I can comment on the flight that arrived on August 4. My understanding from our source is that approximately 40 individuals got off that plane, and my understanding is that the plane was basically filled with embassy staff, families and some key staff who were working for the embassy.
I found it interesting that then minister Mendicino was waiting on the tarmac to greet these folks and then spinning the media to make it seem like that was an evacuation flight, when I do not believe that it was an evacuation flight. You have to remember that a C-17 holds 188 people. To put 40 people on a plane during an evacuation that had already been announced is absolutely disgusting.