About 1,000 people, including Americans, have been stuck in Afghanistan for days awaiting clearance for their charter flights to leave, an organizer told Reuters, blaming the delay on the US State Department.
A US official, speaking on condition of anonymity, challenged the idea that Americans were at risk, saying the US government “has not confirmed any Americans are in Mazar-i-Sharif trying to leave from the airport.”
That includes verifying the number of US citizens and others aboard, the accuracy of the rest of the manifest or “where they plan to land, among many other issues.” Earlier on Sunday, the senior Republican on the US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, Mike McCaul, told “Fox News Sunday” that six aeroplanes were stuck at Mazar-i-Sharif airport with Americans and Afghan interpreters aboard, unable to take off as they had not received Taliban clearance.
Another Republican US representative, Mike Waltz, called on the State Department to work with non-government groups he said were trying to clear charter flights to evacuate Americans and Afghans at risk.
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