{"id":726569,"date":"2021-09-07T11:21:23","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T15:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=726569"},"modified":"2021-09-07T11:21:26","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T15:21:26","slug":"blinken-not-aware-of-any-hostage-like-situation-in-afghanistan-assured-by-taliban-americans-being-allowed-to-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blinken-not-aware-of-any-hostage-like-situation-in-afghanistan-assured-by-taliban-americans-being-allowed-to-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"Blinken \u2018Not Aware\u2019 Of Any \u2018Hostage-Like Situation\u2019 In Afghanistan, \u2018Assured\u2019 By Taliban Americans Being Allowed To Leave"},"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-not-aware-of-any-hostage-like-situation-in-afghanistan-assured-by-taliban-americans-being-allowed-to-leave%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=726569&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\/09\/B1915D8E-6304-4772-B6D1-BE2CBCB92FA2_1_201_a.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Biden administration Secretary of State Antony Blinken responded to claims that dozens of Americans and perhaps hundreds of Afghan allies are being held by the Taliban at Mazar-i-Sharif Airport (MAZ), unable to board privately chartered planes out of the country, telling a press conference in Doha, Qatar that he is \u201cnot aware\u201d of any \u201chostage-like situation,\u201d only a \u201crelatively small number of Americans\u201d who should be allowed to leave Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not aware of anyone being held on an aircraft or any hostage-like situation in Mazar-i-Sharif,\u201d Blinken said when asked about the six planes on the ground at MAZ, reportedly unable to leave.<\/p>\n<p>At the time Blinken was touring a facility in Doha that is housing hundreds of Afghan refugees en route to other countries.<\/p>\n<p>Blinken went on to say that he has been \u201cassured\u201d that anyone with \u201cvalid\u201d paperwork is being allowed to leave, seemingly suggesting that those being held on the ground at MAZ may be in a situation of their own making. He also noted that the Taliban is assisting in allowing evacuations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been able to identify a relatively small number of Americans who we believe are seeking to depart from Mazar-i-Sharif with their families. We have been assured, again, that all American citizens and Afghan citizens with valid travel documents will be allowed to leave,\u201d Blinken said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd again, we intend to hold the Taliban to that,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The State Department is under fire, though, Tuesday, after allegedly \u201cstealing credit\u201d for assisting in the rescue of four Americans \u2014 a mother and three children \u2014 stranded in Afghanistan. The State Department announced Monday that it had helped facilitate the overland departure of \u201cfour U.S. citizens\u201d but, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/state-department-accused-of-stealing-credit-for-rescue-of-4-americans-from-afghanistan\">as the Daily Wire reported<\/a>, \u201cthose actually involved in the dangerous rescue operation say the State Department deserves little to no credit for Mariam\u2019s escape from Afghanistan.\u201d<\/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\u201d the Daily Wire noted, quoting Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>The State Department also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-state-dept-says-it-has-no-resources-to-rescue-trapped-flights-in-afghanistan-no-reliable-means-to-confirm-details-report\">told reporters on Monday<\/a> that it had no \u201cresources\u201d available to verify details of the situation on the ground in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do not have personnel on the ground, we do not have air assets in the country, we do not control the airspace\u2014whether over Afghanistan or elsewhere in the region,\u201d an official told the Washington Free Beacon.&nbsp;\u201cWe understand the concern that many people are feeling as they try to facilitate further charter and other passage out of Afghanistan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A source close to the situation told the Daily Wire that the State Department is aware of the situation on the ground at MAZ, and that there is \u201clittle coordination between\u201d the State Department and those responsible for trying to evacuate the Americans and Afghan allies trapped at MAZ. The same source suggested that the Taliban is looking for \u201cmassive amounts of money\u201d \u2014 in the \u201ctens of millions\u201d \u2014 in order to allow potential evacuees to depart, creating a de-facto hostage situation.<\/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>Biden administration Secretary of State Antony Blinken responded to claims that dozens of Americans and perhaps hundreds of Afghan allies are being held by the Taliban at Mazar-i-Sharif Airport (MAZ), &#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-726569","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\/726569","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=726569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726569\/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=726569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}