After the airports closed and many foreigners, including Americans, were left stranded with no way to leave the country, the Indian government began using military transport and special Air India flights to evacuate people from Sana’a to Djibouti. The State Department advised Americans there to contact Indian diplomats for exit out of the country. About 4,600 Indian citizens were rescued. And nearly 1,000 people from 41 other countries were saved, as well, including three Pakistanis. Pakistan also rescued 11 Indians, according to The Times of India.
India’s minister of external affairs, retired Gen. Vijay Kumar Singh, led the charge, accompanying many of the flights personally and tweeting about the operations. Singh used to be chief of staff for the Indian Army."
Meanwhile, with significant military assets just offshore, the American military was ordered to stand down and shamefully do nothing at all. This is a huge failure of leadership, and an abandonment of all the remaining Americans there. The Indians, in contrast, came, saw and conquered. All thanks to General Singh, who not only pulled off the successful rescue, but rode in on the flights, at personal risk, to make sure things were done properly.
Vijay Kumar Singh
800 plus have been sent through Air India 777 and 2 C17 of IAF despite major ATC problem.
Meanwhile, as this daring rescue was going on, Ear Leader was in Cuba shaking Raoul Castro's hand and giving the dictators there everything they want for nothing.
"Sometime during this weekend’s Summit of the Americas in Panama, President Obama is expected to grant one of Cuban President Raul Castro’s top demands and remove his country from the Unites States’ list of governments that sponsor terrorism."
"That, as Sen. Robert Menendez warns, not only flies in the face of all evidence, but removes critical leverage in Washington’s efforts to bring scores of fugitive American terrorists to justice."
Americans abandoned, dictators rewarded - all in a days work for the Grandest President of All Time.
When is enough going to be enough? What the hell is wrong with our government and military?
ReplyDeleteThere is a lot that we have to un-do once Obama leaves office.
DeleteThe first Emergency Alert - get out of Yemen NOW was issued August 18 of last year (due to the nature of my work and its travel I get those). Yet there are those that stayed, many to benefit the people of the country, working on US backed projects involving agriculture and other humanitarian efforts. I do hope someone can get them out.
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