More Details Emerge On The Scores Of American Citizens And Afghan Allies That Were Left Behind In Kabul

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CNN: 'Majority' of Afghans who worked for the US and applied for visas were likely left behind, State Department official says 

(CNN)"The majority" of Afghans who worked for the United States during its two-decade military campaign were likely left behind in the chaotic and rushed evacuation from Afghanistan, a senior State Department official said Wednesday. 

The official said they did not have a specific count of the Afghan Special Immigrant (SIV) applicants and family members who did not make it onto evacuation flights, "but I would say it's the majority of them, just based on anecdotal information about the populations we were able to support." 

More broadly, the official described an evacuation effort confronted by numerous challenges -- one that left US officials who worked on the ground "haunted by the choices we had to make and by the people we were not able to help depart in this first phase of the operation." 

"It wasn't pretty. It was very challenging," the senior official said, "and it involved some, some really painful trade-offs and choices for everyone involved." 

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Update #1: State Dept Contradicts Biden, Says Vast Majority Of Interpreters & Visa-Eligible Afghans Were "Left Behind" (Zero Hedge) 

Update #2: Exclusive: In secret texts, U.S. military officials lamented leaving Americans behind in Kabul (Just The News)  

WNU Editor: So if the majority of interpreters and visa-eligible Afghans were "left behind" .... I repeat, a majority were left behind ..... who were the 130,000 that the U.S. airlifted out of Afghanistan?!?!?!? 

And as for the remaining Americans who are still stranded in Afghanistan, including two dozen American school children who are still somewhere near Kabul, who will be held accountable for that clusterf**k?

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