'No idea who you are': Oklahoma woman accused of exaggerating role in Afghan girls' escape

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Oklahoma woman asked to stop claiming affiliation with group of Afghan high school girls whose talents developing and building robots have grabbed international headlines; she is accused in a cease-and-desist letter of overstating her role in their escape.

of the nonprofit organization Explore Mars, spoke about meeting the robotics team at a conference in Washington two years ago and staying in touch.

of the U.S. military's withdrawal from the country, she immediately thought of the girls and their safety. She said she worked with a former roommate, now living in Qatar, to prepare the paperwork to get the girls out safely. Afghan teenagers from the Afghanistan Robotic House take pictures at Herat International Airport on July 13, 2017.While Reneau implied on CNN that she had gone to Qatar, in a subsequent interview with Fox News, as her story gained more attention — including from athat suggested President Joe Biden should"put her in charge" of helping people flee Afghanistan — she clarified she"never actually left Oklahoma City.

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