Secretary of State Marco Rubio didn’t learn until now that the Taliban are holding American hostages. If Antony Blinken knew about them, he was keeping it quiet. As soon as he found out, our new top diplomat issued a hefty threat. He’ll put a price on the heads of the terrorists. A big one. The hostages better be released before the bounty hunters find out.
Rubio threatens Taliban
Donald Trump’s Secretary of State Marco Rubio “threatened the heads of the Taliban.” He’s about to declare them wanted dead or alive, posting a “very big bounty.” He had some interesting things to say on social media.
“Just hearing the Taliban is holding more American hostages than has been reported,” he tapped out. “If this is true, we will have to immediately place a VERY BIG bounty on their top leaders, maybe even bigger than the one we had on Bin Laden.”
Secretary Rubio didn’t say how many Americans are being held captive by the Taliban. He also didn’t tip off the terrorists as to which “members of leadership could be targeted.”
What we do know is that recently “two Americans held by the Taliban were freed in a prisoner swap.” Joe Biden made a really bad deal for them.
As Joe Biden was in his final days of power, “Ryan Corbett and William McKenty were sent back stateside in exchange for convicted narco-terrorist Khan Mohammed.”
Rubio isn’t negotiating and there won’t be anyone exchanged to get our citizens back. Either the Taliban will hand them over pronto or face the consequences.
Deteriorating health
Americans George Glezmann and Mahmood Habibi are believed to be the others referred to by Secretary Rubio. There may be others the press isn’t aware of.
Glezmann “has been in Taliban detention since Dec 5, 2022, and is in gradually deteriorating health.” Habibi is another American citizen “whose been held by the Taliban since August 2022.”
Last July, the Senate passed a resolution “calling for the release” of one of the men, probably Glezmann.
They noted at the time he “has suffered ‘facial tumors, hypertension, severe malnutrition, and other medical conditions,‘ as a result of the inhumane conditions to which he’s been subjected.” Secretary Rubio isn’t going to stand for that.
The Taliban swear up and down that they aren’t holding Mahmood Habibi. That’s not what his brother says. He wants to see huge bounties posted on those who are holding Mahmood. “I know that my brother is still in Taliban custody. I can’t share too much about that because we don’t want to put him or others at risk.”
The Taliban think that they can get Muhammad Rahim out of Guantanamo Bay in exchange. With Donald Trump in the White House, that’s never going to happen. Marco Rubio is going to be terrorizing the terrorists until they turn loose their prisoners.
