The big question of the Biden evacuation from Afghanistan is who were the +50,000 Afghans he brought to America? The vast majority of them had no visas (though Biden’s people will retroactively make sure they get them) and don’t fit the profile of the interpreters or human rights activists his administration claimed were coming.
We know that the Taliban checkpoints prevented the majority of SIV visa holders from reaching the airport. But whom did the Taliban allow through?
A recent story may shed some light on the question.
The Taliban have halted all flights of Afghan evacuees for the past two weeks in a dispute about how the airport in Kabul is run and who is allowed on the evacuation flights, according to a congressional source, two refugee advocates and a source familiar with the matter.
This is what news reports about Afghanistan look like now. We’re told about an event weeks or months after it happened, and from various “sources.”
At issue are U.S.-chartered Qatar Airways flights that had been running between Kabul and Doha. The Taliban began demanding several seats on the flights for Taliban fighters and sympathizers to leave the country so they can work in other countries and send desperately needed money back to Afghanistan, according to a congressional official and the source familiar with the matter. The country’s economy is in tatters, and millions of Afghans are short of food as temperatures drop.
Before the flights stopped, the Taliban were using the seats to send migrant workers out of Afghanistan to Qatar, Saudi Arabia and other destinations to find work, according to the congressional source and the source familiar with the matter. While Taliban fighters were designating who got the seats, it is not clear whether the people leaving were hardened Taliban fighters, sympathizers, civilians or a combination of the groups.
What is clear is that the Taliban expect to cash in on these guys. Some of them probably are terrorists. Others are likely paying the Taliban for the privilege and paying a percentage of their income back to their “sponsors.”
The Taliban are Jihadists, but most Jihadists also operate like companies and criminal organizations with lucrative sidelines in protection money, smuggling, kidnapping, etc…
So was the Biden evacuation switcheroo about remittances? Having their people or workers who owe them money scoring legal status and local salaries in the United States would be a massive profit center.
Especially tens of thousands of them.
Sending back remittances directly to Afghanistan would be challenging, but between the Hawala system and Crypto, and any other means by which money moves around in the dark, they would still have plenty of options for seeing that the Taliban get paid.
Even if the Taliban are only “sponsoring” half of Biden’s evacuees, they could easily be scoring millions a year.
And with the Taliban having their family members under their thumbs, there would be no worries about getting paid. The same could easily be true of any future “refugees.”
somehistory says
Short answer: Absolutely. Or shorter, Yes.
angelo barbato says
No doubt about it!
somehistory says
TY!
mortimer says
Proof?
somehistory says
You first. Prove you are not more than one smart-aleck in a basement someplace, typing way too fast to be just one person and posting multiple comments within very few minutes.
Prove it. Prove that you are not a mozlum pretending to not be.
gravenimage says
Mortimer, the proof was provided by the NBC story linked to in the story above:
“The Taliban have halted all evacuee flights out of Afghanistan for the past two weeks”
The Taliban want to use the flights to send their own people abroad to earn desperately needed money. The Afghan economy is in tatters.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/taliban-halted-evacuee-flights-afghanistan-two-weeks-rcna9736
“At issue are U.S.-chartered Qatar Airways flights that had been running between Kabul and Doha. The *Taliban began demanding several seats on the flights for Taliban fighters and sympathizers to leave the country so they can work in other countries and send desperately needed money back to Afghanistan*, according to a congressional official and the source familiar with the matter…” [emphasis mine–GI]
In other words, this comes from the Taliban *itself*.
Mortimer, that you are now *defending the Taliban*–and doing so on a story where it can easily be refuted–in order to twit staunch Anti-Jihadist Somehistory is actually rather appalling.
I very much respect your postings on Islamic scholarship, but your attacks on other Anti-Jihadists if they are in your view too critical of Jihadists is entirely unwarranted.
somehistory says
Yes, g, all of the evidence is in. The taliban controlled who got on and who didn’t and it’s already been reported that the people here do not speak English, have no visa’s and were not people who helped any out-of-country military.
It’s difficult to imagine that afghanis who were working with the U.S. were never vetted by the military who had to trust them…at least to some extent that had to be known.
the afghanis who have come here, are most likely closer to helping the taliban and other “terrorists” than even considering helping the U.S. And the taliban is desperate for cash…as much as they can get their filthy hands on.
There is enough evidence to convince a jury of our peers.
And, thank you very much. 🙂
gravenimage says
Agreed, Somehistory.
DavidR says
Completely plausible and probably Shariah compliant. It’s plausible because it’s already happening and working elsewhere; Mexico’s economy for instance depends significantly upon remittances from it’s citizens who woking in the much better paying U.S.
Its amusing to watch ridiculous and extreme ideologues suddenly finding themselves in power and realizing they have to grow up and have a plan. It’s even more amusing when their hands are tied by what somebody who died 1400 years ago said he heard from somebody who heard from somebody who heard from a companion of Muhammad said Muhammad said what Gabriel said Allah told him to tell Muhammad. This will require Olympic level Men’s Mental Gymnastics.
gravenimage says
Did the Taliban Put People on Biden’s Evacuation Flights to Cash In On Remittances?
…………….
I’m sure. That, and keeping actual American citizens off those flights. Then, sending pious rapists and murderers on a “Hijira” here to attack us, as well.
All good for the Taliban. For us “filthy Infidels”, not so much…
Bikinis not Burkas says
The Middle East is a hell hole why?
The MURDEROUS IDEOLOGY of ISLAM!
Quran 8:12 read it!
mortimer says
I have read it. Islam is a theological-political ideology created for the emolument of the caliphs long after the purported false prophet is said to have lived.
Islam’s sole purpose is to give support to a caliphal dynasty Since there are no such dynasties today, Islam is a dysfunctional fish out of water.
All Islamic societies are dysfunctional and support to the strongest and most ruthless families in the country.
Melc says
Correct. Now it is demanded they export that medieval warlord mentality to the whole world. The global Umma with oil rich salafists funding it.
gravenimage says
True, B not B.
Frances Weingarten says
With Biden at the forefront one can never be certain that the Taliban won’t get far more than they desere in a variety of ways! Unfortunately, Joe Biden is the least of Americans that most Americans would ever choose ilf they were thiniking at all rationally at this time! It’s lmost unfortunate that we’re not in a more secure and consistant situation!
libertyORdeath says
It was pretty enlightening when they reported about the shortage of “interpreters” amongst the tens of thousands of Afghans being housed on military bases here in the US. This despite the fact that we were told that Biden was helping evacuate interpreters and others who had helped the US military.
Last I remember though, the Taliban was trying to stop people from leaving, especially those with the knowledge and training to make use of the 80+ BILLION dollars worth of equipment that Biden, Milley and Austin so generously gifted to the terrorist organization.
Melc says
Maybe part of the anti Russian plan.
After all the Brits created Pakistan as a buffer to the Soviets in their geo-political post colonial stratergy.
gravenimage says
Yes–funny how many of these suppossed interpreters need interpreters themselves…
Alfredo says
More stupidity from the Brandon people who are working very hard to ruin the United States of America.
Not content with wasting billions in abandoned high tech equipment in the hands of sworn enemies who would love nothing more than to watch their accursed black flag with their alliagence to their satanic deities flying atop the White House.
Now they’re making sure they are made legit in the US so they can work and send remittance money back to their masters in Afghanistan. We can rest assured those thugs will keep their families under close surveillance to make sure they get their share of the earnings owed to the Taliban.
I have never seen an administration display such ineptitude and incompetence as the present one.
It is so inept in their handling of sworn enemies that it cannot be avoided to have the nagging suspicion of malfeasance.
OLD GUY says
Well let’s see, if I hated America and wanted to destroy America what would I do? If America is allowing 80,000 of my fellow islamic followers to migrate to America without being background checks would I slip a few of my jihadist fighters aboard those flights? I think so.
Lorensacho says
I’m sure the Taliban makes way more money cutting in to the Heroin Poppy trade than sneaking pretend evacuees onto planes.
gravenimage says
Why not do both?
somehistory says
https://www.theepochtimes.com/senators-ask-why-mayorkas-dhs-withheld-visa-overstays-afghan-evacuee-vetting-reports_4181420.html?utm_source=News&utm_
‘Senators Ask Why Mayorkas’ DHS Withheld Visa Overstays, Afghan Evacuee Vetting Reports”
Guessing the *reason* as to why is that there is too much to hide that if revealed, would make biden and the dhs look even worse.
“The senators said they are concerned that Mayorkas is witholding the report from the HSGAC for partisan political reasons.”