US Government Left As Many As 9,000 American Citizens In Afghanistan After Withdrawal, Senate Report

[mystery-ak]

Michael Ginsberg
Congressional Reporter
February 03, 2022 10:01 AM ET

As many as 9,000 American citizens were left in Afghanistan when the U.S. military withdrew from the country Aug. 31, according to a report released Thursday by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

In public statements, Biden administration officials, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken, claimed that only 100-150 Americans remained in Afghanistan and had contacted the U.S. government with a desire to leave. The State Department and Defense Department officials stuck to that number, even as the government publicly admitted that large numbers of American citizens were still leaving the country.

The report, signed by Foreign Relations ranking member Jim Risch of Oklahoma, reveals that State Department officials believed that between 10,000 and 15,000 Americans were in Afghanistan as late as Aug. 17. In the next two weeks, only 6,000 Americans were able to escape the country ahead of the Taliban takeover. In testimony in front of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, however, Blinken claimed that “approximately 100-150 remained in Afghanistan who still wished to depart.”

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[Killer Clouds]

Those Americans should not have been in Afghanistan in the first place.

[Kamaji]

Those Americans should not have been in Afghanistan in the first place.

Says who?

[Killer Clouds]

Says who?

They had a choice whether to be there or not. They chose to be there and it was the wrong choice. Too bad for them. Their bad choice cost lives. They shouldn't have been there in the first place.

[rangerrebew]

 Senate Report Says 9,000 Americans Abandoned By Biden During Afghanistan Evacuation
by SOFREP 2 hours ago
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The Senate Foreign Relations Committee published a new report last Thursday assessing the Biden administration’s failed Afghanistan withdrawal last August, revealing that as many as 9,000 Americans were abandoned in Afghanistan during the disastrous pull-out. This directly refutes the Biden administration’s previous estimates of around 100 to 200 American citizens left behind, as claimed by Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

The new report, signed by the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee ranking member Kim Risch of Idaho, shows just how unprepared the Biden administration was with regard to the evacuation, ignoring their own intelligence reports about the Taliban and not planning ahead of the announcement.
 
Estimates showed that around 10,000 to 15,000 US citizens were still stuck in Afghanistan on August 17. This was during August 15 to August 31, the time period wherein the largest evacuation efforts took place. Furthermore, around 6,000 Americans were able to escape before the Afghan Taliban took over the country. These efforts reportedly severely lacked planning, coordination, and communication, with no clear system for contacting evacuees.

https://sofrep.com/news/senate-report-says-9000-americans-abandoned-by-biden-during-afghanistan-evacuation/

[rangerrebew]

Didn't he claim to have gotten all the Americans out!?  

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Topics merged.

[mystery-ak]

Cotton: ‘Becoming Increasingly Clear’ Biden Admin ‘Not Telling the Truth’ About Afghanistan

Wednesday on FNC’s “Fox & Friends,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) argued it has become “increasingly clear” that President Joe Biden and his administration are “simply not telling the truth to the American people” about the Afghanistan withdrawal.

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2022/02/09/cotton-becoming-increasingly-clear-biden-admin-not-telling-the-truth-about-afghanistan/

[GtHawk]

Didn't he claim to have gotten all the Americans out!?

I think their lie was everyone that wanted to leave got out, yeah as if anyone with a functioning brain would want to be in a terrorist moslem run country.

[240B]

Not only did Biden abandon them there, he gave the Taliban a detailed kill-list of all Americans and American supporters in Afghanistan. A cynical person would think it is possible the Biden administration wanted to erase future problems by allowing the Taliban to eliminate any witnesses of being left behind. It would be futile to try to get those people out now, at this late date, because it is very likely that most of them are already dead. Especially with all the Special Operations weapons and equipment Biden gifted to the Taliban. Any Afghan resistance to the Taliban would be utterly destroyed in hours with all the state-of-the-art military ammo and gear the Taliban now has control over.