There’s a split on that with National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan suggesting that US aid may go directly to the Taliban. (Whether it goes directly or indirectly, the Taliban will still unquestionably cash in.)
Sullivan also would not rule out giving the Taliban aid in the future. He said that the US will continue to provide humanitarian assistance “directly” to the Afghan people, which, he said, would not flow through the Taliban but through international institutions like the World Health Organization and other nongovernmental organizations.
But, going forward, aid to Afghanistan through the Taliban directly will be conditioned upon the Taliban’s behavior, including whether the remaining Americans are able to safely evacuate.
“That will be about the Taliban’s actions. It will be about whether they follow through on their commitments, their commitments to safe passage for Americans and Afghan allies, their commitment to not allow Afghanistan to be a base from which terrorists can attack the United States or any other country, their commitments with respect to upholding their international obligations. It’s going to be up to them. And we will wait and see by their actions how we end up responding in terms of the economic and development assistance,” he said.
Then it was Jen Psaki’s turn to insist that Sullivan hadn’t said what he had said.
Q And then on — on the future aid to the Taliban that Jake Sullivan was talking about this morning.
MS. PSAKI: Yeah.
Q He said, when it comes to economic and development assistance, the relationship with the Taliban will be about Taliban actions. Should we understand that to mean that economic and development assistance could translate to taxpayer money eventually going to the Taliban at some point? I know that’s different from the humanitarian aid we’ve been talking about — the World Food Programme and things like that — but these specific references that Sullivan made this morning.
MS. PSAKI: Well, I would — I would just go back to kind of the earlier question on this. There’s an enormous amount of money they have at the federal — in the Federal Reserve — I shouldn’t say “they” — the government of Afghanistan has in the Federal Reserve, which they don’t have access to right now. That’s actually their money that’s being held there. So that’s one of the questions here.
There are also sanctions that are in place on a number of leaders. Obviously, that prevents them from doing business in various parts of the world. I think that’s really what Jake Sullivan was referring to.
That’s not what Sullivan was referring to since he mentioned “economic and development assistance”.
But few in the media bother calling out Psaki on her constant stream of lies.
Psaki calls the money in the Federal Reserve, “their money”. As I reported in, “Biden Tried to Send Pallets of Cash to the Taliban as Kabul Fell”, that’s not really accurate.
Ahmady estimates that $7 billion of DAB’s assets are being held by the Federal Reserve which includes the gold, the bills and bonds, $300 million in cash, and another $2.4 billion in World Bank funds for aiding developing countries.
A whole lot of money came from us in the first place.
The question is whether Biden is bargaining with the Taliban using the money we already had been giving to Afghanistan or whether he’s playing with new taxpayer monies.
As I wrote…
The Taliban were hoping to get their hands on Afghanistan’s money, but much of it is in the United States. The most tangible part of Afghanistan’s assets, $1.3 billion in gold, is sitting in downtown Manhattan, a little bit south of Ground Zero, in the vaults of the Federal Reserve. If there were any justice, that money would be used to compensate the police officers, firefighters, and workers who died on that day or later on from ailments related to 9/11.
PRCS says
That Biden’s woke administration would try to do so “under the table” wouldn’t surprise me.
Vicky says
Remember Obama and Iran, the pallets of cash transferred onboard an aircraft at night?
PRCS says
+1
JANET says
It would not surprise me either. Justice needs to be that THE MONEY STAYS HERE AND IS USED FOR THE 9/11 RESPONDERS. I hate and will always hate the shariah believers .
Criminals to the core and always a lie for the KAFIR to believe. OMG !!
Biden and all are criminals forever and have shown us that side of them for so long that I do not believe Biden and all his ILK. In fact it would be worth it to ship them to the TALIBAN and leave them there. Biden is NEGATIVE FROM the moment he gets up until he is asleep at night. NEVER -EVER TRUST THE DEMS AND THEIR ILK.
Walter Sieruk says
Any form of “aid” which is reality support to the Taliban by Joe Biden is treason.
Furthermore, that fiendish villain Biden has already ,last month , given the Taliban much “aid” in the Biden “gift” to them by supplying them with Blackhawk helicopters US military truck Humvees and many other warware armaments. . All at the American taxpayers expense .
Walter Sieruk says
There should be a new title for despicable old Joe . An appropriate new title for him is “Biden the treasonous.”
Clifford Fodor says
And there’s nothing we can do about it.
Isn’t there something we can do about?
Ade Fegan says
85 billion in “aid” already (in for form of munitions) ..
Plus the millions in $100 dollar bills we know about
Plus shit loads more “aid” we haven’t been told about no doubt.
I expect the Taliban will copy and paste the way countries like Iran and Palestine
milk the US economy from here on and Biden will be an all too willing accomplice.
James Lincoln says
And four C-130s, Walter.
That’s the same number that are in most fully equipped US Air Force / Navy squadrons.
Not to mention that they can be converted into devastating gunships!
gravenimage says
The question isn’t if Biden will fund the Taliban, the question is how will he fund the Taliban
………..
Insane but undoubtedly true.
Ade Fegan says
as if he hadn’t funded them enough already !
JANET says
Agree! A criminal who is never ashamed of his evil acts!
Ade Fegan says
And we are also seeing (other) charities being set up now to help with the “Afghanistan crisis”
The Taliban have never had it so good !
Kepha says
The Biden administration has given the Taliban everything they could ever ask for. Not one more penny of US taxpayers’ money should go to those terrorists–except, perhaps, detonating a nuke over Qandahar should the Talebs decide to exploit a hostage situation.
OLD GUY says
Whats sad is there appears to be no accounting for the foreign aide we send for humanitarian help, it appears that most ends up supporting the luxury lifestyles of political leaders.
Proposal: On the Ballot stop FOREIGN AID from tax payer money, and make it a crime for public officials to send American government funds to foreign countries. Put charity back in the hands of the people and private organizations not the GOVERNMENT.
Military aid to foreign governments should also be restricted. We are spending billions of dollars and putting the lives of our young men and women in danger, often with no benefit for the American public’s interest or return on our investment.