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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio's connection of issuing bounties connected apical Taliban leaders invited a crisp effect from Taliban spokesperson Suhail Shaheen. (File / AP)
A Taliban ambassador connected Monday warned the caller U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio against making threats aft saying helium would spot bounties connected Afghanistan’s rulers for their continued detention of U.S. nationals.
A captive swap betwixt the U.S. and Afghanistan past week freed 2 Americans successful speech for a Taliban figure, Khan Muhammad. The woody to merchandise Ryan Corbett and William McKenty was brokered by Joe Biden ’s medication earlier helium near office.
But 2 much Americans, George Glezmann and Mahmood Habibi, stay successful Taliban custody.
The Taliban person not revealed however galore foreigners are down bars.“Just proceeding the Taliban is holding much American hostages than has been reported,” Rubio said successful a station connected X Saturday. “If this is true, we volition person to instantly spot a VERY BIG bounty connected their apical leaders, possibly adjacent bigger than the 1 we had connected (Osama) bin Laden.”
The Taliban’s ambassador to Qatar, Suhail Shaheen, said it was the argumentation of the Afghan authorities to resoluteness issues peacefully done dialogue, and helium fired a informing changeable astatine Rubio.“In the look of unit and aggression, the jihad (struggle) of the Afghan federation successful caller decades is simply a acquisition that everyone should larn from.”
The Taliban fought U.S. and NATO forces for 2 decades, yet returning to powerfulness successful August 2021 amid a deadly and chaotic withdrawal of overseas troops.
Shaheen was portion of the Taliban’s negotiating squad successful Doha to unafraid a bid woody for Afghanistan.
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He said the caller merchandise of different foreigner, Canadian David Lavery, from an Afghan jailhouse had been achieved done mediation by the “friendly state of Qatar” and affirmative interactions with the Taliban authorities connected specified cases.
Earlier Monday, Canada’s overseas minister, Melanie Joly, said she had spoken with Lavery upon his accomplishment successful Qatar. “He is successful bully spirits,” Joly wrote connected X, thanking Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani for helping facilitate Lavery’s release.
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