Washington, United States.
The administration of Joe Biden was under pressure on Monday following the release of reports that several hundreds of people, including some Americans, Were stranded at the airport Mazar-i-Sharif, North of Afghanistan.
According to Marina LeGree, founder and director of the American NGO Ascend Athletics, between 600 and 1300 people in total they are trying to leave the national territorys, included 19 Americans, with the help of your organization and others.
“They passed seven days and nothing moves“He told AFP, and mentioned that there is six planes ready to take off.
His organization seeks to evacuate one group of Afghans between 16 and 23 years old and members of theirs families. They all belong to the Hazara minority and fear the persecution of the Taliban.
The departure of these people seemed very advanced a few days ago, before the Department of State said that he could not carry out the selection procedures of the candidates on leaving the country for lack of staff on the spot.
For LeGree, the Americans they are “misunderstanding” this drama.
A State Department spokesman said he had no “reliable data to confirm information about you want charter, either about who is organizing them, the number of citizens Americans or members of other priority groups on board (…) or where they are going to land “.
Satellite images of the airport dating from September 3 show a six aircraft positioned, one on a track and the other near buildings.
The Republican opposition of United States has dealt with the matter, amid the growing unpopularity of the Democratic president Joe Biden for its handling of the end of the war in Afghanistan.
“This (…) is really evolving into one hostage taking, (the the Taliban) They will not let go of the American citizens until they have the full recognition of United States “, Republican Rep. Michael McCaul told conservative channel Fox News.
Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal expressed his impatience in a statement: “My team and I have been trying to get those planes out (…). Delays are not only frustrating, they are unforgivable “.
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Eric Montalvo, a former soldier and lawyer also involved in the Mazar-i-Sharif evacuation attempt, was more virulent: “The Taliban do not have these planes as hostages. the problem is the government of United Statess. A phone call and these people can leave immediately“.
the withdrawal American militaryand was completed on the 31st of August thereafter weeks of chaos in the face of the meteoric advance of whats Taliban.
The United States has evacuated by air in addition to 120,000 people, but admitted to having left behind American citizens, as well as dozens of vulnerable Afghan citizens, including those who cooperated with Washington during twenty years of war.