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| Afghanistan |
| Taliban stop planes of evacuees from leaving but unclear why |
| 2021-09-06 |
| [AlAhram] Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas says there are six airplanes at the Mazar-e-Sharif airport with American citizens on board, along with their Afghan interpreters, and the Taliban ...Arabic for students... are 'holding them hostage' right now At least four planes chartered to evacuate several hundred people seeking to escape the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan have been unable to leave the country for days, officials said Sunday, with conflicting accounts emerging about why they flights weren't able to take off as pressure ramps up on the United States to help those left behind to flee. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #10 It's not unclear - they're waiting for Biden to deliver pallets of cash to them, or maybe Bitcoin payment's less obvious. Gotta grease a few guys, right? Maybe Biden forgot his 24-word seed phrase? |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2021-09-06 19:46 |
| #9 "many did not have the right travel papers" Hint: cash. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2021-09-06 12:32 |
| #8 They want recognition and money. Give them the recognition, they held out after all, but no money. Slim chance that biden will withhold cash. as r kipling wrote ... "When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, And the women come out to cut up what remains. Just roll to your rifle and blow out your brains. And go to your g-d like a soldier." |
| Posted by: irish rage boy 2021-09-06 09:16 |
| #7 ^ They are making us, the Department of State, the actual rulers of the USA, look bad! This will not stand! |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2021-09-06 09:01 |
| #5 acting like every authoritarian gubmint does; any surprise? |
| Posted by: Retard Strength 2021-09-06 07:37 |
| #4 /\ Another Foggy Bottom cock-up. Interesting, but hardly surprising. Along with the CIA, The purveyors of two decades of abject failure in Afghanistan. They should be prohibited from any involvement in what is going on over there. A small US military liaison cell should be coordinating with the Taliban. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2021-09-06 07:27 |
| #3 State Department ‘blocks departure of dozens of Americans from Afghanistan by failing to tell Taliban it has green-lighted flights’ |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2021-09-06 06:25 |
| #2 Hostages against US action (ha ha) until the |
| Posted by: Vortigern McCoy4032 2021-09-06 03:33 |
| #1 It's not unclear - they're waiting for Biden to deliver pallets of cash to them, or maybe Bitcoin payment's less obvious. Gotta grease a few guys, right? |
| Posted by: Raj 2021-09-06 00:13 |