Plenty of time in the sky

...what he told me in that conversation the night before he fled is that, as he put it, he was prepared to fight to the death. In less than 24 hours, he’d left Afghanistan. So no, I certainly didn’t know about it, and we certainly did nothing to facilitate it. QUESTION: And he took millions of dollars in cash with him, your taxpayers’ money and Afghans’ money. Do you know about that? SECRETARY BLINKEN: That, I don’t know. What I do know is that he left the country, and again, in a very short period of time. The security forces as an institution collapsed and so did the government. QUESTION: Was he part of the challenge when it comes to peace process in the past couple of years? Was he an obstacle to peace? SECRETARY BLINKEN: Look, I’m not interested at this point in looking backward. There’ll be plenty of time to do an accounting of the last 20 years, because what – what’s happened in the last few months is the accumulation of things that have happened over 20 years. State Dept.

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Lo avranno avvertito che è partito il primo volo QA da Kabul.

We are grateful to our Qatari friends for facilitating a flight carrying 13 British nationals from Kabul to safety in Doha today. We expect the Taliban to keep to their commitment to allow safe passage for those who want to leave. Dominic Raab

Decisivo sarebbe stato l'intervento di Khalilzad.