The United States will seek to evacuate as many US citizens and Afghan interpreters as possible in coming weeks, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said on Tuesday, saying Americans could again make their way to the Kabul airport.
In a series of US television interviews, Kirby said the US military, including thousands of incoming troops, were squarely focused on airport operations and security.
“We remain committed to completing this drawdown in a safe and orderly way, and to doing what we can to getting as many of our American citizens out as well as many of those interpreters and translators” who assisted US forces, Kirby told MSNBC.
“We’re going to work really hard in the coming weeks to get as many of them out of the country as we can.”
Kirby told CNN’s “New Day” program that between 5,000 and 10,000 U.S. citizens were believed to remain in the Kabul area, and that the United States could move between 5,000 and 9,000 people out of Kabul per day.
Three U.S. military bases were prepared to…
