conduct counterterrorism operations as needed. we continue to evacuate american citizens and vulnerable afghans out of kabul. in fact, there are approximately 1,400 individuals at the kabul airport who have been screened and manifested for flights today. as i said yesterday, we have the ability to include evacuees on military airlift out of afghanistan until the very end. this is a massive military diplomatic security and humanitarian undertaking for the united states and our allies. i ll give you a specific update over the last 24. yesterday 32 u.s. military aircraft, 27 c-17s and five c-130s departed with approximately 4,000 personnel. combined with 34 coalition aircraft, departures, an additional 2,800 personnel left kabul for various intermediate
hours in the countdown to tuesday s withdrawal deadline. the kabul airport remains under high security alert with gunshots ringing out earlier in the day and hundreds out on the streets. u.s. officials are bracing for a second terrorist attack, advising americans to avoid airport gates, avoid large crowds, and leave the area if possible. pentagon officials in just this last hour are saying the u.s. will continue evacuations until the last day. we continue to evacuate american citizens and vulnerable afghans out of kabul. in fact, there are approximately 1,400 individuals at the kabul airport who have been screened and manifested for flights today. as i said yesterday, we have the ability to include evacuees on military airlift out of afghanistan until the very end. more than 5,000 people remain at the airport, hoping to leave the country. but nato allies, italy, germany,
leverage over the horizon capabilities to conduct counterterrorism operations as needed. we continue to evacuate american citizens and vulnerable afghans out of kabul. in fact, there are approximately 1,400 individuals at the kabul airport who have been screened and manifested for flights today. as i said yesterday, we have the ability to include evacuees on military airlift out of afghanistan until the very end. this is a massive military diplomatic security and humanitarian undertaking for the united states and our allies. and so i ll give you a specific update of the last 24. yesterday 32 u.s. military aircraft, 27 c-17 s and five c-130 s departed with approximately 4,000 personnel. combined with 34 coalition aircraft, departures, an additional 2,800 personnel left
against a is k planner who is supposed to have been involved in the attack on kabul. to supposed to have been involved in the attack on kabul. the attack on kabul. to leverage over the horizon the attack on kabul. to leverage over the horizon capability - the attack on kabul. to leverage over the horizon capability to - over the horizon capability to conduct counterterrorism operations as needed. we continue to evacuate american citizens and vulnerable afghans out of kabul. there are approximately 11100 individuals at the kabul airport who have been screened and manifested for flights today. as i said yesterday, we have the ability to include evacuees on military airlift out of afghanistan until the very end. this is a massive military, diplomatic, security and humanitarian undertaken for the united states and our allies. i ll give you a specific update of the last 24. yesterday, 32 us military aircraft, departed with approximately 4000 personnel.
polls in recent weeks, even though there s a great deal of support in there s a great deal of support in the united states for ending the war. there was a strong majority who disapproved of the way it was being ended. and i think thisjust disapproved of the way it was being ended. and i think this just shakes things up even further. and it is something the administration had hoped to be able to write out up until this point will stub the idea was of the strategy has been, basically, to focus on this extraordinary military airlift, get out as many people as possible, both americans and afghan allies, and that over time perhaps there would not be that much of a political hit, this is what americans would remember, that mr biden had ended the war ended the end had been able to get quite a lot of out, but the explosion changes the equation. it is just not clear at this moment, jane, what way the equation might change, whether in fact americans might think that is just more evidence we need