Pentagon Spox: Biden Admin. Doesn’t Know the Number of Americans in Afghanistan

‘Best guess between 5,000 and 10,000 that are near Kabul’

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BERMAN: "If I can get some specifics here, how many Americans do you believe to be in Afghanistan right now?”
KIRBY: “We think there are certainly thousands of Americans. We don’t have an exact count. I would say somewhere — best guess, between 5,000 and 10,000 that are near Kabul. There was a message put out by the secretary of — I’m sorry, the State Department today, advising those Americans about how to queue up and how to get to the airport, so now that security is better, they don’t need to necessarily shelter in place and they can begin movement to the airport for processing for flights out.”

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