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WGN Radio
"kabul international airport" Discussed on WGN Radio
"So rod for breakfast at land decker for dinner. USDA approved. Welcome back to the Jim bohannon show at one 8 6 6 5 O Jimbo one 8 6 6 5 O 5 four 6 two 6 our guest is Elliott Ackerman, a marine veteran of 5 tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan a recipient of the silver star of the bronze star with V for valor and the Purple Heart. He is also an award winning essayist for such publications as esquire The New Yorker and The New York Times. The only fair and free election ever held in Vietnam was held in 1967 in South Vietnam. And the incumbent governor government won, although not decisively, there were a lot of others in the race and nobody got a majority of the vote. And the Viet Cong, of course, before they urged people just to boycott the election. The third thing you know, well, we're going to bring about all the goodness and equality and wonderfulness that communism brings, which of course is a croc. Under Ho Chi Minh, there's never been a free election in the Vietnam at all. In the meantime, in Afghanistan, one thing that I really wonder about Elliot Ackerman is not like the Taliban was anything new. They had run the country for quite a while. They had yanked the fingernails out of daughters and wives who dared to paint them. And this is what these people wanted that they refused to fight to defend against. I mean, I don't understand that at all. Well, I don't think if you look at the scenes from one year ago at Kabul international airport, it's pretty clear that this is not what a very significant number of Afghans wanted because there was this mass rush for the exits at the Taliban took power. But as is often the case in warfare, you have a tyranny of a minority over the majority. And Taliban rule in the 1990s was a ferocious yet small Taliban basically terrorizing a much broader Afghan population. And sadly, it seems as though Afghanistan is now regressed to a similar type of rule that we saw in the 1990s with the Taliban. So I don't think the Taliban can necessarily be construed as having massive popular support across Afghanistan, what they represent is an insurgency that the United States and NATO along with our Afghan partners were never able to completely extinguish and that insurgency was successful because at the end of the day the Taliban were effective at waiting us out and our result crumbled. Again, all I can say is that if before I would allow my wife or daughter to be brutalized by these pack of savages, I would fight like a Tiger to the death, and that's the part I didn't understand. Oh, well okay, the Taliban's back in power. I didn't get that. I mean, anyway, whatever. It's done and gone. Well, 8 6 6 5 O Jimbo one 8 6 6 5 O 5 four 6 two 6 Elliott Ackerman makes comparisons between Afghanistan and Ukraine, what would that comparison be? Well, I think it's important to hold these two events in conversation with one another. So in Afghanistan, last summer, we see the greatest military catastrophe that NATO has ever experienced since the creation of the alliance after the Second World War. It is important to keep that in mind because obviously Vladimir Putin is he's weighing whether or not to invade Ukraine is certainly watching NATO's performance in Afghanistan. And what do we see? We see massive NATO underperformance in Afghanistan. So when he's trying to determine what the response will be when he invades Ukraine, he certainly at least in Afghanistan sees a NATO alliance that can not hang together that has very little will to fight. And I'm sure was emboldened by that. What is sort of remarkable then is that within 6 months of probably the greatest capacity NATO has ever experienced, we see one of its brightest hours occur in Ukraine when Russia invades Ukraine in February of this year. And the alliance now after having completely underperformed in Afghanistan, now over performs. It sticks together despite Putin holding the energy supplies of Europe hostage. And is able to up to us up to this point, respond relatively effectively to Vladimir Putin. So again, it's important to hold these two events together because they certainly have a bearing on one another. Of course, the NATO reaction in Afghanistan was one of the oh, we're tired. We don't want to do this anymore. Whereas the NATO reaction in Europe was this brutal thug is right next door to all of us. I mean, the end result was that Finland and Sweden joined NATO in exactly the last thing that Putin wanted, despite his calendar reading 1938 instead of 2022, so and it's something that NATO learned my lord the Russians are vastly overrated because Putin wanted this thing over with in days. And it's been 6 months and it's not over. And if he can't handle Ukraine, he wouldn't have a chance against NATO. Well, I think that's certainly the case. And I think that when we talk about the cost of war, the cost in Ukraine for Russia has been has been massive in Russia fought the Soviet Union rather fought a 9 year war in Afghanistan and lost 15,000 troops killed. The war in Ukraine is 6 months old and certain estimates have Russian depth well in excess of 30,000 killed. So Ukraine has been a disaster for Russia. And there's an irony here because in many respects, one of the reasons that Putin invades Ukraine as you try to restore Russia to its Soviet borders to its to the borders that it had before the collapse of the Soviet Union. But what precipitated the collapse of the Soviet Union, one of the key contributing factors was a Soviet war in Afghanistan. So Russia is now invading a country like Ukraine, getting bogged down in order to expand its borders when in fact such actions are what brought it back brought about the contraction of its borders at the end of the Cold War when the Soviet Union collapsed. As they as the marine veteran Elliott Ackerman one 8 6 6 5 O Jimbo one 8 6 6 5 O 5 four 6 two 6 and we'll be back in just a moment. Traffic. All right. This wagon commute is killing me. You mind if I turn on Yale radio? Out
TED Talks Daily
"kabul international airport" Discussed on TED Talks Daily
"Be it in the United States or elsewhere. This first and foremost necessitates resettling refugees who are currently waiting in camps around the world to reach a place that they can call home. It also calls upon the international community to increase quotas for Afghan allies to accept more at risk Afghans for permanent resettlement and to expand programs like humanitarian parole. To generate more pathways for those in need. Third, as we find pathways forward for these individuals, we must not separate families. We must preserve them. Or at the very least create strict limits for the amount of time that families can be separated from family separation like mind generate irreparable harm. But clear and specific change to existing admission policies can ensure that other miners do not face the same fate that befell me and my family. Fourth, and this is the most important of them all. We must reestablish an international diplomat diplomatic presence in Afghanistan to hold Taliban accountable for their actions and provide counselor services to the people. It opens channel to address Taliban's actions rather than cutting off isolating and eliminating avenues for influence. And I have witnessed what engagement with the Taliban can look like firsthand. The negotiations that resulted in my release from captivity were the direct result of effective diplomacy with the Taliban on the world stage. Diplomats spoke to each other openly and resolved an issue of mutual concern. And while the success of these discussion is perhaps an anomaly, the kind of diplomacy demonstrated by my release can and should serve as a model for achieving other desired change for the future of Afghanistan, such as the restoration of girls education above grade 6 freedom of press, bolstering women's rights and most urgently increasing humanitarian assistance. At the same time, at the same time, or diplomacy can't be a blank check, the Taliban must live up to their end of the bargain to demonstrate that they are ready to engage in diplomacy as an actor that upholds basic human rights that ensure necessary freedoms and that does not take or hold hostages. At the end of the day the situation in Afghanistan is an extremely complex one. It can't be summed up in an 8 minute talk I wrote four days ago emerging from captivity. Yet there are tangible solutions and I'm in the privileged position of being able to advocate for them, but I'm here today to tell you that you are too. The truth of the matter is especially in the case of Afghanistan change has always and will continue to start with everyday people. This fall tens of thousands of people from around the world banded together at the grassroots level to aid Afghans in need. You don't need to be an expert to engage to volunteer to contribute to lobby to even simply welcome a refugee to advocate for them. As Margaret Mead once said, never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. On the afternoon of my release ten days ago, I at long last climbed out of my basement cell. And into the sunlight without anything binding my hands are covering my eyes. I could see the sky. I traveled out of the prison through Kabul city in corolla sedan. I passed the American embassy and arrived at Kabul international airport. I walked onto the tarmac, I climbed into the C 17, I shook hands with American Qatari and British diplomats. And suddenly I was a free man again. But again, I was one of the lucky ones. Ultimately being a captive reminded me of a time when I was helpless and needed a voice. Now that I'm released, I have my voice back and mercifully. It puts me in a position where I can advocate for that little boy with the Statue of Liberty patch on his unit, CR donated genes chasing the American Dream. I hope you'll join me. PRX.
WMAL 630AM
"kabul international airport" Discussed on WMAL 630AM
"The Pentagon ordering an investigation into a drone strike that killed a United Nations aid worker in Afghanistan last month, not an Isis K terrorists as the administration at first claim, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has asked the Air Force secretary to assign a three star general or above to investigate Centcom's investigation into the errant drone strike that killed an Afghan man employed by a US charity group and nine of his family members, seven of them young Children. That report expected in 45 days. Gone. Press Secretary John Kirby did not rule out punishments for the strike. Adding the decision to fire that Hellfire missile was made by the U. S commander whose forces were based at Kabul International Airport. But so far no one has reached out to the victims of the U. S drone strike at the Pentagon. Jennifer Griffin Fox News, according to Oklahoma has said execution dates for seven death row inmates in the state at the rate of about one a month beginning next month. Oklahoma suspended capital punishment in 2015 following a series of mishaps involving lethal injection drugs. Whereabouts of Brian Landry remain unknown after the FBI served as search warrants on his parents' home in Florida. Things have slowed down quite a bit outside of the laundry home. We actually saw a lot of the FBI agents who were here helping to execute that search warrant leave with what appeared to be boxes of evidence. We saw multiple agents loading items from the family's garage into a white van and other vehicles that were laid. Driven away. We saw multiple agents come out of the laundry home and really set their focus on the silver Mustang. Two tow trucks, then came and loaded up the Mustang and took it away to the North Port Police station. That Mustang is pretty significant because that is the car Brian laundries. Parents told investigators. He drove to the Carlton Reserve on Tuesday with the last time Brian was seen Charles Watson, a body found in the Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming, Sunday, tentatively identified as.
106.1 FM WTKK
"kabul international airport" Discussed on 106.1 FM WTKK
"I'm in Pentagon ordering an investigation into a drone strike that killed a United Nations aid worker in Afghanistan last month. Not an Isis K terrorists says the administration had first claim Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has asked the Air Force secretary to assign a three star general or above to investigate Centcom's investigation into the errant drone strike. Killed an Afghan man employed by a US charity group and nine of his family members, seven of them young Children. That report expected in 45 days. Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby did not rule out punishments for the strike, adding the decision to fire that Hellfire missile was made by the U. S commander whose forces were based at Kabul International Airport. But so far no one has reached out to the victims of the U. S drone strike at the Pentagon. Jennifer Griffin Fox News, according to Oklahoma has set execution dates for seven death row inmates in the state at the rate of about one a month beginning next month. Oklahoma suspended capital punishment in 2015 following a series of mishaps involving lethal injection drugs. Whereabouts of Brian Landry remain unknown after the FBI served a search warrant on his parents' home in Florida. Things have slowed down quite a bit outside of the laundry home. We actually saw a lot of the FBI agents who are here helping to execute that search warrant leave with what appeared to be boxes of evidence. We saw multiple agents loading items from the family's garage into a white van and other vehicles that were laid. Driven away. We saw multiple agents come out of the laundry home and really set their focus on the silver Mustang two tow trucks and came and loaded up the Mustang. And took it away to the North Port Police station. That Mustang is pretty significant because that is the car Brian laundries. Parents told investigators. He drove to the Carlton Reserve on Tuesday with the last time Brian was seen boxes. Charles Watson, a body found in the Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming, Sunday, tentatively.
KTOK
"kabul international airport" Discussed on KTOK
"The Fox News APP. The voices America trusts downloaded now. The Pentagon ordering an investigation into a drone strike that killed a United Nations aid worker in Afghanistan last month. Not an Isis K terrorists says the administration had first claim Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has asked the Air Force secretary to assign a three star general or above to investigate Centcom's investigation into the errant drone strike that killed an Afghan man employed by a US charity group and nine of his family members, seven of them young Children. That report expected in 45 days. Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby did not rule out punishments for the strike, adding the decision to fire that Hellfire missile was made by the U. S commander whose forces were based at Kabul International Airport. But so far no one has reached out to the victims of the U. S drone strike at the Pentagon. Jennifer Griffin Fox News, according to Oklahoma has said execution dates for seven death row inmates in the state at the rate of about one a month beginning next month. Oklahoma suspended capital punishment in 2015 following a series of mishaps involving lethal injection drugs. Whereabouts of Brian Landry remain unknown after the FBI served a search warrant on his parents' home in Florida. Things have slowed down quite a bit outside of the laundry home. We actually saw a lot of the FBI agents who were here helping to execute that search warrant leave with what appeared to be boxes of evidence. We saw multiple agents looting items from the family's garage into a white van and other vehicles that were laid. Her driven away. We saw multiple agents come out of the laundry home and really set their focus on the silver Mustang two tow trucks and came and loaded up the Mustang. And took it away to the North Port Police station. That Mustang is pretty significant because that is the car Brian laundries. Parents told investigators. He drove to the Carlton Reserve on Tuesday with the last time Brian was seen with Charles Watson, a body found in the Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming Sunday, tentatively identified as laundries.
600 WREC
"kabul international airport" Discussed on 600 WREC
"Pentagon ordering an investigation into a drone strike that killed a United Nations aid worker in Afghanistan last month. Not an Isis K terrorists says the administration had first claim Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has asked the Air Force secretary to assign a three star general or above to investigate Centcom's investigation into the errant drone strike that killed an Afghan man employed by a US charity group and nine of his family members, seven of them young Children. That report expected in 45 days. Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby did not rule out punishments for the strike, adding the decision to fire that Hellfire missile was made by the U. S commander whose forces were based at Kabul International Airport. But so far no one has reached out to the victims of the U. S drone strike at the Pentagon. Jennifer Griffin Fox News, according to Oklahoma has said execution dates for seven death row inmates in the state at the rate of about one a month beginning next month. Oklahoma suspended capital punishment in 2015 following a series of mishaps involving lethal injection drugs. Whereabouts of Brian Landry remain unknown after the FBI served a search warrant on his parents' home in Florida. Things have slowed down quite a bit outside of the laundry home. We actually saw a lot of the FBI agents who are here helping to execute that search warrant leave with what appeared to be boxes of evidence. We saw multiple agents loading items from the family's garage into a white van and other vehicles that were late. Eater driven away. We saw multiple agents come out of the laundry home and really set their focus on the silver Mustang two tow trucks and came and loaded up the Mustang. And took it away to the North Port Police station. That Mustang is pretty significant because that is the car Brian laundries. Parents told investigators. He drove to the Carlton Reserve on Tuesday with the last time Brian was seen with Charles Watson, a body found in the Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming Sunday, tentatively identified.
NewsRadio KFBK
"kabul international airport" Discussed on NewsRadio KFBK
"Taliban are putting on a friendly face, and I spoke to one Afghan today who was Terribly afraid. He actually went to the airport to try and leave the country. But he couldn't get through. And now he's here. And he said he's been pleasantly surprised by the actions that the Taliban have been taken. Now that's on one level, and people are very nervous. How long this period will last? Are they just trying to change their change their face while they get while they seek international recognition, they need international recognition in order for money to be released in order for them to have a better working relationship with neighboring countries. With international aid agencies. But speaking to the Taliban leadership, and I've spoken to quite a few of their top leaders, they are consistently pushing this message that we are not the same Taliban that was here in the nineties that we do not want to become international pariahs. And when you touch down now at Kabul International Airport Of the first sign you see large giant sign in English, it says the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, which is what the Taliban have renamed this country, seeks peaceful relations with the world peaceful and positive relations with the world. That's the first thing that the Taliban wants you to see when you touch down, and that message has also trickled down to the foot soldiers and and in other cities as well, But you also have to then Chuck Chuck supposed that to what you see online. What you see on Twitter when there are lots of videos being posted of individual incidents, which some of them are very, very brutal. We've been trying to verify some of them. It's difficult to know exactly when they took place that show limited cases of Taliban. Executing people executed members of the foreign government or soldiers, not on a wide scale, but a few that have emerged. So there are there are these images that have come out. But they are like I said, it's it's fairly difficult to verify those videos. Also, what is clear is the Taliban is not accepting descent..
77WABC Radio
"kabul international airport" Discussed on 77WABC Radio
"Around the world to around the block. This is a W A V c 77 2nd News Update. I'm Deborah Valentine. The first commercial flight is being allowed to leave Kabul International Airport within hours 100 to 150 Americans are expected to be aboard. President, Biden said to deliver remarks at five this afternoon. The president expected to detail his plan to stop the Delta variant as well as boost covid 19 vaccinations backlash for President Biden after he asked for resignations from multiple members of military academies advisory boards appointed by former president Trump I'm not resigning, but you should tweeted. Former Trump Advisor Kellyanne Conway swearing in ceremonies this hour for New York's new lieutenant governor, Senator Brian Benjamin, tapped by Governor Holcomb. Well, no fines for landlords in New York City who allowed illegal basement apartments where some IDA victims died during the remnants of the hurricane Mayor de Blasio explains goal is to make sure that folks can get back to those apartments. They can be made whole that people have a place to live. 11 and 13 people who died during Ida in New York City lived in those illegal basement apartments in New York state has delighted to mandate that state employees be vaccinated against Covid 19 or undergo weekly testing until October, 12th That's your 77 2nd w ABC News update Your forecast from.
The World and Everything In It
Texas Congressman Michael McCaul Says Taliban Holding Americans Hostage
"A ranking member of the house foreign affairs committee says the taliban is holding americans hostage during an interview on fox news. Sunday congressman. Michael mccall said. The taliban prevented six airplanes filled with american citizens and their afghan interpreters from leaving the country on saturday clearing their points to depart. The they've sat at the airport for the last couple days. these planes and they're not allowed to leave We know the reason why is because the taliban wants something in exchange. This is really turning into a hostage situation where they're not get allow american citizens to leave until they get full recognition from the united states of america. The chartered planes are at an airport. In the northern city of mazari sharif an afghan official confirmed four. Planes have been grounded but he claimed the passengers afghans not americans and that they did not have passports or visas to leave the country. The flights were headed for cutter but it was not immediately clear. Who chartered them. Meanwhile a small number of commercial flights have resumed at kabul's international airport. All are flying. Domestic routes telephone leaders continued to insist. They will be more tolerant than they were. During their last time in power on sunday the education department issued a statement saying women could continue to attend university but classes must be segregated by sex or at least divided by a curtain so men and women cannot see each other. Female students are also required to wear a robe and
The World: Latest Edition
"kabul international airport" Discussed on The World: Latest Edition
"Of hours. Polaris award was there reporting for c. n. n. This is a site. I honestly thought. I would never see scores of taliban fighters and just behind us. Us embassy compound. That was just two weeks ago since then. Much of the world's attention focused on the kabul airport. American and other international personnel rushed to get flights out of the country along with tens of thousands of afghans crowds of desperate people outside the gates of the airport as taliban militiamen in coordination with american troops posted security last thursday. A suicide attack. There killed some two hundred afghans and thirteen. Us service members and around midnight last night. The last us troops flew out of kabul today. The taliban took control of hamid karzai international airport with a top official telling the associated press on the tarmac. that afghanistan is finally free for the world. I'm matthew bell on this. First day of full taliban ruin afghanistan many vulnerable afghans are hiding out at home. They're scared to venture out into the streets. That's the case for our next guest. He's worked in intelligence with the us army unit and later as a journalist for security reasons. We're not using his name. Were also masking his voice. We've heard many different sorts of reactions from afghan. So the news at the last. Us plane had departed from kabul international airport. How do you feel hearing that news. Burn disappointed and on the other hand it would just look at how the us remains little against on lavas largest shameful rockets to have this week. The united states do not have the property convinced to at least throw from the country more What happens when you say it's shameful for afghans. Explain what you mean. Our leaders and government people and the others date did not develop. Assorted relationship is a Choir with the us to convinced him to withdraw this today with the us. Pull.
Here & Now
"kabul international airport" Discussed on Here & Now
"Thank you now to afghanistan where the us military says. It shot down several rockets fired at the kabul international airport earlier today. That attack came hours after a us. Drone strike in kabul destroyed a car allegedly carrying explosives for an affiliate of the islamic state local residents say the drone killed ten afghan civilians including several children pentagon spokesperson. John kirby said today that the. Us government is not in a position to dispute that. Nobody wants to see innocent life taken. We take it very very seriously and And when we know that we have caused innocent life to be lost in the conduct of our operations were transparent about it. Matthew atkins is a journalist writing for this for the new york times in kabul and a warning that the details were about to discuss from that reporting. They are disturbing methods to speak with you again. Thanks for having me. And i do want to get to the question of civilian deaths in just a moment but can you first explain what happened yesterday. In what intelligence. The us military was acting us military announced it launched drone strike against a vehicle belonging to isis that pose an imminent threat to the us mission at the airport. And we had last night Visuals of a plume of smoke. Rising from a house house was on fire in a densely populated neighborhood west of the city. And that's where we went this morning. And what did you see when you go to the site of that attack when we got the site. We saw a crowd of neighbors and relatives gathered outside. And we're the only journalist on the scene when we got there so they were actually eager to see us. They're very upset angry. They said you know. Been lying about us in the media. This man was not a member of isis. He was a family man. He was killed along with his children and his brother's children. He's coming home in the car that he'd been driving to work that day and the kids came out on the street and got in with them as he pulled into the courtyard of the house. The missile hit and blue part of bunch of his family members. It was just an awful scene. We could see the vehicle still there chart. I i understand from your reporting of those Neighbors family members told you that the victims one was an aid worker for an american charity in another a. contractor with the us military. Have you been able to confirm that. And do we know is that specifically who the us government was targeting with his drone strike or where they just happened to be nearby the vehicle that he was driving was clearly the target and the us also said they are confident. They hit the target. And yes i was able confirm that a zimmerli worked for pasadena. California based organization called nutrition and education international on the president that organization actually emailed me to say that you know he was very sad to hear the news because he was well respected by colleagues and compassionate towards the poor needy so he was definitely need worker and his relative was killed was also a former contract with the us. Military i was. I saw those documents asses spoke to his supervisor so i confirmed that and the family and the neighbors. You spoke to just confirm that they had nothing to do with isis. Is that right yeah. They were outraged. grease stricken. You know this is a family. Their neighbors had just been blown apart. Though is still human remains the site when we got there and these were very small children some of them toddlers and then there was more today What information do we have about the rocket attack on the airport earlier today. The rocket attack was carried. Out by vehicle improvised launcher and there was five rockets. They were intercepted by kind of gatling gun system. The military has actually heard that this morning's a very distinctive sound so there was no damage That we know from that attack but it was claimed by isis. So now there is a about a day left before the. Us military leaves the airport. What is the latest on the evacuation effort which At this point does appear to be winding down. Yes i understand it. There's no more evacuations of afghan civilians or anyone. Outside the wire they're just pulling out their own remaining.
The KFBK Morning News
5 Rockets Fired at Kabul Airport Were Intercepted by Defense System
"Some form of evacuation this morning. The defense system designed to protect Kabul airport took down as many as five rockets on Monday. Here's NBC's Tracy Park this morning reports of a rocket strike and gunfire. Near Kabul's international airport after an explosion Sunday. Signs of dangerous the U. S continues evacuations ahead of tomorrow's deadline. U. S official said. The automated system detects incoming rockets and uses a machine gun to destroy them before they can
Optimal Health with Dr. Calapai
US Kills ISIS-K Planner in Drone Strike
"Less than a day after he said he would seek out The people responsible. For the massive deaths that occurred this week. The Biden administration said that a U. S drone strike killed one Exist. K Planner one The headline in this pack REVIEW. I love it. It's has. Biz Biden administration says U S drone killed one Isis K planner and retaliation Americans. Not impressed. We don't know how many People were involved in the planning of this Because, other news reports say. That The Taliban. Let thousands of Isis Potential terrorists. Out of the prisons and jails that they were being held in. And that my friends Is just beyond belief. Because it is the Taliban. That we have been relying on to surprise to supply the outer security. Away from the gates, the outer perimeter of security. The Washington Post has a story about this today, but they don't reach the same conclusion that I do. They say the suicide bombing lays bare the challenges. Of Gate security. At the Kabul airport. This catastrophic loss of life in the suicide bombing at Kabul's international airport laid bare the challenges of the U. S military. Faced in an evacuation mission that relied on the Taliban to create an outside perimeter of checkpoints. Enforced, Americans forced Americans to search Afghan civilians. Without the security measures typically used wild deployed.
AP News Radio
At Least 95 Afghans Killed in Thursday's Bombings
"Number of Afghans who died in Thursday's Kabul attack is now close to one hundred an official says at least ninety five Afghans were killed in the suicide bombings outside Kabul's International Airport I think the actual death toll is even higher because other people will call top as they evacuated bodies Afghan and US officials earlier said the bombings that killed at least sixty Afghans on thirteen US troops into the deadliest day for U. S. forces in Afghanistan since August twenty eleven officials say further attempted attacks are expected ahead of the Tuesday deadline the foreign troops to leave I'm Charles de Ledesma
The Patriot AM 1150
"kabul international airport" Discussed on The Patriot AM 1150
"The Taliban took control more than 20 people killed in shootings and stampedes as thousands try to get into the Kabul International Airport. Hoping to get an evacuation flight. Reuter says President Biden is expected to an end soon if the U. S. Is going to extend its troop withdrawal deadline of August, 31st. New York State has a new governor. Kathy Hogle, sworn in just after midnight to replace Andrew Cuomo. Cuomo quitting after the state attorney general's investigation into allegations of sexually inappropriate behavior, and it is farewell speech, Cuomo took one more jab. I am a fighter, and my instinct is to fight this because it is unfair and unjust in my mind local is the state's first female governor. America is listening to Fox News. Some When you hear that hunger calling your name and you need to get some Gotta find yourself a book sweater. Open it up. Whether cookin something good Listen. There's some fuel for my machine ain't no halfway in between. Gotta give me something ate before I follow fucking people. Then hop on that old horse of yours and head on down. The Roy's, Yeah. Roy Rogers Restaurants invite you to try their new dynamic burger. It's a juicy burger topped with the jalapeno peppers, Chipotle ranks us pet Project cheese and bacon. They say how they here They welcome you to say so Come on down to boys and have a cowboy kind of day. Yeah. Dynamite burger at Roy Rogers restaurants. It's one dynamite burger Doordash and uber Eats are available at participating restaurants. Uh huh. And we return to our American stories and the story of Craig Sumner..
The Outspoken Oppa
How Chaos In Afghanistan Emboldened Terrorism - burst 1
"Chaos in afghanistan upton as president biden withdrew military forces leading to a forceful takeover by the taliban today august seventeenth. We will dive into one of the greatest foreign policy. The buckles in modern history. Good afternoon. i'm meeting. Kim and this is the outspoken oma quote. Joe biden has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy national security issue over the past four decades and quote. Who said that not trump not a partisan congressmen or republican operative. That was robert gates. The former secretary of defense under president obama for three years and today as we see significant foreign policy the buckle unfolds in afghanistan that quote is once again reaffirmed now quickly dive into some basic background information as to what is transpiring in afghanistan back in mid april president biden announced immediate withdrawal all american troops from afghanistan by september eleventh. Twenty twenty one. Obviously september eleven was chosen dates because that was to recognize the anniversary of the september eleventh terrorist attacks and which led to the immediate was occupation of afghanistan because at the time afghanistan was harboring osama bin laden on august fifteenth. The taliban took over the capital of kabul effectively toppling. Afghanistan's governments later afghan. President ghani fled the country right before taliban leadership storm the presidential palace and thousands of afghan citizens fled to kabul international airport to skip the taliban. Now while oldest was transpiring. President biden was in camp david and he was strong criticized because he didn't have a strong message or strong immediate message in response to all of this so he traveled back to washington. Dc to address the nation from the white house one of the biggest elements that he was criticized for in the speech was the blame game in which he played and one of the obviously notable people in which she blames forwarded the buckle in afghanistan was trump and sort of implied some blame to bush and obama. He said quote when i came into office. I inherited deal that president trump negotiated with taliban on the his agreement. Us forces would be out of afghanistan. May i twenty twenty one. Just a little over three months after i took office. Us forces had already drawn down during trump administration from roughly fifteen thousand five hundred american force to two thousand five hundred troops in country. The taliban was strongest militarily. Since two dozen one the choice i had to make as your president was added to follow through on that agreement or be prepared to go back to fighting the taliban in the middle of the spring fighting season and quote. And but if you actually look at the deal that trump's state department may with taliban it's not what biden actually described in his address at a nation. Mike pompeo who was secretary of state under president trump said in a recent interview that the deal of the taliban was strictly conditional which meant that deal was was strictly predicated on the taliban committing to a peaceful transfer of power in order for america to withdraw after that commitment to a peaceful transfer of power appel said in a recent interview quote we would have demanded the taliban actually deliver on the conditions that we let out in the agreement including the agreement to engage in meaningful power sharing agreement some that which we struggled to get them to do but made it clear it was going to be required before we completed requirements to fulfil foley withdrawal and unquote. And you know there are some criticisms of the deal. Mike pompeo made with the taliban. Obviously the taliban actually pursuing a peaceful transfer of power from the afghan government was not going to happen. I mean we actually thought. That was being overly idealistic. So people had that criticism upon pales deal but even if biden did not agree with the policy that trump's state departments made in efforts to come to some sort of consensus with the taliban he kind of reversed it. I mean he was president for seven months. Which meant that. He'd independence day department and independence defense department and he could have used his powers as the chief executive to to reverse a deal that the previous administration made i mean for his entire time as president of the united states reversed nearly every single policy. That trump did while he was president. So this is no exception. I mean he should own up to the flaws of the policies in which he tried to pursue in addition to to trump he also blamed the afghan military. He said quote. The truth is but this did on for the more quickly than we had anticipated. So what happened. Afghanistan political leader escape up and fled the country the afghan military collapse. Sometimes we're not trying to fight if anything developments at the past week reinforced the ending. Us military involvement in afghanistan. No was the right decision. American troops cannot ensure not be fighting a war and dying in award. Afghan forces are not willing to fight for themselves and quotes. This is honestly one of the most politically cynical things that i've ever heard biden say the afghan forces are not willing to fight for themselves. Fifty thousand afghan military soldiers died in darndest entire two decades of us occupation of afghanistan. And the reason why they cannot successively defend themselves against the taliban was because biden himself pulled out a contractors and basically destroyed the afghans dependency on us military which are obviously undermined the ability of afghan military to counter act opposing taliban forces. According to the wall street journal quote in the wake of president biden's withdrawal decision the us pulled its airports air support intelligence and contractors servicing afghanistan planes and helicopters. This meant that afghan military simply cannot operate anymore and quote. Admittedly afghan leadership was significantly underprepared in the wake of the draw because as by afghan officials did not believe america will draw however according to andrew watkins a senior analyst for afghanistan and at the international prizes group research advocacy organization. There was no evidence that the taliban significantly increased their manpower and argue. The only reason why there's summer offensive was successful was due to a lack of us. Air strikes which meant that biden's administration shorter significant blame for the dismantling of the afghan government. What biden actually expect to happen when he pulled the entire the tire. Us presence from afghanistan if the afghan military dependent so much on the us occupation of afghan for the viability of their own independent military force. Then of course when they pulled out of afghanistan. The afghan military by itself was not sufficient enough to defend against the taliban if you're pulling out intelligence contracts that were vital for the dependency of the afghan military than have military is expected to fall when the taliban was advancing to the nation's capital and one of the other things that addition to buy actually blaming everyone except for himself for the marco afghanistan biden also discussed casualties in the in the afghan occupation. He said quote. Lemme ask those who wanted to wanted us to stay. How many more how. Many thousands more of american daughters and sons are willing to risk and quotes according to abc news. There's not been a single american combat death since february eighth twenty which was eighteen months ago. That's not to belittle the two thousand three hundred twelve american soldiers that lost life in afghanistan. But it is the suggests that thousands of stationed american soldiers in the lead up to the afghanistan pull out were not being bogged down by precipitous warfare in combat honestly by contrast more than fifty one thousand taliban fighters were killed by american armed forces which shows a major power imbalance in military superiority between taliban in american forces but aside from that by reportedly sent five thousand additional troops back in afghanistan to aid withdrawal despite his call for not putting sons and daughters at risk he just said that it was egregious to put american sons and daughters at risk for filled mission. So what is different about the five thousand additional troops. He sending back into afghanistan. Aren't those sons and daughters. Also at risk and to add insult injury tens of thousands of american citizens have been left behind it in afghanistan in the withdrawal according to the washington according to wall street journal an estimated ten thousand fifteen thousand new citizens remained in afghanistan so yes it is tragic. Every single american soldier died in. afghanistan is a tragedy. No one is disputing dance but suggests that afghanistan was a present danger to the current military soldiers. There from february twenty is simply not true and biden. Really closer to speech with i think when idiotic things that he said in his entire speech close with kohl's diplomacy he said quote. We will continue to support the afghan people we will lead before. Diplomacy or international influence in or humanitarian aid will continue to push for regional diplomacy and engaging prevent violence and instability will continue to speak out for the basic rights at the afghan people of women and girls just as we speak all around the world and quote and my question is just how. How can you negotiate with radical barbaric terrorist group that subject it's ethnic religious and gender minorities to brutal torture and murder. How can you negotiate with democratic for cystic regime. That is responsible for thousands of american lives. I mean honestly gonna ask nicely are gonna get on your knees and begged them to treat the afghanistan woman fairly. I mean i don't understand why biden continues to believe that's diplomacy instead of for actually using military forces is the correct way to go and this brings us back to. What was this for honestly at the end of the day with withdrawn. Us military forces from afghanistan he effectively reversed two decades of foreign policy and the initial mission of counter terrorism and preventing a staging ground for al-qaeda according to the pentagon united states government has been eighty three billion dollars in bolstering the afghanistan government and which is effectively gone to waste. I mean we spend easily billion dollars to bolster an afghan military but the afghan military is so reliance on the american forces to to help them to secure them. But when the american forces are removed from the afghan military to aid them than the billion dollar investment goes down the drain and now according to you defense and state department officials six billion dollars in military equipment including eight hundred fifty mine-resistant ambushed protected vehicles were abandoned in withdrawal which six billion dollars in. Us military equipment is now in the hands of taliban and other terrorist organizations additionally chairman of the joint chiefs of staff mark milley addressed congressional leaders and said that they will move the terrorist threats in afghanistan from medium according to axios which meant that. Obviously you're going to see a rise in terrorism and afghanistan and now that the taliban effectively controls its governments and to add insult injury the inside reports that taliban militants released thousands of prisoners from afghan prisons with links to islamic jihadist groups and al qaeda. So what has changed in the past two decades. We've tried to counter terrorism. We tried to decrease the the influence of kind of effectively imprisoning or killing al qaeda militants. We tried to decrease the the power of the taliban and we tried to effectively counteract attacks by the islamic jihadist groups. But it seems to me after this withdrawal after the dust settled what is going to be. The state of afghanistan will be similar to the state of afghanistan when we first invaded and his brings me to a new york times article which discussed heavier mackey. Who was a former first class army. Special forces soldier with several afghanistan deployments and will shot twice and he said in an interview with the new york times quote. I sacrificed a lot. I saw death every day every year. And the guys. I soaked with new would probably come to an end like this. But the chaos and made his andre after everything we gave. I just wish that had been away to leave. With honor and quote for people like mackey. There is a question that rang in numerous veterans. What was it for the situation. Afghanistan has become similar to america. I evaded two decades ago. All the bloodshed in lives lost in pursuit of counter-terrorism only define the terrorism revitalize. This president has trade the continuing efforts of veterans and committed a damaging dereliction of duty as commander in chief of the armed forces is devastating. What is happening in afghanistan and we can only hope citizens in afghanistan. Remain safe in this critical juncture. All right before we signed off. I like to extend a special. Thank you to my uncle. Who has made this podcast possible and untitled one of my greatest supporters okay. Today's episode the spokane podcast. You could read articles on a variety of important topics at outspoken opa dot com and follow us on instagram twitter facebook and linked in. Also if you'd like to show want to support it. Please go vis a five star review on apple podcasts and listened to our other episodes wherever you hear your podcasts. I'm thinking in. This is the outspoken oba. The outspoken oboe. Podcast is hosted by ethan kim directed by luc him and added by actually awesome the podcast independent production by the elbow from above. 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AP News Radio
Crush at Kabul airport kills 7 as Afghans try to flee
"The British military says at least seven Afghans died in a panicked crush of people trying to enter Kabul's International Airport thousands are still trying to flee the country a week after the Taliban takeover in the scene at the gates of Kabul airport has been chaotic at times with people camping outside them for days allied troops are trying to manage the ground as the check documents British army sergeant major dance but man many see the process is working the common stock available it was not good that's how things turn Saturday transports some succumb to the heat with temperatures above ninety degrees Fahrenheit others may have been trampled suffocated for suffered heart attacks Caliban fighters fired into the air to try to drive the crowds back the Taliban have pledged amnesty to those who worked with the U. S. NATO and the toppled government but many Afghans still fear revenge attacks I'm Ben Thomas
Red Eye Radio
Deadly Chaos Continues at Kabul Airport
"Afghan civilians killed in a panic crush of people trying to enter Kabul's international airport Sunday, the Biden administration coming under fire for the growing crisis in Afghanistan, The Pentagon has pledged to help evacuees.
The Nicole Sandler Show
"kabul international airport" Discussed on The Nicole Sandler Show
"Military side of kabul international airport. This is where those extra american forces have been brought in. They've been brought in to secure this facility. While the evacuation takes place and the evacuation is now moving ahead quite rapidly. Americans are being taken out. Foreign contractors are being taken out other foreign nationals are leaving in addition to afghans. Who are fortunate enough to have exit. Visas to have visas to to other countries and many afghans are complaining that that process is too slow around the edges of this base around the perimeter are many afghans thousands of afghans. Who have no visas who are trying to push their way in and that is exactly what happened a few days ago. Thousands of afghans climbed over the walls. They came into this base. They rushed onto the tarmac. They climbed into civilian planes. They climbed They tried to climb onto military aircraft and were holding on to the undercarriage and according to afghan media several afghans were killed when they fell off of planes after they had taken off the base now however is secure and the evacuation flights are proceeding and proceeding quite quickly in kabul a surprising admission a senior taliban leader telling nbc news. Bet even they. The taliban were surprised at the rapid or that of kabul that they didn't have the resources in place to take kabul they didn't expect that the afghan president trump honey was just going to up and leave but they still manage to come in and take the city. The city is quiet. The city is tense. A lot of people are staying at home but we are starting now to see the first signs of of discontent. The first signs of protest yesterday very small group of brave afghan women went out onto the streets to demand rights to say that women's rights under the taliban rule and then in jalalabad today disturbing incident afghan demonstrators went out. They were carrying the old afghan flag saying that is their flag. Not the new white taleban flag and according to witnesses Taliban drove by in a vehicle and opened fire on that crowd killing of those demonstrators killing at least three reasonable nbc news..
AP News Radio
Pakistan State Carrier Resumes Flights to Kabul
"Evacuation flights out of Afghanistan continue but so does the struggle to get out the thousands seeking to leave before the August thirty first deadline for US forces to be gone cars are lined up and people camped out along the blast walls of Kabul International Airport waiting and hoping to get in gunfire could be heard but at least for those not in the immediate vicinity of the shops have become background noise Mohammed Naim had served as an interpreter for U. S. forces so I'm telling today people stay in their house houses come to this area it's a very very busy situation right now Taliban fighters are checkpoints ringing the airport those who make it there are not leaving hundreds lacks the first appearance for evacuation maps adding to the chaos that's prevented some Afghans do have papers and promises of flights from getting through I'm Ben Thomas
AP News Radio
Reassurances From Taliban, but Fearful Afghans Look for the Exits
"The crush of people trying to get out of Afghanistan continues I'm Ben Thomas with the latest Taliban militants fired into the air in an effort to control the crowds gathered at the blast walls of Kabul International Airport earlier Hasina Sayed made it onto a flight to England it was very chaotic and terrifying situation for me for every Afghan at the Taliban swept into her town a senior official told her to just run I even didn't bring anything with me I had only a small bag aimed at my paperwork I which I brought with my sons the business woman remains concerned about what's ahead for Afghanistan under Taliban rule especially women are they going to stand by the end on promise just in regards to a woman education woman empowerment lament a human rights in the meantime other Afghans who make it into the airport plead their case to foreign troops for a seat on a flight our I'm bad
AP News Radio
Taliban Mark Afghan Independence as Challenges to Rule Rise
"Now in control of the country the Taliban is faced with restarting a frozen government amid a climate of fear and uncertainty most officials of the ousted government either remain hiding in their homes or attempting to flee the Taliban large crowds of people continue to gather outside Kabul's International Airport the questions remain over Afghanistan's nine billion dollars in foreign reserves the vast majority now apparently frozen in the U. S. the head of Afghanistan's central bank warns the country supply of physical US dollars is close to zero which could lead to inflation and the depreciation of its own currency the Afghani so far the Taliban have offered no plans for its government other than to say it will be guided by sharia or Islamic law I'm Ben Thomas
AP News Radio
Taliban Agree to Allow Safe Passage for Civilians Attempting to Leave Afghanistan
"The Taliban have taken over the civilian side of Kabul International Airport as thousands of Afghans continue to try to flee their country hundreds of people were outside the airport early this morning many apparently without passports when the Taliban demanded to see documents before allowing the rear passenger inside president Biden's national security advisor Jake Sullivan says the Taliban have agreed to allow safe passage for civilians trying to leave Afghanistan there have been instances where we have received reports of people being turned away or push back or even beat we are taking that up in a channel with the Taliban to try to resolve those issues the U. S. embassy has relocated to the military side of the airport where it's coordinating the airlift of diplomats foreigners and Afghans who worked with the Americans additional US troops have arrived and more are on the way with a total of six thousand expected to be involved in the coming days Ben Thomas Washington
The Lawfare Podcast
"kabul international airport" Discussed on The Lawfare Podcast
"If there's any diplomatic used a medic seems like it'd be extremely slim so what are the remaining sources of leverage available to other parties in their nash community who've got an interest in in housing plot next in afghanistan. Yeah i mean i think. The greatest leverage is in the hands of the regional powers pakistan iran china russia to a lesser extent the central asian states. Because those are the governments that first of all had the greatest interest in the situation in afghanistan. Still and also. I think that's really the stage. The primary audience that the taliban has in mind for its foreign policy so for the us part as it gets a question of working with and through as it can those regional powers to try to exercise some influence over how the taliban governance in afghanistan. I think the taliban has been smart enough to appreciate that in their foreign policy that it's unlikely that in power although they would like to still have development assistance that they're really going to be able to govern in a way that the tracks that assistance from european powers at least maybe the us as well. And i do think that it's nearly impossible without them. That european standards for governance can be met by the taliban that there will be development assistance continuing to flow to taliban government from from europe. I mean it has to be said. Also the majority of american assistance at the stage is for security institutions in security forces in the talents. Not going to want that. So that's off the table already. The the us has leaned in recent weeks and months very heavily on this idea that the potential for the taliban to gain legitimacy and attract financial assistance is significant leverage over them. But i think it's the us leaned on that just because that's what it had to offer as a carrot and stick not because that was ever going to be particularly effective and now we're in a context where it's really not going to be effective because there is no other power they are the defacto power. They have come to power away where there's no competition left standing for them and it's unquestionable to me that the regional governments are going to recognize them as the legitimate enough power in afghanistan. And they're at least for the time being not going to be the prime state that they feared they were going to be so the the us influence over the situation as i said is is not going to be unilateral any longer because it doesn't have that partner in afghanistan over which had the most influence the us influence is going to be have to be exerted in cooperation with the regional powers. And that's very difficult to do when you're talking about iran china russia and pakistan as the key regional powers were little pastime but i want to turn to jonathan with one closing question which is another part of the original plan for the post withdrawal scenario in afghanistan for the united states was the ability to maintain some sort of over the horizon military capability in the event. You did see al-qaeda. Resurgence potentially for other purposes. Well i suppose but we haven't really seen to my knowledge at least efforts to negotiate another regional base for aircraft didn't for other Us operations having any success so far. Obviously it doesn't seem likely that there's going to be any military. Us military presence in afghanistan. Right now it's boiled down to kabul international airport Which the military is trying to maintain control over for the evacuation of us ally personnel some afghan partners but not as many as perhaps would like to be pulled out a depends on how long they can maintain that control and helen. The taliban seems amenable to it. I suppose what are the options left militarily for the united states Obviously united states did project force into the afghanistan in the nineteen nineties the rocket attacks and sort of other measures and may have different capabilities now but are much more limited for this because of the challenging neighborhood and the inability to secure an alternative place to house are a military presence in the region. Yeah i mean you're right. It did seem like there were some engagements of vitamin iteration with regional countries. They were a bunch of meetings with central asian state leaders et cetera. While they never said out loud it seemed like they were testing the waters of the because military.
Radio Boston
"kabul international airport" Discussed on Radio Boston
"Pull them out They needed plans to In me the morale of the afghan army began to collapse and of course it fell apart when they came out last month to a lot of americans and including folks in the white house. It's seemed to be surprising at the speed of that collapse in the speed of the taliban takeover. Were you surprised at how quickly things fell apart. Afghanistan no i wasn't i. I'm surprised that that the pentagon was You know i spent time on afford operating base afghanistan Working for the us. Army doing information operations. And i got to really know the afghan army Very well and that capacity. I also worked in the country. the cia Tracking the suicide bombers. And both of those roles i've got to know the afghan forces and what i found in my experience is was. It wasn't a cohesive modern fighting force like say the. Us army It was this patchwork of quarreling tribal groups. You know get mangal whose beck's shiite mongol harare's aaron pashtoons persians haji all these groups had fought civil wars and we cobbled together into one army And trend fights for a concept that didn't exist or rushing concept of a nation we try constructing nation In this land. That was almost like game of thrones fan. You know there's all these tribes and there's a huge kosher in this country of tribal defection We thought again the last few weeks. Afghan army units just surrendering and giving it a weapons taleban defections betrayals So it didn't surprise me that army that we built together You know to on after we left fell apart so quickly once the us left and especially once the us withdrew the one thing that was most vocal in in the war. That is us air support so over and over again airport chains of damage because the war as soon as biden pulled the apache helicopters the bombers And we stopped supporting. The afghan troops were air support The the whole game changed. So i do want to ask you. So given what you're describing in terms of the number of groups in the sort of coalition holding together this country the taliban again swiftly toppled that regime. And i'm thinking can the taliban effectively ruling Govern afganistan now or are we looking at more conflict with neighbors and other other countries in the region on very poor leaders When they took over the country of ninety four to ninety six these are semi literate. tribal warriors They don't have any experience in running. Complex theocracies you know. How are they gonna run. Kabul international airport How are they gonna do anything. Then of all running ministries education Did a terrible job..
Impeachment: A Daily Podcast
"kabul international airport" Discussed on Impeachment: A Daily Podcast
"It had a lot more capacity and could be much more easily guarded than kabul international airport. That was shut down in stripped to its to its studs I don't understand it. It's hard to do much now. I mean unlike vietnam which was right on the water and you could have boats pull up and boats can carry a lot more people than an airplane. this is a landlocked country I'm not really sure what what can be done at this point. They have to be a lot of them. Are going to be taken out of the country. Maybe not to the united states but to through iran to turkey Maybe to europe europe from there But what's what's the thing that's very clear about every aspect of this withdrawal again again. We can talk about whether that was a good idea but whether or not it was a good idea there were one hundred one things that could have been done and i only see evidence of about two or three of them having actually been done. I want to ask you both about reports. That i've heard that are kind of conflicting that maybe to To the fate of so many people reports that say on the one hand. The taliban is promising. Amnesty to people who've not been with them and that there is no apparent military violence in kabul. Now that they've taken over the capital. But i've also heard reports that they've already engaged in executions of surrendering afghan soldiers and raping women and selling some women into forced marriages. Already in places they've taken over Do either of you have any knowledge of anything on on either side of that fred. I'll start with you. I don't have direct knowledge I would say two things very quickly one. Any pledge by the taliban is not worth anything and second. I've already forgotten the second part of your question. I'll go to go to kristin kristin. He makes a initial first point which is just because the taliban says that. That doesn't mean it's true absolutely brian. They've been The the taliban have been lying for twenty years. I would love to believe them but But based on past experience They're not reliable What i'm hearing from folks on the ground is that Taliban are now going door to door in kabul They ha- what's what's been known for at least several days. Now is that They they have. Us biometric equipment to identify any like through retinal scans facial recognition They have the ability to ide- Any anyone who has ever with the us at any point which is a huge huge number of afghans And also keep in mind there's you know there's humanitarian aid workers on ground. There's all of these. People who have been part of of building a better. Afghanistan modernizing afghanistan educating afghans carrying for afghans. All of the things that that the taliban has murdered people for these last twenty years and all of them are trying to get everybody is trying to save their lives and But they the taliban are controlling checkpoints. They are able to people. They are going door to door and the The the executions will will be ramping up..
WSJ What's News
Three Killed at Kabul’s Airport Amid Effort to Flee Taliban
"We begin this morning in afghanistan on your firm. The taliban claimed victory sunday after sweeping unopposed into the capital city of kabul president. Ashraf ghani fled abroad. Police deserted their posts and the afghan government collapsed now in chaotic scenes. The us along with western diplomats and thousands of afghans are trying to get out on sunday secretary of state. Antony blinken told abc news. This week with george stephanopoulos that the withdrawal would happen in a safe and orderly fashion. We're working to make sure that our personnel are safe and secure were relocating The men and women of our embassy to location at the airport this morning at least three people were killed by gunfire at the passenger terminal of kabul's international airport officials at the us central command. Were immediately available for
The Gee and Ursula Show
U.S. Troops Traveling to Afghanistan to Evacuate Embassy
"Kenny McCormick tells us Help is on the way to get Americans and our allies hours the U. S than Britain and now Canada are all sending troops to help reduce their embassy staffs. The U. S will station thousands of infantry troops at Kabul International Airport. They will help protect the airport and secure military flights. More than 3000 additional U. S troops will head to Kuwait in case they're needed. They can deploy quickly. CBS News, senior National Security contributor. And former CIA deputy director Michael Morell says this is concerning what happens to those tens of thousands. Probably 100,000 Afghans who worked for the United States the last 20 years. Those people will be under threat. We have to work as hard as we can to get them out of the
Skullduggery
"kabul international airport" Discussed on Skullduggery
"Expect kaba will fall. Afghanistan will be run by the taliban and we'll turn largely into a black hole of our own creation. Do you think elliott that the taliban will go back to where it was when it ruled the country before nine eleven in terms of its a repression of people. It's kind of medieval ways or or is it going to be harder for them now. After the afghan people have lived with some degree of freedom for number for for twenty years. Now i think the question asked. Do we believe how the taliban will be in some way chastise by having fodder twenty year war inheriting a population that has lived with some degree of freedom at least in urban centers. No i don't believe they will. I don't believe that. They view themselves as chastise. I believe they view themselves as vindicated in the most triumphant and glorious manner possible triumph maybe only parallel by them besting the soviets and besting the british in the nineteenth century. I think for the taliban that is absolutely the narrative they will apply to this. I don't think they're as early out of line for applying that narrative. And i think they will feel emboldened to implement their views and their way of life on otherwise reluctant afghans. So i am not optimistic for what this means for freedom. Freedom loving afghans in that country. Well certainly given the reports of what's happening on the ground in recent days. There's not much reason for encouragement. There we the. Us embassy in kabul tweeted last night about reports about afghan soldiers who surrendered being executed by the taliban. There's been a tax on hospitals on schools. Wipe out side just an hour ago the. Us embassy has announced it is moving from its its grounds to the airport in kabul so the us embassy is as of today located at the kabul international airport so it does feel like we're going to be looking at scenes like the last days of saigon in one thousand nine hundred seventy five. Well i think what is so. I think what is so dispiriting. Emini ways is maybe we will or maybe we won't because we'll do what we did in baga which to me was shameful to our afghan allies which is which is basically told no one we were leaving and we left in slunk out of there in the middle of the night. I mean at the end of the day. I'm sorry like don't we have any decency. What is there to say for our national honor. Like you don't i'm i don't get hot about many things. You don't behave this way like this is shameful. Elliot can you. Can you just remind us from our previous conversation. What you believe. The strategy should have been as opposed to what happened. I mean we had. We were down to two thousand five hundred troops on the ground and of course there was a there was a coalition force as well and we use that to leverage afghan troops but we essentially at best fought to a stalemate with the taliban the taliban have been in the ascendancy for a long time in terms of the strategy what could and what should the united states have done. And what was. What do you think the best possible outcome could have been if they had done the things that you think they should have done. I listen. I love the armchair quarterback game because you know if you've been an awarding awards messy. It's sloppy it is not. These are not easy jobs. But i i would say let's take a long-term and short-term view long term. You know one of the victims or the famous sayings in afghanistan. When i was there was and this is the A member of the taliban saying this to an american you all might have the watches but we have the time many. You might have all the technological sophistication that you have a. You don't have the time the only way we could have won. This war was by convincing the taliban that no we've got the watches and we've got the we're not going anywhere that doesn't mean there's going to be one hundred and fifty thousand troops there but that means the combination of the afghan government with americans is not going anywhere. It is strongly. We did it in korea. We did it. Did it in germany. look at us. We're not going anywhere now. That strategy was immediately. That strategy could say was undermined as far back as two thousand nine. When president obama announced ran saying originally ran saying iraq was the wrong war which i agree with. Afghanistan was the righteous war. Bush got distracted. We need to refocus on the right war which was afghanistan and he did that but in his two thousand nine speech you when she announced the surge in which a hundred fifty thousand us jobs are going to afghanistan in the very same speech at west point he said and they will all be leaving by two thousand fourteen immediately. You're saying to the taliban you've got the time just way. Twenty fourteen were leaving. I was in afghanistan with that speech was given. And i tell you i would go. Politics is a war is politics is very retail. I would sit with village. Elder after village elder talking to them about why they needed to support this initiative or that initiative and they would say. But how can i help you. I mean you know yes you want to do this and that would be great. You're gonna be gone in two thousand fourteen. And i have a taliban shuttle governor and he's gonna kill me when you so we never commenced the afghan people thoroughly enough that we were never going to go. We were never going to abandon them. Whatever that we will never abandon you and so now we can go up to today right so before this announcement. Yeah we done it decent enough job. I mean building an afghan military. That was taking the fight to the taliban so much they weren't being overrun by the taliban. We had three thousand troops thereabouts in afghanistan. Us combat deaths in thousand twenty or three three. Listen that's tragic. You don't wanna see us servicemen. Ever die but there were more american servicemembers killed in camp pendleton california. That's one marine corps base in training accidents than all of afghanistan. There were more troops stationed at the capitol by two.
BBC Newshour
"Deep Concern" as Afghanistan Deteriorates, Taliban Surges Amid US Troop Withdrawal
"Air defense system at Kabul's international airport is part of measures to protect it. After the withdrawal of US led troops the system donated to Afghanistan will counter missile and rocket attacks. British
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"The emir of qatar was who was sort of facilitating. The negotiations was was told that the united states is sort of leery about who were negotiating with. Are we really negotiating with guys calling the shots. And can we see a proof of life on this and so There there was a like a two week period were. The taliban actually stopped attacking afghan national army and that this point a year and a half ago nearly two years ago virtually. No americans are in combat in afghanistan but but But we did note that except for some exceptions. The attacks across afghanistan from one province far far out west to the far east nuristan all that the attacks ceased for about ten days. Which is what was requested was in. Let's see some command and control before we spend you know one day negotiating with you guys. We gotta make sure you are the men. So the negotiations evidently Entailed the the fact that the couple international airport would remain open and that international conventions would be recognized and that diplomatic law would be recognized by the taliban and and the taliban claim that they said. Yeah of course you. You know you guys can have embassies well any anyone who wants to embassy. You can have an embassy though thing. Well that involves for in the united states. The the us said well. We're gonna have guards. We're going to have a big embassy. We're going to have six hundred fifty to seven hundred effectively. An infantry battalion between kabul international airport and the embassy and the taliban said no no foreign troops and then they apparently they came around and said okay but you can call them embassy in airport guards or whatever and they agreed to have the nato partner. Turkey lead the security detail kabul international airport. Apparently that is our our in afghanistan. These security situation is absolutely deteriorating. Because the the more afghan national army outfits that the taliban interacting with the more surrendering and the president said something on farai day on thursday. No one for your thursday. Just patently false. I don't have the clip. But i have the transcript. They don't as he was walking away and he gave his We're ending america's longest war but we'll always honor. The bravery of the american patriots is served in it. God bless you all. May god protect our troops. Thank you he turns. Somebody yelled out. Mr president do you trust. The taliban does president and then someone yelled of them is a is a taliban takeover of afghanistan now inevitable and he snapped back and said no. It's not and then the question or asked why he said quote because you pause. The afghan troops have three hundred thousand well-equipped as well equipped as any army in the world and an air force against something like seventy five thousand taliban. It is not inevitable. close quote so. I'll play when we come back. But that that's demonstrably false. And i mean that's worrying to me if he if he believes that need delivered that line as if he he did believe that information and he's afraid of setting himself up for a giant failure. It's done done. It's a done deal just depends on whether or not the american media is going to be there to capture whichever iconic image. We remember afghanistan by forever. Never back into second. Kfi am six forty. Live everywhere on the iheartradio app. If i am. Forty is the arctic. Replace prime suits and here till eleven in.
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Suicide blast kills 14 near Afghanistan airport
"He's in Washington, I'm Louise Schiavone. The Justice department is made the unprecedented move of releasing documents from the FBI's request to a special court for permission to surveilled. Former Trump campaign advisor Carter page NPR's. Mara Liasson reports. The President Trump is claiming that the documents confirmed the investigation into Russian election at your favorites is a rigged witch hunt. This is the first Fiso wiretap application ever made public. The declassified document was heavily redacted, but it shows that the application relied on evidence that Russia had tried to recruit page back in two thousand thirteen. It also relied on evidence from that dossier compiled by a former British intelligence agent President Trump tweeted this morning that the document proves his campaign was spied on Republicans in an effort to discredit the origins of the whole Russia investigation have been saying that the FBI abused its power because it relied improperly on the dossier Democrats say the FIS appliques. Was appropriate Mara Liasson NPR news One concept that emerged from the Helsinki summit last week is that the US and Russia might work together to help Syrian. Refugees return to their war-torn country but the. Head of US central command. General Joseph Patel tells ABC news. He's not convinced that US Russia cooperation should expand beyond the card. Coordination over Syrian airspace We should be doing anything more with. Russia right now I've not. For that I don't think that. We ought to be doing militarily with them right now Beyond what. We are currently we're currently doing votes l. told ABC and the Wall Street Journal that Russia's support of the Syrian, regime gives him significant pause and Afghanistan the Islamic state says it was behind a. Suicide bombing near Kabul international airport today that killed at least fourteen people the BBC's Catherine Davis reports. The blast coincided with the return of the country's exiled vice president cramps, of people including high ranking officials had gathered on, the tarmac to welcome general Dostam there was tight security for the event which was broadcast live on television but minutes after his. Convoy left the app airport an explosion occurred blast is set to. Have gone off near the main entrance where people had also been waiting general Dostum's return and the. Reason he left has. Been a subject of much speculation he went to techy. Often accusations of involvement. In the kidnap rate and torture of a political rival he's denied any wrongdoing And insists. He was in Turkey for medical treatment the BBC's Catherine Davis European Union officials are doing Washington later this week to meet with President Trump about trade this after the conclusion of, the meeting of. G twenty finance ministers and central bankers and Buenos Aires where trade was topic a this is NPR news from news, I'm Racquel Maria Dylan there's a small brush fire burning in a county park in. The hills of Milpitas the country fire has burned a couple hundred acres of grass already and is. Twenty five percent contained Cal fire officials say no homes are threatened so, far fire departments from around the south bay and, air tankers are already responding and some hikers were rescued no evacuation orders have been issued yet now too adorable baby sea otters. The marine mammal center in sausalito wants the public's help to name. An otter pop this particular pop had a rough start to life when she was first stranded she. Was suffering from demo Eric acid. Poisoning now she's recovering well and needs a name it turns out there. Are rules, for naming. A sea otter it's more like naming a Kentucky Derby horse than choosing a name for a. Family pet the center can't reuse names that would violate the terms of their licensed to treat wild animals veterinarian Abby McClain, says even animals will be released. Back into the ocean. Need names it really helps us because just memorizing numbers is very difficult especially when. You have hundreds of patients on site at one time and because the only thing cuter than a..