Posted on 11/08/2021 6:06:37 AM PST by RandFan
With Afghanistan facing a humanitarian crisis this winter in the wake of the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from the country, Taliban officials are warning — or threatening — that unless Western governments and financial institutions release frozen foreign reserves and aid funds, the West could be flooded with a tide of Afghan migrants.
Roughly $430 million is being held at the German Commerzbank and $94 million in the Bundesbank, Germany's central bank. Another $660 million is being held by the Bank for International Settlements, a conglomerate of worldwide central banks located in Switzerland.
The bulk of the contested funds, roughly $9.5 billion held by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, is frozen by the U.S. Treasury Department and is unlikely to be released any time soon.
In 2020, Afghan reserves including gold and U.S. dollars held in U.S. and European banks totaled $9.6 billion, according to the World Bank.
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"The money belongs to the Afghan nation," Afghanistan's Finance Ministry spokesperson Ahmad Wali Haqmal told Reuters. "Just give us our own money. Freezing this money is unethical and is against all international laws and values."
Despite a windfall of billions of dollars' worth of U.S. military equipment and weaponry left behind by the Biden administration, the "situation is desperate, and the amount of cash is dwindling," Afghan Central Bank board member Shah Mehrabi told Reuters.
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Europe needs a bunch of Charles Martels and the U.S. needs a bunch of Stephen Decaturs.
Build the wall, restrict immigration.
Stop the Flood!
If you can’t control your own borders,
do you really have a nation?
That’s a win win for Brandon.
Yup....AND Jan Sobieski
Some threat. Brandon is BEGGING them to allow him to restart the airlift.
Get rid of Biden, get rid of Democrats...That will allow us stop to illegal immigration...
Taliban to West: Release frozen funds, or be flooded with wave of migrants
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TalyBiden to talybon:
No need brothers in Jihad
we imported your best Jihadies from Kabul into the TalyBiden brigade and flew them behind our wire, gave them pre bought halal food and distributed them across the country and they are currently raping our goats, sons and child brides as we speak.
Inshalla.
They will run out of migrants fairly quickly....................
What is the worst threat the government of Afghanistan can issue? Spreading bombs? Disease? Unlimited supplies of heroin? Nope, the worst thing the Taliban can spread are Afghans.
Go pound sand!
The old Afghan government got their dollars from Uncle Sam. Since that government is gone, Uncle Sam has reclaimed its money.
How are they going to get the refugees there? It’s a long walk from Kabul and there are a lot of countries between there and the west.
What?
You already sell 83 billion in military hardware and spent it at the goat brothel ?
I’m expecting Biden to finger point in anger at a news conference, “We need to compensate the Taliban”.
In 2026, the only immigrants we might still have are ones who speak English well and support themselves.
The US is headed towards civil war.
Yes. And William Eaton
The two English words the Taliban most need to learn are ‘mineral’ and ‘royalty’.
The 'refugees' will be transported just like our new 'immigrants' from South and Central America - buses paid for
by George Soros.
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