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Phenomenal effort by the uk. theres been nothing like it for decades and decades. but clearly, what this attack shows is the importance of continuing that work in as fast and inefficient manner as possible in the hours that remain to us and thats what were going to do. those extractions continue although we do know the prime minister says that most of the eligible people have been brought out. there are dozens and dozens of people urgently appealing for help. there british servicemen who are app...

I want to stress that this threat of a terrorist attack is one of the constraints that we have been operating under in the big extraction that has been going on. we have been ready for it, prepared for it. i want to stress that we are going to continue with that operation and we are now coming towards the very end of it in any event. we have already extracted the overwhelming majority of those under both these schemes, the eligible persons, the uk persons, the uk nationals plus the afghans, the ...

That you look at those pictures outside, those crowds who were there, targeted in this attack, desperate people, thousands and thousands of them are still there and trying to get in. there are multiple reports of interpreters who work with british forces, desperate to get in, unable to get into the airport. we know yesterday, members of parliament, around 200 people had everything with the depend secretary here and they were damaging them with cases brought to them of desperate people —— the...

Indiscriminately bring in a matter of days 100,000 into the united states and cross our fingers and hope it works out is clinically mad. we are going to have here the exact same problem they have in afghanistan. to believe anything else is simply to deny reason and logic. spew when youre saying sources are telling you this, that all these people we are loading into planes, many of them did not help us during the war effort? not the interpreters, not the drivers? not the intelligence gatherers? t...

Witnessed in my lifetime. this is the most shocking. moments ago sources telling us apparently afghan refugees, they have already been housed at dollars airport but they are actually brought to quantico, the marine base and another report that we are going to have as many as 30,000 afghan refugees brought to texas. did we have 30,000 translators and interpreters in afghanistan? we still have americans there for goodness sake. >> exactly and common sense, the american people understand fundamenta...

Biden has refused to acknowledge that fact. every president since bush has had to deal with this really difficult decision, obama and trump and biden followed through with the most stupid option. were paying in blood for it. there are ways to reverse course on this and still ways to uphold our dignity, to save our people on the ground. people deserve to be saved whether theyre citizens or interpreters that i knew that i worked with who have done more for this country than most citizens of this c...

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Thoughts and prayers all trapped in kabul to the decision makers who need thoughts and prayers big time right now. he is still in kabul. he is still trapped. the latest update that i got the last transmission was talking about how the afghani social media, the taliban are telling people to stay at home and that theyre not to travel to the airport, especially without foreigners. so if you are afghani, they want you staying there. and he still tells me that there is checkpoints on every intersecti...

Ive changed my home three times. so two days, two nights, we are living in one place. hes only got one document from the british army, and it doesnt even say who signed it. but we managed to find his former boss, now a retired soldier in the north of england. i absolutely remember him as one of about eight- interpreters i worked with out in afghanistan on my tour, i and like all of the others that i i worked with, he was a brave, bright, intelligent lad - who actually genuinely wanted to do bett...

At kabul airport desperate to leave. now a new warning from the british and american governments, who say there is a high threat of a terrorist attack here. the advice — do not travel to the airport. it means a hugely difficult operation to get people out has just got worse. latest figures from the ministry of defence show more than 11,000 people have so far been evacuated to the uk. of those, almost 7,000 are afghans and their families. but an estimated 2,000 interpreters and other staff who ...