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2021-09-01 Afghanistan

Oklahoma congressman Markwayne Mullin 'threatened embassy staff' in Tajikistan after they refused to help him with a plan to rescue American family from Afghanistan by helicopter

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]

Rep. Markwayne Mullin asked the US ambassador to Tajikistan, John Mark Pommersheim for help with his Afghan rescue mission

He needed assistance getting a large quantity of cash into the country

His plan was to use a helicopter in neighboring Afghanistan to rescue an American mother and four children

But the embassy refused, according to the Washington Post,

...there will be plenty of stories like this in the near future, I suspect...
and he threated officials

U.S. officials said they did not know of Mullin's location, the paper reported on Tuesday night

It was reportedly his second effort to reach Afghanistan for a private rescue bid, Last week he got as far as Greece but was denied permission to carry on to Kabul by the Pentagon, an administration official said.

Officials have been on high alert for similar missions after an unauthorized trip by Reps. Seth Moulton and Peter Meijer last week, which were condemned as thoughtless publicity stunts at a time when the armed forces were already overstretched at Kabul airport.

As of late Tuesday, U.S. officials told the Washington Post they were unsure of Mullin’s location and his office did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

The last U.S. troops left Afghanistan on Monday just before midnight.

The U.S. military helped evacuate more than 120,000 people, including U.S. citizens, allies and at-risk Afghans from Kabul airport.

The chaotic airlift was augmented by a string of private enterprises, from veterans using their military knowhow to help their Afghan allies reach the airport to charter planes collecting women who feared for their future under the Taliban.

The State Department reissued a Level 4 travel advisory for the country on Monday.

'Do not travel to Afghanistan due to civil unrest, armed conflict, crime, terrorism, kidnapping, and COVID-19,' it said.

Mullin is not a U.S. military veteran, unlike Moulton and Meijer. The Republican was first elected to the House of Representatives in 2012. He has been an outspoken critic of the Biden administration’s exit from Afghanistan.

Posted by Skidmark 2021-09-01 01:33|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top
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#1 Fipping the script and making it about the congressman being in the wrong instead of the depraved heart indifference of the US embassy.

Posted by Blinky Pholuling8616 2021-09-01 02:22|| 2021-09-01 02:22|| Front Page Top

#2 Read another article this am (link down the memory hole, sorry) that says Mullin is missing.

Posted by Mercutio 2021-09-01 07:31|| 2021-09-01 07:31|| Front Page Top

#3 In a pressed plaid shirt tucked into blue jeans that hugged his brown cowboy boots, Mullin was in his element. These were his people. He may have been a member of Congress for seven years now, but you wouldn’t have known it by looking at him. Mullin has all the conservative talking points down about abortion and the dangers of socialism, but what his mostly rural Oklahoma constituents like about him is how rough he is around the edges, in all the right ways. He has cauliflower ear from his days of wrestling and mixed martial arts. He speaks with a thick rural accent and often stumbles over common phrases, coming across as less city and more country. He’s routinely direct and unpolished — some might even say crass, especially when he appears frustrated, like the time in a committee hearing when he told Democratic Rep. Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico to shut up.

Posted by Bertie Crains2651 2021-09-01 09:07|| 2021-09-01 09:07|| Front Page Top

#4 The Daily Mail article updated to include that information, Mercutio.

Fascinating, Bertie Crains2651. Personal observation, or are you quoting from something?

Posted by trailing wife 2021-09-01 09:15|| 2021-09-01 09:15|| Front Page Top

#5 Oklahoma Rep. Mullin says is heading back to the US after 'going dark' when American diplomatic staff in Tajikistan refused to let him into Afghanistan with a helicopter full of cash to help try and get refugees out

Posted by Skidmark 2021-09-01 15:22|| 2021-09-01 15:22|| Front Page Top

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