Taliban Threatening To Block The Evacuation Of Thousands Of Afghans Who Are US Citizens And The Release Of An American Engineer If An Afghan Drug Lord Is Not Released

Whats is the swap deal between the US and Taliban.. release the Afghan drug lord Bashir Noorzai in exchange of the last US hostage with Haqqani network https://t.co/2fKJ5uiW9R via @india_narrative

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Foreign Policy: Taliban Pressing for Prisoner Swap With U.S.  

The group wants to trade an American engineer abducted two years ago for an Afghan drug lord imprisoned in the U.S.  

Leaders of the Taliban are pressing Washington to free an Afghan drug lord serving a life sentence in a U.S. prison in exchange for the release of an American engineer, Mark Frerichs, held in Afghanistan for two years now, Afghan and American security, legal, and diplomatic sources said. 

The group is also threatening to block the evacuation of tens of thousands of Afghans who hold U.S. citizenship or are eligible for resettlement in the United States until the drug lord, Bashir Noorzai, can go home to Kandahar, according to Steve Brooking, a former official with the British government and United Nations in Afghanistan. 

Noorzai helped fund and arm the Taliban’s insurgency with proceeds from heroin trafficking. He was arrested in New York on drug trafficking charges in 2005 and has been serving two concurrent life sentences since 2009.  

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WNU Editor: If this is not blackmail and hostage taking I do not know what is. 

The Biden administration has already signaled that they are ready to release this Afghan drug lord and Taliban financier .... Biden to Pardon Afghan Drug Lord in Exchange For The Last American Hostage (Albawaba).