The count

The number of Afghans killed in a suicide bomb attack on Kabul airport on Thursday has risen to 79, a hospital official told Reuters on Friday.

More than 120 people were wounded, some were still in hospital but many had returned home, the official said.

US forces helping to evacuate Afghans desperate to flee new Taliban rule were on alert on Friday after the Islamic State attack, which also killed 13 US.service members.

  The Guardian

Thirteen!

As I write this, the count of Afghans killed has risen to 169.  ISIS have claimed responsibility. Biden may not be the only one to blame, but he'll be the one to shoulder it. And this:

US President Joe Biden said “there may have been” a list of names of vulnerable Afghans given to the Taliban in an effort to facilitate United States evacuations from the country, as reported by an American news site.

  alJazeera

Are you fucking kidding me?

The comments came after Biden was asked about a Politico news site report on Thursday that said the US provided the names of American citizens, green-card holders, and Afghans eligible for expedited US visas to the Taliban to help those fleeing the country gain access to the airport.

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“There may have been. But I know of no circumstance. It doesn’t mean that it doesn’t exist, that here’s the names of 12 people, they’re coming, let them through. It could very well have happened,” said Biden.

Making it absolutely obvious that it did.

Meanwhile, a United Nations report warned last week the Taliban was intensifying its search for people who supported American and NATO forces.

Afghan campaigners have been engaged in climate activism and social justice work in their country.

“Everybody is scared and feeling quite hopeless as the situation is rapidly deteriorating,” said Sarah Greenfield Clark, co-founder of Climate 2025, a non-profit that supports emerging movements.

“We need help. Fridays for Future is a relatively new organisation. We need better links with established humanitarian NGOs and experienced contacts to help us put these names on evacuation lists,” Greenfield Clark said on the phone from London. “These people’s lives are in danger.”

FFF activists have been trying to get the names and details of Afghan campaigners and their families on to evacuation lists with officials coordinating flights and aid agencies.

But eight days after the first calls for help were made, there had been no response, said those working on the rescue.

“Countries around the world are now indicating a withdrawal of state forces from Afghanistan over the coming days, leaving many FFF activists in grave danger,” Fridays for Future said in a statement, calling for a coordinated humanitarian effort as time runs out.

“Me and the other activists feel as though we are being abandoned, even by the organisations we have worked closely with over the years,” an unnamed 24-year-old climate campaigner based in Kabul was quoted as saying in FFF’s statement.

“We feel that no one can know what we are going through, and that the rest of the world will just continue on as normal and we will be completely forgotten about after [August] 31st. No one has the will to help us,” the activist added.

  Guardian

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