{"id":336452,"date":"2021-09-08T18:38:32","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T15:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/antony-blinken-greets-afghan-evacuees-in-germany\/"},"modified":"2021-09-08T18:38:32","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T15:38:32","slug":"antony-blinken-greets-afghan-evacuees-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/antony-blinken-greets-afghan-evacuees-in-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"#Antony Blinken greets Afghan evacuees in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Antony Blinken greets Afghan evacuees in Germany<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>\u200bSecretary of State Antony Blinken met with Afghan refugees on Wednesday at the US airbase in Ramstein, Germany, as part of a charm offensive amid the revelation that the State Department refused to give chartered planes clearance to fly out of the country, stranding American citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Images show Blinken stooping down to show a young Afghan boy images of his own children on his phone and stopping to talk to a couple who were holding a baby.<\/p>\n<p>While at Ramstein, Blinken also toured a processing center that is part of the massive operation to move the evacuees from Afghanistan to their destinations in the US and met with employees from the State Department, the Defense Department and other government agencies that are assisting the relocation efforts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got a chance to see the whole flow of the operation, and what you\u2019ve done, what you\u2019ve accomplished in such a short period of time under such extreme circumstances is truly, truly remarkable,\u201d Blinken told the staffers, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/https\/\/www.state.gov\/secretary-antony-j-blinken-at-meet-and-greet-with-evacuation-operations-staff\/\">according to the State Department<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19383338\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19383338\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/blinken-23.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Secretary of State Antony Blinken shows a picture of his children to a young Afghan refugee at Ramstein Air Base in Germany.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/blinken-23.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/blinken-23.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/blinken-23.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span>Secretary of State Antony Blinken shows a picture of his children to a young Afghan refugee at Ramstein Air Base in Germany.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Olivier Douliery\/Pool via AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Later Wednesday, he will meet with German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas to discuss the situation in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>About 34,000 Afghan refugees have landed at Ramstein and about 22,000 have left the base for other locations.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/blinken-20.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during a meeting with Evacuation Operations staff at Ramstein Air Base Germany on September 8, 2021.\" class=\"wp-image-19383342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/blinken-20.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/blinken-20.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/blinken-20.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during a meeting with evacuation operations staff at Ramstein Air Base in Germany on September 8, 2021.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Olivier Douliery\/Pool via AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Before arriving in Germany, Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a>ed to Qatar, where they thanked the Gulf state\u2019s leaders for helping with the evacuation efforts.<\/p>\n<p>But the visit has been overshadowed by the revelation in emails obtained by Fox <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> that the State Department refused to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>rove the departure of chartered planes from Afghanistan ferrying Americans and Afghans out of the country.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/blinken-16.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Afghan refugees are processed inside Hangar 5 at Ramstein Air Base in Germany, on September 8, 2021.\" class=\"wp-image-19383334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/blinken-16.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/blinken-16.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/blinken-16.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Afghan refugees are processed inside Hangar 5 at Ramstein Air Base in Germany, on September 8, 2021.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Olivier Douliery\/Pool via REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In a Sept. 1 email sent to Eric Montalvo, an attorney and former US Marine who organized a number of flights, a State Department official informed him that any flights heading to Europe or the Middle East for processing \u201cmay require some indication from the USG [US government] that we \u2018approve\u2019 of this charter flight\u201d in order to land.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDOS [State Department] will not provide an approval, but we will provide a \u2018no objection\u2019 to the destination country government via the U.S. Embassy in that country,\u201d it continued.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/blinken-17.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"U.S Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with a family of Afghan refugees at Ramstein Air Base in Germany, September 8, 2021.\" class=\"wp-image-19383394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/blinken-17.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/blinken-17.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/blinken-17.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>US Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with a family of Afghan refugees at Ramstein Air Base in Germany, September 8, 2021.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Olivier Douliery \/ Pool via REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Montalvo\u2019s law firm chartered a flight for 300 people that traveled from Afghanistan to Doha, Qatar, on Aug. 31, according to the New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>The flight irked some US military and diplomatic personnel who didn\u2019t want to land the plane because it lacked \u201cstatus,\u201d but it touched down anyway.<\/p>\n<p>The State Department\u2019s email to Montalvo informed him that \u201cno charters are allowed to land at an [sic] DoD base and most if not all countries in the Middle Eastern region, with the exception of perhaps Saudi Arabia will [not] allow charters to land.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/blinken-21.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Secretary of State Antony Blinken (2nd from left) toured the processing center that is part of the massive operation to move the evacuees from Afghanistan to the United States.\" class=\"wp-image-19383337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/blinken-21.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/blinken-21.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/blinken-21.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Secretary of State Antony Blinken (second from left) toured the processing center that is part of the massive operation to move the evacuees from Afghanistan to the United States.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Olivier Douliery\/Pool via AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cYou need to find another destination country, and it can\u2019t be the U.S. either,\u201d the email continued.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) accused the State Department of blocking a rescue mission he sponsored at Hamid Karzai International Airport outside Kabul by refusing to allow the plane to land.<\/p>\n<p>Mullin said the Biden administration will have blood on its hands if anything happens to the Americans left behind.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/blinken-19.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"About 22,00 of the 34,000 Afghan refugees at Ramstein Air Base have left the base for other locations.\" class=\"wp-image-19383490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/blinken-19.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/blinken-19.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/blinken-19.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>About 22,000 of the 34,000 Afghan refugees at Ramstein Air Base have left the base for other locations.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">OLIVIER DOULIERY\/POOL\/AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201c[T]here\u2019s going to be some that\u2019s going to die because of the failure from President Biden, I promise you that,\u201d Mullin told Fox News host Bret Baier. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt some point they\u2019re [the Taliban] going to lose patience and aren\u2019t going to keeping letting us drive past these checkpoints and paying them off \u2026 and when I say that blood is on his hands, that means President Biden\u2019s hands, I mean that with everything in my heart. 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