The brand new US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, has warned the Taliban leadership that his country will offer a “huge reward” on their heads if the North American Intelligence services end up confirming that there are more Americans detained in Afghanistan than estimated so far.
«I am hearing that the Taliban have more American hostages than have been reported. If this is true, we will have to immediately offer a huge reward by its main leaders, perhaps even bigger than the one we offered for (the leader of Al Qaeda) Bin Laden», Rubio has made known on his X social network account, without giving more details about it.
Just hearing the Taliban is holding more American hostages than has been reported. If this is true, we will have to immediately place a VERY BIG bounty on their top leaders, maybe even bigger than the one we had on Bin Laden.
—Secretary Marco Rubio (@secrubio) January 25, 2025
The Taliban, back in charge of the country since their 2021 reconquest, announced last week that the United States had freed the Afghan Jan Mohamadconvicted by a US court of drug trafficking and extremism in exchange for two US citizens detained in Afghanistan.
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One of the freed Americans was Ryan Corbettaccording to a statement from his family. Corbett had been detained by the Taliban since 2022, according to the family. American media identified the second freed American as William McKenty.
No mention was made of two other Americans, the tourist George Glezmann and Mahmood Habibidetained by the fundamentalist regime since 2022. Habibi was the former director of the Afghan Aviation Authority during the deposed Afghan government.
The Taliban spokesman and deputy minister of information, Zabiullah Mujahid, He assured the North American network CBS in the middle of the month that the movement has no record of Habibi among its detainees nor did it mention Glezmann’s situation.
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