Pentagon explaining that Taliban outside the airport are enforcing American admissions policy and being given lists of names(!) by the military. As I've said several times before, the Taliban is being used by US occupation forces as a de facto fundamentalist wing of ICE.https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1430557811059183622 …
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Other reports are showing American soldiers preventing Afghans from boarding flights out, even on planes flown in to evacuate them to third countries. This policy is set from the top and is pretty unambiguous.https://twitter.com/AzitaGhanizada/status/1430558815867465729 …
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Azita GhanizadaVerified account @AzitaGhanizadaAfghan diaspora, veteran allies, & private citizens have been working around the clock to assist getting friends/families & high risk Aghans on flights. They make it through the airport & then are not allowed on flights, why? Whatsapp yesterday from Special Ops Reserve.#sos pic.twitter.com/5ZEHy4AApm3 replies 17 retweets 41 likesShow this thread -
In my estimation there's a reason the US government is giving total number of people flown out and not breaking those numbers down by citizenship.
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From Blinken and Psaki's comments today, the closest we can get to numbers: 82,300 people flown since Aug 14. "At least" 4,500 US citizens, plus immediate family. Unknown number of green card holders, third country nationals, and US citizens not on the State Department's list
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Binken's numbers mention "coalition flights" so presumably the 82,300 total includes all the evacuees for western countries operating in Afghanistan right now.
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