Relocation Effort News Today

Previous relocation efforts had deadly ramifications, with all 11 rhinos dying after being rehomed.

This army and this government in 11 days. nonetheless, we planned and enter sielsed a wide range of contingencies. because of that planning we were able to draw down our embassy and move remaining personnel to the airport within 48 hours and the military placed on stand by by president biden secured the airport and started the evacuation within 72 hours. yes, that evacuation was an extraordinary effort under the most difficult conditions imaginable by our diplomats, military and intelligence pro...

Emails by august 31st and theyre still at it. in the midst of this effort an isis attack killed 13 service members and wounded 20 others, killed and wounded scores of afghans. our service members gave their lives so that others can continue to live theirs. in the end, we completed one of the biggest air lifts in history with 124,000 people evacuated to safety. on august 31st in kabul the military mission in afghanistan officially ended and a new diplomatic mission began. i want to acknowledge th...

Americans and afghans to whom we have a special commitment depart afghanistan if they choose. just as weve done in other countries where we have evacuated our embassy and hundreds or even thousands of americans remain behind. for example, in libya, syria, venezuela, yemen, somalia, there is no deadline to this effort. third, were focussed on counter-terrorism. talibans committed to prevent terrorist groups from using afghanistan as a base for external operations that could threaten the united st...

Nonetheless, we planned and exercised a wide range of contingencies. because of that planning we were able to move our remaining personnel to the airport within 48 hours an the military placed on stand by, by president biden, was able to evacuate with an extraordinary effort nor the most difficult conditions imaginable. but our diplomats, by our military, by our intelligence professionals. they worked around the clock to get americans citizens, allies and partners and at risk afghans on planes, ...

The proposal or did it actually add any additional resources or capabilities to those that state already had. it was a bureaucratic movement not reciting or getting rid of capabilities just a new organizational chart. that created danger to the departments operation. is that a fair statement? >> thats a fair statement. >> it is not the ccr, what is the answer? >> here again to your point, with regard to the ccr, whether it became a bureau or not, there was no change in the assets that we already...

These new u.s. government-led efforts how, how coordination with outside groups and individuals being handled by who, what is the nature of the state d.o.d. cooperation, give us a sense of that. >> sure. we have within the department led by our former ambassador to afghanistan john bass who went back to kabul to the airport to help lead the evacuation efforts. he is leading an effort to manage, coordinate all of the ongoing efforts to bring people who wish to leave afghanistan out and that inclu...

But the point is, we have a very lengthy process, 14 steps, multiple agencies involved. we work to try to streamline that. more work we would like to do moving forward but we did significantly surge our resources to that, particularly to the chief admission and approval process and ultimately we went from 10 to 50 to 61 or 62 now working on that stage of things. doubled the resource evers we had in kabul all in an effort to ex -- expedite. and we did. what was not anticipated was the collapse in...

Dulles center where 45,000 afghans have been processed after arriving in the united states. it is remarkable to see what our diplomats, military, employees from many civilian agencies across the u.s. government have been able to achieve in a very short time. theyve met an enormous human need and coordinated food, water, sanitation for thousands of people. they are arranging medical care including the delivery of babies. they are reuniting families that were separated, caring for unaccompanied mi...

Precluded traveling last week. we will continue to help americans and afghans to whom we have a special commitment depart afghanistan if they choose just as weve done in other countries where weve evacuated our embassy and hundreds or even thousands of americans remained behind. in libya, syria, venezuela, yemen, somalia. there is no deadline to this effort. third, were focused on counter terrorism. taliban committed they will not let terrorist groups including al qaeda and isis-k. well hold the...