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Taliban members are executing Afghans who were US partners, says Republican leader
Washington/UNI: The top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas, has said that executions of Afghans who were US partners are now taking place in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.
McCaul also said that the Taliban are preventing flights filled with American civilians and allies from leaving Afghanistan, despite approval from the State Department.
In an interview on ‘Fox News Sunday’, McCaul said the executions of Afghans who were working for the US show “this is the same old Taliban.”
“Executions are taking place, we are getting videos coming in, stories and interpreters as being blocked by the Taliban,” he said.
“The retaliation has been severe,” he said. “Stories of interpreters being taken out to their families and watching their wives and families being beheaded, executed before they execute the interpreter. This is not a new and improved Taliban, this is the same old Taliban… reverting back to with the same brutal practices.”
According to McCaul, what’s needed is the ability to “see the threat so that we can respond” and “eliminate it.”
“We don't have that capability anymore and we're going back to pre-9/11 right now but it's worse,” he said. “It's worse because now they are fully armed with our weapons, our helicopters and pallets of our cash.”
He said that no Americans have been allowed to fly out of Afghanistan since US troops left, and that there were six planes waiting and wouldn’t be cleared, as “the Taliban is holding them hostage for demands right now.”
“In fact we have six airplanes at Mazar-i-Sharif airport, six airplanes, with American citizens on them as I speak, also with these interpreters, and the Taliban is holding them hostage for demands right now,” McCaul said.
“My concern is they are going to demand more and more, whether it be cash or legitimacy as the government of Afghanistan.”
“This is really turning into a hostage situation where they are not going to allow American citizens to leave until they get full recognition from the United States of America,” he said.
McCaul said since the military left Afghanistan the Biden administration has removed “zero” of the remaining civilians from the country.
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