{"id":683685,"date":"2021-08-25T15:50:24","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T19:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=683685"},"modified":"2021-08-25T15:50:30","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T19:50:30","slug":"blinken-says-americans-wanting-to-leave-afghanistan-is-likely-lower-than-but-may-be-up-to-1500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blinken-says-americans-wanting-to-leave-afghanistan-is-likely-lower-than-but-may-be-up-to-1500\/","title":{"rendered":"Blinken Says Americans Wanting To Leave Afghanistan Is \u2018Likely Lower\u2019 Than, But May Be Up To 1,500"},"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\">34<\/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%2Fblinken-says-americans-wanting-to-leave-afghanistan-is-likely-lower-than-but-may-be-up-to-1500%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=683685&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\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-25-at-3.35.43-PM-e1629920219808.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday that the State Department believes likely under 1,500 Americans are still actively seeking to get out of Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Blinken did not detail the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/25\/editor-daily-rundown-afghanistan-americans-stranded\/\">working<\/a> number the State Department has been using for total Americans in Afghanistan. A source with direct knowledge of the situation confirmed Wednesday to the Daily Caller that this working number is still sitting at 12,000 people. With around 4,500 Americans evacuated so far \u201cand likely more\u201d according to Blinken, the number of total U.S. citizens in Afghanistan may be higher than the number known to be trying to get out, the source pointed out. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/24\/americans-evacuated-afghanistan-white-house-several-thousand-remain\/\">(RELATED:&nbsp;EXCLUSIVE: Internal Numbers Show White House Poised To Leave Several Thousand Americans Behind Enemy Lines In Afghanistan)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The secretary of state explained that the State Department estimated around 6,000 Americans want to leave Afghanistan. Five hundred individuals still in the country have received instructions on how to leave and the agency is working to contact the other group of 1,000 people, Blinken explained.<\/p>\n<p>Blinken said of the 1,000 people, the number of people needing evacuation is probably \u201clower.\u201d<\/p>\n<div data-paragraph-id=\"paragraph_F0903E42-0994-24E8-A385-7EB617BB938D\" data-act-id=\"paragraph_2\" readability=\"70.061494252874\">\n<p>\u201cOver the past 24 hours we\u2019ve been in direct contact with approximately 500 additional Americans and provided specific instructions on how to get to the airport safely,\u201d Blinken said.&nbsp;\u201cFor the remaining roughly 1,000 contacts that we had who may be Americans seeking to leave Afghanistan, we\u2019re aggressively reaching out to them multiple times a day through multiple channels of communication,\u201d Blinken said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe number of Americans actively seeking to leave Afghanistan is lower, likely significantly lower,\u201d Blinken added.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to Blinken\u2019s remarks, the Senate reportedly received a number much higher than what Blinken told reporters. Numerous reports noted that the briefer said around 4,100 American remain in Afghanistan during a call with members of the Senate. Shortly after these reports, the State Department said the briefer misspoke on the call. He did not explain where this 4,100 number came from.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSenate sources are NOT happy they were given inaccurate information,\u201d Fox News\u2019 Jacqui Heinrich <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JacquiHeinrich\/status\/1430593295579815937?s=20\">tweeted<\/a>. \u201cOne source: \u2018It\u2019s literally the number one thing everyone wants right now. Unbelievable.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Blinken assured viewers that those who want to leave the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/24\/taliban-afghans-not-allowed-airport-us-must-leave-aug-31\/\">country<\/a> after the withdrawal date \u201cshould be able to do so,\u201d though he didn\u2019t detail specifically what the U.S. plans to do to help these <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/25\/biden-afghanistan-kabul-american-citizens-evacuation-covid-lab-leak\/\">Americans<\/a>. He also said that the evacuation effort for Americans and Afghan allies \u201cwill continue every day past August 31,\u201d but again didn\u2019t detail how the U.S. will help with this after leaving the country.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">\u201cOur expectation, the expectation of the international community, is that people who want <\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">to<\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\"> leave Afghanistan after the US Military departs <\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">should<\/span> <span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">be<\/span> <span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">able<\/span> <span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">to<\/span> <span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">do<\/span> <span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">so,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday that the State Department believes likely under 1,500 Americans are still actively seeking to get out of Afghanistan.Blinken did not detail the working &#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-683685","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\/683685","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=683685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683685\/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=683685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}