CNN: Taliban Says Any U.S. Evacuation Plans Beyond August 31 Will Be Met with a ‘Negative Response’

‘Their rhetoric at the moment in terms of making veiled threats towards the United States and the coalition may be mitigated by the need to actually relate in a sensible way humanitarian disaster’

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KILEY: "John, Brianna, there are now persistent threats around the airport. And it’s as if tensions weren’t high enough, there’s also now statements coming from the Taliban spokesman out of Qatar saying that as far as the Taliban are concerned, any plans that the United States have of extending the evacuation beyond the agreed August 31st date would be met with a negative response, in his words.” 

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