Posted on 08/18/2021 7:19:55 AM PDT by Enlightened1
American personnel destroyed the passports of some Afghans when they were getting rid of all sensitive materials at the US Embassy in Kabul in preparation for a full evacuation, according an update that Rep. Andy Kim’s office is sharing with people who request assistance with evacuations from Afghanistan.
It is unclear why the passports were destroyed, but it is possible diplomats determined it would have been dangerous for the documents to fall into the hands of Taliban members, who could then target those Afghans.
Not having a passport creates major complications for Afghans who are desperately and urgently trying to get out of the country.
“Visa and passport appointments at the Embassy have been canceled, and passports that were in the Embassy’s possession have been destroyed. Currently, it is not possible to provide any further visa services in Afghanistan,” the message from Kim's office says. “The Department of State advises all people waiting for processing to find shelter and wait for further instructions. They should not go to the airport until they are called to do so and should follow the instructions carefully.” Rep. Tom Malinowski said that the US will have to come up with ways to verify the identity of Afghans whose passports were burned.
“We are going to have to take people without passports and vet them in other ways, like with their phone numbers for example. In many cases we know their contact information and their phone numbers and that is how we will have to identify them. Any Afghans braving the trip to the airport will not have wanted to go there with identifying documents, anyway,” Malinowski told CNN.
The US is not protecting the fully evacuated US Embassy in Kabul, but the compound is in a heavily fortified area, according to State Department spokesperson
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So, it was a little slip. At least they surely saved the LGBTQ flag and burned all the Stars and Stripes so there is that.
Two decades in the Air Force, and three years of that as a plans NCO. There are literally thousands of plans down on the books for a military organization or embassy situation, and you go by the plan X, when such-and-such event occurs. I look at the embassy and at least they had a plan (something Biden never imagined).
“ We are going to have to take people without passports and vet them in other ways, like with their phone numbers for example.”
Our country is being run monkeys 🐒
Those were probably the “good afghans”.
We are not getting their best.
Never let a crisis go to waste.
I expect there will be one more communication from the State Department types in the airport hangar:
“If/when you have telephone/Internet access please notify next of kin you have decided to commit suicide by chopping your head off. Thanks in advance for your cooperation.”
Why are we evacuating their citizens before ours?
Apparently in 2009 the new ID cards required people identify their religion (yeah, what could possibly go wrong.). Some of those passports may have belonged to Christians>
He has a source.
Here ‘ya go .....
Taliban reportedly seize biometrics devices used by US military
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3986455/posts
The Taliban have reportedly seized biometrics devices used by the US military that could help identify Afghan nationals who worked for the US government and aided coalition forces, raising concerns the Taliban could use the information to retaliate in the wake of the collapse of the US-backed government.
The devices, known as HIIDE, for Handheld Interagency Identity Detection Equipment, were seized last week as the Taliban went on an offensive march to overtake Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital, sources tell The Intercept. Information stored on the devices include iris scans, fingerprints and biographical information, the news outlet reported Tuesday. They can also reportedly be used to access a broad centralized database.
Meh. Doesn’t mean much if the ‘centralized database’ is MIA or otherwise disrupted. Or it’s in the clear in some cloud location and no one is paying any attention to it. Who knows?
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