On The Ground Report At Kabul Airport On The Desperation From Those Who Want To Flee

 

Daily Mail: I watch the desperate Afghans wade in the sewage as hope fades... and tears fall: Sky News' STUART RAMSAY, the TV reporter who's seen the Kabul chaos unfold first hand, pens a vivid and harrowing dispatch 

 * Outside Hamid Karzai International Airport small children become separated from their parents in the chaos and British paratroopers hold them up to spot 

 * Hand-made posters hung everything begging for details about missing children 

 * PM announced G7 had agreed ‘road map’ for future engagement with the Taliban 

They call them ‘Simba moments’. Many times a day, small children become accidentally separated from their parents in the chaos outside Hamid Karzai International Airport and the British paratroopers who find them will hold them high in the air, much like the newborn Simba was presented to his father’s subjects in Disney’s The Lion King. 

Sometimes their panicking mothers and fathers will spot them, and these tiny figures will be passed back above the heads of the crowds for an emotional family reunion. But not all are so lucky.  

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WNU Editor: The above is a must see video from Sky News chief correspondent Stuart Ramsay. 

There is the White House narrative, and then there is the reality on the ground in Kabul. And everyone knows that in the coming days the panic is going to really set in.

Update: American describes getting to Kabul airport after Taliban takeover (see video below). 

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