Flight takes off from Kabul airport after Taliban cleared Americans and others to leave

[George II]

Source: CNN

By Mostafa Salem, Kylie Atwood and Laura Smith-Spark, CNN

Updated 9:54 AM ET, Thu September 9, 2021

(CNN)A commercial flight took off from Kabul airport on Thursday for the first time since the Taliban seized Afghanistan, hours after the militants cleared a group of Americans and other foreign nationals to leave the country.

It is unclear at this stage whether or how many Americans were on board the Qatar Airways flight, reported earlier to be bound for Doha, or the nationalities of the other passengers.

A US official and a source with knowledge of the matter had earlier said the Taliban had cleared around 200 people, including American citizens, to fly out.

Live pictures showed people boarding the flight on Thursday afternoon Kabul time; earlier, Qatari and Taliban officials were seen touring the airport tarmac, where the Qatar Airways Boeing 777 stood.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/09/asia/afghanistan-kabul-airport-flight-intl/index.html

[underpants]

1. Well now Fox will just have to find something else to talk about

[Walleye]

2. Tucker? Hannity? Anything to say?

[Walleye]

5. I wouldn't put it past them. Fox has all kinds of Biden bashing on their website this morning

They are bold and shameless about their hatred of American ideals

[Walleye]

10. Their line now is, the Taliban was scared of Trump, they wouldn't of killed our Marines under Trump

Of course it wasn’t the Taliban that killed the Marines it was the Isis K. They never let the facts get in the way of a good slander

[Walleye]

13. Yes. And if he lost the election he had said all kinds of time bombs for Biden. That was part of it

[Walleye]

16. And they are awful Americans. They claim to love America. what is it they love?

I know Trump thinks of America as a piece of real estate that he can buy and sell and make dishonest money on.

[Walleye]

18. That's a good point. I'm sick of all this violence

[Champp]

3. "Now we gotta find sumthin else to whine about. Damn libs." - RepubliQon-Russian Kabal

[Walleye]

6. Love that. Sending it to a friend

[Fla Dem]

7. What faux crisis will Richard Engel whine about now?

[Botany]

8. Grown ups are back!

Suck it Fox and all the right wingers complaining about all those Americans and our friends who
got left behind in Afghanistan.


Grown ups are back! Quite negotiations with skilled people in our State Department got the job done.

[Dopers_Greed]

11. I fully expect that the lying media will give Biden credit for this

Since they spent the last week ripping him for Americans still being in Afghanistan.

Something tells me they won't though.

[ancianita]

14. Very likely Biden cut the assets-for-Americans deal. Don't know, but pretty sure.

[CTyankee]

19. my next door neighbor (a really good guy except politically) was one of the biggest and loudest on

Biden's "failure" to get the Afghani's, who helped us, get out. He was loud and clear on Facebook. Today, not a peep from him. I would like to tell him "This is what you get when you complain loudly about things you know nothing about!"

As things progress, and I think they will, he will just have to find something else to yell about on Facebook. Like how awful New Haven is...why in hell did you stay in this city if you hate it so much?