{"id":726319,"date":"2021-09-07T09:51:08","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T13:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=726319"},"modified":"2021-09-07T09:51:10","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T13:51:10","slug":"state-department-accused-of-stealing-credit-for-rescue-of-4-americans-from-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/state-department-accused-of-stealing-credit-for-rescue-of-4-americans-from-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"State Department Accused Of Stealing Credit For Rescue Of 4 Americans From Afghanistan"},"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%2Fstate-department-accused-of-stealing-credit-for-rescue-of-4-americans-from-afghanistan%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=726319&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\/Kabul-airport-3.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The organizer of the non-governmental mission to rescue an American mother and her three children from Afghanistan says the U.S. State Department has tried to claim credit for the successful operation, according to a new report.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, top State Department officials announced that the \u201cU.S. has facilitated the safe departure of four U.S. citizens by overland route from Afghanistan. Embassy staff was present upon their arrival.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut those actually involved in the dangerous rescue operation say the State Department deserves little to no credit for Mariam\u2019s escape from Afghanistan,\u201d Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/state-department-steal-credit-rescue-4-americans-organizer\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCory Mills and a private team of military veterans, drawing on funding by private donors including the Sentinel Foundation, led the effort to rescue Mariam and her three children from Afghanistan, where they had been left behind by the Biden administration, multiple sources with knowledge of Mariam\u2019s evacuation confirmed to Fox News,\u201d the outlet reported.<\/p>\n<p>Mills had been alerted to the family\u2019s struggles by Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"10.391061452514\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">After 2 weeks &amp; multiple life threatening attempts, I am overjoyed to share that 4 U.S. citizens from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TX13?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TX13<\/a> were part of the first successful ground evacuation since the U.S. left Kabul. Thank you to Cory Mills &amp; the other patriots on his team for saving these BRAVE Americans! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1Tv9KRUgcE\">pic.twitter.com\/1Tv9KRUgcE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ronny Jackson (@RepRonnyJackson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepRonnyJackson\/status\/1434883591507484672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 6, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the report, Mills and a group of people worked for weeks to get the American family out of Afghanistan, trying to get them on one of the last U.S. government flights out of Kabul. But the mother and her children could not get into Kabul airport, which had been taken over by Taliban militants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe final time Mariam tried to enter the airport, a Taliban fighter pointed a pistol at her head and warned her not to come back. Shortly after that, Taliban fighters asked Kabul locals who knew Mariam how they could find her. Mills\u2019 team rushed to get her and the children out of the city and into a safehouse,\u201d Fox reported.<\/p>\n<p>The woman then tried to book a private charter flight from Mazar-i-Sharif airport, a couple hundred miles from Kabul, but the plane was never cleared to take off. \u201cSome private evacuation organizers have blamed the State Department for failing to gain clearance for private charter flights to land in third countries, while Republican Texas Rep. Michael McCaul has blamed the Taliban for the planes remaining grounded,\u201d Fox reported.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Mills\u2019 plan was \u201cto travel overland to a neighboring country -\u2013 the exact country is being withheld to avoid jeopardizing future rescue missions -\u2013 and attempt to get the family across the border. It took multiple attempts and sleight-of-hand tactics that Mills compared to a shell game, but Mariam\u2019s family finally crossed the border on Monday \u2013 just before the Taliban closed the checkpoint to prevent Americans from escaping, Mills said.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mills said on Fox News that the State Department\u2019s claim that it \u201cfacilitated the safe departure\u201d of the family is \u201cabsolute nonsense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that they\u2019re spinning this, trying to take 100% credit when they didn\u2019t track this family, when they placated this family, when the mother, who was under extreme stress and extreme pressure, reached out to the State Department multiple times and got no help,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an attempt to save face by the administration for the Americans they left behind. This is a woman with three children from age 15 all the way down to two-years-old. And they did nothing to try to expedite this\u2026 But at the very last minute you have these \u2018senior officials\u2019 at the State Department trying to claim credit for this like \u2018oh yeah look what we\u2019ve done,&#8217;\u201d Mills said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s like we carried the ball to the 99-and-a-half yard line and them taking it that last half yard and being like \u2018look what we did,\u2019\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson echoed Mills, saying: \u201cThe only thing the Biden Administration seems to be good at is patting itself on the back for a job horribly done. This administration left my constituents behind in Afghanistan and now they\u2019re lying about their role in getting these four American citizens out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe State Department didn\u2019t do anything for two weeks except put my constituents in danger and leave them stranded. I know this for a fact because my office has been working around the clock to get our people home with no legitimate support from State. Only after Cory Mills and his team got them into the third country did State offer support by securing tourist visas,\u201d the congressman continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCory and his team are brave patriots. Praise God that American veterans have more resolve than Joe Biden or his State Department,\u201d Jackson added.<\/p>\n<p><em>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The organizer of the non-governmental mission to rescue an American mother and her three children from Afghanistan says the U.S. State Department has tried to claim credit for the successful &#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-726319","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\/726319","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=726319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726319\/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=726319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}