retrograde operations or timing, they would need to speak to that. u.s. forces would not be at the airport through the end of the day on august 31st? again, any timing operation when it comes to retrograde operation, the department of defense would need to speak to that. our people, those under chief of mission authority on the ground will leave the country as part of those retrograde operations but ultimately dod will need to speak to the timing in those operations. wouldn t that affect the remaining evacuations of any remaining u.s. citizens or afghans who have permission to leave? what i will say generally and this is the point dod has made is ta retrograde is not like turning an off switch. it s not off one minute and on the next in is transition from a full scale evacuation to a full
0 i can confirm that the vast majority of our employed staff and their immediate family members have been evacuated or currently on the grounds of the international airport. we are actively working to evacuate remaining staff and we have been in direct contact with them. these employees have served the united states. they have not only worked for us, they have worked with us. some of which involved, some of the numbers that you just went through. do you have numbers or do those include lprs? also do you have numbers for remaining sivs, for p1p2 applicants and in terms of the broader universe of at-risk afghans, do you have numbers for those? secondly, she punted on the idea of a diplomatic presence post-tuesday. i presume she did that because there s a decision. can you bring us up to date? i ve got one more after this. the airport and the negotiations on who would run if anyone would run the airport after tuesday? great. let me take those in order. on numbers, i know there s inten
how does this become more complicated and difficult in terms of logistically getting more people out, because that seems to be the goal. joy, the big challenge now is that isis-k, we know they re in kabul. there are reports that there could be dozens or even a hundred of them operating in and around kabul. and so what is their mission? they re going to do everything that they can to inflict more pain on the u.s. and the taliban. for them, this big spectacular attack is a way to draw in radical recruits, try to draw in resources and elevate the picture. there s no reason not to do this. so as we collapse, there are fewer people on the ground essentially. this would be called a retrograde operation in the military. you are essentially closing in the perimeter. it only takes one rpg strike, a blackhawk down kind of scenario, or one surface-to-air missile. it s going to be extremely challenging to get those last fighters out. the perimeter will have to collapse. honestly, i think we re d