Washington, United States.
Six planes they plan to transport Americans and Afghans remain at an airport north of Afghanistan, Where the Taliban are preventing their departure in exchange for getting their “demands,” a Republican congressman denounced on Sunday.
“The Taliban are holding them hostage by demands at this time,” the congressman said Michael McCaul on Fox News.
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“This is really becoming a hostage situation in which they will not allow American citizens to leave until they get full recognition of United States “, McCaul, the leading Republican, has added Committee on Foreign Affairs of the lower house.
According to the legislator, the planes have been at the airport in the city of Mazar-i-Sharif, in the north of this country, “for the last few days.”
McCaul said that although these flights have been authorized, “the Taliban will not let them out of the airport.”
He indicated that citizens would travel on the aircraft Americans and Afghan performers who remain in the country after that USA to culminate the operation of evacuation and retirement of its troops, the past 30 of August.
Consultation on the terrorist threat it may pose Afghanistan under Taliban control, the congressman said the situation was “worse” than before September 11, 2001, in reference to the attacks orchestrated by the terrorist organization. Al Qaeda and in which nearly 3,000 people died.
“They are now fully armed with our weapons, our helicopters,” the Republican pointed out, warning that they even have American cash.
For his part, the chief of staff of the White house, Ron KlainHe told CNN that about 100 Americans remain in Afghan territory.
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Klain noted that they remain “in touch” with the Americans they have identified and that they hope that in the “next few days” those in Qatar will be able to fully resume flights from Kabul, the Afghan capital.
“If they do, we’re obviously going to see if Americans can be a part of those flights,” he added.
In addition, it ratified the commitment of Washington to help evacuate Afghans applying for special immigration visas (SIVs), reserved for translators and interpreters who worked with the US