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American rescue clinic founder stays in Afghanistan to pursue evacuation for employees and animals left powering
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Charlotte Maxwell-Jones poses with a rescue dog at Kabul’s airport on Aug. 29, 2021.

Charlotte Maxwell-Jones poses with a rescue canine at Kabul’s airport on Aug. 29, 2021. (Facebook/Charlotte Maxwell-Jones)

An American who founded an animal rescue clinic in Kabul is nevertheless in Afghanistan, making an attempt to persuade the Taliban to allow her retrieve animals launched by the U.S. navy and airlift them out of the place with the clinic’s workforce.

Charlotte Maxwell-Jones was not able to board a armed forces evacuation flight with the animals or charter a non-public plane ahead of international troops still left earlier this 7 days.

The U.S. armed forces produced the clinic’s animals from their cages in an enclosed area at the Kabul airport that had formerly been employed by the previous Afghan military, Maxwell-Jones and a Pentagon statement said.

Maxwell-Jones launched Kabul Smaller Animal Rescue in 2018 to rescue strays, provide veterinary solutions and help ship animals overseas for adoption. American

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East Tennessee woman stays in Afghanistan to save military contract dogs

The Clinton native is working to evacuate military contract dogs left in Afghanistan following the American withdrawal.

Posted by WVLT on Friday, September 3, 2021

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) – An East Tennessee woman said she refused multiple opportunities to escape Afghanistan in an effort to save military contract dogs left behind during the hasty American withdrawal.

Clinton, Tennessee native Charlotte Maxwell-Jones is the director and founder of Kabul Small Animal Rescue in Kabul, Afghanistan, where she has lived for 11 years.

She said she’s staying behind until roughly 130 dogs, about 50 of which are military contract dogs, are safely evacuated.

“They’re my responsibility and I love them and I care for them. I think there’s a less chance of recovering them if I’m not here,” said Maxwell-Jones.

Maxwell-Jones told WVLT News that military contract dogs, like working dogs owned by the military, are trained to sniff bombs and perform

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