{"id":666038,"date":"2021-08-20T15:06:16","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T19:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=666038"},"modified":"2021-08-20T15:06:18","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T19:06:18","slug":"biden-will-not-expand-kabul-airport-perimeter-press-for-special-evac-missions-even-as-france-uk-leave-base-to-rescue-trapped-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-will-not-expand-kabul-airport-perimeter-press-for-special-evac-missions-even-as-france-uk-leave-base-to-rescue-trapped-citizens\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Will Not Expand Kabul Airport Perimeter, Press For Special Evac Missions, Even As France, UK Leave Base To Rescue Trapped Citizens"},"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\">44<\/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%2Fbiden-will-not-expand-kabul-airport-perimeter-press-for-special-evac-missions-even-as-france-uk-leave-base-to-rescue-trapped-citizens%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=666038&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\/Taliban-Fighters-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Special forces units from France and the United Kingdom are reportedly going on missions into Kabul city to rescue trapped citizens who are unable to the Kabul airport an evacuation flight, but President Joe Biden said in remarks Friday that he will not expand the American perimeter and appeared to confirm that the United States is not conducting special evacuation missions for Americans trapped outside.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon commented Thursday that the American mission is to \u201csecure\u201d the Kabul airport, allowing evacuation flights to take off.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt this time, our main mission continues to be to secure HKIA, to allow those American citizens and other SIVs to come in and be processed at the airfield,\u201d Maj. Gen. Hank Taylor, who serves as deputy director of the Joint Staff Regional Operations, said when questioned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/pentagon-british-paratroopers-afghanistan-kabul-airport\">by Fox News on Thursday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In his speech, Friday, Biden said that the U.S. is not able to expand the security perimeter around the airport, allowing for more Americans and Afghan allies to enter the secure zone because of \u201can awful lot of unintended consequences,\u201d though he did not give further details.<\/p>\n<p>Biden was adamant that peace talks with the Taliban are holding and claimed, despite current reporting, that Americans are able to get to the airport and through airport gates without trouble \u2014 a claim that ABC News reporter refuted almost immediately after Biden\u2019s press conference concluded.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/evanmcmurry\/status\/1428785715949850630<\/p>\n<p>Military Times reports that, while the United States is \u201cstick[ing] to the airport\u201d while other countries engage in rescue missions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"o-articleBody__text a-body1 element element-paragraph\">\u201cThe Daily Mail reported that London deployed an additional 300 troops to Kabul specifically to extract trapped British nationals earlier in the week. Within hours of touching down in Kabul, the British troops retrieved some 200 British nationals from around Kabul,\u201d the outlet noted.&nbsp;\u201cPrompting the mission were reports of Taliban hunting down former Afghan government officials, along with Britons stuck behind a web of Taliban checkpoints lining the route to the airport.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"o-articleBody__text a-body1 element element-paragraph\">\u201cAdditionally, France 24 reports that the French military has been conducting similar operations since Monday,\u201d Military Times continued. \u201cFrench President Emmanuel Macron thanked French security forces on Twitter for executing a \u2018sensitive operation\u2019 which evacuated more than 200 French and Afghans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Video of the French mission surfaced on social media Friday, prompting confusion from Americans and criticism of Biden\u2019s efforts in Kabul.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"11.531680440771\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Two nights ago, French police escorted out of the embassy in the green zone of Kabul the French, Afghan and international families to whom \ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7 had offered shelter. The diplomatic and consular team of the embassy has taken care of them at the airport and they have been evacuated. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FxqgU7oQ3z\">pic.twitter.com\/FxqgU7oQ3z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 David Martinon (@david_martinon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/david_martinon\/status\/1428225195253407744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 19, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThis is a decision the U.S. government is actively making,\u201d conservative commentator Mary Katharine Ham noted on Twitter of the administration\u2019s apparent decision to delay further rescue missions. \u201cWe all know we have capability, and it\u2019s getting more dangerous by the minute for us to deploy it. I\u2019d like to hope the [Rules of Engagement] are different than they look publicly, but that\u2019s surely too much optimism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The United States did stage an unspecified intervention, discussed during Biden\u2019s remarks, which brought approximately 169 Americans into the permiter from outside. The president did not give details of that mission but it appears to have occurred earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p><em>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 <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special forces units from France and the United Kingdom are reportedly going on missions into Kabul city to rescue trapped citizens who are unable to the Kabul airport an evacuation &#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-666038","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\/666038","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=666038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666038\/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=666038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}