'World War Z' In Kabul - 'Post-Apocalyptic'

"US Troops Call It World War Z": Shocking New Images Capture 'Post-Apocalyptic' Scenes Outside Kabul Airport

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A Russian media correspondent, Murad Gazdiev, arrived at Kabul airport this week to report on the ground and was shocked by the deteriorating conditions and continued spiraling crisis. "We’ve just arrived at Kabul airport. American troops call what is happening here 'World War Z,' referring to the zombie movie starring Brad Pitt. It is clear why," he narrated. 

"The situation is horrendous. The entire airport is littered with bullet casings and flash-bang grenades," he continued. "Everything, absolutely everything is covered in barbed wire. The entire runway is lined with barbed wire." And there are tragic scenes of desperate Afghan civilians standing outside the airport walls in knee-deep sewage.

This as new reports emerge from US officials, and even a pair of congressman who just went to Kabul's international airport on a fact finding mission, that it's looking nearly impossible that US troops will be able to evacuate everyone on Washington's list or who has a visa, including possibly Americans stuck in the capital city, by the Aug.31 deadline. 

One of the Congressional members who touched down in Kabul airport this week, Democratic Representative Seth Moulton - who served as a Marine and multi-tour Iraq war veteran - said, "To say that today is anything short of a disaster would be dishonest. Worse, it was avoidable."

RT News footage showing a chaotic scene and warning shots fired by Taliban "security" militants just outside the airport:

Gazdiev, meanwhile, continues of his description: "Shooting is ceaseless, 10 minutes don’t pass without gunfire. Either within the airport; American troops scaring away the more daring locals, or shooting near the main entrance, where the Taliban is discouraging would-be refugees."

Other reporters on the ground, like LA Times foreign correspondent Nabih Bulos, have documented that US troops are just inside the perimeter wall that surrounds Hamid Karzai airport, while Taliban militants are just on the other side. 

The fact that the Taliban is clearly just outside the gates as the mass evacuation continues means that should US and Western troops stay past the Aug.31 deadline, firefights will likely break out. On Tuesday the White House indicated Biden would stick to this deadline after the Taliban warned of "consequences" - despite critics and even allies like the UK, Germany and France saying some of their nationals and even Americans might be left behind. 

The LA Times' Bulos described elsewhere that: 

But behind the scenes, the evacuation effort is chaotic, sorrowful, smelly, dirty — and dangerous.

Gazing at the action from the ground are hundreds, occasionally thousands of Afghan men, women and children, standing in long queues that snake toward and into parked aircraft.

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Internal Numbers Show White House Poised To Leave Several Thousand Americans Behind Enemy Lines In Afghanistan

Shelby Talcott

Roughly 3,800 Americans have been evacuated from Afghanistan since July 29, with an estimated 8,000 remaining in the country, an official with direct knowledge of the situation told the Daily Caller on Tuesday. The official told the Caller that it seems “doubtful we are going to bring in 8,000 more Americans” between now and the Aug. 31 deadline.

The number has been masked by the White House and Pentagon in recent days, with Pentagon press secretary John Kirby saying Monday that “several thousand” Americans have been evacuated from Afghanistan. Both Kirby and National Security advisor Jake Sullivan declined to give a more specific number and the reasoning varied from non-answers to the “fluid” evacuation process going on in Kabul.

The official said while there’s been no clear direction on not reporting the numbers, it’s become a quiet rule among officials to avoid giving out a more precise number, in part because it’s “embarrassingly low.”

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