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Ted Cruz Says Biden Abandoned Americans in Afghanistan, Notes 'Reports of a Hostage Crisis'
News Week ^ | ON 9/05/21 AT 5:09 PM | BY JASON LEMON

Posted on 09/05/2021 2:56:14 PM PDT by conservative98

President Joe Biden, sharing a report of a "hostage crisis" with Americans reportedly unable to evacuate Afghanistan as the Taliban prevent planes from taking off.

"Joe Biden abandoned Americans in Afghanistan. Members of Congress, including me and my office, have been working around the clock to get them out - and for days Biden's State Dept. couldn't even get out of its own way. Now there are deeply disturbing reports of a hostage crisis," Cruz tweeted on Sunday.

The GOP senator retweeted CBS News correspondent Eana Ruffini, who reported that the Taliban are holding several flights from taking at Afghanistan's northeastern Mazar-i-Sharif airport. The NGO Ascend, which is working to help evacuate hundreds of people, told CBS News that at least 19 Americans and two permanent residents are among those being prevented from leaving the country.

A State Department spokesperson told Newsweek that they "do not have a reliable means to confirm the basic details of charter flights, including who may be organizing them, the number of U.S. citizens and other priority groups on-board, the accuracy of the rest of the manifest, and where they plan to land, among many other issues."

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California; US: Delaware; US: Texas; War on Terror
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Joe Biden abandoned Americans in Afghanistan. Members of Congress, including me and my office, have been working around the clock to get them out - and for days Biden's State Dept. couldn't even get out of its own way. Now there are deeply disturbing reports of a hostage crisis. https://t.co/EMGd5wWGxs— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) September 5, 2021


1 posted on 09/05/2021 2:56:14 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: conservative98

Hmm...Never saw this coming. But lots and lots of cash on a cargo plane will surely resolve this quickly.


2 posted on 09/05/2021 2:59:03 PM PDT by devane617 (RUN FOR LOCAL ELECTED OFFICE! COUNCIL,SCHOOL BOARD, ETC.)
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To: conservative98

Biden Admin creating a Hostage Crisis so they can be the Hero that saves them , na , they’re not that evil are they


3 posted on 09/05/2021 2:59:49 PM PDT by butlerweave
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4 posted on 09/05/2021 3:01:26 PM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: devane617

Not quickly. The Taliban will drag this out hostage by hostage.


5 posted on 09/05/2021 3:01:59 PM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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New: CBS has learned multiple flights are being held on the ground at the Mazar-i-Sharif airport in Northern Afghanistan... by the Taliban. 1/— Ruffini (@EenaRuffini) September 5, 2021

An email from the State Department to members of congress -- and viewed by CBS -- acknowledged that charter flights are still on the ground at the Mazar-i-Sharif airstrip and have permission to land in Doha "if and when the Taliban agrees to takeoff. 2/— Ruffini (@EenaRuffini) September 5, 2021

"The Taliban is basically holding them hostage to get more out of the Americans," a senior congressional source told CBS News. 3/— Ruffini (@EenaRuffini) September 5, 2021

The group Ascend, an NGO that teaches young women leadership through athletics, told CBS News they have two planes that have been waiting for six days ready to take between 600 and 1200 people -- including 19 American citizens and two permanent residents. 4/— Ruffini (@EenaRuffini) September 5, 2021

"The U.S. airfield in Qatar that has been standing by, ready to receive, is now beginning to pack up," Marina LeGree, the executive director, told CBS News. "We hope visibility will add pressure to force a solution. Six days of talks are not encouraging." 5/— Ruffini (@EenaRuffini) September 5, 2021

The State Department advised members of congress to tell groups seeking to evacuate out of Mazar-i-Sharif that the US does not have personnel on the ground in that location and does not control the airspace. 6/— Ruffini (@EenaRuffini) September 5, 2021

Congressional and NGO sources say here are at least two physical plans on the ground and six more with approved clearance. The obstacle is the Taliban -- which controls the airport and is not letting people board or the planes take off.

CBS has asked @StateDept for comment..— Ruffini (@EenaRuffini) September 5, 2021

Did someone say “hostage”?— Eileen J (@longislpatriot) September 5, 2021

Wow…who could have seen this coming?— Solomon Grundy (@Solomon_Grundys) September 5, 2021


6 posted on 09/05/2021 3:02:22 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: conservative98

News blackout in progress.


7 posted on 09/05/2021 3:03:48 PM PDT by databoss
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To: devane617

Let’s see: The Iran hostage crisis started 444 days before the Carter left office, giving the voters just approximately 365 days to show their opinion of what happened. This one could last over a thousand days. Can this country handle it? Then there’s the alternative if it takes down Biden. Kamala’s better than Reagan?


8 posted on 09/05/2021 3:04:06 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: conservative98

Lets see pictures of these hostages first


9 posted on 09/05/2021 3:05:06 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: databoss

The New York Times
@nytimes
U.S. citizens and Afghans awaiting flights from Mazar-i-Sharif are not Taliban hostages, officials and organizers say. But their situation on the ground grows more dire by the day.


10 posted on 09/05/2021 3:05:56 PM PDT by janetjanet998
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To: Travis McGee

11 posted on 09/05/2021 3:21:24 PM PDT by 4Liberty (Honest GOP can't use legal means because Dems use illegal ones (threats). The Robert Creamer Party! )
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To: conservative98

I’m having flashbacks to the Carter years and hostage crisis...


12 posted on 09/05/2021 3:23:52 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Travis McGee

13 posted on 09/05/2021 3:27:11 PM PDT by 4Liberty (Honest GOP can't use legal means because Dems use illegal ones (threats). The Robert Creamer Party! )
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To: conservative98
Something occurred to me earlier as I was browsing headlines at FR and came across that bit about the planes being held from taking off. I would lay money on the table that a conversation occurred at some point along the following lines:

"That dumba$$ Speaker and her Hawaiian handler are both in need of a rectal craniotomy. If we'd just let him win, we could have laid all this on the Republicans and 'orange man' himself:

The variants, the 'vaccine' debacle, Saigon Redux, the Hostage Crisis Redux, inflation, the food lines, the homeless, the fiscal crash that's still pending... Hell, the pubbies are poised to wipe us up good next year.

I know you're not chartered domestically, but whaddya got up your sleeve there, Bill? 'Taiwan Strait'?? Another 9/11??? Whatever happened to that unaccounted-for C130 flight of Afghan 'refugees' and that shipment of 'supplies'????"


14 posted on 09/05/2021 3:34:50 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: devane617
Hmm...Never saw this coming. But lots and lots of cash on a cargo plane will surely resolve this quickly.

Yes, heavy pallets of cash. Reminds of of Iran and Obama.

Probably Barack O is saying at home "That Biden can find a way to screw up anything. Oh, I already said that."

Michelle O: "Yeah, like a dozen times. You are sooooo boring."

Barack: "Aw, shut up and do something useful like shaving your sideburns."

15 posted on 09/05/2021 3:48:03 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: databoss
News blackout in progress.

Joe Biden however is always in a blackout.

"Where is my issue of Prevention?"

Dr. Jill (EdD) "In the bathroom where you left it the last ten times, jerk."

"Did I ever tell you how I faced down the dangerous guy Corn Pop?"

"Oh, no, not again. Right after I finish reading "Beyond the Paradigms of Metacontextual Educational Contouring in the Post Graduate Setting." "

16 posted on 09/05/2021 3:57:34 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: 4Liberty

Photo of Turtle McConnell and Mad Dog Graham....

Taliban guy: I’d rather be dragged naked behind a racing donkey high on meth over a stony dirt trail by my ankles than have to face either of those American tough guys in a crisis.

One, frightening. Both at the same time, terrifying.


17 posted on 09/05/2021 4:01:33 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: conservative98
Not Americans .

Just More Dem voters.
These are more Afghan Dem welfare leech voters .

Green card blood sucking .

When DO we demand this evil invasion of these Savages END .

The Dem voter drive never ends .

18 posted on 09/05/2021 4:03:32 PM PDT by ncalburt (Gop DC Globalists are the real danger)
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To: devane617

Feckless Jimmy Carter hostage crisis 2.0.

Great job leftist. Great going never Trumpers.


19 posted on 09/05/2021 4:05:04 PM PDT by servantboy777
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To: butlerweave

Exactly ..

NO True Americans ..

The never ending Afghan invasion !


20 posted on 09/05/2021 4:05:09 PM PDT by ncalburt (Gop DC Globalists are the real danger)
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