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US reaches deal with Taliban on evacuations: report
The Hill ^ | August 16, 2021 | Joseph Choi

Posted on 08/16/2021 11:40:26 AM PDT by C19fan

The U.S. has reached a deal with the Taliban to ensure that evacuations from Kabul's airport can take place without interference from the group, according to a report by The Associated Press.

The deal was reached in talks in Doha, Qatar, between senior Taliban officials and Gen. Frank McKenzie.

The two sides apparently agreed to a "deconfliction mechanism” in which operations at the airport in Kabul are permitted to continue without interference from the Taliban.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: California; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; california; nancypelosi; waronterror
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I wonder how many pallets of cash will be in the in bound flight into Kabul. It is probably the best one can do. The Taliban can easily shut down the airport with some mortars and artillery.
1 posted on 08/16/2021 11:40:26 AM PDT by C19fan
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Taliban already taken over parts of the airport, US military holds other areas.

A firefight could easily erupt any time.


2 posted on 08/16/2021 11:43:00 AM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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Then why are they shooting at those trying to enter or leave the airport?


3 posted on 08/16/2021 11:43:12 AM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: C19fan

The sickening thing will be Dimms and their media lackeys fawning over this tails-tucked-between-our-legs move as a major “achievement”.


4 posted on 08/16/2021 11:43:36 AM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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The Biden Admin: “you can keep the little girls, but let the others leave safely with their masks”


5 posted on 08/16/2021 11:44:19 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Col Frank Slade

Also—note that this agreement does not cover Americans or other foreign nationals sheltering in place outside the airport.

The Taliban will be free to take them as hostages or shoot them, even if this airport agreement holds...


6 posted on 08/16/2021 11:44:31 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: C19fan

I’ll believe it when I see them withdraw.

Yeah, pallets of cash and other considerations. The negotiator in Doha is an opportunist. He represents himself first, maybe taliban second and has no control over all but a few elements of the taliban who will do what ever they want to do.

I hope it works out.


7 posted on 08/16/2021 11:44:52 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.)
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To: NohSpinZone

Biden was begging and negotiating the cash payments in addition to the billions in equipment they are already enjoying as our parting gift.


8 posted on 08/16/2021 11:46:10 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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Joe @ 3:45

“I have been working nonstop with the Taliban and due to the long hours and negotiations I have been unable to speak to the American people until the agreement was made. I have now brokered a peace agreement with them, one of which is a safe and friendly exit from Kabul. Thank your for your patience and understanding. God Bless our Troops”

COUNT ON IT


9 posted on 08/16/2021 11:47:03 AM PDT by Toespi
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Pathetic bastards.


10 posted on 08/16/2021 11:47:56 AM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: C19fan

“how many pallets of cash will be in the in bound flight into Kabul”

Got that right.

Let’s just ask ‘ole General Frank . . .


11 posted on 08/16/2021 11:48:15 AM PDT by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuitss)
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To: Toespi
“I have been working nonstop with the Taliban and due to the long hours and negotiations I have been unable to speak to the American people until the agreement was made. I have now brokered a peace agreement with them, one of which is a safe and friendly exit from Kabul. Thank your for your patience and understanding. God Bless our Troops”

That will certainly be part of it, the part that he's supposed to reassure us that all hell isn't breaking loose. No matter what he says, the reality of what is going on has illustrated his demented incompetence. Now, what is he going to say about the Taliban going door to door to round up anyone suspected of assisting our troops?

12 posted on 08/16/2021 11:50:57 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: C19fan

McKenzie declares “peace in our time.”


13 posted on 08/16/2021 11:51:56 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (Claiming Racism, the antidote to personal responsibility)
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To: C19fan

Many


14 posted on 08/16/2021 11:53:37 AM PDT by tennmountainman ( Less Lindell Lies, More AZ Style Audits)
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Pathetic bastards.

Who? The Taliban or the Biden Administration? I say both!

15 posted on 08/16/2021 11:53:42 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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This was a disaster for Biden, no way to reframe this. The NYT and WaPo are not on his side on this one. He actually pays a ransom and you can bet it’ll get out there.


16 posted on 08/16/2021 11:55:05 AM PDT by pburgh01
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This was a disaster for Biden, no way to reframe this. The NYT and WaPo are not on his side on this one. He actually pays a ransom and you can bet it’ll get out there.

They need to STFU and own this. He's their boy!

17 posted on 08/16/2021 11:56:26 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: C19fan

Just for reference. This is the General who made the deal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_F._McKenzie_Jr.

Does anyone know him, know of him or know about him?

If Marines are in harms way they usually protect their own pretty fiercely. It would be nice if someone had enough sense to give him a free hand I think maybe.


18 posted on 08/16/2021 11:56:44 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.)
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To: C19fan

The murderous, blood-soaked taliban-troglodytes-from-hell don’t do “deals”.


19 posted on 08/16/2021 11:58:06 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit..)
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If the Imposter-in-Chief dumba@@ retard offered pallets of cash, I say the Taliban would take it (Biden’s not smart enough to even offer confiscated counterfeit cash) and THEN renege on any promises. That is their level of “honor”.


20 posted on 08/16/2021 12:02:19 PM PDT by EinNYC
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