U.S. still working to contact most of the estimated 1,500 Americans left in Afghanistan
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the number of remaining U.S. citizens in Afghanistan was "difficult to pin down with absolute precision at any given moment" because the U.S. does not track the travel of Americans.
Blinken said the U.S. currently is "aggressively reaching out" to about 1,000 contacts "multiple times a day, through multiple channels of communication" to determine if they still want to leave and to give them instructions on how to do so. However, the ultimate number might be lower, Blinken said. "We've also found that many people who contact us and identify themselves as American citizens, including by filling out and submitting repatriation assistance forms are not, in fact, U.S. citizens, something that can take some time to verify. And some Americans may choose to stay in Afghanistan," the nation's top diplomat said.
In the past 24 hours, Western forces evacuated 19,000 people out of Kabul on 90 military cargo aircraft flights, a cadence of one departure flight every 39 minutes,Evacuees wait to board a Boeing C-17 Globemaster III during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 23, 2021.Since the mass evacuations began Aug. 14, approximately 82,300 people have been airlifted out of Afghanistan.
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