BRKG Seven busloads of U.S. citizen women just killed by Taliban?!?

MinnesotaSmith

Membership Revoked
Anyone can confirm or deny this, please do.

View: https://twitter.com/emilymiller/status/1432179085942345730


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Cacheman

Ultra MAGA!



thehill.com

American University of Kabul students trying to flee couldn't get to airport: report | TheHill
Joseph Choi

3 minutes

Students and alumni of the American University of Afghanistan (AUAF) attempting to flee the country found they were unable to enter the Hamid Karzai International Airport, The New York Times reported.

According to the Times, current and former students of AUAF gathered a safe house on Sunday and rode on buses to the Kabul airport. However, the were informed after seven hours of waiting for clearance that the airport gates were a security threat and that civilian evacuations would end on Monday, the Times reported.

“I regret to inform you that the high command at HKIA in the airport has announced there will be no more rescue flights,” the AUAF administration told students in an email, according to the Times.

The group was also told the university had given their names to Taliban militants running checkpoints around the airport, the Times reported.

“We are all terrified, there is no evacuation, there is no getting out," a 24-year-old sophomore at AUAF told the Times.

AUAF president Ian Bickford left the campus when it was shut down shortly after the Taliban takeover of Kabul along with other foreign staff members. The Times reported that Bickford said he is working with the State Department to ensure the evacuation of over a thousand current and former students, though last week's attack on the airport has complicated this effort.

The State Department declined comment, citing privacy concerns for the individuals involved.

The U.S. Embassy in Kabul has warned Americans to stay away from airport due to a “specific, credible threat."

Two suicide bombers detonated explosives near the airport last week, killing 13 U.S. service members and scores of Afghan civilians.

The Times notes that the AUAF campus was one of the first sites to be taken over by the Taliban when Kabul fell to its forces. The school's campus had been closed since Aug. 14 when news broke of the Taliban's forces encroaching on Kabul.

Thousands of Afghans have been evacuated out of the country since the Taliban fell. Many have been sent to third-party countries while many others have arrived in the U.S., with facilities quickly reaching capacity.

The Taliban is reportedly waiting for "the final nod" from the U.S. before proceeding to "secure full control" of the airport, according to an unidentified official who spoke spoke to Reuters.
 

Macgyver

Has No Life - Lives on TB
I saw several different versions of this last night from what I would consider non reputable sources so I ignored it.
 

danielboon

TB Fanatic
Believe in me, I'm with the High Command ....

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_zWl8xnT00

Mike And The Mechanics - Silent Running [HD]
RT 04:08
Silent Running
Mike + The Mechanics

Take the children and yourself
And hide out in the cellar
By now the fighting will be close at hand
Don't believe the church and state
And everything they tell you
Believe in me, I'm with the high command
Can you hear me, can you hear me running?
Can you hear me running, can you hear me calling you?
Can you hear me, can you hear me running?
Can you hear me running, can you hear me calling you?
There's a gun and ammunition
Just inside the doorway
Use it only in emergency
Better you should pray to God
The Father and the Spirit
Will guide you and protect from up here
Can you hear me, can you hear me running?
Can you hear me running, can you hear me calling you?
Can you hear me, can you hear me running?
Can you hear me running, can you hear me calling you?
Swear allegiance to the flag
Whatever flag they offer
Never hint at what you really feel
Teach the children quietly
For some day sons and daughters
Will rise up and fight while we stood still
Can you hear me, can you hear me running?
Can you hear me running, can you hear me calling you?
Can you hear me, can you hear me running?
Can you hear me running, can you hear me calling you?
Can you hear me, can you hear me running?
Can you hear me running, can you hear me calling you?
Can you hear me running (can you hear me calling you?)
(Can you hear me) hear me calling you?
(Can you hear me running) hear me running babe?
(Can you hear me running) hear me running?
Calling you, calling you
 

Nowski

Let's Go Brandon!

The American peoples, can stop sad events such as this one,
if they would just stop their sons and daughters,
from serving in the ZUSA armed forces.

The ZUSA federal government, and the out of the pits of hell
military industrial complex, see them as nothing more than
cannon fodder.

We were warned, by one of the greatest POTUS of all time,
President Dwight David Eisenhower, we failed to listen,
and painful events such as the 13 killed at the Kabul airport,
are the result.

Wake up America, wake up. Stay out of the armed services.

Please be safe everyone.

Regards to all.

Nowski
 

Housecarl

On TB every waking moment
The Taliban have two goals, one to be in control, with all of that means, of the territories they occupy and to stop the brain drain they're seeing. Without the very people that are trying to get out, the Taliban don't have the necessary number of Afghan born technocrats to run the place in any meaningful manner. That their modus operand i is the very thing making these people flee isn't going to change their world view or activities.
 

Hognutz

Has No Life - Lives on TB
The American peoples, can stop sad events such as this one,
if they would just stop their sons and daughters,
from serving in the ZUSA armed forces.

The ZUSA federal government, and the out of the pits of hell
military industrial complex, see them as nothing more than
cannon fodder.

We were warned, by one of the greatest POTUS of all time,
President Dwight David Eisenhower, we failed to listen,
and painful events such as the 13 killed at the Kabul airport,
are the result.

Wake up America, wake up. Stay out of the armed services.

Please be safe everyone.

Regards to all.

Nowski
My children will not fight for “wokeness”….
 



thehill.com

American University of Kabul students trying to flee couldn't get to airport: report | TheHill
Joseph Choi

3 minutes

Students and alumni of the American University of Afghanistan (AUAF) attempting to flee the country found they were unable to enter the Hamid Karzai International Airport, The New York Times reported.

According to the Times, current and former students of AUAF gathered a safe house on Sunday and rode on buses to the Kabul airport. However, the were informed after seven hours of waiting for clearance that the airport gates were a security threat and that civilian evacuations would end on Monday, the Times reported.

“I regret to inform you that the high command at HKIA in the airport has announced there will be no more rescue flights,” the AUAF administration told students in an email, according to the Times.

The group was also told the university had given their names to Taliban militants running checkpoints around the airport, the Times reported.

“We are all terrified, there is no evacuation, there is no getting out," a 24-year-old sophomore at AUAF told the Times.

AUAF president Ian Bickford left the campus when it was shut down shortly after the Taliban takeover of Kabul along with other foreign staff members. The Times reported that Bickford said he is working with the State Department to ensure the evacuation of over a thousand current and former students, though last week's attack on the airport has complicated this effort.

The State Department declined comment, citing privacy concerns for the individuals involved.

The U.S. Embassy in Kabul has warned Americans to stay away from airport due to a “specific, credible threat."

Two suicide bombers detonated explosives near the airport last week, killing 13 U.S. service members and scores of Afghan civilians.

The Times notes that the AUAF campus was one of the first sites to be taken over by the Taliban when Kabul fell to its forces. The school's campus had been closed since Aug. 14 when news broke of the Taliban's forces encroaching on Kabul.

Thousands of Afghans have been evacuated out of the country since the Taliban fell. Many have been sent to third-party countries while many others have arrived in the U.S., with facilities quickly reaching capacity.

The Taliban is reportedly waiting for "the final nod" from the U.S. before proceeding to "secure full control" of the airport, according to an unidentified official who spoke spoke to Reuters.
American University of Kabul? Are they tied to the American University in D.C., which is a farm league of sorts for the three letter bunch?

Are these AU-Kabul folks originally American citizens, or, are they Afghani/other non-American citizens? If American citizens, who and what is their particular roles/jobs as involved in AU-Kabul?

Many (purposefully) unanswered questions, if this report is to be believed.

Or, could be more fear mongering narrative designed to stir the Americans, back home - or, a mix of everything. ("Never let a crisis go to waste," comes to mind)

War, By Other Means® (but, war it is)


intothegoodnight
 

Dozdoats

On TB every waking moment
Without the very people that are trying to get out, the Taliban don't have the necessary number of Afghan born technocrats to run the place in any meaningful manner.

It was that way 10 years ago. Now the Talleybon have won. Why would they change what works?

Again I beg - get a copy of The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan: Hastings, Michael: 9780452298965: Amazon.com: Books and READ.

ETA - there are various "American Universities" all over the world
- links are hot at American University (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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American University is a university in Washington D.C., United States.


American University may also refer to:

American University of Afghanistan
American University of Antigua College of Medicine
American University of Armenia
American University of Bahrain
American University of Beirut
American University in Bosnia and Herzegovina
American University in Bulgaria
American University in Cairo
American University of the Caribbean, Sint Maarten
American University of the Caribbean (Haiti)
American University of Central Asia, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
American University in Dubai
American University of Iraq
American University in Kosovo, former name of RIT Kosovo, an overseas campus of the Rochester Institute of Technology
American University of Kuwait
American University in London
American University of London
American University of Madaba
American University of Malta
American University (Nicaragua)
American University of Paris
American University of Phnom Penh
American University of Puerto Rico
American University of Rome
American University of Science and Technology, Beirut, Lebanon
American University of Sharjah
American University of Technology, Byblos, Lebanon
 
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It was that way 10 years ago. Now the Talleybon have won. Why would they change what works?

Again I beg - get a copy of The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan: Hastings, Michael: 9780452298965: Amazon.com: Books and READ.
Would that happen to be the same Michael Hastings who was killed (assassinated?) when his Mercedes car suddenly accelerated and drove into a tree some number of years ago? <rhetorical>


intothegoodnight
 
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ShadowMan

Designated Grumpy Old Fart
So aside from all the comments and opinions, do we know if this is true or not? Any verification anywhere? Did I miss that in the thread?
 

Dennis Olson

Chief Curmudgeon
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If true, it will NEVER be released or confirmed by US government sources. Biden’s pretendency would be over. You can bet that the masters of the universe and the meeeeeedia will never let a word about it leak out to the public.
 

Dozdoats

On TB every waking moment
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZwTATnSsvA

Discussing Afghanistan with Michael Hastings
RT 04:32

In 2010, Michael Hastings wrote a controversial piece for Rolling Stone that potentially ruined the reputation of US army general Stanley McChrystal, then commander of NATO's internal security assistance force in the war in Afghanistan. The article, which detailed McChrystal's disapproval of President Obama, caused McChrystal to resign his position. We got in touch with Hastings and he gave us the opportunity to discuss counter insurgency in Afghanistan, criticisms of President Obama and the ongoing tension between the Pentagon and the White House.
 
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