“There are already reports that they are going house-to-house around the country, starting to hang government officials and assassinate people they thought were collaborators or worked with the Afghan security forces.” The first RAAF C-130 Hercules aircraft finally landed at Kabul airport early on Wednesday morning, dropping off officials charged with the daunting task of getting people onto flights and picking up only 26 passengers – Australians, Afghans and one foreign official. “The Taliban’s rapid ascendancy across Afghanistan and takeover of Kabul should not cause us to break our promise to the Afghans who helped us operate over the past twenty years and are counting on us for assistance,” a bipartisan group of 50 senators wrote to Biden following the interview.