{"id":658147,"date":"2021-08-18T10:51:52","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T14:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=658147"},"modified":"2021-08-18T10:51:54","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T14:51:54","slug":"u-s-has-no-official-plans-to-evacuate-americans-outside-kabul-despite-promises-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-has-no-official-plans-to-evacuate-americans-outside-kabul-despite-promises-report\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Has No Official Plans To Evacuate Americans Outside Kabul Despite Promises: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Fu-s-has-no-official-plans-to-evacuate-americans-outside-kabul-despite-promises-report%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=658147&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-1234727318.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>United States Senators were reportedly told, during a briefing on the Afghanistan situation on Tuesday, that there are no official plans to evacuate all Americans from the quickly deteriorating country, particularly those who are outside of Kabul.<\/p>\n<p>National security advisor Jake Sullivan said later Tuesday that the U.S. intends to rescue all Americans trapped in Afghanistan, though he declined to give specifics, and would not commit to leaving American troops in the country past August 31st if there are still American citizens who have not been evacuated.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/08\/17\/afghanistan-kabul-taliban-live-updates\/#link-MNTE5VD4SNEEZN2GKJVVSBCRPA\">Washington Post, quoting unnamed Senate aides<\/a>, reported that Biden \u201cadministration officials \u2014 from the State and Defense departments, as well as the National Security Council and the Joint Chiefs of Staff \u2014 also told the assembled Senate staffers that there is no plan to evacuate Americans who are outside Kabul, as they do not have a way of getting through the Taliban checkpoints outside the Afghan capital.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration refused to comment on how many Americans are outside of Kabul, but reportedly told Senators that between 10,000 and 15,000 American citizens are still in Afghanistan waiting to be evacuated.<\/p>\n<p>NBC\u2019s Richard Engel, who is reporting from Kabul, said Wednesday that the evacuation process appears to be \u201cpicking up,\u201d and that the U.S. military is slowly evacuating Americans and Afghan citizens with approved visas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt kabul airport, military side, more order than before,\u201d he tweeted. \u201cEvacuations picking up. Seeing more Afghan families being taken through. Planes taking off. Base well guarded.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the U.S. evacuated just 700 people. The Washington Post said Wednesday that \u201cthe United States evacuated some 1,100 U.S. citizens, permanent residents and their families on Tuesday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>White House national security advisor Jake Sullivan said later Tuesday that although there is no official plan, the U.S. intends to evacuate its citizens, though the Taliban stands in the way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt a news briefing later Tuesday, Jake Sullivan, President Biden\u2019s national security adviser, told reporters that the Taliban expressed a willingness to provide \u2018safe passage of civilians to the airport,&#8217;\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/no-plans-to-evacuate-americans-outside-kabul-report-says\">Fox News said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I was asked about whether we\u2019re going to get all Americans out of Afghanistan I said \u2018that\u2019s what we intend to do\u2019 and that\u2019s exactly what we\u2019ll do, and are accomplishing right now with HKIA re-opened and operational, thanks to the incredible work of our troops and diplomats,\u201d Sullivan added on Twitter. He did not say, when asked by a CBS reporter, that troops would stay in Afghanistan until all Americans have been rescued.<\/p>\n<p>In a missive that went out to diplomats on Tuesday afternoon, <a href=\"ttps:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-biden-admin-tells-americans-trapped-in-afghanistan-it-cannot-guarantee-their-safety-to-airport\">the Daily Wire reported<\/a>, the State Department told Americans that it \u201ccannot guarantee\u201d their safety if they choose to leave shelter and make their way to the airport, leaving Sullivan\u2019s statements in question.<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"10\">\n<p><em>Thank you for registering your request to be evacuated from Afghanistan. The U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan has confirmed that an undefined number of U.S. govern1nentprovided fligl1ts will begin soon. <strong>Please make your way to Hamid Karzai International Airport at this time.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT CANNOT GUARANTEE YOUR SECURITY AS YOU MAKE THIS TRIP.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>House Democrats say they\u2019ve requested more information from the Biden administration on how it plans to evacuate the some 50,000 individuals who were given the green light for safe passage out of Afghanistan when the U.S. pulled its military.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are gravely concerned for the many people \u2014 U.S. citizens, Afghan allies and their families, women, NGO employees, journalists, and so many others \u2014 stuck in Afghanistan fearing for their lives and the future of the country,\u201d Rep. Sara Jacobs (D-CA) wrote in a letter to the White House Tuesday. \u201cIt is this administration\u2019s moral obligation to leverage all available resources to help as many people as possible to safety in the United States. There is no time to waste.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United States Senators were reportedly told, during a briefing on the Afghanistan situation on Tuesday, that there are no official plans to evacuate all Americans from the quickly deteriorating country, &#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-658147","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\/658147","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=658147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658147\/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=658147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}