Taliban says Afghans are no longer allowed to go to the Kabul airport to flee the country

[former9thward]

Source: Washington Post

The Taliban repeated Tuesday that it viewed the United States’ Aug. 31 deadline to depart from Afghanistan as final, even as the Biden administration is expected to decide whether to extend the evacuation mission.

“It was the American plan,” said Zabihullah Mujahid said at a news conference in Kabul. “They have the opportunity. They have all the resources. They can take all the people that belong to them.”

The Taliban was still allowing foreign nationals to leave, but Mujahid said that the group was stopping Afghan nationals from reaching the airport as it was dangerous and their skills were needed to rebuild the country. “We are asking the American please change your policy and don’t encourage Afghans to leave,” he said.

President Biden may decide as soon as Tuesday whether to push back the United States’ deadline to depart from Afghanistan, according to numerous reports. Thousands of foreigners and vulnerable Afghans continue to flood Kabul’s airport in hopes of fleeing Taliban rule.

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[Budi]

1. Will be interesting to see which nations join our allies in aiding this mission.

Taliban wants Afghans left behind for a few reasons.
*Killing them & their families for their alignment with the US.
*Human shields in the event that the US is placed in the horrific position to bomb tf out of the place, since we now have conveniently herded the Taliban into one location. 🤔
*Negotiating power for future dealmaking. Like accessing the billion$ of funds recently blocked to the Taliban
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This is some high stakes game, being played.

Just one more serious mess for Biden to clean up, that Trump fked us over for.

[Warpy]

5. Or maybe they know they won't have much of a country

if all the people who know how things work leave.

Remember, they're not just going to have to keep order, they're going to have to deliver a lot of services people have gotten used to over the last 20 years. The foreigners who ran those services will be gone, so they need people who can read the instructions.

I knew they'd start cracking down. Nobody trusts them, they knew anyone with a marketable skill would want to get out.

[Budi]

6. THIS Right Here. ⬆️

It kinda leaves The mighty Taliban sittin ducks for a bigger more ruthless Power to move in. And then they are s.o.l.

No people, no money access, nothin but a big piece of dirt.
Bigger & meaner s.o.b's than the Taliban are just itchin for their turn

[ProudMNDemocrat]

2. The US have backup plans to get vulnerable Afghans out....Do not trust the Taliban...

That they need those to help rebuild Afghanustan? They plan to murder them, like the Khmer Rouge did to the educated Cambodians from 1975 to 1980.

Another Killing Fields scene in the making.

[Ray Bruns]

3. Agreed

This is the first step to eliminating those who had allied themselves with us. This is going to get ugly fast.

[wnylib]

9. I am afraid that you are right.

It will be very ugly, very soon.

[Budi]

4. Yup. They've only got 1 reason to keep the Afghan people.

If they didn't want them dead one way or another, they'd be shoving them into exit planes for us.

[wnylib]

10. I think that you are right.

But I wonder why. The Afghan people who are fleeing are no threat to the Taliban if they leave. Why not let them go? Why the need to hold them back in order to kill them?

[EndlessWire]

8. Yep

That's what I think, too.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

7. The Taliban says Afghans who worked for the U.S. have "skills needed to rebuild the country."

Specifically, they need to be executed publicly to deter anyone else from defying the Taliban.

We've got the most powerful military in the world. Unrestrained they can wipe the Taliban from the face of the earth. Are we going to be pushed around by a bunch of rag-head rabble, no matter how effective they've been for the past 20 years? We've always had to "pull our punches," so to speak, so the Aghan military could gain experience and confidence. Now that they've laid down their arms, we're only constrained by our own rules of engagement.

More than our pride is at stake. If we ever want locals to assist us in another foreign war we have to keep our promises to these Afghan translators. Future recruits need to know that they and their families will be protected.

This would not be a continuation of Dubya's Endless War. We wouldn't be trying to train the Afghan military, build infrastructure, or shore up the government, which doesn't exist anyway. It would be a mission of mercy, with a well-defined purpose -- to get all Americans and Afghan allies out -- using whatever was necessary to carry out that goal.