“To me, it sounds like you are trapped.”
That was Ohio Rep. Anthony Gonzalez in a recent interview Outlaw Radio Show Talk about Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s announcement of victory in Afghanistan and assure the nation that no American who does not want to stay is trapped.
Gonzalez said: “After the press conference, I immediately called the State Department and said,’Well, I have five people who need to go out.” “This is them, this is their name, their age, their Gender… I have their passport numbers, the whole thing. You just told this country that the Taliban will help them out, so… what can I tell my people? The answer is,’Tell them to hide, tell them to hide in place, And told them to wait for the Taliban to open the airport again so they can buy commercial tickets and fly home.'”
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This is an important interview because Brinken reiterated his original statement on whether the Americans are still trapped in Afghanistan on Tuesday and told the media in Doha, Qatar that those with valid passports have been Mix together Together with others who do not have the proper documents, this shows that this is why the Taliban controls the flights.
Secretary of State Anthony Brinken said on Tuesday that the Taliban had not prevented people with valid travel documents from leaving Afghanistan, but admitted that some outbound flights, including flights by a group at the northern international airport of the country, had been grounded.
Brinken said the flight from Afghanistan appeared to be blocked because those eligible evacuees were still mixed with others seeking to flee the country without the necessary documents.
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“As far as I know, the Taliban did not refuse anyone with valid documents to leave the country, but they stated that people without valid documents cannot leave at this time,” Brinken said. “But because all these people are gathered together, it means that flights are not allowed to take off.”
Before Brinken’s remarks, the U.S. State Department confirmed on Monday that four Americans had been evacuated by land from Afghanistan to a neighboring country. But the report shows that more than 1,000 people, including some Americans, are still stranded at Mazar-e-Sharif International Airport in northern Afghanistan.
Gonzalez is a Republican, his son and grandson Cuban diaspora who fled the Castro regime to Ohio, So he may understand what it means to be trapped under an authoritarian regime by talking with his immediate family members.
“I think looking at what happened in Afghanistan after the withdrawal shows that the Biden administration has no ability to understand who the Taliban are and how they operate, and has been shrinking from press conference after press conference,” Gonzalez told reporters Guy Benson Show Earlier this week. “They basically contradict themselves or have to correct themselves within 20 or 30 minutes.”
For Outlaws, Gonzalez made no secret of his views on the Americans left behind when the United States withdrew in Afghanistan, and some members of Congress — and those who are still trapped — are desperate about how the Biden administration will help them. .
“[It] It sounds like a hostage situation,” Gonzalez said. “It doesn’t sound like the Taliban is working with us to get our people home…this is part of my biggest problem with the government in this regard. : They believe in letting our people go home among the nobles of the Taliban… I just don’t understand the idea with which we can negotiate. Do you know who really doesn’t understand? Anyone who participated in that war. “
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