US President Joe Biden firmly pledges to bring all Americans home from Afghanistan and to evacuate all the Afghans who aided the war effort
US President Joe Biden delivers remarks on evacuation efforts and the ongoing situation in Afghanistan as Vice President Kamala Harris and Secretary of State Antony Blinken stand by in the East Room at the White House in Washington, US, August 20, 2021.
Biden’s promises came as thousands more Americans and others seeking to escape the Taliban struggled to get past crushing crowds, Taliban airport checkpoints, and sometimes insurmountable US bureaucracy. “We’re making the same commitment” to Afghan wartime helpers as to US citizens, Biden said, offering the prospect of assistance to Afghans who largely have been fighting individual battles to get the documents and passage into the airport that they need to leave. He called the Afghan allies “equally important” in the evacuations.Helicopters to rescue 169 Americans
In the first evidence that US forces are willing and able to go beyond the US-secured airport to help people seeking evacuation, three Chinook helicopters flew to pick up the group of US citizens at the Baron hotel, not far from the airport, according to Pentagon spokesman John Kirby.
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