State Dept trying to steal credit for rescue of 4 Americans from Afghanistan, organizer says: 'Total lie'

| Fox News ^ | By Peter Hasson , Houston Keene |

[Hojczyk]

Senior State Department officials on Monday announced that the "U.S. has facilitated the safe departure of four US citizens by overland route from Afghanistan. Embassy staff was present upon their arrival."

But those actually involved in the dangerous rescue operation say the State Department deserves little to no credit for Mariam's escape from Afghanistan.

Cory Mills and a private team of military veterans, drawing on funding by private donors including the Sentinel Foundation, led the effort to rescue Mariam and her three children from Afghanistan, where they had been left behind by the Biden administration, multiple sources with knowledge of Mariam's evacuation confirmed to Fox News.

Mills and his team worked for weeks to get Mariam's family out of Afghanistan after Republican Texas Rep. Ronny Jackson alerted him to the family's plight.

Mills' team first sought to get the family aboard one of the last government flights out of Kabul, but she was unable to gain admission into the airport

Plan B was to get Miriam and her family aboard a private charter flight from Mazar-i-Sharif airport, but the planes were never cleared to take off

Mills' final card to play was to travel overland to a neighboring country – the exact country is being withheld to avoid jeopardizing future rescue missions – and attempt to get the family across the border.

The State Department's public posture about Mariam's rescue is "absolute nonsense," Mills told Fox News in an exclusive interview Monday. "The fact that they're spinning this, trying to take 100% credit when they didn't track this family, when they placated this family, when the mother, who was under extreme stress and extreme pressure, reached out to the State Department multiple times and got no help."

[gcparent]

You sound like an expert on everything. Have mayflower on one side and immigrants who came over on the boat steerage early 1900s other side.Both sides became Americans and loved this country. You would probably speak unkindly of them too.

[gcparent]

All 4 have US passports and live in the states.

[Joe Boucher]

America’s Dept. of State has been filled with anti American a-holes for decades.

[FBRhawk]

Mariem is a US citizen from Texas. You would feel very differently about private citizens helping rescue people if your wife or daughter were trapped in a foreign country and the government would not do anything to help.