The USA offer prisoner change to free Americans held in Afghanistan

The USA offer prisoner change to free Americans held in Afghanistan

The USA offered a guantanamo bay prisoner for the release Exchange of three Americans who are captured in Afghanistan. This reported a source familiar with the conversations.

conversations with the Taliban

The United States has been talking to the Taliban for several months about an exchange of the release of Ryan Corbett, George Glezmann and Mahmoud Habibi, which were arrested in Afghanistan in 2022. However, the Taliban did not confirm the arrest of Habibi.

The exchange proposal

The USA has made the proposal to release Muhammad Rahim Al Afghani, who is considered the “close employee” of Osama Bin Laden, to release the three Americans in an exchange. The Taliban then reacted with the wish to get Rahim and two other people.

US representative in Doha

successful hostage negotiations

The bid administration has already achieved success in the release of Americans who were wrongly held abroad, most recently from China and Russia. Nevertheless, the attempt to bring the Americans back from Afghanistan are likely to come across political obstacles that were reinforced by the fatal US deduction in August 2021 and the return of Taliban to power.

explanations of the National Security Council

A spokesman for the US national security council did not want to confirm details about the offers that first in Wall Street journal . However, he emphasized that the government "works around the clock to ensure the safe return of George, Ryan and Mahmood". He also emphasized the successes of the bid administration to the release of Americans held abroad.

priority of the US government

"President Biden and his team continue to work in partnership with important allies in order to negotiate the release of Americans who are kept as hostages or are wrongly imprisoned abroad so that they are reunited with their families," said the spokesman.

The Biden administration does not recognize the Taliban as an official government of Afghanistan, but has negotiated with the group in Doha on topics such as human rights and the established Americans. Matthew Miller, spokesman for the State Department, expressed in August: "We are deeply concerned about the well -being of the well -being of the Americans - Mahmood, Ryan and George Glezmann - who is wrongly held in Afghanistan - and bring their arrests in every conversation with the Taliban."

family care and health concerns

The families of the arrested are for a long time to do the US government to do more for the release of their relatives. The women of Corbett and Glezmann have expressed deep concern about the health of their husbands. Dennis Fitzpatrick, the Glezmann family's lawyer, said CNN on Wednesday that George was depressed and desperate in calls to his wife, Aleksandra.

In a letter to Biden in July, Aleksandra Glezmann wrote that the "health of her husband left away", he had a benign tumor on one side of his face, which has losing eyesight in one eye and developed ulcers on his body. "I recently received short, monitored calls with George. He expresses despair that I have never heard of him before. In addition to his words, I can hear the resignation in his voice," she wrote.

hopes for an agreement

Fitzpatrick said on Wednesday that an agreement could be reached in the last days of the bid administration, but emphasized that important officials such as the president and the security advisor "have to make some decisions". Last March, Corbett's wife, Anna, expressed that she worried about her husband's well -being and explained: "His health worsens. His mental health is suffering. And he still lives, but we don't know how long and we have to bring him home immediately."

This situation remains tense, while the efforts to release the Americans in Afghanistan.