Posted on 03/20/2025 8:18:14 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
After more than two years in captivity in Afghanistan, the Taliban released American hostage George Glezmann on Thursday following negotiations between the Trump administration and Qatari officials, a diplomatic source familiar with the release told Fox News Digital.
“Glezmann departed the Kabul airport Wednesday evening local time on his way to Doha where he will then be met by U.S. hostage envoy Adam Boehler along with a team from the Qatari Foreign Ministry,” Fox News Digital reports. “The release of the 65-year-old American, abducted while visiting Kabul as a tourist on Dec. 5, 2022, comes after Boehler met with officials from the Afghan foreign ministry alongside Qatari officials.”
While Qatar has maintained diplomatic relations with Afghanistan following the 2021 Taliban takeover, the U.S. has not.
The diplomatic source confirmed that Glezmann’s release was done as a "goodwill gesture" by the Taliban as an indication of "trust" in Qatar’s continued role as intermediary between Washington and Kabul.
The exchange differs from the release of two other Americans freed earlier this year, including Ryan Corbett and William Mckenty, who were released in exchange for a Taliban member in U.S. custody in a final hour deal struck by the Biden administration.
The Trump administration has been on a roll lately in getting hostages returned. Marc Fogel, who had been detained in Russia since 2021, was returned to the United States in February and was a guest at Trump’s speech to Congress earlier this month, as was an American citizen held in Belarus. Six Americans detained in Venezuela were also returned last month.
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Besides this guy, who would be dumb enough to visit Afghanistan as a tourist?
Look on the bright side, we didn’t have to trade an arms dealer for this hostage.
With mobililty of today people move, change locations with
little or no problems. Blending into the new location may
take some time and effort. Enjoy your three score and ten.
America is full of stupid people.
That was my thought as well. Like visiting Dresden right after the bombing in WWII.
I hope we didn’t waste too much money or leverage on his idiot. A year after we pulled out, a gay man with a Jewish name decides he wants to be a tourist to Afghanistan... because “he has a passion for travel”.
Freakin’ damned idiot.
And the other thing, after 20 years, Afghanistan was left with zero fear of us.
*note for the jew haters out there these days*;
My noting his name origin was not dislike for Jews. I don’t know if the fruitcake is even observant. It’s common sense. A white person visiting South Africa, a single female touring India or Pakistan alone, etc is stupid. Stupidity kills. I have a Hispano friend who is heavily tattooed from gangs when he was young. I could go to Mexico city and see the museums with no problem, he knows he would be an instant target there. If you retired from the USAF as an intelligence man, cross Moscow off your list this year.
Just a little common sense.
Who the hell would go there? As a tourist, no less. Geez.
Well, some people still take their kids to Pedo Central, also known as Disneyland. They might consider Afghanistan to be a nice place to visit.
BREAKING NEWS:
District Judge in San Francisco orders Trump to return hostage to the Taliban.
Until a district judge orders Trump to return the hostage to captivity.
Gotta go through the appropriate processes dontcha know!
President Trump won’t get any credit for this with the mainstream media either. He is right. Nothing he does is good enough.
My thoughts exactly.
Opium Poppyist ?
I think people like this guy are liberal who think all people are intrinsically good & they have nothing to fear & want to prove it to the rest of them.
Now he’s been “mugged”.
In the sixties, that was where the hippies went.
‘’’I think people like this guy are liberal who think all people are intrinsically good & they have nothing to fear & want to prove it to the rest of them.”””
Like the couple who played with the friendly bears...until the bears ate them.
Local Miami media hasn’t been reporting this; instead it is cheering Disney for continuing pro-homosexual policies.
LOL. Exactly. That was the first thing that jumped out at me.
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