Biden administration freezes billions of dollars in Afghan reserves, depriving Taliban of cash

Washington Post ^ | 08/17/2021 | Jeff Stein

[Gene Eric]

They’ll use it to buy Hunter’s paintings.

[CatOwner]

Taliban: “Hello, China. How much are you willing to pay for the mining rights here?”

[RummyChick]

They will probably use this as a negotiating tool to makeup for the disaster they created

[cgbg]

Hostage ransom money....

[larrytown]

Reserves? You mean our money they were previously gifted?

Well, here’s the Ransom Fund.

[ifinnegan]

Yeah, do that before everyone is out.

Do that while there are still 10’s of thousands of Anericans there.

Idiots.

[ReleaseTheHounds]

Sounds like a little too late.

[Magnum44]

Well, this will certainly discourage the Taliban from taking hostages...

[DownInFlames]

How many billions of US arms did we leave behind? 30b?

[LIConFem]

Great, but they're flush with weapons and help from the CCP and Russia.

Hey Joe, you might just as well throw that bottle of blue pills away. Notthing can fix the type of impotence you've got.

[dynoman]

That seems like a smart move with 10-40k Americans still stuck behind the Taliban perimeter.

[Zathras]

It was probably the first thing they did.
That $$$ is gone.
Just like the billions we gave Yasser Arafat

[Bob434]

Now we know the identity of the ‘anonymous buyers’

[shanover]

Really good the Taliban are the shot callers now. They can easily take hostages and China will be the new sugar daddy.

[hanamizu]

At some point they’ll deliver it on pallets loaded with cash. “After all, it’s Afghanistan’s money,” they’ll explain.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Didn’t Jimmy Carter freeze Iranian assets in the US when they took our hostages?

[Swanks]

i’m sure it was an oversight to NOT to over these funds along with Bagram, before all Americans were out.

[PTBAA]

The Taliban can sell the American hostages Biden left behind on Ebay (God help the women!)

Maybe the white supremacists looking to overthrow the government can pick up an F-15 and a nuke Biden left behind.

[kabar]

Hostage money.