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Number Of American Citizens Stranded In Afghanistan Has Been Revealed According To Reports

By • August 19, 2021 5:47 pm

According to the Associated Press, “up to 15,000 Americans remain in Afghanistan” after the country’s downfall on Sunday.

Previous reports estimated that between 10 and 40 thousand American civilians were stuck in Afghanistan, but the Biden Administration claims the figure is closer to 11 thousand. Only around 2,900 people have been evacuated as of Sunday.

“The U.S. military does not have the forces and firepower in Afghanistan to expand its current mission from securing the Kabul airport to collecting Americans and at-risk Afghans elsewhere in the capital and escorting them for evacuation,” the Associated Press reported. “The question of whether those seeking to leave the country before Biden’s deadline should be rescued and brought to the airport has arisen amid reports that Taliban checkpoints have stopped some designated evacuees.”

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Wednesday that he does not “have the capability to go out and extend current operations into Kabul.”

Former White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany also posted to Twitter about Americans having to pay to be evacuated from Afghanistan.

“WHAT?! Americans have to pay to be evacuated from Afghanistan? In Biden’s America, everything is free EXCEPT an evacuation from the terrorist-ridden mess he created. I just verified this on the U.S. Embassy of Afghanistan‘s website!” McEnany wrote.

“If Trump stranded tens of thousands of Americans in arguably the largest hostage situation ever, and did so with the utter incompetence we are all seeing from the Biden administration Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer would have Articles of Impeachment filed by lunchtime. #Biden,” Donald Trump Jr. wrote to Twitter.

Pentagon Press Sec. John Kirby noted that over the last 24 hours, of the 2,000 people evacuated from Afghanistan, about 300 of them were Americans.

The Associated Press also reported the Taliban have set up “checkpoints and curfews that have limited the number of Americans and Afghans able to enter the airport.”

The State Department has urged Americans to come to the airport to be rescued, but the US military cannot guarantee their safety.

The US embassy in Kabul indicated on Wednesday that flights out of the country will be on a “first come, first serve basis” at the airport occupied by the Taliban.

“Please be advised that a significant number of individuals have registered and space on these flights is available on a first come, first serve basis,” the notice reads. “You may be required to wait at the airport for a significant amount of time until space is available.”

According to Austin, approximately 4,500 American soldiers are guarding the airport, while the State Department is evacuating people who are stuck amid the crisis and increasing brutalization by the Taliban inside the country.

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