Kabul: a good copy of “not a good day to die” – who tells how American troops almost canceled battle in Afghanistan at the early stages of war – located on the bed in the US barrack room which was quiet in Kabul in Kabul Airport.
On the table next to it is two bottles of water, some empty bullets and smoke grenades.
A bottle of hot sauce Tabasco – US military stapel – sitting elsewhere.
In a separate room, the extraordinary smell of rotating rotation includes when a Taliban fighters are armed with M16 rifles taking pictures on their cellphones.
A month after the takeover of the Afghanistan Taliban, the signs of the 20-year-old LED occupy were still seen at Kabul airport – including clear evidence from the shameful exit of Washington.
There is even one last message from Defiance.
“Fuck with you Taliban, just know you are hard,” it is written on the wall next to a photo of a woman in a tight dress.
The Taliban Fighter Abdulrahman barely saw it at a glance because he went about his business.
US medical kits, vests, shoes, mattresses, toilet paper, documents, and other items spread about the quarter of the airport military, have not been discarded by new rulers in the destroyed country.
The only thing that stopped Abdulrahman was a big wood cross pinned to the wall, which he looked at without saying a word.
Taliban fighters took Kabul on August 15 after the lightning attack was launched in May as the United States and NATO began their final withdrawal.
In the 10-day space, they won a series of provincial capitals, filled a little or no resistance in a surprising defeat of the trained and completed Afghan government forces.
Washington, who had planned an orderly evacuation of Afghans who had helped foreign troops during the 20-year occupation, suddenly had to turn it on hastily.
“The Taliban takeover is not imagined …
but the US exit is really unthinkable,” said a security guard Afghanistan who had a front row seat from a withdrawal operation from the civilian side of the airport.
Panic and confusion when the Taliban entered the capital was clearly visible, he said.
“This is the first time I saw a US army like this.” What circumstances left behind the testimony of Bears to the panic exit.
At the field clinic in the US camp, next to a small fire station, the first aid kit was hung on the sand several meters from the outdoor gym, volleyball court, and meeting room with a red chair that resembled an indoor cinema.
The strong smell from the disinfectant rose from the room, where the medical equipment box was still untouched and a folding bed covered by gray sheets left open.
US State Secretary Antony Blinken insisted on Monday the Biden government had prepared the worst scenario in Afghanistan, when lawmaker Irate accused the White House to lead a careless exit.
The US and its allies finally evacuated 124,000 people from Afghanistan – one of the biggest airlift in history – but even the operation admirers describe it as “chaotic”.
In part of the airport military side this week dozens of aircraft and vehicles damaged corrected by the Taliban barricade made from umbrellas to folding metal chairs.
Afghan military uniforms left behind with the hangar floor filled with helicopters filled with bullets.
Stand next to a small plane without a door, a Taliban fighter saw a broken window and said hard with a smile: “Boom, boom, boom.”