, Education, Veterans Affairs and Homeland Security (<–in that order). So tell me. Who isn't a complete liberal lackey that we could have take over if Biden is removed. Who in that list isn't a complete liberal fuck-up factory that wouldn't be any better than Biden on a bad day.
That's your problem with removing Biden. There just isn't really any better alternative that could get us out of this craptasitic mess that Joe has gotten the country into. And that's the truth.
I do not regard any of this as funny. I regard it as pathetic at best.
You can’t shame Democrats.
All you can do is harry them into hiding, then apply napalm.
It’s like lice. Unless you get them all, plus the eggs, they just come back.
Patience pays off in the end.
It got too close to the telepromter and melted.
C’mon man. That was 4 or 5 hours ago!
This is what really frosts me about the Republicans:
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/08/26/gop-reacts-to-terror-at-kabul-airport-joe-bidens-incompetence-has-now-cost-american-lives/
Once again, standing in line for a photo-op voicing there disgust. Tough guys with an motion to impeach in circulation in the House awaiting their signature. How about they line up so we can kick them all in the groin? Beyond useless. Detestable phonies.
What the **** else can they do? A motion to impeach is exactly the same as what they’re doing — a way of expressing their protest without any ability to change anything. It’s as futile as the impeachment motions that Al Green used to file against Trump every other month.
Well, if it feels good…..
Start the bombing. First target presidential palace. Then all the military equipment we left.
An American with a USA passport is denied passage to the airport but a suicide bomber is? F the taliban. Bomb them 24/7.
Sorry. Joe gave away the airport.
Four isn’t very many. The news likes to hit it because it gets clicks.
What the news always claims is to know what’s important. It’s always wrong. It knows what gets eyeballs.
It’s now up to 10, but even one is one too many.
It matters individually but not in the great strategic scheme of things. It’s eye-catching entertainment though. Outrage is an entertainment for an audience – how many films use it so that justice can be served at the end.
It’s used though to take everybody’s eye off the ball.
Less outrage, more WTF are they up to.
Your math about the totality is off and will continue. It does matter in the total scheme unless you love Hillary.
The problem with Biden is that he doesn’t know how a deal works, so he can’t make any.
In a deal, both sides come out ahead. That’s what holds the deal together.
Biden and company never make a deal that’s good for the US. They just want the deal, any deal, and sell the US out to get it.
Trump was more imaginative, finding a way to reframe stuff so that a mutually beneficial deal became possible where Biden is just stuck.
Plus Biden* is a mental retard, so he has that working against him.
Will troops and commanders abandoned mutiny?
Unlike Biden, they have integrity, so no.
Generals we have have no integrity
Biden should resign in disgrace the bastard.
Listen to this chunk:
https://www.foxnews.com/media/msnbcs-malcon-nance-deal-with-it
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Left-wing MSNBC intelligence analyst Malcolm Nance downplayed Thursday’s suicide bombing outside of Kabul’s airport, which reportedly killed at least four U.S. Marines, telling his nearly one million Twitter followers to “deal with it.”
While the attacks near the airport resulted in multiple casualties and forced most media members to brace for the worst, Nance didn’t seem to think the terror attack was a big deal.
“20 YEARS- FYI there have been terrorist suicide bombers killing civilians nearly DAILY in Afghanistan. This ain’t new. It’s why we are leaving,” Nance tweeted before adding the controversial hashtag “#DealWithIt.”
Nance, who served in the U.S. Navy, was swiftly roasted for saying people should “deal with” the loss of lives.
“Imagine not just thinking this, but feeling so beyond shame and perspective that you tweet it publicly,” Fourth Watch editor Steve Krakauer responded.
Despicable. But that’s how radical elitist left wingers really think. Except he slipped up. They usually hide it.
Tens of millions dead caused by 100+ years of radical elitist left wing rulers around the globe is evidence of how little they really value human life.
With the exception for their own. And the lives of their families, and friends, and ruling Party members.
“Put your mask back on, peasant. Only the guests may go maskless. And get more Champaign and cake for my fellow Democrat donors.” — Queen Pelosi.
Our Tutu wearing DOD needs to start stepping down.
Things haven’t been this shitty since Barky was “leading” while taking it up the behind.
All the good in America, all the talent, everything here just pissed away by the left. These people shouldn’t be in control of their own bladders. Half the country cheers them.
What are the chances the NY Times or Washington Post puts a picture of the flag-draped caskets on the front page? (rhetorical question)
Wonder by who’s control, multiple suicide bombers or IED, beginning of a offensive or one offensive attacks.
Lots of questions and your not going to get it from the administration.
I doubt it’s the Taliban. They want American forces gone by August 31 so probably understand that there is little point in prolonging their stay longer than is needed.
On the other hand, the Taliban are the ones holding all the cards here. They don’t need any deaks Biden could make. They own Afghanistan and would probably happily take deaths from retaliatory strikes on tge understanding that American forces can’t stay for ever due to their poor tactical situation exacerbated by Biden closing their one truly strategic base in the region before anyone could be evacuated.
Basically Biden has fucked this whole situation up like only he could fick things up.
If 9/11 were to happen today- passengers would overpower the terrorists and fly all the planes into the white house themselves.
In Wa where the police have been told not to engage, they questioned a woman suspected of robbery, she refused to talk and ran for it. Under the new rules, police did not pursue her. She robbed like 6 other places in the next hour before she was taken down.
This is weaponized stupidity.
I love the cherry on top of the Biden admin giving a list of all Americans and Afghan allies the admin wants the Taliban to let into the airport. Stolen elections , especially putting a demented perv and political streetwalker in power, have expected consequences. Those that chose them..chose the administration.
C’mon man! That was 4 or 5 ice cream cones ago!
Thanks to vile Xi-den’s and the Dhimmi-crats’ stupidity, naiviete and narcissism, more troops have now been killed during this withdrawal debacle than in the past two years during combat operations.
The time for snarky comments is over. Individual acts of defiance are useless. We must identify and rally around an imperfect new strong man.
Oh Jesus
When do the trials start? These officials need to be in prison.
A friend of mine texted me about the list saying, surely not even Joe Biden is that stupid. Well … yes, he is. Ditto the idiots around him.