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To the european union. anything that we can do to promote peace in europe is a plus. >> this is megan from military times. you mentioned the military countries have given you a ten-day deadline to get these through. so which screening are you doing in europe and what do they have to finish in the u.s.? is it more screening or resettlement? what processes need to be finished? >> megan, our evacuees receive biometric and bio graphical screening. they get screened twice. once when they come into our intermediate staging base. once they've been initially screened, they're put in their sleeping qua...

124,334 people. which included almost 6,000 american citizens, third country nationals and afghans, designated by the united states paired we will continue to evacuate american citizens under the leadership of the department of state. this mission has no transition from a military mission to a diplomatic mission. evacuees flowed through the intermediate staging base safe havens and central command, and european command, for onward movements the united states. a third country where there home of origin would be for repatriation. evacuees complete military and medical screening and vetting. curr...

That only included a total of 12,000 nato soldiers and it should not have acquired the us to be there for the rest of them to be willing to be there but as we have seen in britain and canada and france, other countries over the years, the people came to the same kind of sense of frustration that president biden just sense of frustration that president bidenjust did sense of frustration that president biden just did this year. and therefore most of nato's main countries have elected not to considerable additional effort but we still provide air power out of the broader persian gulf and help the...

Airpower out of this, we could help them find centuries in the north where they could have solid bases to repair their equipment, protect refugees, from sums kind of the staging base for operations against the taliban. so there are still many tools. ijust taliban. so there are still many tools. i just don't taliban. so there are still many tools. ijust don't know if they are going to be enough. and i also don't know what decisions president biden and others will make. they fly strike missions out of qatar and kuwait in support of the government? these are answers. these are questions we just d...

Withdrawing without any real gains for the basically 18 years of effort that we have put into afghanistan. >> right. i think a lot of people are sitting at home watching this thinking, what does this mean for u.s. national security if these troops are pulled out? what is your concern, colonel? >> well, first of all, the reason that we put troops in afghanistan was to prevent afghanistan from becoming another jumping off point for a terrorist group like al qaeda. we all know al qaeda used afghanistan as their staging base for the 9/11 attacks in 2010. ofg wou so today it may not be al qaeda, it...