U.S. Airmen and U.S. Marines guide qualified evacuees aboard a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III at Hamid Karzai International Airport (HKIA), Afghanistan, August 21, 2021. US Air Force/Reuters
CNBC: Taliban will no longer allow Afghans to go to Kabul airport for evacuation, spokesman says
* The Taliban said Tuesday that the group will not allow Afghan nationals to leave the country and opposes an extension
* President Joe Biden has previously said he may consider extending the departure date past Aug. 31 but has yet to do so.
* More than 5,000 U.S. troops are currently on the ground in Kabul assisting with evacuation efforts.
WASHINGTON – The Taliban said Tuesday that the group will not allow Afghan nationals to leave the country and opposes any extension of evacuation flights, a development that comes one week before U.S. and coalition forces are slated to depart Afghanistan.
“We are not in favor of allowing Afghans to leave,” Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told reporters during a news conference on Tuesday.
“They [the Americans] have the opportunity, they have all the resources, they can take all the people that belong to them but we are not going to allow Afghans to leave and we will not extend the deadline,” he said, adding that evacuations carried out by foreign forces after Aug. 31 would be a “violation” of a Biden administration promise to end the U.S. military’s mission in the country.
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This Taliban decision is going to cause mass panic in Kabul and at the airport.
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