Monitoring Desk: Khan Mohammed, who was sentenced to two terms of life imprisonment in 2008 under drug trafficking and terrorism charges has been swapped with Ryan Corbett and William McKenty as a step toward the “normalization” of ties between the US and Afghanistan, reports US media.
It may be remembered that the Transatlantic Intelligence Consortium that is a specialized think tank composed of former intelligence officers and counterterrorism experts released a report titled “HOW THE US, EU & UN ARE FUNDING THE TALIBAN AND AL-QAEDA” in which it revealed that $40 million every week arrives to Kabul by plane from the US, EU to fund Taliban and $7 billion, the money that belonged to the Afghan people. Tim Burchett who is a member of Congress wrote a letter to Donald Trump on January 2, 2025, indicating that he (Tim Burchett) raised the issue in the year 2023 but his bill was intercepted and he would again move the bill. He stated in the letter that the US government does shipment of cash payments in US dollars to Afghanistan’s Central Bank. These cash shipments are auctioned off and after that, they are nearly impossible to trek. This is how the Taliban is being funded and plans to fund terrorism around the world. “The Taliban’s foreign ministry in Kabul confirmed the swap, saying two US citizens had been exchanged for”, reported the Guardian online newspaper.
It is pertinent to remember that Washington recently brokered a rapprochement of the Afghan Taliban and India and Indian Secretary of External Affairs Vikram Misri met the acting foreign minister of Afghanistan Amir Khan Muttaqi, in Dubai for normalization of Indo-Afghanistan relations.
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