{"id":668589,"date":"2021-08-21T09:06:01","date_gmt":"2021-08-21T13:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=668589"},"modified":"2021-08-21T09:06:05","modified_gmt":"2021-08-21T13:06:05","slug":"u-s-embassy-in-kabul-urges-americans-not-to-travel-to-airport-due-to-security-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-embassy-in-kabul-urges-americans-not-to-travel-to-airport-due-to-security-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Embassy In Kabul Urges Americans Not To Travel To Airport Due To Security Threats"},"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\">30<\/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-embassy-in-kabul-urges-americans-not-to-travel-to-airport-due-to-security-threats%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=668589&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\/Khalil-al-Rahman-Haqqani-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan announced on Saturday that U.S. citizens should not travel to the airport in Kabul due to security threats outside of the gates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause of potential security threats outside the gates at the Kabul airport, we are advising U.S. citizens to avoid traveling to the airport and to avoid airport gates at this time unless you receive individual instructions from a U.S. government representative to do so,\u201d the Embassy said in a security alert.<\/p>\n<p>The Embassy also urged U.S. citizens to be aware of their surroundings, especially in large surroundings.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"10.67027027027\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8U.S. Embassy Kabul: \u201cBecuz of potential security threats outside the gates at Kabul airport, we\u2019re advising U.S. citizens to avoid traveling to the airport &amp; to avoid airport gates at this time unless you receive individual instructions from a U.S. government rep to do so.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6nTxPXfg15\">pic.twitter.com\/6nTxPXfg15<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jerry Dunleavy (@JerryDunleavy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JerryDunleavy\/status\/1429036896357949444?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 21, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The security alert from the Embassy appears to contradict what President Joe Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2021\/08\/20\/remarks-by-president-biden-on-evacuations-in-afghanistan\/\">said<\/a> at a news conference that he held on Friday at the White House:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"15\">\n<p><em>REPORTER: The military has secured the airport, as you mentioned, but will you sign off on sending U.S. troops into Kabul to evacuate Americans who haven\u2019t been able to get to the airport safely?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>BIDEN: We have no indication that they haven\u2019t been able to get \u2014 in Kabul \u2014 through the airport.&nbsp; We\u2019ve made an agreement with the \u2014 with the Taliban.&nbsp; Thus far, they\u2019ve allowed them to go through.&nbsp; It\u2019s in their interest for them to go through.&nbsp; So, we know of no circumstance where American citizens are \u2014 carrying an American passport \u2014 are trying to get through to the airport.&nbsp; But we will do whatever needs to be done to see to it they get to the airport.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The New York Times took issue with the claim from Biden, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/08\/20\/us\/politics\/biden-afghanistan-fact-check.html\">calling<\/a> it \u201cmisleading,\u201d as \u201creports from Afghanistan contradict this statement, and other government officials have been more cautious when describing the conditions for American citizens traveling to the airport.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Times added:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"34\">\n<p><em>The United States Embassy in Kabul sent a security alert on Wednesday warning American citizens, legal residents and their families that the \u201cUnited States government cannot ensure safe passage to the Hamid Karzai International Airport.\u201d <\/em><em>Asked about Mr. Biden\u2019s claim that no American had been denied access to the airport, Ned Price, a spokesman for the State Department, said in a news conference on Friday that the department \u201chas received only a small number of reports from American citizens that their access has been impeded in some way, that they have faced any sort of hardship or resistance, getting to the airport.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Mr. Kirby, the Pentagon spokesman, also said in the news conference that he was aware of \u201csporadic reports of some Americans not being able to get through checkpoints,\u201d but that they were able to get through \u201cby and large.\u201d <\/em><em>Politico reported that Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III told Congress on Friday that some Americans trying to leave Afghanistan had been harassed and beaten by Taliban fighters.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>An unnamed American resident in Afghanistan told ABC News that he had witnessed people holding U.S. passports not being allowed through Taliban checkpoints. Clarissa Ward, a CNN reporter in Kabul, said after Mr. Biden\u2019s remarks that she had difficulty reaching the airport. <\/em><em>\u201cWorking how to get to this airport is like a Rubik\u2019s Cube,\u201d Ms. Ward said on CNN on Friday. \u201cAnyone who says that any American can get in here is \u2014 yes, I mean, technically, it\u2019s possible. But it\u2019s extremely difficult, and it is dangerous.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><i><span>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 <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan announced on Saturday that U.S. citizens should not travel to the airport in Kabul due to security threats outside of the gates.\u201cBecause of potential security &#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-668589","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\/668589","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=668589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668589\/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=668589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}