I’ve seen on Twitter that there were other charter flights. Some were charging the earth to get on
It could just be one or two that were charging and a lot were free but they wish to remain anonymous. One ticket was in the £3,000 range. I’ll see if I can find the post I saw it on.
It is literally the duty of an embassy to protect their citizens, I cannot believe the state dept would have even attempted that, outrageous. And don't even get me started on that $6000 , some people just have absolutely no ethics
That says a lot to me, now I wonder how that will be reported, if at all. Probably some balls about her trafficking them. But nothing will be said about the men trying to charge their fellow citizens to leave.
yeah I have been following this disaster over the last few days and have heard nothing about her, which is ridiculous, good on her at least some people are not just trying to exploit these vulnerable people
Because it will be costing to land and take back off there. Anyone wanting to work with the Taliban will be charging and making the most of it.No one will hear anything. refugee charities have been pleading for donations and support for days, but no one bothers because they just see dinghys over here and people breaking through Donald’s imaginary wall over there.
Joe found the big red button.
It’s interesting because the language in another article suggests that they were charging for getting these people to the airport rather than the flights themselves. Granted that’s still a lot of money
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exactly, what will revenge be? drone bombings that just end up killing more citizens? trade embargos that also affect innocent citizens? at this point the poor people left there basically have to be fearful of everyone
Some redditors have also pointed out that this has never actually worked in general. You kill one person, another one replaces them and so on
exactly, killing people who are basically their family/friends is hardly going to endear the west to them is it? It is an impossible situation now but one that could have been avoided, or at least lessened
The processing staff are long gone and thats why the last civilian flight was last night; Pen is still waiting for his plane to arrive btw
If this is the truth, that he will be last to go and basically British troops are waiting about to do this, I feel a little sick. In the time he’s been waiting and having his stuff off loaded into a warehouse other passengers could have been processed. Might not have been many, but it would have been some. Heaven help if anything goes off now, and we have waited behind for someone who has published every move to isis. This is nothing more than the gov responding to pressure because if he hadn’t have got out, the fallout would have been worse, all the ‘are lads’ lot would have been out in force
I think I’m more upset because the uk gov has sponsored the slots, an raf plane could have taken double the people in that space.
even more upsetting is that he is using Uzbekistan as a landing point. They are turning away people crossing the border for aid with visas that would help them move on elsewhere…... But others are happy to pay them for runway space
This on top of learning how much people were charging to leave is just upsetting.
Tbh, the army could bloody check British passports for all I care, they are as trained on security matters as some of the border control staff I’ve met over the years, there will have been some mobile system that they used to check things and that could still be used. And for the British passport holders, if they could get out of the country ok, then I’m sure the passport would scan back fine.The processing staff are long gone and thats why the last civilian flight was last night; Pen is still waiting for his plane to arrive btw
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Its crazy saying we have the head guy, I would expect we just have one head guy in any other army, we know AlQueda didn’t vanish when they got Bin Laden…… the next in command just steps up.
