Violence Erupts at Kabul Airport as Afghans Try to Flee Taliban

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Chaotic scenes at Kabul’s international airport turned deadly Monday as thousands of Afghans scrambled in the hope of catching an evacuation flight after the Taliban’s takeover of their country.

U.S. troops shot and killed two armed men at the airport, according to a U.S. official. The armed men approached U.S. troops deployed to provide security and assist Americans and other individuals in a safe departure from Afghanistan, the official said.

The official also said at least three Afghans clinging to the side of an Air Force jet were run over and killed. Video images showed people holding on to a military plane moving along the tarmac and appeared to show two objects fall off when the aircraft was hundreds of feet in the air.

“I saw one person grabbing the plane when it moved and then later he fell down,” said one man at the airport, who didn’t give his name as he hurried away.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/violence-erupts-at-kabul-airport-as-afghans-try-to-flee-taliban/ar-AANmAyp

[Rustyeye77]

1. They want out.

Who the hell wouldn’t ?

[dalton99a]

2. There are many Afghans who want to emigrate:

https://www.voanews.com/europe/taliban-advances-europe-fears-afghan-migration-crisis
As Taliban Advances, Europe Fears an Afghan Migration Crisis
By Jamie Dettmer
August 02, 2021 04:36 PM

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Greek authorities are reporting that Afghans now make up the largest share of asylum-seekers who manage to navigate the Aegean from Turkey. Austria last week announced it is to deploy additional soldiers to its borders with Slovenia and Hungary so as to increase the number of border guards by 40 percent. The country’s interior minister Karl Nehammer said at a news conference that EU migration policies have proven ineffective against irregular migrants, and he said Austrian immigration authorities have already apprehended 15,768 migrants attempting to cross illegally the Austrian border this year, compared to 21,700 for the whole of 2020.

“In Austria we have one of the biggest Afghan communities in the whole of Europe,” Nehammer said. “It cannot be the case that Austria and Germany have to solve the Afghanistan problem for the EU,” Nehammer added.

Despite the advance of the Taliban, European countries have been continuing with deportations of Afghan asylum-seekers — only Finland, Sweden and Norway have announced temporary suspensions of forced returns to Afghanistan.

Turkey is already hosting anywhere from an estimated 200,000 to 600,000 Afghans and - unlike the more than three million Syrian refugees living in Turkey - they have few legal rights of protection and no access to public services. Turkish opposition parties have been seizing on migration as an issue to try to outmaneuver President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and last month jumped on remarks by Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz that Turkey is “a more suitable place” for Afghans than his or other western European countries.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

3. Sounds like maybe Europe and Turkey should've sent their own boys to hold the fort

in Afghanistan (and paid the bills) after we left if they didn't want a refugee crisis on their hands.

[keithbvadu2]

4. Photo-shopped AF1 refugees on the wings

Photo-shopped AF1 refugees on the wings

Some of the right wingers actually believed this.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cuban-refugees-clinging-to-air-force-one/

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