The Pentagon told the press that in the past 24 hours, Americans have evacuated 19 people from Kabul airport. Five flights carrying 1.220 evacuees landed at Washington International Airport. 'We are racing against time'said General Taylor, deputy chief of staff. According to the BBC, the number of people evacuated from Afghanistan by Western forces has risen to 82.300. However, the people considered most at risk are estimated at 300 thousand, just counting the former Afghan collaborators of the NATO mission. Getting them all out by August 31 will be impossible. In the meantime, the alarm on refugees comes from the UN: 60% of Afghans displaced in 2021 are children. Given the conditions at the Kabul airport, the US also conducted several operations with a helicopter to pick up groups of people who were outside the airport.
Race against time to escape from Afghanistan. Last hours for the airlift before the deadline of 31 August, while the 007 USA are confident of possible suicide attacks by the Asian branch of the Islamic State, known as Isis-Khorasan, sworn enemies of the Taliban, ready to create chaos in the midst of NATO withdrawal.
The Taliban purges. The number of people beaten by the Taliban as they try to reach Kabul airport in the hope of being able to leave Afghanistan is growing. British defense sources report this to the BBC. Meanwhile, NBC News reports that American and world judges are working to get 250 female magistrates and their families out of Afghanistan after hearing the Taliban are chasing her house by house. Many of the judges were trained in the US and handed down harsh sentences on the Taliban during the war.
ITaliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid, to the New York Times. Mujahid denies allegations that the Taliban sought out former interpreters and other Afghans who worked for the US military and claims they would be safe in their country, pointing the finger at the evacuation of the country by Westerners: “They shouldn't interfere in our country and take away our human resources: doctors, professors and other people we need here. In America, they could become dishwashers or cooks. It's inhumane ". “We have said that people who do not have adequate documents cannot go. They need passports and visas for the countries they are going to, and then they can leave by plane. If their documents are valid, we will not ask what they did before ".
The Taliban spokesman also expressed the hope that the Taliban can establish good relations with the international community, indicating areas of cooperation on counter-terrorism, combating opium cultivation and eradication and the reduction of refugees in the West.
Religious impositions. Mujahid he also talks to the New York Times about some impositions due to religion: "Music is prohibited in Islam, but we hope to be able to persuade people not to do these things, instead of lobbying".
On women. No revenge and no harsh controls on women, the spokesperson underlines in the interview. Concerns that the Taliban would once again force women to stay in their homes or cover their faces are unfounded, she points out. As well as the condition that they are accompanied by a male guardian. The Mahram it is only necessary for trips longer than three days: "If they go to school, office, university or hospital, they don't need a mahram".
Meanwhile, Joe Biden has collapsed in all the polls, falling below 50 per cent in the average approval rating, in light of the Afghan crisis and the confused evacuation from Kabul. In the USA Today / Suffolk University survey, approval fell to 41 percent, while 55 percent of Americans disapprove of Biden's work in the first eight months of his mandate. The percentage of discontented rises to 62 percent over the handling of the American withdrawal from Afghanistan. Only 26 percent gave a positive opinion, while the remaining 12 percent were undecided. For Hill-HarrisX, the approval of Biden fell to 49 percent, six points less than the 55 recorded at the beginning of August.
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