Thread For Discussing Those Americans Left Behind.

[Longwalkhome]

Looks like a lot of translators are going to be murdered.

McCaul: Interpreters Still in Afghanistan Are ‘Gone’ – ‘The Taliban Will Not Allow Them to Leave’ and They’re ‘Already Being Executed’

freerepublic.com

 

[FLYINGPICKLE]

Interpreters - They took the money, they made their bed. Imagine if we were invaded by China, and they needed interpreters. So US citizens that spoke Chinese were part of the tip of the spear operations, people getting killed, thrown into camps, torture chambers...

Then the Chinese leave...how would you feel about your next door neighbor being an 'interpreter'?

 

[arakboss]

Charter jet with over 100 American evacuees departs Kabul

A private charter jet is bringing 123 Americans and green card holders, as well nine Special Immigrant Visa holders, back to the United States after they were left in Afghanistan.

www.foxnews.com

 

[RicInOR]

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politi...-allies-in-afghanistan-for-souvenirs-n1521567


"Donahue allegedly booted 50–100 American allies off the cargo plane so he could load a Taliban souvenir — an "inoperable Taliban-owned Toyota Hilux with a fully operational Russian ZU-23 anti-aircraft auto cannon mounted in the bed" — to bring home."

 

[RicInOR]

America's botched Afghanistan withdrawal: 'It’s even worse than people know' | Sharyl Attkisson

The following is according to firsthand accounts. U.S. Embassy left behind biometrics on Afghans who helped U.S. Taliban used the information to contact the Afghans with spoof emails, telling them report to fake “safe houses,” where they were executed “It’s […]

sharylattkisson.com

 

[RicInOR]

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/is...mericans-afghanistan-higher-than-prior-claims


The State Department on Friday conceded that there are significantly more Americans in Afghanistan than previously estimated -- leading to Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and other Republicans to accuse the administration of a "betrayal" of Americans abroad.

State Department officials briefed congressional staff this week and told them that it is in touch with 363 Americans in Afghanistan and nearly 176 legal permanent residents, a congressional source who was on the call told Fox News.

 

[RicInOR]

• Pentagon confirms nearly 450 Americans trapped in Afghanistan

 

[RicInOR]

ED MORRISSEY: "A living hell": ABC features family trapped in Afghanistan … from India? "What seems tougher to explain is ABC's choice to feature a family from India, rather than a family of one of the hundreds or thousands of Americans Biden abandoned. It takes thirty-three paragraphs into the story to get to the first mention of Americans in any context, and that is a mention of the 13 service members killed in a suicide attack outside the airport during the retreat. You'd have to already know that reference, however, as ABC doesn't bother to explain the location or the mission at the time of the suicide bombing."

 

[titsonritz]

 

[JRuby]

So Trump agreed to a plan to leave Afghanistan in 2020 and Biden actually leaves in August of 2021. Seems to me those that stayed had plenty of time to leave if they had wanted to.

 

[RicInOR]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...fghanistan-two-months-botched-withdrawal.html

• Dozens of Americans are still trapped in Afghanistan more than two months after the United States withdrew from the country
• The Pentagon says that among those trapped are immediate family members of US service members, as well as more than 100 extended family members
• Defense officials are urging military personnel to alert the government of any family members who remain trapped
• The Pentagon is creating a database of those who are stuck in an effort to get them out of the Taliban-controlled country
• Secretary of Defense for Policy Colin Kahl issued a memo Thursday outlining the steps that military members need to take to get their loved ones in the database

 

[RicInOR]

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/02/the-betrayal.php

"THE BETRAYAL:" That's the title of a long article in The Atlantic by George Packer about the Biden administration's handling of the withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Note URL: biden-afghanistan-exit-american-allies-abandoned

As The Atlantic is a soft paywall site, try this link:

12ft

12ft.io

 

[RicInOR]

Turns out, Biden's Awful Afghan Exit Was Actually Much Worse Than We Knew

redstate.com

"... State Dept. has estimated, however, that some 12,000 Americans remain stranded in Afghanistan, hoping to escape on now-resuming evacuation flights. Another estimated 60,000 Afghan allies and family are presumed in hiding."