WORLD_ U.S. helicopters at Kabul airport flew outside the gates to bring Americans to safety

THE WASHINGTON TIMES

U.S. helicopters at Kabul airport flew outside the gates to bring Americans to safety

In this image provided by the U.S. Marines, a Marine with Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force - Crisis Response - Central Command, waits with a child during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Aug. ... more >


By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times - Friday, August 20, 2021


Army helicopters on Thursday landed at a hotel in Kabul to pick up more than 160 stranded Americans who couldn’t make it to to the relative safety of Hamid Karzai International Airport because of the chaos that has erupted there since the fall of the Afghan government.

President Biden alluded to the operation on Friday during a speech at the White House in which he defended his administration’s handling of the evacuation effort. “Any American who wants to get home, we will get you home,” he said while standing in front of Vice President Harris and other members of the cabinet, including Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.

Pentagon officials said the Americans were told by representatives of another country to gather at the Baron Hotel, located adjacent to the airport. The information about the wayward Americans was then passed to U.S. commanders at the scene, who ordered a flight of three CH-47 helicopters to pick them up.

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