Latest updates on Afghanistan: - Biden's vow to airlift Afghan allies faces ticking clock - Human remains found in landing gear of military flight from Kabul, says U.S. Air Force
As one U.S. official told Reuters "too many things have to go 100 percent correctly" to execute the plan to move out those going through the Special Immigrant Visa process. The Pentagon is aiming to evacuate up to 22,000 SIV applicants, their families and other at-risk people.
Evacuating that many Afghans would require them to first be able to get to Kabul and then to the airport through a series of Taliban checkpoints, officials said. The U.S. military would need to maintain some semblance of calm at the airport to allow flights to take off and land, and also need the weather to cooperate.
Ideally, officials say the White House would have allowed the Pentagon to start evacuating people weeks earlier using military aircraft and moving them to bases in the United States. Resettlement groups have said for months that at least 80,000 SIV applicants and their families need to be evacuated.
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