Good on @marcorubio this is ripping off American tax payers.
— Tim Burchett (@timburchett) January 26, 2025
Posted on 01/27/2025 8:57:50 AM PST by SeekAndFind
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio exposed the Biden administration’s apparent lie about the Taliban holding more American hostages than originally believed, escalating his rhetoric against Afghanistan’s terrorist leaders on Saturday.
Rubio responded to reports that the Taliban could have additional Americans detained in Afghanistan by threatening a “BIG bounty” on those responsible for the heinous act.
“Just hearing the Taliban is holding more American hostages than has been reported,” Rubio wrote on X.
Trump’s top diplomat followed up his bombshell reveal by saying, “If this is true, we will have to immediately place a VERY BIG bounty on their top leaders, maybe even bigger than the one we had on bin Laden.”
Just hearing the Taliban is holding more American hostages than has been reported. If this is true, we will have to immediately place a VERY BIG bounty on their top leaders, maybe even bigger than the one we had on Bin Laden.
— Secretary Marco Rubio (@secrubio) January 25, 2025
Al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden, the Islamic terrorist who orchestrated the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, was killed by U.S. forces in 2011. No one is believed to have collected a bounty for bin Laden, which went from $25 million immediately after the attacks to $50 million after Congress authorized the secretary of state to offer more, according to Voice of America.
Rubio did not provide information about who the potential American hostages may be.
The Taliban retook power in Aug. 2021 as a result of former President Joe Biden’s botched Afghanistan withdrawal of U.S. troops. The disastrous pullout led to a suicide bombing at the Kabul airport that caused the death of 13 American troops and several Afghans.
Good on @marcorubio this is ripping off American tax payers.
— Tim Burchett (@timburchett) January 26, 2025
Rubio proved he would carry out Trump’s agenda on Friday when he ordered the freeze of new funding for nearly all new foreign aid programs, according to CBS News — a stark shift from the billions Biden dumped into countries like Ukraine.
Rubio’s order fell in line with Trump’s executive order signed Monday that enabled the U.S. to reevaluate and realign its foreign aid.
Will Rubio cut off financial aid to Afghanistan (Taliban)?
ALL financial Aid has been cut off for 3 months except for Israel and Egypt!
Took at least five paragraphs to get to something understandable. Does anyone know how to write or is this just the kind of crap AI spews out?
RE: Will Rubio cut off financial aid to Afghanistan (Taliban)?
Are we giving Afghanistan financial aid?
I hope he specifies that the “reward” will not be paid for bodies as this is not like the old west bounty hunter that collected cash for a dead or alive finish. A dead terrorist is not within the 1984 Act to Combat International Terrorism, Public Law 98-533 (codified at 22 U.S.C. § 2708) and is administered by the Bureau of Diplomatic Security. He needs to make it clear that the reward is earned by handing out information that:
Leads to the arrest or conviction of anyone who plans, commits, aids, or attempts international terrorist acts against U.S. persons or property in the United States or abroad;
Prevents such acts from occurring in the first place;
Identifies or locates a key terrorist leader;
Disrupts the financial mechanisms of foreign terrorist organizations. This includes the disruption of kidnapping networks and kidnapping events that financially support such organizations.
And since we are still working to retrieve kidnapped American citizens, it would not be wise to ignore the possibility of someone sniping someone to catch them when we can use them for information and show we are not going to just kill them for political purposes...as show of faith for us proving our intent to the world..
wy69
A dead terrorist IS WITHIN the Authorization for Use of Military Force of 2001, which has not been rescinded and has broad application against terrorism, not just against those involved in 9/11.
REP. TIM BURCHETT: Your Tax Dollars Are Going To The Taliban
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