US diplomats sent cable warning of potential catastrophe in Afghanistan last month
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A group of US diplomats wrote a classified cable to Secretary of State Antony Blinken in mid-July warning that swift action needed to be taken because they believed the situation in Afghanistan could rapidly deteriorate and they feared a catastrophe.
They laid out how the department could take swift action to process Afghans who had assisted the United States and get them out of the country quickly. The diplomats decided to send the dissent memo because they felt previous warnings and recommendations they had made were being ignored and labeled alarmist, two State Department officials told CNN.More Related News
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