Taliban free American, Australian hostages
The Taliban on Tuesday freed two Western hostages who were held for more than three years in what has been seen as a hopeful sign in the Afghan peace talks.
An American professor and Australian professor have been released by the Taliban after being held for more than three years in Afghanistan.
The hostages, who were both teachers at the American University in Kabul and held since 2016, were identified as American Kevin C. King, 63, and Australian Timothy J Weeks, 50, The New York Times reported. They were released to American forces.
Teaching at the American University? I’ll just leave this here.
In exchange, the younger brother of the group’s military operations leader and a top fund-raiser and propagandist prior to his capture in 2014 was released, the report said.
Sweetening the pot for more peace talks, no doubt. It may even work.
Category: Afghanistan, Foreign Policy, Taliban
You mean we got back 2 real hostages and didn’t have to pay sacks full of money and release a platoon full of terrorists? daHell?!? Does make one glad that the CiC has a pair. Now if we could just GTFO completely.
What about the 11K ISIL prisoners being held in Syria? That concern was raised again when the pull back was announced and in Ex’s post from yesterday.
Hopefully they sedated and administered a colonoscopy and discretely implanted a tracking beacon up the ass of the swapped Haqqani offspring for when papa welcomes him back.
They just want to live in squalor.
Offer them that promise and see what they say.
Those two need to have a date with a razor. Why do all these peeps insist on visiting or working in all these countries that don’t like us.
I don’t know. These people have to be some kind of stupid to go to work in a shithole like that.
Maybe the money was extra good, but somehow I doubt that.
Do-gooders are hard to understand, never mind explain. That’s what these two are.