Escape from Kabul: The Inside Story

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Escape From Kabul Airport is a tightly focussed, admittedly terrifying account of what happened, narrated by the people at the heart of the action. They were proud of their victory and they had this video, so he was kind of happy to share it when he understood that we saw this as a historic moment, too. S. military ceded parts of Kabul in which they collapsed around the airfield in a way that wasn’t necessarily a fait accompli. I would just add the numbers that I’ve seen have been consistently that you have an outstanding number of about three hundred thousand Special Immigrant Visas.

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And by construct I mean, really, in terms of two factors—blood, who’s going to fight it, and treasure, how are we going to pay for it. But the thinking really was that we needed to get into Afghanistan and really make links there and see if we could source video, a lot—especially video that was sustained a long amount of time. You know, you’re almost immediately taken to August 15 when the Marines say all hell breaks loose and so you don’t have any chance to get used to how rapidly this whole thing is falling apart. Or is that something that just happened or did you say, no, we’re going to cut it off at this level? This includes from Afghan citizens attempting to flee and who recount their dramatic struggle to reach the airport, their last hope of leaving the country before the widely-feared Taliban take control.Once there and involved in a nation building mission there was a lot of focus on empowering women through programs that the U. Have you seen any credible estimate of the number of immediate and extended family members of the Afghan translators and other assistants to the U.

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They recount their struggle to reach the airport, which was their last hope of leaving the country before the widely feared Taliban took control.AMOS: So—well, I’m going to sneak in one more question—I have two minutes—and that is going forward, you know, we fought—we, the United States, the Americans—fought the Taliban for twenty years. I think that the rhetoric that came to sustain the political argument for American engagement in Afghanistan could have been read by some, maybe even many, Afghan women as suggesting that the U. You’re talking about just people on their own—I think Charlie Faulkner at The Times and some excellent people at the New York Times. We spoke with other international agencies, but the British military—I’m based in London, so I had lots of meetings with the MOD and we did use some of their footage. So the challenges the Marines had to just get enough of their people in to manage the situation was one of the foremost tasks in the days after August 15.