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2021-09-06 Afghanistan

Taliban stop planes of evacuees from leaving but unclear why

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Posted by trailing wife 2021-09-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top
File under: Taliban/IEA

#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|| 2021-09-06 00:13|| Front Page Top

#2 Hostages against US action (ha ha) until the ~~Pakis~~ talibs take all of Afg.

Posted by Vortigern McCoy4032 2021-09-06 03:33|| 2021-09-06 03:33|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2021-09-06 06:25|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2021-09-06 07:27|| Front Page Top

#5 acting like every authoritarian gubmint does; any surprise?

Posted by Retard Strength 2021-09-06 07:37|| 2021-09-06 07:37|| Front Page Top

#6 'If one life is lost, the blood is on White House hands': Fury at State Department for 'delaying six flights out of Afghanistan carrying more than 100 US citizens'

Posted by Skidmark 2021-09-06 08:42|| 2021-09-06 08:42|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2021-09-06 09:01|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2021-09-06 09:16|| Front Page Top

#9 "many did not have the right travel papers"
Hint: cash.

Posted by ed in texas 2021-09-06 12:32|| 2021-09-06 12:32|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2021-09-06 19:46|| Front Page Top

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