Afghan hostage crisis begins

The Taliban is holding 6 charter flights at Mazar-i-Sharif International Airport claiming that they don't have the right "travel papers" (which is probably pallets of cash):

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Flyguy
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The civilian federal government employees of the US embassy in Kabul released a statement in August:

“Please be advised that a significant number of individuals have already registered and space on these flights is available on a first come, first serve basis"

and by "significant number of individuals have already registered" they meant "the civilian federal government employees of the US embassy in Kabul"

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bitrex

With respect to the Air Force planes that have already left, that is

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bitrex

More like all the brave civil servants at the US Embassy in Kabul smashed all the computers with the relevant documents on them and high-tailed it outta there on the first flight, there actually isn't anyone left with the authority to do the paperwork.

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bitrex

State Department doesn't know anything about it, which means it's an independent action. The only "Americans" left behind in Afghanistan are duel U.S.-Afghanistan citizens, another way of say Afghans, who want to remain in Afghanistan with their extended families. All the people on the charter flights are Afghans. Few to none of them have passports and visas required for international travel. And the charter flights refused to file a destination in their flight plan, which again is a violation of international law. The story is being publicized by another trashy GOP congressman from Texas. The idiot is just trying stir up more anti-Biden theater and could care less about what's going on.

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Fred Bloggs

Former foreign=policy adviser Stephen Miller didn't want anyone at all born in Afghanistan from coming here in the first place, you'd think they'd be happy about it. Could be all sorts of rapists and murderers who escaped the prisons on those planes.

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bitrex

Germany definitely doesn't want any refugees from the Middle East or South Asia. Their idea is to give relief to local regional countries to take them in.

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Fred Bloggs

Last I heard the Taliban was still standing around guarding the US embassy, hoping someone would come back. But I think all those brave civil servants were on the first planes out, goes to show how deeply committed all the Federal government civilian employees there were to the success of this whole no-Afghan-ally-left-behind mission.

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bitrex

I'd like to know how that embassy ended up costing $2B! It's probably one of those places with a sprawling interior shopping mall, restaurant and theater district. And Hilton got the contract for designing the 3,000 sf luxury roomettes for the civil servants. They left behind a similar boondoggle in Baghdad. The U.S. needs its head examined.

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Fred Bloggs

Yes, just the kind of opulent facility for government employees who expect exactly all the same comforts as home and get pissy if they can't get exactly the same brand of beer they drink back in suburban Alexandria VA, and which bred resentment in Osama Bin Laden's ilk in the first place (not that he was himself poor, but that's how he sold it to his peons.) Lookie how these infidels sit behind their 20 foot high walls with their finery while you don't have a pot to piss in.

I guess they call this "winning hearts and minds."

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bitrex

How do you KNOW that the ONLY Americans left behind by Lyin' Biden are "dual citizenship?" Lyin' Biden has admitted that they DON'T KNOW how many Americans are in Afghanistan, before they told us ONLY 100-200 were left behind. WHICH IS IT, 100 or 200? That translates to "We have no FUCKING IDEA." And an American citizen with a dual citizenship is STILL an American.

This bullshit is all about diminishing the responsibility of Lyin' Biden's criminal conspiracy.

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Flyguy

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