美国驻伊拉克大使馆阿富汗敦促华盛顿疏散阿富汗人受到威胁的人根据美国广播公司新闻获得的一份内部电报，由于他们与美国政府的合作，他们警告说，他们不能自己出去，急需帮助。
罗斯·威尔逊大使向国务院领导发出了紧急而激动的呼吁，呼吁帮助成千上万为美国服务的阿富汗人，但是不会被疏散在接下来的几周内。
总统乔·拜登曾表示，他致力于帮助帮助过美国的阿富汗人。但他的计划只要求重新安置已经获得特殊移民签证批准的阿富汗人——这是国会为在美国军队和外交使团工作了两年的翻译、导游和其他承包商创建的一个项目。
阿富汗近三分之一的省份首都现已被占领阿富汗人、美国议员和倡导团体敦促政府加快疏散航班的速度，扩大谁有资格获得令人垂涎的一对一座位的范围。
威尔逊在谈到与美国官员交谈的两名阿富汗工作人员时写道:“他们害怕被监视进出大使馆，晚上睡不着，担心塔利班会敲他们的门。”。
上周，美国国务院宣布，根据一项新举措，没有资格获得特别移民签证计划的阿富汗人可以申请难民身份。这包括不符合两年就业要求的阿富汗人，为美国资助的项目或承包商工作而不是直接为政府工作的人，或者为美国媒体工作的人。
但是这个新项目要求这些阿富汗人首先逃离这个国家——根据威尔逊的说法，这个障碍对绝大多数人来说太高了。
“任何假设阿富汗人难民可以步行前往安全地带并不能反映新的现实，”威尔逊写道——他指出，塔利班武装控制了该国一半以上的边境口岸，邻国伊朗和巴基斯坦正在对更多难民关闭边境，世界其他国家也没有向阿富汗人提供入境签证。
相反，这些阿富汗大使馆雇员和密切接触者“因为他们与美国政府的合作而受到威胁”...但不能出去，”他补充道。
威尔逊说，这个团体包括著名的女权活动人士，美国自己“把他们作为性别平等进步的榜样”，现在正因此受到威胁。
电报称，有2000名阿富汗大使馆雇员及其家人，还有数千名与美国有联系的人正在寻求这一新的难民身份。
然而，政府已经表示不打算帮助这些阿富汗人撤离。
美国国务院一名高级官员上周对记者表示:“不幸的是，在这个时间点，我们预计不会搬迁他们，但我们将继续审查所有选项，以保护那些为我们服务或为我们服务的人，我们将审查当地的局势。
相反，它可能很难疏散所有已经承诺帮助的特殊移民签证申请人及其家人。
美国国务院发言人内德·普莱斯(Ned Price)周四表示，尽管大量美国外交官已经撤离，但大使馆将继续在阿富汗办理签证。
美国政府周四还宣布，将很快向卡塔尔派遣1000名美军，以帮助处理那里撤离的阿富汗人，同时也增加了阿富汗人直接飞往美国的航班数量。
普莱斯说，大约4000名阿富汗人——1000名翻译和他们的家人——正在被疏散到弗吉尼亚州中部的美国陆军李堡哨所，这些航班将在未来几天内每天都有。据美国官员称，这些申请人已经获得大使馆批准的美国签证，并通过了安全审查。
普莱斯周四告诉记者:“我们对这些勇敢的阿富汗人负有庄严、真诚的责任。“我们将履行这一责任，加快搬迁航班的速度。”
根据普莱斯的说法，现在总共有1200名阿富汗人被转移到李堡。美国国务院发言人周三告诉美国广播公司新闻，其中大约90%已经处理完毕，可以离开该设施，搬到美国各地的新家。
此外，美国政府表示，计划再疏散4000名翻译，加上他们的家人，他们已经得到大使馆的批准，但尚未接受审查。
这批人估计总共约有20，000名阿富汗人，他们将被转移到安全的第三地点，如卡塔尔、科威特或美国领土关岛，但目前尚不清楚政府是否有任何接待他们的协议。
五角大楼发言人约翰·柯比(John Kirby)表示，这1000名军人将支持处理申请人，他们可能会在卡塔尔的美国军事设施呆上几个月，等待申请得到裁决。但国务院发言人后来告诉美国广播公司新闻，他们还没有关于第三国搬迁地点的公告。
In urgent cable, US Embassy calls on Washington to evacuate Afghan staffers threatened by Taliban
The U.S. Embassy inAfghanistanis urging Washington to evacuate Afghanswho are under threatbecause of their work with the U.S. government -- warning they cannot get out on their own and are in desperate need, according to an internal cable obtained by ABC News.
In an urgent and emotional appeal to State Department leadership, Ambassador Ross Wilson called for help for the thousands of Afghans who served the U.S., butwill not be evacuatedin the coming weeks by the administration.
PresidentJoe Bidenhas said he is committed to helping Afghans who helped the U.S. But his plans only call for relocating Afghans who have received approval for a special immigrant visa -- a program created by Congress for interpreters, guides and other contractors who worked for the U.S. military and diplomatic missions for two years.
With nearly one third of Afghanistan's provincialcapitals now capturedby Taliban fighters, Afghans, U.S. lawmakers and advocacy groups are urging the administration to increase the tempo of evacuation flights and the scope of who qualifies for a coveted seat on one.
"They fear being watched walking in and out of the Embassy and lay awake at night fearing the Taliban will knock on their doors," Wilson wrote of two Afghan staffers who spoke with U.S. officials.
Last week, the State Department announced that Afghans who did not qualify for the special immigrant visa program could instead apply for refugee status under a new initiative. That includes Afghans who didn't meet the two-year employment requirement, who worked for a U.S.-funded program or a contractor instead of directly for the government, or who worked for a U.S.-based media outlet.
But that new program requires that these Afghans flee the country first -- a barrier too high for the vast majority of them, according to Wilson.
"Any assumption that Afghanrefugeescan make their way to safety on foot does not reflect the new reality," Wilson wrote -- noting Taliban forces exercise control of more than half of the country's border crossings, neighboring countries Iran and Pakistan are closing their borders to more refugees and other countries around the world are not offering Afghans visas to enter.
Instead, these Afghans embassy employees and close contacts are "under threat because of their work with the U.S. government ... but cannot get out," he added.
That group includes prominent women's rights activists that the U.S. itself "raised as examples of progress toward gender equality" and are now threatened because of it, according to Wilson.
There are 2,000 Afghan embassy employees and their families, along with thousands more with U.S. ties who are seeking this new refugee status, according to the cable.
The administration, however, has already said it is not planning to help evacuate these Afghans.
"At this point in time, unfortunately, we do not anticipate relocating them, but we will continue to examine all the options to protect those who have served with or for us, and we will review the situation on the ground," a senior State Department official told reporters last week.
Instead, it may struggle to evacuate all those special immigrant visa applicants, along with their families, that it has already committed to helping.
State Department spokesperson Ned Price said Thursday that despite the evacuation of a significant number of U.S. diplomats, the embassy will continue to process visas in Afghanistan.
The administration also announced Thursday that is is moving 1,000 U.S. troops to Qatar shortly to help process evacuated Afghans there, as it increases the number of flights of Afghans directly to the U.S., too.
Some 4,000 Afghans -- 1,000 interpreters and their family members -- are being evacuated to Fort Lee, a U.S. Army post in central Virginia, and those flights will become daily in the coming days, Price said. These applicants have been approved for U.S. visas by the embassy and cleared security vetting, according to U.S. officials.
"We have a solemn, a sincere responsibility to these brave Afghans," Price told reporters Thursday. "We're going to honor that responsibility and increase the pace of those relocation flights."
In total now, 1,200 Afghans have been relocated to Fort Lee, according to Price. Roughly 90% of them have been processed and cleared to depart the installation, moving to their new homes across the U.S., a State Department spokesperson told ABC News on Wednesday.
In addition, the administration has said it plans to evacuate 4,000 more interpreters, plus their family members, who have been approved by the embassy, but not yet vetted.
This group -- estimated to be approximately 20,000 Afghans in total -- will be relocated to safe third locations, such as Qatar, Kuwait or the U.S. territory Guam, but it's unclear whether the administration has any agreements to host them yet.
Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby said the 1,000 service members -- medical personnel, military police and engineers, among others -- will support processing applicants, who could spend months at U.S. military installations in Qatar as they await their applications to be adjudicated. But a State Department spokesperson later told ABC News they have no announcements yet on third-country relocation sites.
