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2021-08-25 Home Front: WoT

Biden Ready to Make Deal with Taliban for Last U.S. Hostage, But Needs Proof of Life

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Twitter report with Newsweek story. Go to title for story.

President Joe Biden's administration is prepared to pardon an influential Afghan tribal leader, who has been sitting in a U.S. federal prison for 16 years, in exchange for the last American hostage abducted last year in Afghanistan.

But Washington is insisting that the Taliban first provide proof of life for the U.S. hostage, a U.S. government official told Newsweek.

Bashir Noorzai, a top figure in the Pashtun tribe that shares his surname, the same tribe to which elusive Taliban Supreme Commander Hibatullah Akhundzada belongs, was arrested in New York City on drug trafficking charges in April 2005 during a trip in which he sought to advance diplomacy as the U.S.-led war in his home country grew even more violent. Today, he's serving a life sentence at a federal prison in New Hampshire.

Mark Frerichs is a U.S. contractor who was abducted in late January 2020 by elements believed to be tied to the Haqqani network, a Taliban-aligned militia operating across the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan. Newsweek was the first to report on his kidnapping days later, and has made contact with his family and former U.S. officials regarding his case, as well as the prospect of an exchange of Noorzai for Frerichs.

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Posted by 3dc 2021-08-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 "The United States will now negotiate with terrorists"
What a world we live in.

Posted by Saltie Fork 2021-08-25 00:03|| 2021-08-25 00:03|| Front Page Top

#2 insisting that the Taliban first provide proof of life

They may send his head.

Posted by Skidmark 2021-08-25 07:09|| 2021-08-25 07:09|| Front Page Top

#3 was arrested in New York City on drug trafficking charges in April 2005 during a trip in which he sought to advance diplomacy

"You will be friends of the Taliban, if you just give us 10% of the cartel's marketshare."

Posted by Dron66046 2021-08-25 07:22|| 2021-08-25 07:22|| Front Page Top

#4 Mullah is my name, a Taliban fighter I am,
Wanna see my empire from 'Amreeka' to Siam.

Mutilating and stoning women is my hobby,
To excuse my actions, I have an international lobby.

Making IEDs and doing ambushes is part of my job,
Dangerous is my organization, more than the Italian mob.

My destiny is getting blown up by artillery or by a drone,
My favourite sex position happens to be 'prone bone'.

Tousled hair I have and a beard so shoddy,
I'm on my way, hark! To fuck a dead body!

- Mullah the Talib

Posted by Rhinemann 2021-08-25 07:39|| 2021-08-25 07:39|| Front Page Top

#5 It was today, when I got my second jab,
Got a chance for booking, had to make a quick grab.

T'was an AstraZeneca shot, the very final one,
Thus my Covid vaccination, has been dusted and done.

Seems like I too have been bitten, by the bug of rhyme,
But exposure to my crappy rhymes, will scar you for a lifetime.

Posted by Rhinemann 2021-08-25 08:00|| 2021-08-25 08:00|| Front Page Top

#6 :-D

Posted by trailing wife 2021-08-25 09:45|| 2021-08-25 09:45|| Front Page Top

#7 That's OK, they can get a replacement for that 'last US hostage' methinks.

Posted by ed in texas 2021-08-25 11:01|| 2021-08-25 11:01|| Front Page Top

#8 Misread the headline. Thought they needed some sign of life from Biden. Gotta get some reading glasses….

Posted by Ackoopmed 2021-08-25 12:23|| 2021-08-25 12:23|| Front Page Top

#9 Seems like I too have been bitten, by the bug of rhyme,
But exposure to my crappy rhymes, will scar you for a lifetime.

I believe it is the ghosts of the copybook headings trying to tell us something. Perhaps, trying to remind us of The Ballad of the King's Mercy.

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-08-25 17:24|| 2021-08-25 17:24|| Front Page Top

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