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The Afghan Express: How People Were Smuggled Through Crowd Control to Get to Kabul’s Airport
1:44:00 - 1:48:15 (04:15)
People who were desperate to escape Kabul during the Taliban takeover were smuggled through a complex system called “The Afghan Express” which used a network of people to guide them through the crowd control to the airport. Military veteran and former U.S. Green Beret, Tyson Yunkaporta explains in The New Yorker how the system worked.
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The Pineapple Express was a secret system used during the Vietnam War to transport people, materials and information in and out of the country.
1:44:00 - 1:45:44 (01:43)
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The Pineapple Express was a secret system used during the Vietnam War to transport people, materials and information in and out of the country. This podcast tells the stories of those who used this system to get in and out of Vietnam.
ChapterThe Afghan Express: How People Were Smuggled Through Crowd Control to Get to Kabul’s Airport
Episode#36 Lt. Col. Scott Mann - Operation Pineapple Express
PodcastShawn Ryan Show
The signal room of a secret network that helped with the evacuation of Afghanistan saw Afghan women officials, including the Minister for Women's Affairs, Hasina Safi, rescued through a sewage canal that the Taliban wouldn't get near.
1:45:45 - 1:46:54 (01:09)
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The signal room of a secret network that helped with the evacuation of Afghanistan saw Afghan women officials, including the Minister for Women's Affairs, Hasina Safi, rescued through a sewage canal that the Taliban wouldn't get near.
ChapterThe Afghan Express: How People Were Smuggled Through Crowd Control to Get to Kabul’s Airport
Episode#36 Lt. Col. Scott Mann - Operation Pineapple Express
PodcastShawn Ryan Show
Veterans and retired officers organized an evacuation plan for the Kabul airport, working with Marines from the 82nd Airborne Division, NATO troops, and highly vetted individuals to responsibly present them for evacuation.
1:46:56 - 1:48:15 (01:19)
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Veterans and retired officers organized an evacuation plan for the Kabul airport, working with Marines from the 82nd Airborne Division, NATO troops, and highly vetted individuals to responsibly present them for evacuation. Institutional leaders reached out to the group for assistance in getting their preferred evacuees out, but the organization urged them to work with the Delta team that was already present at the scene.