American citizens are not being blocked from entering the U.S.-held airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, a U.S. official said Monday. “Claims that American citizens have been turned away or denied access to HKIA by Embassy staff or US Forces are false,” Ross Wilson, the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, said in a statement. U.S. troops hold the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul. The airport has been used for weeks to evacuate Americans, Afghans, and others who are trying to flee the before the United States fully withdraws from the country, which was taken over by the Taliban terrorist group in mid-August. Wilson’s statement came after multiple members of Congress said over the weekend that Americans weren’t able to get into the airport. “I am furious!! My team has been on the phone all day trying to get AMERICAN CITIZENS out. They have been just outside the airport numerous times, but the State …
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