- An official working at USCENTCOM sent the memo the same day that US flights were temporarily halted because of overcrowding at the Qatar base
- Al Udeid Air Base outside of Doha has a capacity of roughly 10,000 people
- Officials described the location as a desert with nothing else around
- Doha embassy staff reportedly claim Afghans are 'in a living nightmare'
- The leaked memo comes as the Biden administration touts increased evacuation numbers out of Kabul, after wide criticism of the president's handling of it
- One anonymous official accused the White House and State Department of 'inadequate forethought and contingency planning' over conditions at the base
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More: The Defense Department’s Automated Biometric Identification System has flagged up to 100 of the 7,000 Afghans evacuated as prospective recipients of Special Immigration Visas as potential matches to intelligence agency watch lists, @DefenseOne has learned
— Tara Copp (@TaraCopp) August 24, 2021
Security screeners at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
have detected that at least one of the Afghans who was evacuated from Kabul Airport has potential ties to ISIS, a U.S. official confirmed to Defense One.
Moreover, the Defense Department’s Automated Biometric Identification System has flagged up to 100 of the 7,000 Afghans evacuated as prospective recipients of Special Immigration Visas as potential matches to intelligence agency watch lists, a second official said.
At least 6,000 fleeing Afghans have been evacuated to Al Udeid and thousands more have been flown to other temporary staging bases throughout the Middle East and Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...by U.S. military aircraft. At those bases, Customs and Border Patrol screeners are checking evacuees’ IDs and biometric data against law enforcement databases, the first official said.
Ultimately, thousands of those Afghans will come to the United States, where they will be initially housed at several military bases, such as Fort Bliss in Texas, Fort McCoy in Wisconsin and Fort Lee in Virginia.
