Newly confirmed U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio raised alarms concerning the precise variety of American hostages held by the Taliban—figures far better than beforehand reported.
This disclosure, coming simply days after the Secretary’s appointment, factors to a disturbing risk: Biden’s administration knew concerning the greater hostage counts however selected to cover this crucial data from the general public.
Marco Rubio, voicing his considerations on X, highlighted the dire state of affairs: “Simply listening to the Taliban is holding extra American hostages than has been reported. If that is true, we have to instantly place a VERY BIG bounty on their prime leaders, possibly even greater than the one we had on Bin Laden.”
Rubio’s didn’t specify the precise variety of Individuals nonetheless captive.
Simply listening to the Taliban is holding extra American hostages than has been reported. If that is true, we should instantly place a VERY BIG bounty on their prime leaders, possibly even greater than the one we had on Bin Laden.
— Secretary Marco Rubio (@secrubio) January 25, 2025
The Gateway Pundit beforehand reported that Anna Corbett, whose husband Ryan was held hostage by the Taliban, spoke to ‘Fox and Pals’ after her name with Joe Biden.
Corbett was upset after Joe Biden solely gave her a couple of minutes. Anna mentioned present U.S. Nationwide Safety Advisor Mike Waltz spoke along with her for an hour exterior at Mar-a-Lago.
She was hopeful Trump would be capable to convey her husband dwelling. Her husband has been held by the Taliban since 2022, after the Biden regime surrendered the nation to the Taliban.
Joe Biden needed to commerce Ryan and two different Individuals in change for Muhammad Rahim, an aide to Osama bin Laden, and one of many remaining detainees at Guantanamo Bay.
Simply earlier than Joe Biden ended his time period in workplace, the U.S. freed an Afghan convicted of drug smuggling and extremism, Muhammad Rahim, for 2 Americans.
Ryan Corbett and William Wallace McKenty had been the 2 Individuals who had been freed.
In 2021, The Gateway Pundit reported that the Biden regime and its woke generals deserted 1000’s of Individuals in Afghanistan, including up to 14,000 U.S. legal permanent residents (LPRs), throughout their fast escape from the terrorist-controlled nation.
Nonetheless, the precise quantity was tough to find out as a result of challenges in monitoring and the fluid nature of the state of affairs.
“Isn’t the working assumption about 14,000?” Republican Rep. Chris Smith requested Biden’s Deputy Secretary of State for Administration and Sources, Brian McKeon, during a hearing in 2021.
As many as 14,000 Americans had been left to fend for themselves when Biden and the woke generals rapidly fled the nation as a result of their synthetic timeline. This was an atrocity that was fully ignored by the legacy media, who labored time beyond regulation to prop up their mates on the Biden White Home.
In the meantime, roughly 124,000 Afghans had been in a position to flee the nation in August throughout ‘Operation Allies Refuge,’ one of many largest air evacuations of civilians in American historical past—most of them had been unvetted.
A brand new report was launched from the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee in February 2022 and disclosed that as much as 15,000 Individuals had been believed to be in Afghanistan on the peak of the disaster, with solely 6,000 managing to evacuate by the August 31 deadline.
This left roughly 9,000 Individuals to fend for themselves beneath Taliban rule—a catastrophic failure largely ignored by mainstream media, which continued to protect the Biden administration.
In accordance with the report on the time:
“On August 17, 2021, and on the peak of evacuation efforts, senior State Division officers main the evacuation process drive indicated there have been 10,000 to fifteen,000 Individuals in Afghanistan, in accordance with the F-77 report.
By August 31, when the president ordered an finish to evacuation operations, State and DoD had evacuated roughly 6,000 Americans. Even taking probably the most conservative estimates from the F-77 report, this meant the USA left a minimum of a number of thousand folks behind.
Nonetheless, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, throughout testimony to the Home International Affairs Committee in September, asserted that solely a “small quantity” of Americans, “roughly 100-150 remained in Afghanistan who nonetheless wished to depart.”
If Marco Rubio’s report is right, Antony Blinken dedicated perjury in Congress. This story was ignored and rapidly forgotten by the faux information legacy media. Just like the Biden regime, they actually didn’t care.
