US and allies warn: “Today, August 26, credible terrorist threat at Kabul airport. Do not go to the airport”. The US embassy specifically called for avoiding three gates. Despite the international alert, a Western diplomat told the Reuters that “huge and incredible crowds” push at the gates of the airport.
The Taliban have pledged to allow US and Afghan citizens to leave Kabul even after August 31, by which date the president Joe Biden set the completion of the retreat. The US Secretary of State said so, Antony Blink. Washington diplomacy “will do everything and use every means available to take refugees out of Afghanistan even after August 31,” explained the secretary of state.
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London: “Airport attack could happen by the hour”
The alarm was raised by the British Undersecretary to the Armed Forces, James Heappey, speaking on LBC TV, where he confirmed the high credibility of the threat. Upcoming in days, they ask him. “By the hour”, the undersecretary replied dryly, according to which there is “a real lethality of the plans we are aware of”.
Kabul airport today: the report by Secunder Kermani, Bbc
The correspondent of the Bbc he is at the airport and tells of dramatic, hopeless scenes. “It is incredible and painful to see so many people who do not give up. Whole families, elderly women in wheelchairs, and children holding hands with their parents. An endless stream through the dirt, the dust and the heat. And from time to time. , gunshots “. Kermani reiterates what is now clear to everyone: most of them will not make it. “I asked a woman, the mother of a former interpreter for the US, if it was worth it. ‘We have no other options – she replied – The Americans either shoot us or let us board. We don’t stay here”‘ “.
Long lines in front of the banks: branches still closed
They closed on the day of the capture of Kabul, August 15. They never opened again. Long lines in front of banks and ATMs. The spokesman for the Taliban, Zabihullah Mujiahid, had announced the reopening but few branches are back in operation and only for the withdrawal of cash: no more than 200 dollars.
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Draghi: “G20 should do everything for Afghan women”
We read in the message addressed by the Prime Minister, Mario Draghi, at the opening of the G20 work on women’s empowerment. “I am very proud that it takes place under the Italian presidency and I thank Minister Elena Bonetti for the excellent preparatory work done. Italy is fully committed to the fight against gender inequalities and we believe that the G20 can play a fundamental role in supporting women all over the world. We must not delude ourselves: Afghan girls and women are on the verge of losing their freedom and dignity, of returning to the sad condition they were in twenty years ago. The G20 must do all it can. possible to guarantee their freedoms and fundamental rights, in particular the right to education “.
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Blinken: “There are still 1,500 Americans in Afghanistan”
So far, a total of 82,300 people have been evacuated since August 14, and there are still 1,500 Americans with whom the authorities are unable to get in touch. They have not yet responded to emails, calls and messages offering evacuation. US Secretary of State Blinken explained that, as of August 14, there were 6,000 Americans who wanted to leave the country and 4,500 have done so in the last ten days, while another 500 have received instructions on how to leave, in the last twenty-four hours. . About a thousand remain, but the head of diplomacy believes that the number may be lower for many reasons: some have already left, others have not notified the government. “We think that the number of people seeking assistance is smaller – he reiterated – and significantly”.
Child born on board the US flight, named after the plane
She was called Reach, after the name of the plane that brought her to safety, the child born on an American C-17 during the evacuation from Kabul. This was announced by the commander of the American forces in Europe, the general Death of Wolters, during a briefing at the Pentagon. The woman went into labor during the flight from Qatar to Germany, with a number of complications. Aided by the military, she gave birth on the plane upon her landing at the US base in Ramstein, Germany. “As you all can imagine, being an Air Force pilot, it’s a dream to see a little girl named Reach grow up and be an American citizen,” said Wolters.
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