For over four days we’ve been heartbroken, near tears, thinking and writing about the fate awaiting Afghani women and girls. For those of us that raise and love girls of all ages, the idea of a daughter or mother, or wife, or sister… living in that repressive regime is simply too difficult to concentrate upon, we almost have to distract ourselves, some, but not too much. It is disrespectful to ignore.

Americans were given a taste as to what awaits Afghani women in a terrifying incident involving CNN’s Clarissa Ward. From Mediaite:

Ward noted that the fighter was carrying a truncheon as he blamed America for the situation in Kabul. She also wound up speaking to several Afghan citizens who approached and asked her for advice on how to get out of the country.

As Ward was leaving the area, she noticed that the Taliban fighter from before had taken the safety off of his a$$ault r1fle.

“Suddenly, two other Taliban charge towards us,” Ward narrated over the footage. “You can see their r1fle butt, raised to strike producer Brent Swailes. When the fighters are told we have permission to report, they lower their weapons and let us pass.”

The threat to Swailes comes shortly after Ward conducted a report with him where Taliban fighters threatened to pistol-whip him.

There are still U.S. troops within Kabul and god-help any Taliban that might attack innocent U.S. citizens doing their jobs on the street. Perhaps the threat of American retaliation is what stopped the rush prior to anyone being seriously hurt. But that type of protection will not help Afghani women and girls in the years to come.

Clarissa Ward and her team are pillars of strength with admirable bravery. Some Afghanis will never get a chance to be the same.

Here’s the moment that @clarissaward and crew were confronted by the Taliban on the streets of Kabul. pic.twitter.com/2ueKYbR8xg

— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) August 18, 2021

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