{"id":654334,"date":"2021-08-17T10:51:58","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T14:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=654334"},"modified":"2021-08-17T10:52:01","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T14:52:01","slug":"watch-biden-admin-admits-it-does-not-know-how-many-americans-are-trapped-in-afghanistan-could-be-10000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-biden-admin-admits-it-does-not-know-how-many-americans-are-trapped-in-afghanistan-could-be-10000\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Biden Admin Admits It Does Not Know How Many Americans Are Trapped In Afghanistan, Could Be 10,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-biden-admin-admits-it-does-not-know-how-many-americans-are-trapped-in-afghanistan-could-be-10000%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=654334&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1234713669-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The Biden administration\u2019s Department of Defense spokesperson admitted, in an interview with CNN on Tuesday that it does not know how many American citizens remain in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby told CNN that there are \u201ccertainly thousands of Americans\u2026we don\u2019t have an exact count.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBest guess\u2026between five and ten thousand that are near Kabul,\u201d he continued. \u201cThere was a message put out by the State Department today advising those Americans about how to queue up and how to get to the airport so that now that security\u2019s better, they don\u2019t need to necessarily shelter in place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey can begin movement to the airport for processing,\u201d Kirby added.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"11.861671469741\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WATCH: There could be up to *10,000* Americans still stuck in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Afghanistan?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Afghanistan<\/a> trying to get out, but DOD spokesman John Kirby admits the Biden administration doesn&#8217;t really know.<\/p>\n<p>Unconscionable that Biden pulled out so rapidly that it left thousands of Americans in this situation. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6DP354SSrC\">pic.twitter.com\/6DP354SSrC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John Cooper (@thejcoop) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thejcoop\/status\/1427619033373986816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 17, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On Sunday, as the situation in Kabul deteriorated markedly, the State Department issued a security warning to all Americans remaining in the country, telling them to avoid coming to Kabul airport and, instead, shelter in place until their security could be guaranteed. On Monday, amid the crush of thousands of Afghans flooding the military runway at Kabul\u2019s airport, trying to catch a flight out rather than live under Taliban rule, the U.S. suspended evacuations.<\/p>\n<p>Evacuations began again Monday night.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2021\/08\/16\/biden-must-rescue-thousands-us-citizens-trapped-afghanistan\/\">The Washington Post\u2019s Josh Rogin<\/a> noted on Monday that there could be as many as 10,000 Americans still trapped in and around Kabul, many struggling to reach safety. It is also not clear whether the airport is in American control. Just 700 people were evacuated on Monday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"12.37898089172\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">White House: Kabul airport is open, flights are able to land and depart, including on civilian side. 3,500 troops are on the ground. U.S. military flights are taking off w\/ U.S. citizens &amp; U.S. Embassy personnel on board. 700+ evacuated Monday including 150 U.S. citizens.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ed O&#8217;Keefe (@edokeefe) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/edokeefe\/status\/1427631262114668555?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 17, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAn administration official who was not authorized to speak on the record told me that there are an estimated 10,000 U.S. citizens in the country, with the vast majority in or near Kabul,\u201d Rogin wrote. \u201cSome are residents, journalists, or aid workers who may not want to leave. Most are scrambling to escape. Some are dual nationals or children of Americans who may not have the proper passport or visas, but the State Department has not told them how to fix their paperwork.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The State Department is also dealing with more than 80,000 visa applications for Afghans who worked with the U.S. government or find themselves at risk,\u201d the official told Rogin.<\/p>\n<p>They are in danger, according to staffers who spoke to the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmerican citizens\u2019 houses have been ransacked, and they are in hiding because the Taliban are terrorizing and tormenting neighborhoods. That\u2019s happening all over Kabul,\u201d a \u201csenior GOP congressional staffer\u201d told Rogin, noting that their office had been \u201cfielding calls\u201d from desperate Americans left on the ground. \u201cThere are a lot of people who are falling through the cracks. [The administration] didn\u2019t have a plan to handle this on a mass scale\u2026For the people in Kabul, they\u2019ve basically said it\u2019s up to them to get to the airport.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The concern is now that these thousands of Americans could become Taliban hostages.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBiden administration officials are very busy trying to spin the fall of Kabul away from a story about their own incompetence,\u201d Rogin noted. \u201cThey argue that the intelligence was wrong, that the Afghan government didn\u2019t stand firm, that the Taliban would have won eventually. Some officials are even claiming that they planned for this contingency. But the frantic calls of U.S. citizens begging for information render all those explanations and excuses irrelevant for the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration\u2019s Department of Defense spokesperson admitted, in an interview with CNN on Tuesday that it does not know how many American citizens remain in Afghanistan.Pentagon Press Secretary John &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}