THE AFGHANISTAN DEBACLE CONTINUES, OUTRAGE BUILDS, ANOTHER ATTACK IMMINENT

There's so much bad press both here and abroad as this ongoing debacle unfolds.  You can read much of it at https://nypost.com/

Also:

FROM TOM FARANDA; HEARTBREAKING INTERVIEW, FATHER OF MARINE KILLED IN KABUL; MORE HERE

US SPECIAL FORCES VETERANS/VOLUNTEERS GETTING PEOPLE OUT; MORE HERE 

Former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says US troops will need to go back into combat in Afghanistan — as the region remains on high alert for more suicide attacks, with the death toll from Thursday’s atrocity soaring over 180, including 13 US service members.  MORE HERE

GOODWIN ON BIDEN'S SHAMEFUL DECISIONS LED TO CARNAGE  https://nypost.com/2021/08/26/sorry-bidens-decisions-led-to-kabul-carnage-goodwin/

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PRAYERS FOR OUR COUNTRY, those we are leaving behind, our troops etal. as our country continues to flounder, our allies are increasingly alienated, and much more.

BRITAIN PULLS PLUG ON AIRLIFT; HOSTAGE FEARS GROW  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9934589/Britain-pulls-plug-Kabul-airlift-UK-start-getting-soldiers-Airport.html

AFGHANISTAN NIGHTMARE, DISHONOR, JUST GETS WORSE  https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/08/afghanistan-nightmare-gets-worse/

HOSTAGE TIME? TALIBAN SEALS OFF AIRPORT, AMERICANS WARNED TO AVOID THE AIRPORT, AND TOLD THOSE DESPERATELY WAITING AT THE GATES TO LEAVE...The Taliban deployed extra forces around Kabul’s airport Saturday in a bid to prevent large crowds as the US-led effort to evacuate people from Afghanistan races toward an Aug. 31 deadline.The move to seal off the airport comes two days after a deadly attack which killed nearly 200, including 13 US service members. Officials warned Americans to avoid the airport because of security threats, and told those desperately waiting at the gates to leave, Reuters reported. Taliban forces on Saturday fired warning shots and deployed some kind of colored smoke on a road leading to the airport, sending dozens of people scattering, The Associated Press reported.New checkpoints sprang up on roads leading to the airport, some manned by uniformed Taliban fighters with US-supplied Humvees and night-vision goggles captured from Afghan security forces. MORE AT https://nypost.com/2021/08/28/taliban-seals-off-kabul-airport-stops-crowds-as-airlift-winds-down/

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BIZARRE STATEMENT: BIDENS SAYS....INSTRUCTED BY WHO?   https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/aug/26/joe-biden-first-person-i-was-instructed-call-was-k/

AND 9/5 UPDATE TALIBAN NOT ALLOWING PLANES TO LEAVE https://nypost.com/2021/09/05/taliban-holding-6-us-flights-hostage-in-afghanistan-rep-mccaul/ 

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TWO articles.  As always, please do your own due diligence. Prayers for the Americans, staff, and others left behind., the men, women and children now under the control of the Taliban.

#1----Final stretch: Westerners being blocked, beaten by Taliban amid last-ditch evacuation efforts--Taliban fighters beat an Australian man bloody and fired gunshots at a checkpoint near Kabul’s airport in a new video that gives a dramatic glimpse into the desperate struggle to pass militant roadblocks.  The footage was published just a week before President Biden’s Aug. 31 deadline to withdraw US troops, which has triggered a mad dash to the airport by Western citizens and Afghans who aided them.

“I’m an Australian citizen. They hit me,” said the man with blood streaming down his face. Bearded fighters menacingly brandished semiautomatic rifles nearby and one appeared to object to being filmed.  Five of the man’s Afghan-citizen family members were with him, but a member of the group said the relatives were split up, with some feared abducted, according to the Daily Mail. MORE AT https://nypost.com/2021/08/25/westerners-being-blocked-beaten-by-taliban-amid-evacuation-efforts/

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#2---Still stranded Blinken says up to 1,500 US citizens stuck in Kabul as Biden laughs off question; MORE AT https://nypost.com/2021/08/25/blinken-says-up-to-1500-us-citizens-still-stranded-in-kabul/

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FROM TUESDAY

JOE'S ABOUT FACE---STUNNING REVERSAL IN AFGHANISTAN, FOR THOSE OF US WITH FRIENDS AND FAMILY SERVING OVERSEAS

Biden asks for 'contingency plans' to extend Afghanistan withdrawal in stunning reversal

The president has asked defense officials to put together plans for keeping American forces on the ground in Afghanistan beyond the end of this month — despite claiming earlier Tuesday that the White House would abide by the Taliban’s “red line” of a full withdrawal by Aug. 31. MORE AT https://nypost.com/2021/08/24/biden-to-speak-about-afghanistan-evacuation-amid-criticism/

WEDNESDAY NIGHT UPDATED: A RESCUER'S REPORT  https://nypost.com/2021/08/25/rescuer-describes-what-kabul-airport-is-like-now/

NO AMERICANS RESCUED OUTSIDE OF KABUL; MORE HERE