Kabul Airport Explosion

[roadman]

explosion at kabul airport i hope the civilians are ok and that they get extracted this is just awful i cant imagine how scary it would be to be at an airport with bombs going off i am a nervous flyer as it is

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/italian-military-plane-kabul-airport-afghanistan-taliban-b952490.html

[youngmafbog]

No surprise.

Biden will end up with a lot of blood on his hands.

And yes, it is him, not Trump (He threw away the Trump Generals plan) , not Boris or anyone else.

[roadman]

im not sure how true it is but i heard biden is honouring a deal that trump made but that might be some anti trump fake news

[Khandro]

rm ; //im not sure how true it is but i heard biden is honouring a deal that trump made but that might be some anti trump fake news//

It is untrue, Trump wanted the civilians out first not the army - the plan any sensible person would expect, but Biden as you may have by now realised is a doddery old fool thinking he would get some kudos for 'ending the war'.

[Spicerack]

Doubt Biden decides much. This is all so bad, some people think it's deliberate.

[Peter Pedant]

o god do you remember the good old days wiv
"dat forrin dat!" how I used to laugh !

https://www.ilmessaggero.it/mondo/kabul_attentato_morti_feriti_sangue_oggi_italiani_cospe_che_cosa_sappiamo-6158718.html

Ci sono molti morti vicino a me e il canale è diventato color sangue» ha raccontato una giovane collaboratrice del Cospe,

there are many dead near me, and the canal has become the colour of blood, said a young collaborator ( worker really) of COSPE ( an international aid org)

virgil - rivers of blood - I hadnt realised that it was ingrained in the psyche ( oops mind) - (bella, horrida bella / et Thybrim multo spumantem sanguine cerno’ (6.86-7).
[wars, horrible wars, and I see the Tiber foaming with moch blut]

[Stickybottle]

Khandro
Kabul is only 200 km (120 miles) from the border with Pakistan, instead of hanging around at the airport I'd have been off on my bike long ago

You must have missed my thread the other day where I pointed out that Pakistan was already closing off their border to Afghan refugees over a week ago

[Peter Pedant]

Did anyone hear the Pakistani wmbassador on R4 0800 this morning ?
In the end the Beeb fluff just let him blaart
clearly the fault of no money and 1947 - - I think

[Stickybottle]

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1762575.html

[Khandro]

Sb;//You must have missed my thread the other day where I pointed out that Pakistan was already closing off their border to Afghan refugees over a week ago//

Maybe, but I'd be on a mountain bike! :0)

[Peter Pedant]

listen to BBC1
H R McMaster as Trump's National Security adviser
jesus

[Stickybottle]

Peter Pedant
listen to BBC1
H R McMaster as Trump's National Security adviser
jesus

Well at least give us a précis or even a clue ?
But in plain English please not that Peter Pedant chat with all the who hell he and wot is dat den rubbish

[ToraToraTora]

stickybottle: "Kabul is only 200 km (120 miles) from the border with Pakistan, instead of hanging around at the airport I'd have been off on my bike long ago" - err the border is closed.

[Spicerack]

Isn't that what sticky said?

[Spicerack]

What are the aBBC making up tonight, pp?

[237SJ]

It will all kick off again in Afghanistan. Not straight away because ISIS-k will be too busy fighting the Taliban but when they have managed to get some headway, they will turn their attention to the West and Western forces will go back in there again. They will have to.

[jno]

Tory MP Tom Tugendhat, a former TA, says Tugendhat, who chairs the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, said the west now has no say over the future of Afghanistan. “This is what defeat looks like. Defeat is when you don’t control any of the process anymore and if you are lucky you just about get out with your lives and a bit of your equipment and that’s what we are doing at the moment. We don’t have any control, we don’t have any say. It’s a defeat.”

That sounds about right.

[Hopkirk]

Don't blame Biden, blame Bush and Blair.

[tamborine]

Only one RAF plane leaving Kabul airport. No other planes there

https://ibb.co/fCtSHY9

[Bravehearted]

Sorry to say I fear the next target will be one of the military planes full of troops and Afghanis, leaving over the next few days. Easy large targets. US retaliation against ISIS must be inevitable. Puts Bidon in an awkward position to say the least. It’s a pity the U.N are impotent to resolve these matters.

[Khandro]

jno 21:39 That about sums it up, there is nothing else to do. Biden should do the honourable thing & go out on to the balcony with a bottle of Bourbon & a revolver.............. perlease!