Taliban Is Holding 6 Airplanes Filled with Americans and Allies

A hostage scenario is brewing in Afghanistan because the Taliban refuses to permit planes full of Individuals and Afghan allies to depart the nation, in response to a Republican congressman.

Texas Rep. Mike McCaul made the revelation throughout an look on Fox News on Sunday.

“We now have six airplanes at Mazar Sharif Airport — six airplanes with Americans on them as I communicate, additionally with these interpreters — and the Taliban is holding them hostage for calls for proper now. The state has cleared these flights and the Taliban won’t allow them to go away the airport,” he stated.

“They’ve sat on the airport for the final couple of days, these planes, and so they’re not allowed to depart. We all know the rationale why is as a result of the Taliban need one thing in alternate,” stated McCaul, the rating Republican on the Home Overseas Affairs Committee.

“That is actually … turning right into a hostage scenario the place they’re not going to permit Americans to depart till they get full recognition from america of America.”

McCaul’s fear is that the Taliban will get it.

“My concern is that [Zalmay] Khalilzad, our particular envoy who’s met with the Taliban — they’re in talks proper now, and I fear his suggestion to the administration might be to acknowledge the Taliban,” he stated.

McCaul stated there are “a whole bunch of Americans left behind enemy traces in Afghanistan as I communicate. And in addition, very sadly, the interpreters who labored with our particular forces, virtually all of them have been left behind and weren’t let within the gates on the airport at [Hamid Karzai International] to get out.

“And that was a promise that the president made. I’ve stated all alongside this president has blood on his palms. And this week, this final week, we had 13 servicemen and ladies come residence, flag-draped coffins at Dover Airbase. This drawback’s going to worsen, not higher, and we have now left them behind. That’s the essential creed of the army,” he stated.

Per week has handed since our nation misplaced 13 service members in a lethal terror assault exterior the Kabul airport. They positioned themselves in harms manner to assist Individuals and Afghan companions escape the Taliban. Could we always remember their sacrifice and repair to our nation. pic.twitter.com/m8L3iY93xZ

— Michael McCaul (@RepMcCaul) September 2, 2021

McCaul additional acknowledged that no Americans and no Afghan allies have left the nation for the reason that ultimate U.S. troops departed on Monday.

“You’ve got tales of interpreters being taken residence to their households and watching, you recognize, their wives and households being beheaded, executed earlier than they execute the interpreter.

“This isn’t a brand new and improved Taliban. This is identical previous Taliban. They’re reverting again to the identical brutal practices,” he stated.

I don’t blame the intelligence neighborhood. I don’t blame the army. They did their jobs. I blame @StateDept, and I blame @POTUS for the disaster in Afghanistan. Biden ignored intel that informed him Afghanistan would fall shortly. He’s guilty. pic.twitter.com/ghqDXSCrHp

— Michael McCaul (@RepMcCaul) September 1, 2021

McCaul blamed the Biden administration for the disaster.

“As a result of this administration ignored the warnings of the intelligence neighborhood assessments, overrode the highest generals, we discover ourselves on this very precarious, harmful scenario the place the Taliban is now dictating phrases to us, the place they’re dictating the phrases of our exit technique, dictating whether or not Individuals can go away usually are not.”

McCaul added that with the lack of intelligence-gathering capabilities in Afghanistan, “we’re going again to pre-9/11 proper now, but it surely’s worse. It’s worse as a result of now they’re absolutely armed with our weapons, our helicopters and pallets of our money.”