Thread by @emilymiller

Afghanistan Retired Special Forces Rescue Mission- Update 9/4 9:30pm ET #ProjectExodus --

The six planes with Americans in Mez may take off in the next day and the Northern Resistance is near Kabul (thread) emilypostnews.com/p/afghanistan-…

"I hope this is not another false lead, but I just got a call saying one of our flights is taking off in 5 hours. Passengers told to be ready.🤞"

- Source from a humanitarian group on the Americans at the airport in Afghanistan waiting for 6 planes to get permission to leave

I told him yesterday the planes weren’t moving. This is what he texted me today:

"Well your guy was right. We kept getting told we would fly out today but they just told us definitely not. Planning for resumption of flights tomorrow or Sunday. Taliban cooperating."

I asked him about the Americans waiting for seven days in the Mez airport:

"The waiting is horrible. And no one is being told anything. And the conditions are terrible. Sleeping on hard floors and people are hungry."

"But, you know, Taliban are actually cooperating. The only ones they are giving a hard time to are former Afghan govt leadership. Day before yesterday they came in and arrested a former official. But everyone else they have left alone."

"With there already being internal fighting between Taliban leadership, Afghanistan bankrupt, inflation 80%, people starving; etc.; TB know they need legitimization and foreign aid. They are savages but they are not stupid."

The U.S. recognizes the Taliban as the legitimate government in Afghanistan.

If that's the case, why doesn't @POTUS or @SecBlinken call and ask that the American citizens be allowed to get on those planes and leave?

My #ProjectExodus source on the six airplanes says it's not happening.

“I’ve been told things are stalled,” he texted me tonight.

We hope we're wrong and the planes fly soon and bring those Americans home.