On Friday, the White House said it had no plans for a government-coordinated evacuation of an estimated 16,000 American citizens trapped in Sudan.
Even as the warring sides said Friday they’d agreed to a cease-fire for the three-day Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, explosions and gunfire rang out across Khartoum on Saturday. Two cease-fire attempts earlier this week also rapidly collapsed.
The French are rescuing Americans, as this White House once again decides to leave Americans behind.
IT IS AFGHANISTAN AGAIN AS THE WHITE HOUSE LEAVES US CITIZENS BEHIND
Several U.S. Citizens contacted the U.S. government for assistance.
“One of the Americans said they called and emailed the State Department last week, only to be told that the U.S. government would not be assisting with the evacuation of its citizens. (“This is not Lebanon in 2006,” a senior administration official told NatSec Daily.) Another American citizen who was living in Sudan for work said they eventually found a way out of the country after getting on a French convoy.
“Asked about whether the Biden administration coordinated with European countries to help evacuate American citizens from Khartoum, a second senior U.S. official said: “We’ve remained in touch with American citizens and have offered best practices … on security measures and precautions to take on the ground.” The official did not specify whether the administration had specifically asked the French to help with evacuations.”
Thousands of Americans were told to shelter in place. There are 16,000 Americans registered with the embassy, but Antony Blinken said on Monday, “Dozens” of Americans have expressed interest in leaving Sudan. Then he sad they don’t know how many Americans are in Sudan.
Basically, we’re doing little to help
The US claimed it worked closely with allies on coordinating some evacuations of Americans and Europeans. NSA Jake Sullivan said theybegan to facilitate the land route out by putting surveillance and reconnaissance assets over the route.
For days, Americans have largely had to fend for themselves, according to the Americans in Khartoum who spoke to NatSec Daily.
The U.S. government evacuated its diplomats from the Sudanese capital on Sunday but left behind hundreds of Americans who have spent days scrambling to find ways to flee the city.
“In social media and text messages sent from Khartoum, Americans shared stories with NatSec Daily about narrowly escaping gun fighting and coming close to getting stuck between exchanges of rocket-propelled grenades as they tried to find safe passage to the airport and port. The current violence has led to more than 400 people dead and thousands wounded.”
EXACTLY LIKE THE AGHANISTAN EVACUATION
Rebecca Winter, whose sister and 18-month-old niece are in Sudan, told CNN that they are in an “awful holding pattern” because her sister “has been told by both the US embassy and the international school that she works for that she has to shelter in place, and that she should not accept any offers for private evacuation.”
“So she is just stuck waiting right now in fear,” she said.
Although the US State Department warned Americans against traveling to Sudan, Winter said that according to her sister, “US employees there were not asked to leave the country.”
Fatima Elsheikh, whose two brothers are in Sudan, also pushed back on the claim that US citizens who were already on the ground were warned before the outbreak of violence.
“It makes me upset, because there was no warning. I don’t, I think it’s being painted as a country that’s been war-torn for a while, which isn’t true. This is unprecedented, what’s happening,” she said.
THE FRENCH HELPED THEM OUT
Leaving his apartment building, one of the American citizens said he and a group of 20 people left to meet the French military convoy in the middle of the night, reports Politico.
Buildings were riddled with bullets, others caught fire, windows blown out, and they were burning everything.
“The French military then led the group out of the city to an undisclosed location — an air strip two hours outside of the city. The caravan included 25 armored vehicles. They got into French and European military aircraft,” Politico added.
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Americans are being left behind here too.
Did the USA cause this unrest in Sudan?
Probably!!! Possibly the main instigator, if one ‘connects the dots’, over the past twenty odd years…
Why should anyone be surprised at the incompetence of the Federal Government and the American Military? The Military is WOKE and the Commander-in-Chief is a Traitor. The Government has become self serving. When is the Congress going to Act? Is the Congress so corrupted that Armed Patriots are going to have to march on Washington, DC and remove the Traitors?
The Declaration of Independence is America’s Foremost and Primary Document declaring our Right to Exist as a Country. In paragraph two the Founders clearly stated: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
It is clear the US Government no longer serves The People and is now Self Serving and acts contrary to the Safety and Happiness of The People. It is the Duty of the Congress to correct this before the Government pushes The People to Abolish the Government. We are waiting for the Congress to Act! I doubt that the American People will tolerate another stolen Election. It is the obligation of the Government to prove to The People that it’s elections are not Fraudulent. This can only be accomplish with in person voting, by known Citizens in good standing, with Paper Ballots hand counted in plain sight. The Congress nor the Courts have filled it’s obligation to ensure the 2020 (and 2022) Election was not Corrupt, thus The People must assume the present Government is Illegitimate.
I routinely watch hearings by the Congress. It’s discussing that the Congress tolerates high ranking officials Blatant Lies and Open Contempt for the Congress. Congress has the power to detain them and to remove them for office. WHEN IS CONGRESS GOING TO ACT?
Disgraceful, cowardly, and typical Biden.
People love to travel to exotic places or even decide to live somewhere off the beaten track. You have to realize, when you leave the US, nothing is guaranteed anymore, not even your safety when things like this break out. Its even worse when your country is led by an incompetent corrupt leader who is regarded as a joke worldwide.
“…nothing is guaranteed anymore,..” EVEN in the USA, if it ever was…but especially now. Better identify as a ‘piece of wood’, you’d be easier to ‘stack’…