It Has Been One Year Since More Than 1,000 Americans Were Left Behind In Afghanistan In The Hands of The Taliban.
New York Post
More than 1,000 Americans were left in Afghanistan by Biden exodus.
WASHINGTON — Hundreds of Americans were stranded in Afghanistan following last year’s chaotic pullout of US troops — and the Biden administration has no plan to help thousands of Afghans who aided the US during its 20-year war against the Taliban and are still marooned in the collapsing country, the top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee claimed in a damning report released Wednesday.
In a two-page summary of Rep. Michael McCaul’s 115-page report, Republicans on the panel noted that the White House had repeatedly said “about a hundred” Americans were left behind after the last US troops departed Kabul on Aug. 31, 2021.
However, they added, “the State Department has evacuated more than 800 [US citizens] since that date. In addition, outside veterans groups have evacuated several hundred more – meaning more than 1,000 Americans were abandoned in a country controlled by a terrorist organization.”
Meanwhile, warned McCaul (R-Texas), “those Afghans most at-risk of Taliban reprisals remain trapped in Afghanistan” and under threat of deadly retribution from the fundamentalist government.
Those left behind include “tens of thousands” of former elite Afghan military personnel, interpreters and women leaders promised sanctuary by the US.
