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Summary of current events in Afghanistan

This is from Santa Surfing:

◽️Trump’s statement:
“Melania and I express our deepest condolences to the families of our brilliant and brave employees, whose duty to the United States meant so much to them. Our thoughts are also with the families of the innocent civilians who died today as a result of the brutal attack in Kabul. This tragedy should never have been allowed to happen, which makes our grief even deeper and more difficult to understand.
May God bless the United States of America”

◽️The last explosion in Kabul was controlled, it was carried out by the US military to destroy ammunition – from the statement of the Taliban.

◽️The Central Command of the US Armed Forces: “We are saddened by the death of our military, but we will not stop the evacuation.”

◽️American officials provided the Taliban with the names of Americans and Afghan allies to allow entry to the Kabul airport.

◽️CNN: “Biden will make a statement in connection with the attacks in Kabul.”

◽️Some media outlets report three explosions at the Kabul airport, other sources say five or six attacks. At the moment, the situation in Kabul is chaotic, accurate information about the number of attacks is expected later.

◽️The Pentagon: “The United States shares information about terrorist threats with the Taliban, thanks to this, they have prevented several attacks.”

◽️The White House postpones a meeting with the Israeli Prime Minister and a press briefing, cancels a meeting with governors after two explosions in Kabul.

◽️Several sources report that hundreds of ISIS fighters are surrounding the Kabul airport, ” new attacks are inevitable.”

◽️A British lawmaker reports that the Taliban fired at and beat hundreds of people who found themselves in a difficult situation at checkpoints.

◽️Speaker of the US House of Representatives Pelosi at a speech on tightening voting laws promoted by Republicans: “An attack on the right to vote. This is happening in our country.” She speaks for six minutes, completely ignoring the 12 American servicemen killed by terrorists in Afghanistan.

◽️Republican Senator Josh Hawley calls on Biden to resign.

◽️”Despite the attacks, we continue to fulfill our mission (to withdraw troops),” says the leader of the US Central Command, General Kenneth McKenzie.
“To date, there are about 5,000 evacuees (military personnel) on the apron (of the Kabul airport), waiting for an air transfer.”

◽️PENTAGON: Roughly 1000 Americans are still trapped behind enemy lines in Afghanistan.