{"id":35355,"date":"2021-08-17T10:51:35","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T01:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/17\/afghanistan-striking-image-appears-to-show-640-people-fleeing-kabul-in-packed-us-military-plane"},"modified":"2021-08-17T10:51:35","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T01:51:35","slug":"afghanistan-striking-image-appears-to-show-640-people-fleeing-kabul-in-packed-us-military-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35355","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan: striking image appears to show 640 people fleeing Kabul in packed US military plane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of people crammed into a US carrier in a desperate attempt to escape Kabul after Taliban forces took control of the capital<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/aug\/17\/afghanistan-live-news-us-says-kabul-airport-reopens-as-biden-defends-withdrawal\">Afghanistan \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/aug\/16\/afghanistan-withdrawal-joe-biden-crisis\">Defiant Biden stands \u2018squarely behind\u2019 decision to withdraw<\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An extraordinary image has emerged that appears to show hundreds of Afghans packed into a US military cargo plane, in a desperate attempt to flee Kabul after the fall of the capital to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/16\/afghanistan-kabul-airport-joe-biden-taliban-deaths\">Taliban.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The picture obtained by US defence and security news site <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/policy\/2021\/08\/inside-reach-871-us-c-17-packed-640-people-trying-escape-taliban\/184563\/\">Defense One<\/a> is believed to show 640 people crammed into a C-17 Globemaster III, among the highest number of people ever carried in such an aircraft.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/17\/afghanistan-striking-image-appears-to-show-640-people-fleeing-kabul-in-packed-us-military-plane\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of people crammed into a US carrier in a desperate attempt to escape Kabul after Taliban forces took control of the capitalAfghanistan \u2013 latest updatesDefiant Biden stands \u2018squarely behind\u2019 decision to withdraw An extraordinary image has emerg&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2404,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,44,473,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-taliban","category-us-military","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35356,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35355\/revisions\/35356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}