State Department delays are holding up private evacuation out of Afghanistan
The United States government may have stopped evacuation efforts for US citizens, and for green card holders. However, private rescue organizations continue to work to bring them home. The bureaucracy that is the State Department has delays and hurdles that must be cleared. This waiting time increases American exposure to Afghanistan related dangers.
From Fox News:
Clay told Fox News that his organization is “having problems getting permission” from the Biden State Department “to land on the return flight” from Afghanistan in a neighboring country.
The State Department “is not allowing any private charters carrying refugees [to] land anywhere” in nearby countries if they are coming out of Afghanistan and is making different “excuses” as to why, such as pointing to the lack of air traffic controllers and radar issues, Clay told Fox News this week. The two other individuals separately involved in private evacuation efforts confirmed Clay’s account.
“If we can get aircraft in and pick up people and bring them out, why can’t we take them to Doha to the refugee center or other refugee centers?” Clay remarked. “This makes no sense.”
“We still have Americans we can get out,” he added.
After making little to no progress with the State Department, Clay’s group turned to senators from both parties: Sens. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and Ron Johnson, R-Wis., have all sought to help PlanB and other organizations secure the approval they need to get the evacuees safely out of Afghanistan, organizers and Senate staffers told Fox News.
Clay received word on Thursday that their flights out of Afghanistan would eventually receive approval following the State Department’s review of their manifest — a task that could take several days even as just the initial 800 names are subjected to the vetting process.
Fox News has more of the story here.
Category: "Teh Stoopid", "The Floggings Will Continue Until Morale Improves", Afghanistan
Now they’re worried about vetting? After hauling out ~100k un-vetted military aged males? Every time I think my contempt for these weasels has maxxed out, they do something like this.
They may hate the Taliban, but that sure doesn’t mean they care one sh1t about the Western way of life. Almost all of these Afghan refugees are about Sharia law. They will set up their own ‘no go zone’ neighborhoods like you see in much of Western Europe. Bunches of more Dearbornistans in the future.
Meanwhile the reign of the terrorist regime continues as Biden and company do nothing. Anyone seen hide or hair of “Heels in the Air” Harris lately? Last I heard she was planning on traveling to California to stump for Newsom.
Slow you roll.
Biden is taking his afternoon nap.
He will be back on the job shortly.
Glad to hear the “dick” Blumenthal is all over this.
What a guy.
Maybe he can fly the to Thailand?
I saw a Mewsweek article that said six charter jets waiting approval to depart IVO Mazar i Sharif loaded with folks seeking to leave including 100 Americans.
If that is the case than that would be essentially all remaining Americans per White house spokespersons who are on record as saying the number of remaining Americans is approx 100.
Newsweek
https://www.newsweek.com/taliban-holds-glenn-beck-groups-planes-least-100-americans-among-passengers-1626294
“At this point what difference does it make?”
Have not heard from or of her lately.
And what’s Bill up to lately?
Silence is golden I suspect.
They are tied up watching that new miniseries that debuted this week on FX.
Another act in the sniffy joe sh^t show. Was reading this (and the 12K + comments) when thebesig dropped it here. Gotta agree with Butch, and a bunch of other people. Thousands of military age males on planes that many are now on American Soil, being guarded by soldiers with no commo link and prolly no ammo. But hey, the troops have organized soccer games so there is that.
And typical Kongress Klowne Kritters…ain’t doing squat. Whether the repubs have the votes to get anything done, they should at least be trying.
Wonder if there was a plan to put all of these military age males on a military base to keep an eye on them or to make it easier for the puppet masters to arm them and turn them loose?
The Tree cries out for watering.
Tut Tut now, can’t have private citizens showing up the elites of the Bitem administration. Specifically the pampered princes of the five sided puzzle palace and foggy bottoms.
The State Department is now taking credit for getting Americans out that were in fact rescued by or spec ops veterans despite swamp rats (D) obstructing them. Watched Cory Mills describe on F&F how State and Milley Vanilley block their rescue plane from landing. They told the pilot the FAA would suspend/revoke his pilot’s license if he proceeded to land in A-Stan.
Don’t they remember Murdoch, the weasel bureaucrat who doesn’t want to recover POWs in Rambo, is the bad guy?
Or would folk prefer Chuck Norris? If have a distinct feeling such may be a popular genre again… “The war isn’t over until the last man comes home.”
State comes up a winner, so they say!
https://www.yahoo.com/news/four-americans-evacuated-afghanistan-overland-154828240.html
Except….
https://www.yahoo.com/news/state-department-trying-steal-credit-131600962.html
Almost makes you wish that State was in charge of the southern border.
Typical controlling State Dept bureaucrat weenie attitude: Only WE can F things up, so there!
69% of ‘Mericans support military force to get their citizens out of A’stan:
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/09/06/poll-most-voters-support-using-military-force-to-rescue-americans-left-in-afghanistan/
https://www.yahoo.com/news/blinken-taliban-not-blocking-departure-064231434.html and any difficulties leaving are not the fault of the Taliban, their spokesman says. Oh, wait, that’s supposed to be OUR Secretary of State…