By Pamela Geller | Geller Report
‘Taliban is coming’ Crying Afghan woman pleads for
help from US troops
Distressing images show the barbaric reality in
Afghanistan after the Taliban seized control of the country, with women and
children covered in blood and militants patrolling streets with rocket
launchers — all despite the Taliban’s promise of a more peaceful regime.
In one image taken by the Los Angeles Times, a woman is seen apparently unconscious on the ground near Kabul Airport with blood over her head and hands, while a young boy is carried with his hair completely soaked in blood.
The child was completely limp, with his eyes rolling back in his head, the paper’s photojournalist, Marcus Yam, recalled.
Shocking scenes captured across Afghanistan on Tuesday —
the day the Taliban’s longtime spokesman promised peace and an “inclusive,
Islamic government” — showed militant mobs instead firing high-powered weapons
in the air and randomly beating passersby.
Video footage shared on social media also shows groups of people being corralled by armed groups, some carrying what appear to be rocket launchers while others patrol on rooftops.
KABUL,
AFGHANISTAN — AUGUST 17, 2021: (Editors note: Image contains graphic content)
Men try to help a wounded woman and her wounded child after Taliban fighters
use guns fire, whips, sticks and sharp objects to maintain crowd control over
thousands of Afghans who continue to wait outside the Kabul Airport for a way
out, on airport road in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021. At least
half dozen were wounded, within the hour of violent escalation, including a
woman and her child. (MARCUS YAM / LOS ANGELES TIMES)
Images
of bloodied Afghans contradict Taliban’s claims of moderation
