{"id":41030,"date":"2021-08-26T19:27:15","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T19:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=41030"},"modified":"2021-08-26T19:27:15","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T19:27:15","slug":"afghanistan-former-royal-marine-on-the-chaos-at-kabul-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=41030","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan: Former Royal Marine on the chaos at Kabul airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">A former Royal Marine, who was near the explosions in Kabul, has spoken to the BBC about being caught in the chaos outside Hamid Karzai International Airport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Paul &#8216;Pen&#8217; Farthing and his supporters have been campaigning to have his staff and their families, as well as 140 dogs and 60 cats, evacuated from Kabul since the collapse of the Afghan government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Mr Farthing, who founded the Nowzad shelter, said: &#8220;Twice today I&#8217;ve had an AK poked in my face, we were forced to leave the airfield and just as we did that&#8217;s when those two attacks happened&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><b class=\"ssrcss-hmf8ql-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Read more:<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-58345074\" class=\"ssrcss-9nsdc6-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">Charity worker caught up in Kabul bomb attack<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-58348599?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Royal Marine, who was near the explosions in Kabul, has spoken to the BBC about being caught in the chaos outside Hamid Karzai International Airport. Paul &#8216;Pen&#8217; Farthing and his supporters have been campaigning to have his staff and their families, as well as 140 dogs and 60 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hindi-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/120298116_p09t9wtc.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}