{"id":650069,"date":"2021-08-16T07:06:50","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T11:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=650069"},"modified":"2021-08-16T07:06:54","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T11:06:54","slug":"saigon-on-steroids-multiple-people-killed-at-airport-as-afghans-desperately-try-to-board-planes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/saigon-on-steroids-multiple-people-killed-at-airport-as-afghans-desperately-try-to-board-planes\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Saigon On Steroids\u2019: Multiple People Killed At Airport As Afghans Desperately Try To Board Planes"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsaigon-on-steroids-multiple-people-killed-at-airport-as-afghans-desperately-try-to-board-planes%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=650069&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Afghanistan-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Multiple major newswire services reported early on Monday morning that at least several people were killed at the airport in Kabul as thousands of people desperately attempted to board aircraft leaving the country amid Democrat President Joe Biden\u2019s disastrous pullout from the nation.<\/p>\n<p>The Wall Street Journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/three-killed-in-kabul-airport-as-afghans-scramble-to-escape-taliban-11629096273\">reported<\/a> that at least three people were killed amid the chaos while Reuters <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkyNewsArabia_B\/status\/1427166520946401287\">reported<\/a> that the number was at least five. The Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/08\/16\/afghanistan-kabul-taliban-live-updates\/\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"12\">\n<p><em>At least five people were killed amid the chaos of people fearful for their lives trying to force their way onto planes, Reuters reported, citing multiple witnesses.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It wasn\u2019t clear how the people were killed. U.S. forces previously fired in the air to warn unauthorized people from trying to board military flights, according to numerous reports early Monday.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Numerous videos were posted online by journalists and activists showing horrifying scenes unfold on the ground as thousands frantically waited on the tarmac.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"3.6691729323308\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Airport in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Kabul?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Kabul<\/a>\u2026 Listen .. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/kabulairport?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#kabulairport<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Afghanistan?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Afghanistan<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0hsDWNqOFS\">pic.twitter.com\/0hsDWNqOFS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Natalie Amiri (@NatalieAmiri) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NatalieAmiri\/status\/1427160225929388035?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 16, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.093023255814\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u0915\u093f\u0938\u0940 \u0924\u0930\u0939 \u0928\u093f\u0915\u0932 \u091c\u093e\u090f\u0901 \u092c\u0938!<\/p>\n<p>Location : Kabul Airport <br \/>Courtesy : Unknow <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hp2RTxsvNM\">pic.twitter.com\/hp2RTxsvNM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Umashankar Singh \u0909\u092e\u093e\u0936\u0902\u0915\u0930 \u0938\u093f\u0902\u0939 (@umashankarsingh) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/umashankarsingh\/status\/1427136339036676096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 16, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"10.105042016807\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is, perhaps, one of the saddest images I&#8217;ve seen from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Afghanistan?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Afghanistan<\/a>.  A people who are desperate and abandoned.  No aid agencies, no UN, no government.  Nothing. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LCeDEOR3lR\">pic.twitter.com\/LCeDEOR3lR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nicola Careem (@NicolaCareem) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NicolaCareem\/status\/1427122975971561475?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 16, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.9613259668508\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It is chaos at Kabul airport. Planes are taking off and landing and people are running across the runway. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kKrg667AQB\">pic.twitter.com\/kKrg667AQB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sowaibah Hanifie (@SowaibahH) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SowaibahH\/status\/1427165408931446787?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 16, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cSaigon on steroids,\u201d Australian political commentator Rita Panahi, who was born in the Middle East, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RitaPanahi\/status\/1427156119995047938\">wrote<\/a> on Twitter. \u201cThe chaos at Kabul airport was the dizzying final act of a lightning Taliban offensive that saw the militants seize the last of the remaining cities under government control, culminating with the country\u2019s capital.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Defense (DOD) released a joint statement with the Department of State late on Sunday, saying that they were working to secure the airport.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-thousands-run-at-kabul-airfield-amid-gunfire-horrifying-scenes-unfolding-on-ground\">statement<\/a> said:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"16\">\n<p><em>At present we are completing a series of steps to secure the Hamid Karzai International Airport to enable the safe departure of U.S. and allied personnel from Afghanistan via civilian and military flights. Over the next 48 hours, we will have expanded our security presence to nearly 6,000 troops, with a mission focused solely on facilitating these efforts and will be taking over air traffic control. Tomorrow and over the coming days, we will be transferring out of the country thousands of American citizens who have been resident in Afghanistan, as well as locally employed staff of the U.S. mission in Kabul and their families and other particularly vulnerable Afghan nationals. And we will accelerate the evacuation of thousands of Afghans eligible for U.S. Special Immigrant Visas, nearly 2,000 of whom have already arrived in the United States over the past two weeks. For all categories, Afghans who have cleared security screening will continue to be transferred directly to the United States. And we will find additional locations for those yet to be screened.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR)&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/report-u-s-citizens-trapped-by-taliban-in-kabul-as-state-department-demands-foreign-nationals-be-allowed-to-leave\">reportedly<\/a>&nbsp;heard from Americans trapped inside Afghanistan behind enemy lines, according to New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCotton spokesman says that their office has heard from multiple US citizens in Kabul trapped behind Taliban checkpoints, who can\u2019t safely reach the US perimeter and have no clear option for what to do,\u201d Haberman wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Related:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple major newswire services reported early on Monday morning that at least several people were killed at the airport in Kabul as thousands of people desperately attempted to board aircraft &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}