Kabul airport, between jostling and tight control of the Taliban to obtain

At Kabul airport, a stampede 17 people were injured at the front door, according to a NATO security official. The atmosphere around the terminal it is stretched, with Afghan women and children on the ground, waiting for the Taliban to allow them to access at the airport.

The situation at the airport is not chaotic as it was on Tuesday and Monday. They managed to clear the runway and get the planes off the ground because the Taliban have set up a checkpoint in front of the terminal and are controlling access. This presence terrifies Afghans who want to leave because they think the Taliban will block their departure.

The Afghans who hope to flee with the Americans and the British are kept away from the terminal by the Taliban, who let people pass by airdrops. Others cannot make it to the visa processing center because the Taliban blocks their way in the city.

Britain and the United States negotiate with the Taliban

The British and American military engaged in dialogue with the Taliban to achieve an orderly evacuation and that the chaos of Monday and Tuesday does not repeat itself in the terminal.

British Chief of Staff Sir Nick Carter admitted it. “We are cooperating with the Taliban on the ground and it seems like a normal relationship without complications,” he said in London.

“They keep the streets of Kabul safe and quiet. They help us at the airport, ”said the British serviceman, when the crisis in Afghanistan, the disorderly withdrawal and the responsibility to rescue To all staff who helped the British during their stay in the country.

Sir Nick thinks the Islamist movement could to be “more moderate” only when he took power in 1990.

“The streets are in order. There ain’t no public disorder, we don’t get beheading reports in the medieval way they did in the past, ”he said.

A change of mind in 24 hours. British Vice Admiral Ben Key, who is in charge of the evacuation efforts as chief of operations, said on Tuesday that British troops should abandon the rescue as the Taliban were now in charge of security.

“At any time, they can withdraw their consent to keep the British and the British and the interpreters can be isolated in Afghanistan,” he said.

He admitted that there was greater fluidity in the evacuation but that there was 6,000 people to be evacuated. The visa group is working under enormous pressure from the Afghans, who have to flee because they feel threatened.

But the presence of the Taliban at the airport makes evacuation more difficult Afghans who have worked for Western forces fear being detained or identified, resulting in reprisals against the family.

Arrive at the airport

Women who worked for the Afghan Special Forces and who were trained by the British said that they were “arrested by the Taliban” as they approached the airport for the visa processing center and sent to your home.

There are at least 900 British military, especially Paras and Special Forces, trying to help the people of Kabul. We find a lot of them in “safe houses”, controlled by British special forces SAS, until they can be evacuated.

There are at least 3,000 British or double British Afghan nationals waiting to be evacuated, more than 3,000 Afghans, including the interpreters and their families, who have to leave and this now seems impossible, despite parliamentary pressure that undergoes the government of Boris Johnson in Parliament.

For the moment, you can evacuate 1000 people per day. But it depends on how fast your data is processed and whether or not it is accessible at the airport. A difficult and dangerous road for the Afghans.

British Labor shadow chancellor Lisa Nandy said: “Britain faces a very oppressive regime. This message (of dialogue with the Taliban) is very difficult for the many Afghans to digest, especially women and girls, who not only are suffering right now but very, very terrified of the future, “he said. .

“I spoke to friends in Afghanistan last week telling myself that the Taliban go door to door, arresting people, threatening those who worked with the British forces and women who had high-level jobs, “said the British Chancellor in the shadows.

Destroyed statue in Jalalabad

In Jalalabad, the city in the east of the country and close to Pakistan, the militant group detonate a statue a Shiite militia leader, questioning their claims that they have become more moderate in the two decades since their ouster from power.

Photos on social media showed insurgents destroyed a statue of Abdul Ali Mazari, a militia leader who fought the group during the civil war in Afghanistan in the 1990s, and was later assassinated by the group in 1996.

Mazari was a defender of the Hazara minority, a predominantly Shiite group, which was persecuted under the Taliban.

The demolition of the statue produced incidents, which left at least one dead and several injured in Jalalabad on Wednesday.

Paris, correspondent

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