{"id":706985,"date":"2021-09-01T16:05:52","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T20:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=706985"},"modified":"2021-09-01T16:05:53","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T20:05:53","slug":"majority-of-afghan-allies-not-out-of-afghanistan-state-department-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/majority-of-afghan-allies-not-out-of-afghanistan-state-department-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Majority of Afghan Allies Not Out of Afghanistan, State Department Says"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fmajority-of-afghan-allies-not-out-of-afghanistan-state-department-says%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=706985&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 readability=\"29.013333333333\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/\">National Security<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">State Department official &#8216;haunted&#8217; by failure to assist special immigrant visa applicants<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"491\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/2021-08-25T231758Z_1_LYNXMPEH7O118_RTROPTP_4_AFGHANISTAN-CONFLICT-736x491-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/2021-08-25T231758Z_1_LYNXMPEH7O118_RTROPTP_4_AFGHANISTAN-CONFLICT-scaled-e1629993779206.jpg 736w, https:\/\/s3.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/2021-08-25T231758Z_1_LYNXMPEH7O118_RTROPTP_4_AFGHANISTAN-CONFLICT-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/s3.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/2021-08-25T231758Z_1_LYNXMPEH7O118_RTROPTP_4_AFGHANISTAN-CONFLICT-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/s3.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/2021-08-25T231758Z_1_LYNXMPEH7O118_RTROPTP_4_AFGHANISTAN-CONFLICT-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/s3.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/2021-08-25T231758Z_1_LYNXMPEH7O118_RTROPTP_4_AFGHANISTAN-CONFLICT-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/s3.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/2021-08-25T231758Z_1_LYNXMPEH7O118_RTROPTP_4_AFGHANISTAN-CONFLICT-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/s3.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/2021-08-25T231758Z_1_LYNXMPEH7O118_RTROPTP_4_AFGHANISTAN-CONFLICT-1400x933.jpg 1400w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tPeople line up for evacuation from Afghanistan before Aug. 31 \/ Reuters\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/jack-beyrer\/\" title=\"Posts by Jack Beyrer\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Jack Beyrer<\/a> \u2022 September 1, 2021 4:00 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"83.680086410055\">\n<p>The majority of Afghan special immigrant visa applicants who aided U.S. forces did not safely exit Afghanistan before the Biden administration withdrew, the State Department said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>A State Department official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/09\/01\/afghanistan-sivs-left-behind-state-dept-508327\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> <em>Politico<\/em> he and his team are &#8220;haunted&#8221; by the failure to assist applicants, many of whom were translators and aides for U.S. forces for decades in Afghanistan, often in life-or-death situations. The United States opened up 34,500 slots for SIV applicants, but an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/2021\/08\/16\/tens-of-thousands-of-afghans-at-risk-as-us-slowly-considers-visas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">estimated<\/a> 50,000 Afghans were interested in applying.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There were days it did not work well,&#8221; a State Department official said. &#8220;We had a couple of instances where buses were a mix of foreign nationals and Afghan local employees of other missions, and the Talibs would only let pass the foreign nationals, and they turned away or they held at that location the Afghan citizens who were on that particular movement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Taliban checkpoints at the Kabul airport and nearby\u2014as well as brutal killings of Afghans suspected of working with the United States\u2014hindered the evacuation of some translators.<\/p>\n<p>One Afghan interpreter who was left behind had rescued President Joe Biden during a 2008 visit to Afghanistan. Biden and former senators Chuck Hagel (R.) and John Kerry (D.) landed in a dangerous valley during a snowstorm and required evacuation with the assistance of the translator. He is now hiding out in Afghanistan with his wife and four children.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hello Mr. President: Save me and my family,&#8221; the translator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/afghan-interpreter-who-helped-rescue-biden-in-2008-left-behind-after-u-s-exit-11630429285?st=u03gf0z5sxzr3uh&amp;reflink=article_copyURL_share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> on Tuesday. &#8220;Don\u2019t forget me here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another translator who was unable to secure a safe exit from Afghanistan <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/afghan-interpreter-begs-us-to-extend-withdrawal-deadline-as-terrorists-strike-kabul-airport\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">expressed<\/a> fear to the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> that he would be killed if spotted by the Taliban. Up to 200 Americans, <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/29-american-schoolchildren-stranded-in-afghanistan-school-district-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">including<\/a> dozens of children, also remain in the Taliban-controlled country.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) ripped the Biden administration&#8217;s botched withdrawal in a Tuesday statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;President Biden prioritized political considerations over American lives and national security,&#8221; Cruz <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cruz.senate.gov\/?p=press_release&amp;id=6032\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>. &#8220;He imposed an artificial deadline untethered from conditions on the ground, and refused to adjust or adapt even as the Taliban swept across Afghanistan and catastrophes mounted. He met his artificial deadline but broke all the promises he made to the American people. \u2026 And he dragged our nation into a crippling, humiliating defeat that has shaken our allies and emboldened our enemies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Security State Department official &#8216;haunted&#8217; by failure to assist special immigrant visa applicants  People line up for evacuation from Afghanistan before Aug. 31 \/ Reuters &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"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-706985","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\/706985","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706985\/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=706985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}