'This is not Saigon' US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken

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Blinken: 'This is not Saigon'

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken says the US is moving its embassy compound to Kabul airport.

He told ABC News: "It's why we had forces on hand - to make sure we could do this in a safe and orderly fashion. The compound itself, folks are leaving there and going to the airport."

He added that the embassy has lists of people to get out of harm's way and is doubling down on efforts to do so.

He also denied any comparisons of the current situation to the 1975 fall of Saigon, in Vietnam, and insisted that the Afghan mission had been "successful"

"This is not Saigon," he said.

sure

 

[ghazi52]

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has left the country bound for Tajikistan.

 

[Beast]

He is quite right its not saigon....its kabul looool

Now its Kaboom!

 

[ghazi52]

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Update on Afghanistan Afghan Taliban (IEA) have taken control of Presidential Palace in Kabul city.

 

[islamrules2020]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1426933279266070531

Bush must be so devastated right now

 

[Meengla]

Now its Kaboom!

OMG! I can't help finding video clips from one of my all time favorite movies (The Beast of War-- about the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan) and this 'Kaboom' comment led me to another clip:

 

[ghazi52]

Update on PTM

Sources close to General Mohsin Dawar are reporting that he has decided to lead 69TH PTM Corps of Afghan Army to Afghanistan to liberate Kabul from IEA.

 

[FOOLS_NIGHTMARE]

This is exactly like Saigon 1975, and the Taliban got a lot of US Presents .

 

[ghazi52]

'Kabul airport under fire' - US embassy

There are reports of gunfire at Kabul's airport, according to a security alert just issued by the US Embassy.

Officials have instructed US citizens in the area to take shelter, as "the security situation in Kabul is changing quickly".

Any Americans who still require assistance to leave Kabul have been told to register online, after operations at the embassy concluded.

 

[imadul]

Saigon LITE.
Results are massive. History has turned a corner.
God has mercy on us.

 

[ghazi52]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1426918475830894599

 

[ghazi52]

Joke of the Day .............................................


'Even though I'm far away I feel homeless'

Ashitha Nagesh
BBC News

Sabrina Saqeb was elected an MP in the Afghan parliament in 2005, sitting in what was the country's first parliament in 30 years. At 25, she was the youngest MP elected.

She went on to establish an organisation for women in the country.

For the past few years, Saqeb and her family have lived in Canada.

Saqeb tells the BBC that watching the Taliban advance on her home country from afar has left her feeling "homeless".

"No matter how long we have lived outside Afghanistan we are all deeply connected. Our families are there, our friends are there, our hopes are there," she says.

"You call somewhere home, you try to build a house for yourself, and then it collapses. I feel that whatever we had is lost - it's now gone. All these past 20 years of our lives have gone in a few weeks.

"Maybe the current government of Afghanistan is weak, is corrupt. But at least they came into power through a system, and we had a voice in that system."
The Taliban, she says, have come in by force.

 

[ghazi52]

More on situation at Kabul airport

As we reported earlier, the US embassy in Kabul has issued a security alert saying there may be gunfire at the airport.

Separately, people have been seen running to planes on the tarmac, according to eyewitness accounts. There are very few people are left to staff the airline and immigration desks, they say.

Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has also said the alliance was helping to keep the airport open to facilitate the evacuations there.

 

[ghazi52]

Former Afghan president says he will stay in Kabul

Facebook/Hamid KarzaiCopyright: Facebook/Hamid Karzai


Karzai has told his followers that he will remain in KabulImage caption: Karzai has told his followers that he will remain in Kabul

Afghanistan's former president, Hamid Karzai, has released a video on Facebook to tell his followers that he will remain in Kabul.

Standing with his three daughters, Karzai tells his "dear Kabul citizens" that he and his family are with them.

"We hope the issues of our country and of our capital are resolved in a good way and peacefully," he says.

"I call on the security forces of the Taliban Islamic Movement, wherever they are, to ensure the security of the life and property of people and pay attention to the life and property of people, both our security forces and the forces of the Taliban."

Karzai became the country's leader in 2001 - the year the US invasion began. He held the role until 2014, becoming one of Asia's longest-serving leaders.

Foreign governments had a low opinion of Karzai at times, criticising him for his failure to prevent corruption and to confront traditionalists in order to promote women's rights.

 

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