The compound, known as the Eagle Base and located less than three miles north of the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, was used to covertly get hundreds of US nationals and at least 1,000 Afghan commandos and their families out of the country, Politico reported, citing flight documents and …
Read More »Half of Americans & one THIRD OF DEMS think Biden should resign over Afghanistan exit, but many worry VP Harris is no better
While the majority seem to want Biden to pay for his failures in Afghanistan, 39% of Rasmussen’s poll respondents think he deserves another chance – or at least don’t want him disposed-of just yet. Perhaps most surprisingly, however, almost a third (32%) of Democrats agreed that Biden should resign over …
Read More »US military’s Afghanistan commander admits that hundreds of Americans left behind, but praises Taliban as ‘helpful’ in withdrawal
“They were actually very helpful and useful to us as we closed down operations,” Marine General Kenneth McKenzie said of the Taliban on Monday, in a Pentagon press briefing. He added that the Islamist group helped secure the airfield at Kabul’s airport, “not perfectly, but they gave it a very …
Read More »‘Americans opened fire fearing next explosion’: Witnesses of chaotic Kabul suicide bombing aftermath speak to RT
The bomb blast ripped through a crowd of people outside Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul on Thursday, killing more than 150 people, including 13 American troops. In the chaos that followed the explosion, early reports from the ground suggested that American forces opened fire – and that some of …
Read More »Hunting Russians abroad? Americans are making dozens of attempts to extradite country’s citizens from other states, Moscow claims
Speaking to RIA Novosti on Monday, Grigory Lukyantsev, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Commissioner for Human Rights, said that more than 50 Russians have been detained by third countries at the request of American officials. “In terms of persecution, a glaring example is this practice used by the US of actually …
Read More »Blinken denies giving Taliban lists of Americans and Afghan allies, but then says US turned over names for busloads of evacuees
Asked by NBC News host Chuck Todd on Sunday how the administration could be sure that lists of people the US is trying to get out of Afghanistan won’t be used for “horrendous reasons,” Blinken said “it’s simply not the case” that such information has been turned over to the …
Read More »Bill Maher tells Americans to quit complaining about the US after Afghan disaster, earning him praise from Ted Cruz
In a controversial segment of HBO’s ‘Real Time with Bill Maher’, the commentator argued that Americans should stop complaining about the US because other countries like Afghanistan have it worse. Liberals “under-romanticize America, they have no perspective,” the television host claimed, pointing to Saudi Arabia, China, Honduras, Venezuela, the Philippines, …
Read More »US embassy in Afghanistan urges Americans to avoid travelling to the Kabul airport due to ‘specific, credible threat’
In a security alert issued early Sunday, the US embassy sounded the alarm about a potential attack at the Kabul airport, two days after a suicide bombing killed some 170 Afghans, 13 US servicemen and two British nationals. Those US citizens who had already set off to the airport were …
Read More »US Secretary of State claims up to 1,500 Americans actively want to leave Afghanistan
The question of how many American citizens are not only in Afghanistan but still need to be evacuated is one White House officials have been unable to give a specific answer to. Blinken on Wednesday tried cutting through the confusion during a press conference in which he said 4,500 American …
Read More »Blackwater founder finds new income stream in flying Americans out of Kabul at $6,500 PER SEAT – reports
With August 31 as the final deadline for Americans to leave Afghanistan, public and private security forces alike are tripping over themselves trying to get their men (and women) out of the country – and some less scrupulous figures are taking cash to expedite the process, according to a Tuesday …
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