BREAKING: Footage Of Taliban Celebrations Emerges As The United States Officially Strands Americans In Afghanistan
The last of the American evacuation flights have flown out of Kabul’s international airport, bringing the longest US war to a conclusion only weeks before the 20th anniversary of its start – but stranding hundreds of American citizens behind.
U.S. COMPLETES AFGHAN PULLOUT, ENDING 20-YEAR MILITARY PRESENCE
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) August 30, 2021
General Frank McKenzie Jr., commander of US Central Command, notified reporters that the last US C-17 left Hamid Karzai International Airport at 3:29 p.m. ET (11:59 p.m. Kabul time).
“The last manned aircraft is now clearing the airspace above Afghanistan,” McKenzie said.
The Taliban celebrate the defeat of a superpower with gunfire in Kabul. pic.twitter.com/L1g0LHynPz
— Matthieu Aikins (@mattaikins) August 30, 2021
According to the Associated Press, celebratory gunfire erupted throughout Afghanistan’s capital city early Tuesday as the Taliban celebrated the evacuation of US troops.
Kabul airport after the last American soldiers depart. pic.twitter.com/rPzADbm97S
— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) August 30, 2021
“We did not get out everybody we wanted to get out,” McKenzie said, adding that diplomatic efforts will now be necessary to bring out the estimated “low hundreds” of Americans still on the ground.
He said that “every single US service member” is now out of the country.
Gen. McKenzie says "the vast majority of [US Citizens] who wanted to leave" Afghanistan were evacuated pic.twitter.com/8eE6rA0wzF
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) August 30, 2021
WASHINGTON (AP) — General says some American citizens who wanted to leave Afghanistan remain in country after US departure.
— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) August 30, 2021
McKenzie’s announcement came at the end of a difficult departure process intensified by an ISIS suicide bombing that killed at least 182 people, including 13 US military personnel, on Thursday.
“This makes no sense The Taliban doesn’t have nukes or F15s so there’s no way they could win Biden said so,” Tim Pool wrote in response mocking Biden.
This makes no sense
The Taliban doesn't have nukes or F15s so there's no way they could win
Biden said so
— Tim Pool (@Timcast) August 30, 2021
Since the Taliban marched into Kabul on August 15, Karzai Airport has been overrun with panicked Americans, Afghans, and residents of Allied countries trying to secure seats on planes out.
Images of Afghans gripping to the exterior of military planes as they took off and plunging to their deaths as the plane ascended in the sky sparked worldwide outrage and fueled criticism of the Biden administration’s handling of the evacuation.
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