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because the charter company won't pay to use that airport. The rest are Afghanis with no documentation.
"Marina LeGree, executive director of Ascend, a non-profit that teaches young Afghan women leadership through mountaineering and other athletics, told NPR's Jackie Northam that several Afghans affiliated with her group remained stuck. LeGree said that was in addition to more than 600 others, including at least 19 American citizens and two U.S. green card holders."
While LeGree confirmed she'd been told there were six planes in total, she did clarify that the travelers were not waiting "physically on board" aircraft.
NPR could not independently confirm details of the situation in Mazar-e-Sharif.
McCaul said the Taliban was not letting the planes depart until its "demands" were met, possibly in the form of "cash or legitimacy as the government of Afghanistan."
A spokesperson with the State Department told NPR's Michele Kelemen that the U.S. is prepared to help all remaining U.S. citizens, green card holders and at risk Afghans who want to leave.
On Monday, a State Department official said the U.S. had "facilitated the safe departure of four Americans via overland route" that day. The official did not identify the Americans or specify the country to which they were taken.
But the department also said that it discourages chartered airplanes because – with no more of its personnel left on the ground in Afghanistan – it could not properly confirm the planes' passenger manifests.
An Afghan official at Mazar-e-Sharif airport told the Associated Press that many of the Afghan travelers did not have passports or visas.
The U.S. government says there has to be screening for everyone arriving into U.S. military bases due to security concerns.
LeGree said her understanding from speaking with sources on the ground is that the primary issue now is a negotiation between the Taliban and Kam Air, which is operating the flights, over the cost of using the airport.
Link: https://www.npr.org/2021/09/06/1034626356/planes-chartered-to-evacuate-americans-and-others-from-afghanistan-remain-ground
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We tried for 20 years to bring that country out of the stone age but in the end they are worse off than they were when we started interfering there during the Soviet occupation.
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I’m relating the facts as best I can decipher them.
American. So you can surmise that since they are not Joe did as he promised. But he didn’t. These are Afghans that are our allies. So instead of saying this is awful you claim only 19 Americans as if that is ok. Just call it like it is.
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owners. I get why they weren’t the first on the planes. We will get them out if they want to go.
MAGA thinks the Afghans are terrorists. We don’t want “stans” over here do we?
And whom we can not vet. If they were Afghanis who helped the USA they would not be waiting for their charter flights to pay for use of that airport, they would be dead.
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You did.
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Ever...
Link: Say no to Stans!
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Link: US-built databases a potential tool of Taliban repression
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