RELYING ON TALIBAN TO GET AMERICANS OUT OF AFGHAN: SEC STATE BLINKEN

Posted on August 29, 2021


Sec State Blinken on Meet the Press today: “You may have seen that just yesterday, a very senior Taliban official went on television and radio across the country and repeatedly assured people in Afghanistan that they would have the freedom to travel after August 31. He even specifically said, those that work for the Americans and those that want to leave for whatever reason will have that freedom.”

“Now of course we don’t take the Taliban at their word. We take them by their deed. And that is what we are going to be looking to.”

Market Watch: “On alert for new terror attacks, the U.S. military has begun its final withdrawal from Afghanistan in the closing stages of a frantic airlift of Americans, Afghans and others desperate to escape Taliban rule before the evacuation shuts down.
The remains of 13 American troops killed in an airport attack Thursday by members of the Islamic State group’s Afghanistan affiliate, known as ISIS-K, were on their way to the United States, the Pentagon said Saturday.
Their voyage marked a painful moment in a nearly 20-year American war that cost more than 2,400 U.S. military lives and is ending with the return to power of a Taliban movement that was ousted when U.S. forces invaded in 2001.”

6,800 people, mostly Afghans, were flown out in the 24 hours that ended Saturday morning according to the Pentagon.


Market Watch: US military begins final pullout amid Kabul terror threats

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