State briefing confirms that Taliban were handed manifests for buses with evacuees and that there “were days it did not work well.”
Evacuees walk to be processed at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. | Sgt. Isaiah Campbell/U.S. Marine Corps via APA State Department official said in a private briefing to reporters that “the majority” of special immigrant visa applicants were left in Afghanistan due in part to the complications of the evacuation, and that he and his team are “haunted” by the evacuees the U.S. could not get out by the Aug. 31 deadline.describing how U.S.
But, the official noted, “in some of those cases, we were able to successfully persuade [the Taliban] to then, in subsequent days, to allow that group to go forward.” The people on the bus typically included “Afghans who were locally employed staff [at] our diplomatic mission or other allied diplomatic missions; that they were foreign passport holders … in some other cases that they were individuals for whom we had a particular interest and wanted to facilitate the departure of,” the official said.
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