USA is finally out of Afghanistan

[Adecypher]

Can't wait to see Muslim countries industrialized and with diversified economies. It was so overdue!

Very difficult with Mir Jaffar and Mir Sadiq types in each Muslim country and not to ignore economic hit men from west constantly and consistently preying on them …

 

[MultaniGuy]

No, we were not. We just tired of the mess.


Peace? Maybe, and I said 'maybe' kindly. Prosperity? No, also said that kindly. You had many chances to do both and somehow you refused.

Then go convince USA to defeat Afghan Taliban then.

But we both know the realities.

No, we were not. We just tired of the mess.


Peace? Maybe, and I said 'maybe' kindly. Prosperity? No, also said that kindly. You had many chances to do both and somehow you refused.

How did we refuse.

It is USA that started the war.

Its a lunatic like yourself that tries to stop other societies from developing or cannot allow others to be well educated.

USA has been defeated, because if they continue the war, they know the world would be against them, world opinion would be against them.

Now shooo! you sound like quite a poisonous person.

 

[ghazi52]

 

[ghazi52]

A Taliban official told Reuters their technical experts and engineers were ready to take over the airport when they were given the "final nod from the Americans".

The Taliban have set up further layers of checkpoints around the airport and are not allowing most Afghans through, the Associated Press adds.

In all, more than 110,000 people - both Afghans and foreign nationals - have been evacuated from Kabul airport since the airlift began two weeks ago.

 

[ghazi52]

France and Britain will urge the UN to create a "safe zone" in Kabul to help evacuation efforts, French President Emmanuel Macron said.

He said it would allow the international community to carry out humanitarian work and "maintain pressure on the Taliban".

 

[Mr.Green]

This thread should be the top topic--if Americans are indeed leaving tonight from Kabul. But instead people are putting more effort into hotels in Pakistan being booked out or some PTM person talking about conversion to Hinduism. Sigh!
A few things:
1) Watched both Pentagon and State Dept. Press Conferences in last few hours. Question was asked in both: Are Taliban entering the Kabul Airport. The State Dept guy said to ask the Pentagon. The Pentagon guy called it 'false' and saying the airport is in American control, including entrance gates.
2) State Dept guy said the engagements with Taliban have been 'Positive' and 'Constructive'
3) State Dept guy saying the US would accept 'any govt' which would do some basic required things (on terrorism, human rights, inclusive govt)
4) About supporting the Panjshir Resistance, they said we have been saying about Inclusive Govt. But in a separate interview at Al Jazeera, John Bolton today has said that America might support them! That's his personal wish though.
5) Airport to be handed to 'the Afghan people' upon evacuation and 'a number of countries' shown interest in managing the airport.
6) State Dept: America would continue to provide 'humanitarian support' even after Withdrawal.
7) Mazar e Sharif is being prepared for flights from Pakistan to deliver humanitarian aid. Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) will play a part. Not sure I saw in the press conferences. Been browsing several places.

Lets hope weapons are not delivered to the Northern Alliance discreetly from Mazar-i-Sharif under the guise of humanitarian support.

 

[Meengla]

Video confirmation of Taliban's Badri 313 inside the Kabul Airport--at a stone throw distance from American troops. Also, Kamal Hyder from Al Jazeera saying no mass exodus to Pakistan because Afghans, at least in eastern region, are not threatened by the Taliban take-over. What Hyder says is so true--and so damn downplayed by the Western media.
Here is the video.

Lets hope weapons are not delivered to the Northern Alliance discreetly from Mazar-i-Sharif under the guise of humanitarian support.

Nah, almost zero chance: Most flights will come from Pakistan and also Mazar e Sharif is in Taliban control. Look at the geography of the Panjshir Valley.

 

[ghazi52]

Scenes from Kabul today

A Taliban fighter stands guard at the Loya Jirga while acting Higher Education Minister Abdul Baqi Haqqani speaks

UK military personnel sit aboard an A400M aircraft leaving the airport

Outside Hamid Karzai International Airport, a woman passes by Taliban militants standing guard

Taliban fighters patrol a street in the city

 

[ghazi52]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1431961843074015236

 

[Meengla]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1431961843074015236

Possible American strike against ISIS in Kabul.

 

[Path-Finder]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1431982528525635584

 

[ghazi52]

Possible American strike against ISIS in Kabul.

Yes, it is possible.


US 'carries out military strike in Kabul' - Reuters

The US has reportedly carried out a military strike in the Afghan capital Kabul today.

The strike targeted members of the Afghan branch of the Islamic State group, IS-K, Reuters news agency reports, citing US officials.

No further details of the US operation have been released and it is unclear if it is related to the rocket strike on a property near the airport reported earlier.

 

[ghazi52]

There are not many reports about Kabul airport so far today, with fewer journalists there, tighter Taliban security and fears of fresh attacks.

Al Jazeera's Charlotte Bellis, who is still in Kabul, reports: "This morning... there isn’t even a single US plane on the ground at Kabul airport, and there have been far fewer in the air than there were even yesterday."

She said hundreds of people were still attempting to get out and had now taken to buses in co-ordination with the Taliban, to try to get through to the airport without lingering outside.

Taliban checks have tightened on the approach to the airport

 

[Meengla]

US 'carries out military strike in Kabul' - Reuters

Reuters is one of those very few major news outlets from the West which focus on 'news' more than hidden agenda. I have been very disappointed by the coverage in the Western media in last 2 weeks. But, rest assured, IF/WHEN America decides to 'work with the Taliban', the tunes will change. That's not 'journalism'. That's propaganda only marginally better than what North Korea does!

Here is Reuters about the latest attack:

U.S. drone strike destroys Islamic State car bomb in Kabul, officials say

American forces launched a drone strike in Kabul on Sunday that killed a suicide car bomber suspected of preparing to attack the airport, U.S. officials said, as the United States nears the end of its military presence in the Afghan capital.

www.reuters.com

 

[ghazi52]

There are still about 300 US citizens still waiting to be evacuated from Afghanistan, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says.

"We are down to a population of 300 or fewer Americans who are still on the ground there, and we are working actively in these hours and these days to get those folks out," he told US broadcaster ABC.

Some Americans have chosen to stay beyond the 31 August deadline, Blinken says, but he adds that "they are not going to be stuck in Afghanistan".

The US, he says, has "a mechanism to get them out".