Posted on 09/05/2021 1:37:14 PM PDT by dennisw
Taliban STOP six planes carrying American citizens and allies from leaving Afghanistan airport: Top Republican says passengers are being 'held hostage for demands' Six planes chartered to evacuate hundreds of people from Afghanistan have been unable to leave for days, a top Republican has said
An Afghan official at the airport in the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif said the passengers were Afghans who did not have passports or visas
But Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas, the top Republican on the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee, said that the group included Americans He said the passengers were on the plane but the Taliban were not letting them take off, effectively 'holding them hostage'
The Taliban is blocking the take off of at least six planes chartered to evacuate hundreds of people seeking to flee Afghanistan, a top Republican revealed on Sunday.
'We have six airplanes at Mazar Sharif Airport, six airplanes with American citizens on them as I speak, also with these interpreters, and the Taliban is holding them hostage for demands right now,' Representative Michael McCaul of Texas told Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace.
'The state has cleared these flights and the Taliban will not let them leave the airport,' he detailed.
The airport in question is more than 260 miles from the Hamid Karzai International Airport in the capital city of Kabul, where military flights evacuated thousands of Americans and allies from the country amid the Taliban takeover.
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A no-brainer for the Taliban. They will demand xxx millions of dollars to let the hostage airplanes fly out. If I were Taliban I would keep the airplanes and bus the hostages to Tajikistan or whatever s-hole Stan is closest. AFTER being paid of course.
That’s mean! Don’t they understand that those folks have things to do and places to be? /s
Just as biden-taliban negotiations designed it.
Americans. Yeah sure, the kind of “Americans” who wont eat a pork chop or sing a Christmas carol ... if you know what I mean.
It’s a good thing the U.S. has a lot of allies they can count on to come help.
Vlad and Xi are the phone trying to top each other’s jokes. Joe Biden’s Afghanistan tomfoolery will hurt the US dollar. Because the US looks like paper tiger with a bumbling military.
Not buying it.
See, see! Trump’s racist and homophobic tweets again.
The six airplanes will stay grounded until a “BRINKS” airplane arrives from the US.
“We have six airplanes at Mazar Sharif Airport, six airplanes with American citizens on them as I speak, also with these interpreters, and the Taliban is holding them hostage for demands right now,’ Representative Michael McCaul of Texas told Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace.”
The same American blood is also on your hands chris wallace.
Buy this then: if the US government wanted those people out, they’d be out.
When everyone said Biden is compromised, what the hell did you think that meant?
“Yeah sure, the kind of “Americans” who wont eat a pork chop or sing a Christmas carol ... if you know what I mean.”
Jews????lol
How did Chris Wallace wiggle out of this embarrassing revelation ?
Who would have guessed such a thing could happen?/s
They can ask for as much as they want and will likely get it.
We should have shipped them out on our C17s back in May, months BEFORE our military retreated from Bagram AFB.
Didn’t someone tell them that Jen said “if they want to leave, they can leave”?
How did Chris Wallace wiggle out of this embarrassing revelation ?
He said he wasn’t aware of it and wanted more details
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