Posted on 09/08/2021 3:55:19 AM PDT by MtnClimber
After airlifting over 100,000 unvetted Afghans on military flights, the State Department is refusing to allow chartered flights with Americans on them.
Under orders from the White House, the State Department, and the Pentagon, the troops on the ground in Afghanistan presided over a partial, chaotic, and awful evacuation of American citizens and Afghan allies in the last days before the U.S. withdrew its military and diplomatic presence entirely from Afghanistan. Since then, private organizations have been trying desperately to rescue Americans, Afghan allies, and Afghans who converted to Christianity. The last two groups, of course, face imminent death. On Tuesday afternoon, Fox News reported that the State Department is refusing to grant approval for those charter flights.
According to Fox News, the State Department is withholding the necessary approval that will allow privately chartered flights from Afghanistan to land in third countries. The administration is saying that it’s too dangerous to let these planes land at Defense Department airbases:
The State Department refused to grant official approval for private evacuation flights from Afghanistan to land in third countries, even though the department conceded that official authorization would likely be needed for planes to land in those nations, an email reviewed by Fox News shows.
Furthermore, the State Department explicitly stated that charter flights, even those containing American citizens, would not be allowed to land at Defense Department (DOD) airbases. U.S. officials have pointed to possible security threats from landing charter planes at military bases, saying that they lack the resources on the ground to fully verify flight manifests.
The Biden administration's delaying of private evacuation efforts has been a widespread source of frustration, infuriating rescue organizers and even a prominent Democratic senator.
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Is this a “never let a crisis go to waste” maneuver? It seems to be an orchestrated crisis implemented so clumsily that fingerprints are all over it.
I don’t think they want people to get out and tell their stories. It would expose their lies.
China pays well to humiliate Americans. hunter is a perfect example of chinese payments. And the “big guy” always receives his 15 percent
They don’t want on-the-ground reports of abuses, and anyone who makes it out alive is likely to be against their policies. This is a matter of “breaking a few eggs.”
Allowing American rescue flights to land at DoD bases in third countries would quickly explode the myth of only 100 Americans abandoned?
I thought it was only 10%, but that’s inflation. 😀😂😁
Commies hate Christians.
Hunter Biden will face a military tribunal at Gitmo?
Are you so out of touch with reality that you believe that?
Get back on your meds before posting again, please.
I thought Qatar said several days ago that it would allow them in? The Taliban said the people don’t have proper paperwork - I’m guessing some did (until it was confiscated) and many don’t. The State Dept is hoping someone else will sort it out, because they refuse to pressure the Taliban.
The inmates have taken over the asylum. To the very top.
Notice No photos of the supposed Americans !
No Americans relatives here protesting !
Its a Scam by Afghan Muslims Savages who got the blank Visas that State dept emailed out to all of Kabul. Stop the invasion of dangerous Afghan Muslim Con artists .
It’s all in the family
Rep. Ronny Jackson said that he’s had reports that people who were originally part of the group waiting to get on those planes, are starting to disappear. He assumes the Taliban have taken them.
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