The State Department's delays are dangerously endangering American lives, three different individuals involved in the private evacuation effort told Fox News.
Rick Clay, who runs the private rescue group PlanB, told Fox News that the State Department is the only thing stopping the flights he's organizing from fleeing Afghanistan.
Two other American individuals separately involved in evacuation efforts, whom Fox News is not naming to avoid risking ongoing rescue forces, similarly stated that the State Department is the single entity preventing their charter flights from leaving Afghanistan.
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"This is zero place to be negotiating with American lives. Those are our people standing on the tarmac and all it takes is a f****ing phone call," one of those individuals, who has been fundamental to private evacuation efforts from Afghanistan, told Fox News.
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"If one life is lost as a result of this, the blood is on the White House's hands. The blood is on their hands," that individual announced, continuing: "It is not the Taliban that is holding this up – as much as it sickens me to say that – it is the United States government."
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That individual proposed that the State Department's obstruction is motivated in part by the embarrassment that private individuals are rescuing Americans that the U.S. government left behind.
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Those seeking clearance to land in Qatar were informed by military channels that they have to first go through the State Department to gain approval, an email reviewed by Fox News shows.
Clay has a manifest of 4,500 names of U.S. citizens, green card holders, SIVs and refugees attempting to get state-side. So far, they've given the State Department 800 names for a first round of flights. Fox News has analyzed that manifest, which confirms Clay's account.
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"It is imperative that we get into Doha where there [are] other refugee centers," the PlanB founder told Fox News in a text message. "That is where I've asked for clearance."
Clay told Fox News that his organization is "having problems getting permission" from the Biden State Department "to land on the return flight" from Afghanistan in a neighboring nation.
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The State Department "is not allowing any private charters carrying refugees [to] land anywhere" in nearby nations if they are coming out of Afghanistan and is making different "excuses" as to why, such as pointing to the lack of air traffic controllers and radar issues, Clay told Fox News this week. The two other individuals separately involved in private evacuation efforts confirmed Clay's account.
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