Rep. Markwayne Mullin (Republican) called the US Embassy in Tajikistan on Monday and made a brave request. Two U.S. officials said Washington post — He said he was on his way to Afghanistan to save an American woman and her four children, but first he had to help Tajikistan get a huge amount of cash. ..
There is a limit to the amount of cash you can bring into Tajikistan. director In a report, Mullin told the staff who answered the phone that he needed to carry enough luggage to pay for the helicopter used to take his family out of Afghanistan. Marin said he plans to fly from Tbilisi, Georgia to Dushanbe, Tajikistan in a few hours and needs the support of US Ambassador John Mark Pommersheim for his operation to work.When officials told Marin that this was not possible, parliamentarians threatened Pommersheim and embassy employees and demanded that he know the name of the person he was speaking to, U.S. officials said. director..
Officials said this was not Marin’s first attempt to enter Afghanistan — last week he flew to Greece and asked the Pentagon for permission to go to Kabul, which was rejected.The fact that he continues to ignore warnings about not entering Afghanistan during dangerous times is surprising and worrisome, officials said. director, And as of Tuesday night, they don’t know where he is. “It’s a large understatement to say that this is very dangerous,” said a State Department official.
44-year-old Mullin was elected to Parliament in 2012. A member of the Conservative Republican Study Committee, he voted against proof of the 2020 presidential election results and criticized President Biden’s plan to withdraw from Afghanistan. Two other members, Seth Moulton (Democrat) and Peter Meyer (Republican), who were able to enter Kabul last week, served in Iraq, but Marin was not a member of the US military. Mullin’s office did not respond directorHouse minority leader Kevin McCarthy (Republican) left silently when asked if he knew Marin’s whereabouts on Tuesday.
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