Originally Posted by
ORAC
The Taliban are preventing a lot of those eligible for evacuation - many of whom they are seeking to kill. People just can’t get to the airport.
Not forgetting the multitude of people stuck well-outside Kabul in places like Kandahar and Lashkar Gah - 400 miles+ from the only functional airhead and linked by a road network that has been under Taliban control for months. From recent reports it sounds like these people have been written-off entirely, with a multitude already executed / butchered by the local Taliban.