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Report: Taliban Offered Biden Control Of Kabul, Biden Made This Horrible Decision Instead

By • August 30, 2021 11:56 am

The unfolding chaos in Afghanistan related to the pull out of US troops from the country could have been avoided according to reports had President Joe Biden accepted the Taliban’s initial offer for America to gain full control of Kabul and the airport until evacuation efforts are done.

The  Washington Post said in a bombshell report that Taliban forces discussed the proposal of having the US control the country’s capital and the Hamid Karzai International Airport until all its forces have been fully withdrawn – but was turned down by the Biden administration.

The outlet said the meeting took place between senior US military officials and Taliban political leader Abdul Ghani Baradar in Doha, Qatar.

“In a hastily arranged in-person meeting, senior US military leaders in Doha – including McKenzie, the commander of US Central Command – spoke with Abdul Ghani Baradar, head of the Taliban’s political wing,” the report wrote.

“We have a problem,” Baradar said, according to the US official. “We have two options to deal with it: You [the United States military] take responsibility for securing Kabul or you have to allow us to do it,” the Washington Post added, however, that “throughout the day, Biden had remained resolute in his decision to withdraw all American troops from Afghanistan. The collapse of the Afghan government hadn’t changed his mind.”

“McKenzie, aware of those orders, told Baradar that the US mission was only to evacuate American citizens, Afghan allies, and others at risk. The United States, he told Baradar, needed the airport to do that,” the report further said.

“On the spot, an understanding was reached, according to two other US officials: The United States could have the airport until Aug. 31. But the Taliban would control the city,” it added.

Blast at Kabul airport kills 13 US servicemen

But as the US pushes through with the evacuation of its citizens, allies and troops out of Afghanistan, the security situation in Kabul has deteriorated, culminating in a recent terrorist attack last Thursday that left 13 American military personnel and 160 Afghans dead.

According to a story published last week by Politico, the Biden administration entrusted the Taliban with guarding the city so much that they were even handed a list of American citizens, green card holders, and Afghan allies in the region that they want to evacuate amid reports that the Taliban are also hunting down locals with ties to US efforts in Afghanistan over the years. 

Biden also did not deny the report and admitted that “there may have been” a list of names handed over to the Taliban to be permitted access into the outer perimeter of the airport, currently held with Taliban checkpoints. 

“There have been occasions where our military has contacted their military counterparts in the Taliban and said, for example, ‘this bus is coming through with X number of people on it made up of the following group of people. We want you to let that bus or that group through,’” Biden said earlier when pressed for details on the said list that earlier triggered public outrage.

“So yes there have been occasions like that, and to the best of my knowledge, in those cases, when the bulk of that has occurred,  they have been let through. But I can’t tell you with any servitude that there has actually been a list of names. There may have been, but I know of no circumstance. That doesn’t mean it didn’t exist,” Biden added at that time.

As the situation in Afghanistan becomes increasingly hostile with the US scrambling to pull out its presence by the August 31 deadline, Republicans pounced on the Washington Post article on Twitter, blasting the Biden administration for not accepting the Taliban’s original offer – which would have saved lives, and prevented the deadly attacks in the airport.

“If the reports are true, and the Biden administration willfully gave control of Kabul to the Taliban, they have yet again shown their complicity for a terrorist takeover,” GOP Senator Marsha Blackburn (Tennessee) wrote on Twitter in response.

Texas Senator Ted Cruz also slammed Biden by reposting an ad that wrote: “Mr. President, Americans deserve better. Your impulsive actions, bias and indecision in your crisis in Afghanistan have caused Americans eternal shame.”

“Want to know what incompetence looks like? Read this? We could have kept Kabul..we only asked for airport. It was Austin’s decision to leave Embassy – not even a threat- all have to be fired..Sec’y of state in Hamptons as war was lost!!” commented Brian Kilmeade, Fox & Friends host.

The ongoing turn of events in Afghanistan has also led to calls for resignations or impeachment from among the ranks of the Biden administration including President Joe Biden himself and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, among others.

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