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The Taliban Are Holding Three Americans Hostage
Frontpagemagazine ^ | July 17, 2024 | Robert Spencer

Posted on 07/17/2024 8:36:12 AM PDT by SJackson

As Old Joe Biden sends them billions.

The Biden regime State Department has now publicly confirmed what it must have known for nearly three years, if not longer: Taliban jihadis are holding three Americans hostage. What have relentlessly anti-American Biden regime apparatchiks done in response? True to form, they’ve sent billions of dollars of U.S. taxpayer money to the Taliban.

The Washington Examiner reported Saturday that a Biden regime Foggy Bottom wonk “confirmed on July 11 that three U.S. citizens, George Glezmann, Mahmood Habibi, and Ryan Corbett, are currently being held in Taliban custody. Taliban representatives repeatedly claimed they only held two Americans in detention.” Why are they holding any at all, and why are the comrades in the State Department and the Oval Office sending them money instead of applying pressure upon the Taliban?

Of course, the Biden regime has long since made clear which side it is on, with $10 billion to Iran and $100 million to Gaza, which means to Hamas, since there isn’t any entity in Gaza that has the power or will to keep the money away from Hamas. The Taliban have been in on the gravy train as well. Just The News reported in early June that “a recently released federal watchdog report shows that the U.S. government has sent at least $11 million to the Taliban since the 2021 withdrawal of U.S. troops.”

That was a wildly low estimate, as it left out the key excuse that the Biden regime uses to send our money over to Kabul: humanitarian aid. The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) wrote in its May 2024 report, “U.S. Funds Benefitting the Taliban-Controlled Government: Implementing Partners Paid at Least $10.9 Million and Were Pressured to Divert Assistance,” that since the Taliban returned to power, “the U.S. government has continued to be the largest international donor supporting the Afghan people,” and that the Biden “has provided more than $2.8 billion in humanitarian and development assistance to help the people of Afghanistan.”

Antony Blinken and his henchmen would likely insist that this $2.8 billion was not sent to the Taliban, but to other groups that are operating in the country. But this is just as unrealistic and disingenuous as claiming that money sent to Gaza won’t go to Hamas. The aid money that has been sent to Afghanistan is ending up in the hands of the Taliban despite all the denials and claims to the contrary.

“Now,” said The Foreign Desk in an Aug. 2022 report, “humanitarian aid to the Afghan people is lining the pockets of the Taliban at the expense of innocent Afghans and American taxpayers alike.” Nothing has changed since then; if anything, the Taliban have consolidated their power even more than they had by mid-2022. Just The News notes, “Judicial Watch released an investigation recently showing that the Taliban has created fake NGOs to siphon away tax dollars.”

Your tax dollars are even going to fund education in Afghanistan, even after the Taliban have barred girls from going to school. Judicial Watch reports that the Biden regime “has continued to fund Afghanistan’s education sector through six programs that cost $185.2 million even though the Taliban has issued decrees drastically limiting access to education for girls and women as well as restricting women’s ability to work and other basic freedoms.”

In fiscal year 2023 alone, “the U.S. sent Taliban-ruled Afghanistan over $566 million in humanitarian assistance. Most of it was for emergency food but a chunk was classified as going to general humanitarian and health.” And all this business about how the money is for food or “general humanitarian” needs is a steaming pile of nonsense, anyway.

Money is fungible. If you give the Taliban $566 million for food and medicine, they’ll have $566 million freed up for jihad violence and the oppression of women. Why this simple fact of basic economics continues to elude the great minds of the Biden regime remains a mystery and a matter of no curiosity at all for our nation’s “journalists.”

Ominously, “more than $15 million went to a cause that is labeled ‘redacted’ in the government records.” That’s right: we sent the Taliban $15 million for a secret purpose, and you can be assured that it’s not to cover the costs of printing millions of copies of the Bill of Rights. The Congressional opposition, such as it is, should be demanding that the regime disclose what that money is going for and whether or not it is being spent in the best interests of the United States.

It’s a reasonable line of inquiry. After all, it seems as if the Biden regime never misses an opportunity to aid America’s enemies, even the Taliban as they hold Americans hostage. There used to be a word for that. Started with a T. But everyone has forgotten that word.


TOPICS: Editorial; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; bidensfault; extortion; fjb; hostages; jillsfault; obamasfault; taliban; terroristfunding

1 posted on 07/17/2024 8:36:12 AM PDT by SJackson
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To: SJackson

They learn from Hamasholes that Biden will pay


2 posted on 07/17/2024 8:37:03 AM PDT by cableguymn (They don't want peace they want skeletons )
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To: cableguymn

Only if he gets his 10%


3 posted on 07/17/2024 8:38:59 AM PDT by mykroar ("It's Not the Nature of the Evidence; It's the Seriousness of the Charge." - El Rushbo)
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4 posted on 07/17/2024 8:39:56 AM PDT by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do)
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To: SJackson

Not an approved story from Central Planning. Stop seeing it.


5 posted on 07/17/2024 8:45:37 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: SJackson

Not to minimize their problem but aren’t these “American Citizens” actually Afghanis that we gave citizen paperwork to in order to entice persuade them to work for us while we ere occupying the co0untry? Probably also assured them that they would be evacuated out if the ground situation for them deteriorated too.


6 posted on 07/17/2024 8:45:54 AM PDT by desertsolitaire (Perhaps the Great Ape Lawgiver in the series Planet of the Apes was correct in his view of humans?)
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To: SJackson

Are these actual Americans? Or Afghan immigrant refugee “Americans” who spend half the year and holidays in the old country on our welfare dime?


7 posted on 07/17/2024 8:46:59 AM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURNGreat speech! He was a cla OF THE JEDI. )
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To: SJackson

8 posted on 07/17/2024 8:51:08 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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To: SJackson

Unexpected.

Maybe they need resupply and parts for the weapons we gave them?

Could throw in user manuals and training too....


9 posted on 07/17/2024 8:56:20 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: desertsolitaire; DesertRhino

Don’t know, from their names, George Glezmann, Mahmood Habibi, Ryan Corbett, only one would seem to be potentially a native Afghani, but not really important. I forgot to post my comment to the article. Lacking information on the hostages, they could be legitimately charged with something, to me they’re irrelevant. The more important information in the article is the generous funding we’re providing the Taliban which is inexcusable. Much like Iran. I think ransoming hostages is usually a mistake, but if the administration disagrees they pay the ransom. Ongoing funding our enemies is absurd.


10 posted on 07/17/2024 9:00:36 AM PDT by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do)
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To: SJackson
That's too bad. But Americans have no business in Ashkanistan. That place is the Land That Time Forgot.

11 posted on 07/17/2024 9:01:11 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: mykroar

Jill and Hunter need their share, too.


12 posted on 07/17/2024 9:21:58 AM PDT by bgill
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To: SJackson

How many Jan. 6 hostages are held here?


13 posted on 07/17/2024 9:27:53 AM PDT by sasquatch (Do NOT forget Ashli Babbit! c/o piytar)
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To: SJackson

What happened to the hundreds of “Americans” who were left behind when we surrendered Afghanistan? The media lost interest in them long ago.


14 posted on 07/17/2024 9:37:52 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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To: DesertRhino

I don’t know honestly.


15 posted on 07/17/2024 10:02:37 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: cableguymn

It’s HOSTAGES. I am sick of the grammar on the internet.

The Grammar Nazi.


16 posted on 07/20/2024 5:51:02 PM PDT by huckfillary
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To: huckfillary

Yo Grammer Nazi...

Hamas and hole...

Kinda like a butt hole.

Get it?

Oh and IDC about Internet Grammer.


17 posted on 07/21/2024 8:56:18 AM PDT by cableguymn (They don't want peace they want skeletons )
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