U.S. urges Americans in Afghanistan to leave immediately

[enhanced_deficit]

Double whammy of worsening security and spread of "the variant" covid appears to be changing situation quickly. But somewhat contrast in recent headlines:


U.S. Contractors in Afghanistan Are Hiring Amid Withdrawal

The U.S. Is Leaving Afghanistan? Tell That to the Contractors.

American firms capitalize on the withdrawal, moving in with hundreds of new jobs.
By Lynzy Billing
May 12, 2021
The Department of Defense currently employs more than 16,000 contractors in Afghanistan, of whom 6,147 are U.S. citizens — more than double the remaining U.S. troops.
nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/05/u-s-contractors-in-afghanistan-are-hiring-amid-withdrawal.html


U.S. urges Americans in Afghanistan to leave immediately

August 7, 2021 / 11:48 AM / CBS News

The United States is urging Americans in Afghanistan to leave the country immediately, saying the ability of the U.S. embassy in Kabul to help them is "extremely limited" due to security conditions and reduced staffing.

The embassy issued a security alert on Saturday encouraging Americans to fly out on commercial flights and said it can provide repatriation loans for citizens who can't afford to buy tickets.
The alert comes months after the State Department ordered government employees at the U.S. embassy in Kabul to leave if they can work elsewhere. It also comes as Taliban militants are attacking Afghan cities.

On Friday, militants captured Zaranj, the capital of Afghanistan's Nimroz province. By Saturday, another province's capital city had fallen to the group.
"Sheberghan city has fallen to the Taliban completely," Babur Eshchi, head of Jowzjan's provincial council, told CBS News.
They took control of the city's police headquarters and intelligence agency building, as well as most government buildings, including the governor's office, said Halima Sadaf Karimi, a member of parliament from the Jowzjan province. Only a military base outside the city is under the control of the army, she said.

"Taliban have started searching for people home-to-home," she said, based on her information from locals. "Many civilians were injured in the fight so far. People could not take their wounded to hospitals."
The Taliban is fighting to take power after the group signed a withdrawal deal with the Americans in 2020 and the Biden administration vowed a withdrawal from Afghanistan by the end of August.
There are reports Afghan President Ashraf Ghani may announce a military situation, including plans to secure the city of Kabul.

cbsnews.com/news/us-urges-americans-in-afghanistan-to-leave-immediately/




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[phill4paul]

If you're in country get the fuck out post-haste. If you are behind the lines when your shit goes to fuck then it's on you.

 

[enhanced_deficit]

Source is MSM:

As Taliban Capture Cities, U.S. Says Afghan Forces Must Fend for Themselves

The muted American response to the Taliban siege shows in no uncertain terms that the U.S. war in Afghanistan is over.

Afghans inspected damaged shops after fighting between Taliban and Afghan security forces in Kunduz city, northern Afghanistan, on Sunday.Credit...Abdullah Sahil/Associated Press

Aug. 8, 2021
WASHINGTON — If the Taliban had seized three provincial capitals in northern Afghanistan a year ago, like they did on Sunday, the American response would most likely have been ferocious. Fighter jets and helicopter gunships would have responded in force, beating back the Islamist group or, at the very least, stalling its advance.

But these are different times. What aircraft the U.S. military could muster from hundreds of miles away struck a cache of weapons far from Kunduz, Taliqan or Sari-i-pol, the cities that already had been all but lost to the Taliban.

nytimes.com/2021/08/08/us/politics/taliban-afghanistan-united-states.html



Afghans chant ‘Allahu Akbar’ in defiant protests against Taliban

‘God is greatest’ has become a cry of defiance for anti-Taliban protesters as group assaults major Afghan cities.

3 Aug 2021
Kabul, Afghanistan – On Monday evening, Ahmadullah Azadani climbed on the roof of his house in the Western Afghan city of Herat and awaited something that would have been unthinkable in the city even a week earlier.
He waited on his roof overlooking the ancient city, until he heard a single voice calling out: “Allahu Akbar” (God is greatest), over and over.

aljazeera.com/news/2021/8/3/afghans-chant-allahu-akbar-in-defiant-protests-against-taliban

 

[Snowball]

While most of the territory changing hands is in northern Afghanistan, the big US airstrikes were against Helmand’s capital of Lashkar Gah. There, the US attacked a health clinic and a school, killing at least 20 civilians, including women and children.

https://news.antiwar.com/2021/08/08...alth-clinic-school-kill-civilians-in-helmand/

https://tolonews.com/afghanistan-174088

 

[oyarde]

If there are civilians at embassies there they should have been gone two weeks ago .