Last night the first flight of theair Force from Kabul, thus starting the evacuation plan developed by the Defense in the context of the so-called operation "Aquila Omnia". "That party it is the first of the flights that will continue to take off from Kabul in the next few days for the repatriation of our compatriots and Afghan collaborators". Our foreign minister, Luigi Di Maio told the special Afghanistan on Radio1. As happens with the other foreign embassies, in Afghanistan "it will remain a diplomatic garrison, a representative of the diplomatic corps will remain and follow the protocol of all the other countries, guaranteeing a diplomatic garrison in the Kabul airport ". "We will also strengthen support from Rome ", then it is" clear that we will also see the evolution of the situation and we will decide how to remodel the device ", says the owner of the Farnesina.
Chronicle of a day that marked the defeat of the West
The Taliban flag now flies over the presidential palace, white with the shahada, the Arabic inscription of the testimony about God: "I testify that there is no god but God and I testify that Mohammed is the prophet of God". Afghanistan will revert to its name prior to the arrival of the Americans in 2001: Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.
"Our country was liberated and the mujahideen won in Afghanistan", a militiaman told Al Jazeera from the building. The fighters showed reporters their weapons on a tour of the building, which was taken after President Ashraf Ghani fled the country. The spokesman for the Taliban political office told Al-Jazeera TV that the war is over in Afghanistan and that the type of government and the form of the regime will soon be clear. "We assure everyone that we will guarantee the safety of citizens and diplomatic missions. We are ready to have a dialogue with all the Afghan figures and we will guarantee them the necessary protection "spokesman Mohammad Naeem told Qatar-based TV.
Leading the first phase will be the Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar. He is one of the Doha negotiators and in Kabul he will have the post of interim leader of Afghanistan after the handover from the existing Afghan government.
The great escape. "They won, now the Taliban protect the Afghans ". The former president of Afghanistan, Ashraf Ghani explains in a Facebook message that he fled "to avoid a massacre”Starting with the capital Kabul. Ghani, his wife, the chief of staff and the national security adviser arrived in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan. Ghani's escape hastened the fall of Kabul. Chaos broke out in the capital. Shots have been heard in various areas, more than 40 injured in the clashes in the suburbs. The road to the airport was quickly blocked as the facility is the only way to leave the country. Embassies closed and diplomats from several countries, USA and Great Britain in the lead, evacuated.
Shy initiatives of the CI. At 10 this morning, New York time, the UN Security Council will meet. The British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, had spoken with the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, and with the Secretary General of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, and had asked for a swift convening of the UN Security Council and the North Atlantic Council. . The British Prime Minister, in an interview on TV, stressed that the United States' decision to withdraw the troops "has accelerated" the current evolution of the situation, speaking of an "increasingly difficult situation".
La China meanwhile stay at the window. Unspecified "Chinese experts" explained to the Global Times that Beijing will not send Chinese soldiers to fill the void left by the US. At the most, they say, China will be able to "collaborate in the reconstruction once the situation has stabilized ”.
Chaos at Kabul Airport. Chaos scenes at Kabul airport, people seem crazy, it's a general stampede. Boarding procedures taken by assault as well as the planes present on the runway. "The departure lounge turned into chaos after people said boarding passes were being secretly printed for officials and high-profile people who showed up at the airport", told a witness to the BBC. "I saw three former MPs, some deputy ministers and some celebrities queuing up. Some didn't even have reservations. We waited for nearly eight hours, until the airport staff started leaving their desks: first the check-in desks and then the migration and passport desks. Some fled the airport and some rushed to the gates ". The glass doors separating the building from the runway are shattered, and so “people ran to the last plane, then yet another flight that people started to get on. People were shocked and didn't know what to do, running from plane to plane ”. “To prevent people from entering the airport, the guards opened fire in the air. When I was going out, there was a guy shooting in the air. A few minutes away, on the airport road, I saw several police vehicles left alone on the road with their doors open. I still hear sporadic shots and helicopters ”, continues the witness's story.
The assault on the planes