The Taliban reportedly won't let planes leave Afghanistan until 'they get more out of the Americans'

The Week ^ | 05 September 2021 | TIM O'DONNELL

[blueplum]

...The White House and State Department have maintained that they hold leverage over the Taliban... but a senior congressional source told CBS News that the Taliban is basically holding the planes "hostage" so they can "get more out of the Americans."...

...Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Tex.), the ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, agrees. He told Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday that he's concerned that U.S. envoy Zalmay Khalilzad will come away from the talks recommending that the Biden administration acknowledge the Taliban as the legitimate government...

[blueplum]

under chat because it's just one more hostage article but this one has an embedded clip of Chris Wallace/Michaal McCaul, as well as a link to the twitter thread re: CBS reference

[mabarker1]

Trade them the entire plugs family and toss in pelouzy with upchuçkey !!!

[AndyJackson]

Build them an art gallery

[ncalburt]

I read this whole thing is a Nutter Glenn Beck creation .
That nut job is becoming a human trafficker and
.dragging over a sea of unvetted Unvaccinated Afghan savages to
Save his Dying radio business .

This dangerous and desperate conman should be arrested for human trafficking and any other violations.

Recall his teddy bears for illegals invading iTexas with Ted Cruz while trashing Trump.

[Chad C. Mulligan]

I’m thinking a 99 year lease on San Francisco.

[ncalburt]

how about Portland and Seattle too .

[BigEdLB]

You forgot Harris

[blueplum]

this has been going on for six days now and a few hundred has grown to 1200 - just heard the other day that Beck was involved somehow.

[ncalburt]

Beck is no American or Conservative .
A open borders traitor .
He needs to be arrested as well the Radio execs endangering our country and borders .
Dragging Unvetted Unvaccinated dangerous Afghan 4 th century Muslim savages here as a PR scan for his dead
career should be a crime and his bosses should pay too .
Arrested them .

[Chad C. Mulligan]

Doesn’t appear that Beck is involved at all.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/09/05/report-taliban-holding-flights-americans-hostage/

[tired&retired]

We can give them Obama’s library.

[Chad C. Mulligan]

This is the NGO.

https://www.ascendleadership.org/about

I don’t see Beck’s name anywhere, and as narcissistic as he is he would have it out in front in 96 point type if he were.

A mild case of apophenia, maybe?

[Chad C. Mulligan]

This report says that the problem is the State Department.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9961433/State-Department-accused-blocking-1-000-people-including-Americans-leaving-Afghanistan.html

The US State Department has been accused of blocking dozens of Americans from fleeing Afghanistan after failing to tell the Taliban it had green-lighted charter flights.

On Sunday, Reuters reported that the delay had been caused by Biden administration officials not telling Taliban leaders it had approved the departures of the chartered flights from an airport in the city of Mazar-i-Sharif, 260 miles north of Afghan capital Kabul.

How do these people live with themselves?

[blueplum]

I’m thinking, The Presidio, underutilized, over privileged. Lots of space.

[aquila48]

Gee! Who could have predicted that?

[Robwin]

Think: Ransom

[datura]

Think: Neutron Warheads.

Several thousand in cluster munitions dropped from B52s.

Then blame Biden.

[conservative98]

It’s true. It’s dam true!

Taliban grounds Glenn Beck group-funded planes being used for evacuations

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3992290/posts

[Bikkuri]

We should give the Kameltoe:

[blueplum]

better than a ransom - they want America and the west humiliated - They want to force America to admit Afghanistan is not a failed nation, and that a Taliban terrorist nation is entitled to join the UN with all accouterments therein, including diplomatic immunity and eligiblilty for international aid, banking and privileged trade