US Resumes Military Flights at Kabul Airport After Chaos

The United States resumed military flights at the airport on Monday Accept, after being interrupted by the chaos unleashed in recent hours by the irruption of hundreds of Afghans on the runways in an attempt to get on flights destined to evacuate Americans and their allies.

This was stated at a press conference at the Pentagon by the Deputy Director of Logistics of the General Staff, General Hank Taylor, who pointed out that there are currently 2,500 soldiers from his country deployed at the airport, and that there will be 3,500 at the end of this day.

“They will arrive sooner,” the spokesman said.

The situation degenerated in the last hours at the Kabul airport, where the US is evacuating its embassy staff and its allies in Afghanistan, after the fall of the capital in the hands of the Taliban this Sunday.

Despite the chaos caused, the spokesman for the US Department of Defense, John Kirby, rejected in the same appearance before the media to cross out the evacuation operation as “failure”, when asked about what failed in the planning of this process .

“We plan for all kinds of contingencies but it is not a perfect process,” he continued. Plans are not always perfectly predicted and, as is known in the Armed Forces, plans do not always survive on first contact and you have to adapt in real time ”.

Taylor threw balls out when asked about it, noting that “there were a lot of Afghans trying to get out of the country.”

“I don’t think it was a lack of planning,” he said.

The general stressed, on the other hand, that the US has not carried out bombings in the last 24 hours in Afghanistan, but that its commanders on the ground “maintain the capacity” to do so if necessary.

Kirby added that the US will close its mission when it finishes evacuating the Americans who are in the Asian country, which it estimates will end on August 31, if it maintains the pace of removing 5,000 people a day.

Given the deterioration of the situation in Afghanistan, the head of the Central Command of the US Armed Forces (CENTCOM), General Kenneth McKenzie, met with Taliban leaders in Doha (Qatar) on Monday to discuss the situation in the Central Asian country and ask them not to attack the Americans.

Earlier, Kirby explained that McKenzie “was very clear and firm” in his conversations with the Taliban leadership, warning them that any attack on Americans “will be met with a very quick and strong response.”

The Pentagon previously reported that there were two incidents at the airport in which US forces had to open fire on “hostile threats” and caused the death of two assailants.

The US sent 6,000 soldiers to Afghanistan in the past days due to the deterioration of the security situation, to which another 1,000 will be added soon.

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