“Overcrowded with bases in Qatar and Germany… “We are negotiating transportation with private airlines.”
It is reported that the U.S. government is considering accepting refugees fleeing from Afghanistan at U.S. bases overseas, including South Korea.
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on the 21st (local time) that the Pentagon is considering accepting Afghan refugees at US bases in South Korea, Japan, Kosovo and Italy, citing a senior US official. As US bases in Qatar, Bahrain, and Germany are overcrowded with Afghan refugees, they are considering US bases in South Korea and other countries as an alternative to solve this problem.
While other countries are extremely wary of the influx of Afghan refugees, the US has no choice but to look to US military installations at home or abroad, US government officials said.
According to the WSJ, the places the Pentagon is considering in the United States for accepting refugees include military bases in Fort Pickett, Virginia, Camp Atterbury, Indiana, Camp Hunter Riget, California, and Fort Chaffee, Arkansas. Senior officials predicted that Dulles International Airport near Washington would become a center for handling refugees from Afghanistan.
The WSJ reported that the U.S. government is also in talks with airlines that operate civil aircraft to transport refugees. The White House plans to activate the Civil Reserve Air Force (CRAF), which was established in 1952, in the wake of the Berlin Airlift after World War II, and deploy 20 civil aircraft from up to five airlines.
Civil planes will not enter the airspace of Afghanistan directly over Kabul, but will serve to transport Afghans temporarily detained at US bases in Qatar, Bahrain and Germany, officials said.
The Pentagon said it had evacuated 17,000 people, including 2,500 Americans, from Kabul in the past week through the 21st. It is far from the goal of evacuating up to 9,000 people a day.
Earlier, US President Joe Biden said that the goal is to evacuate both Americans and Afghans, saying that there are between 50 and 65,000 Afghans and their families who have cooperated with the United States. The Biden administration has said that the operation period can be extended if the evacuation operation is not completed by the target deadline of August 31.
As the reality is that few countries are willing to accept Afghan refugees, the refugee issue is highly likely to become a global concern in the future.
US Secretary of State Tony Blincoln said on the 20th that 12 countries, including Canada, Mexico, Rwanda, and Ukraine, have agreed to accept Afghan refugees so far, and 14 countries including Bahrain, Germany, and Turkey have agreed to accept Afghan refugees and Americans who have fled Kabul. It said it had agreed to provide a transit point for Afghans during their brief entry into the country.
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