Britain will not accept any more people for flights out of Kabul beyond those already inside the airport after it shut its processing center and entered the final stages of its evacuation from Afghanistan, defense minister Ben Wallace said https://t.co/4V6OMaSIIW
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 27, 2021
NEW: Dominic Raab says that two British nationals and the child of another British national were killed in yesterday's terrorist attack in Kabul. Two more UK nationals injured.
— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) August 27, 2021
British PM Boris Johnson vowed to "shift heaven and earth” to evacuate remaining Britons and Afghans in Kabul https://t.co/sZql5khtRp pic.twitter.com/g9relwMDHC
— Bloomberg Originals (@bbgoriginals) August 27, 2021
Saturday's Telegraph: “PM's 'great regret' at leaving Afghans behind” #BBCPapers #TomorrowsPapersToday https://t.co/7FuHsAa3Vz pic.twitter.com/qZfQqq8dos
— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) August 27, 2021
A Times of London reporter found British Embassy documents identifying Afghan staff members and job applicants scattered on the ground as he toured Kabul’s abandoned diplomatic district. The U.K.'s defense chief promised to “get to the bottom of it." https://t.co/janTpwoxqI
— The Associated Press (@AP) August 27, 2021
Britain has rescued three Afghan families whose details were exposed by officials in the rush to leave the country’s embassy in Kabul https://t.co/cKEY7YSXu8
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 27, 2021
🗣️Tom Tugendhat has said he is contacting "literally anybody I can think of", including former war lords, in a bid to get remaining friends out of the country.
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) August 27, 2021
"This is what defeat looks like…we have no influence over Kabul anymore," he added. pic.twitter.com/NPAKdrv062
So when will the appalling UK hostage crisis begin? Once all our passport holders still out there have been identified and rounded up? This tragic fiasco will not end well. Maybe it will destroy the rotten Tory regime. #TalibanVictory #Betrayal 😡 https://t.co/g5Sd4CeJE1
— Brexit Buster (@BrexitBuster) August 27, 2021
Meanwhile…
This is what the #USMarines were facing in their day-to-day work at the exact spot where the attacks took place (filmed a few days ago). No one had been searched – it wasn’t possible. Tough conditions and incredibly vulnerable – open to attack. #KabulAiport #afghanistan pic.twitter.com/NvZpAuGQ4n
— Jane Ferguson (@JaneFerguson5) August 26, 2021
"American forces working under heightened security and threats of another terror attack pressed ahead with the evacuation from Kabul’s airport Friday, the day after a deadly suicide bombing wrote a devastating closing chapter on the U.S. withdrawal…"https://t.co/0hXSOiZVXj
— Michael Tackett (@tackettdc) August 27, 2021
context on scale of evacuations from Afghanistan:
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) August 27, 2021
on Aug 14, US govt estimated 6,000 Americans remained in country
on Aug 18, President Biden estimated the number of Afghan allies needing evacuation at 50-65,000
total number of people flown out of Kabul since Aug 14: 105,000
"There are approximately 500 American citizens we are currently working with who want to leave and with whom we are communicating directly to facilitate their evacuations," State Department spokesman says.
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) August 27, 2021
NSC confirmed our story in a statement last night: “In limited cases we have shared information with the Taliban that has successfully facilitated evacuations from Kabul.” https://t.co/yHqp1iNqxy
— Lara Seligman (@laraseligman) August 27, 2021
.@Charles_Lister: "As a result of the hurried nature of our withdrawal and the resulting collapse of the Afghan government, our intelligence network across the country has been decimated — our 'eyes' are largely gone and our 'ears' and severely limited." https://t.co/9GW9oN2M4T
— John Haltiwanger (@jchaltiwanger) August 27, 2021
Fox's Wallace: An Afghanistan-based attack on US "could be curtains" for Biden presidency https://t.co/ZCZ2md4FWD pic.twitter.com/BlNpUxYChy
— The Hill (@thehill) August 27, 2021
"Biden did not prepare the country for the tragedies that would inevitably unfold as this sad chapter ended, perhaps because, despite his decades of public service, he was unprepared himself," writes @jimantle. https://t.co/h4s6i8LMqP
— The Week (@TheWeek) August 27, 2021
“I would get on these calls with a small number of members of Congress, mostly Ds, who would all very politely say, ‘We love you Biden administration … I would be the only one who would just say starkly, ‘Here are the stakes. People are going to die.’” https://t.co/Z7e91jT569
— Josh Kraushaar (@JoshKraushaar) August 27, 2021
My latest oped on @ForeignPolicy
— Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 (@AdamKinzinger) August 27, 2021
Leaving Afghanistan will not stop terrorism or leave the threats the United States faces behind. https://t.co/Jq7fPUnVz7
#Afghanistan via @stevenportnoy "We're not predicting a diplomatic presence on the ground in Afghanistan," says @PressSec, who earlier this wk said the US hoped to continue providing consular support in Kabul. pic.twitter.com/y0S3Dp23C6
— Catherine Herridge (@CBS_Herridge) August 27, 2021
The cost of the global war on terror: $6.4 trillion and 801,000 lives [Brown University] #Afghanistanhttps://t.co/Pj7ik4755N
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) August 27, 2021
Nation Stunned That 20-Year Catastrophe Could End So Catastrophically https://t.co/Yf7M9Ztu3N pic.twitter.com/5LxR0aNtzu
— The Onion (@TheOnion) August 27, 2021
Rylee McCollum’s dad messaged his son on Thursday in Afghanistan, where McCollum’s Marine unit had deployed to help with evacuations at Kabul airport. “Hey man, you good?” he asked.
— The New York Times (@nytimes) August 27, 2021
McCollum, a 20-year-old Marine and an expectant father, never answered. https://t.co/TXOfDMxild
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