Those Dogs the U.S. Supposedly Abandoned at Kabul
The U.S. military is known to have evacuated its own working dogs previously. The U.S. State Department has also denied that any of its working dogs were left behind in Afghanistan.
That clears up one aspect. Yet sadly for animals and animal fans, the fate of the dogs is far from certain. The Taliban, in general, considers dogs to be unclean pests.
The CENTCOM statement, however, does not speak directly to some of the other allegations leveled by KSAR and other animal welfare organizations regarding the fate of approximately 130 other dogs that had been at Hamid Karzai International Airport. This group of animals is understood to have included some number of former Afghan security forces working dogs. KSAR had been working to get them out of the country as part of an effort dubbed Operation Hercules.
“In the end, the dogs and their caretakers were explicitly NOT allowed to board military aircraft, and numerous private charter aircraft were not granted access to the airport either,” according to a lengthy statement issued yesterday by SPCA International, which cited information provided by KSAR founder Charlotte Maxwell-Jones. “Charlotte was informed that most of the KSAR dogs had to be released into the airport on August 30 as the airport was evacuated – turning once rescued shelter dogs into homeless strays.”
How the Taliban treats female humans is already rightly infamous. How it treats anyone and everyone but their own is also infamous. The culture is a harsh one, even music is banned. The dogs are just one more example of run for your life from the Taliban.
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