The Taliban have agreed to let “200 Americans and other civilians” fly from Kabul Airport to Qatar to leave Afghanistan on Thursday. According to a US official.
The U.S. official stated that this was done under pressure from the U.S. Special Representative Zalmay Khalilzad (Zalmay Khalilzad), who had been appointed as special envoy by former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. But the current Secretary of State Anthony Brinken will continue to serve.
The official did not clarify whether the group included those who were prevented from leaving by the Taliban in Mazar-i-Sharif. The group involved approximately 1,000 people, including at least 142 Americans. People have to think that it came from that group, but if they let the planes there leave, why they didn’t just allow them to fly away from Mazar-i-Sharif, it’s not clear. As more information emerges today, we will have to wait and see.
At least six planes are waiting to leave Mazar-i-Sharif for more than a week.Initially, the plane was intercepted The stupidity of the State Department Refusing to clean up people fast enough is frustrating for private organizations trying to evacuate and secure people. Then the Taliban stepped in and prevented them from leaving. There were reports that the Taliban asked the United States for something in exchange.
The Biden administration has received a lot of criticism for not taking more measures to get them out of the predicament and creating the situation fundamentally.them Won’t even admit Until yesterday, these planes were basically held hostage by the Taliban.
“As of now, the Taliban do not allow charter flights to take off. They claim that some passengers do not have the required documents,” Brinken told reporters at the U.S. Air Force Base in Ramstein, Germany.
“Although there is no airport with ground personnel and normal security procedures, what we can do is limited, but we are doing our best to support these flights and get them off the ground,” Brinken said.
So this is good news. But one has to wonder what deals were made with the Taliban behind the scenes to allow this to happen. If there is a “cash tray” or other things, we must bow to the Taliban. One must also wonder whether this includes everyone in the group who needs to leave.
Please also note that if it is “200 Americans”, it has exceeded the low estimate of the Americans stranded in Afghanistan, not the number that the Biden administration is trying to impose on us, so you know that their number is full NS. You must want to know how much there is.Representative Darrell Issa (R-Ca) stated that according to his contact information He thought it was about 500.
