Seven other people in the crowd at Kabul airport died in the crowd as they tried to approach the airport to leave the country: Sky News reports, citing a statement released this morning by the British Ministry of Defense. The US also fears ISIS attacks on the airport of the Afghan capital. Joe Biden ready to ask American airlines for help with evacuations. Donald Trump attacks his successor: “What is happening is a shame for America”. The US president on TV tonight for the third speech on Afghanistan. The breaking latest news of the day.
The United States is responsible for the chaos at Kabul airport. This is the accusation launched by the Taliban. “America, with all its power and facilities… has failed to bring order to the airport. There is peace and calm throughout the country, but there is chaos only at the Kabul airport, ”said Amir Khan Mutaqi, an insurgent official.
Joe Biden is back on TV
Harsh criticized by the international media, the tenant of the White House at 10 pm tonight (in Italy) will speak again to the national team. It is the third time that the US president has intervened to reassure American public opinion. Meanwhile, however, former White House chief Donald Trump harshly criticizes him for withdrawing from Afghanistan and accuses him of having handed over the US military to the Taliban during a demonstration attended by thousands of his supporters in Cullman, USA. Alabama. His statements are reported on the Daily Mail website. “This will be considered one of the greatest military defeats of all time,” said the former president, defining the situation in Afghanistan “a humiliation, not a withdrawal but a total surrender”. The former president told the crowd that “this would never have happened if I had been president.” «The problem here is not whether to leave Afghanistan – these are Trump’s words, the problem is the incredible incompetence and gross negligence of Joe Biden, protagonist of the greatest strategic humiliation we have ever seen as a country. With me in charge, the Taliban would never have dreamed of capturing our airport or parading around with our American weapons. There would be no emergency evacuation of the embassy and no removal of our flag because we would establish clear lines that the Taliban would never dare cross. The problem with Biden is that our enemies are not afraid of him, they do not respect him ».
Another 211 evacuees landed in Fumicino
Another 211 Afghans including former collaborators and their families, evacuated from Kabul via Kuwait City as part of the airlift organized by the Defense, arrived this morning shortly after 7 at Fiumicino airport on board an Air Force Boeing KC767. Once the anti-Covid health prophylaxis is completed, the refugees will subsequently be transferred by Army coach to facilities dedicated to them. For the ‘Aquila Omnia’ operation, planned and directed by the Joint Chief Operating Officer (Covi) commanded by General Luciano Portolano, the Defense fielded eight aircraft: four KC767s that alternate between the operation area and the Italy and as many C130Js, the latter located in Kuwait from where the airlift to Kabul departs.