Two still missing American hostages in Afghanistan underscore the limits of a troubled peace deal in the US with the Taliban and the administration signed Trump reducing the ability to bend the militants for the US attack occurs when the group for their Afghan allies . Since the United States has an agreement with the Taliban just before the intransigent faction of the Haqqani militant group of American entrepreneurs and Navy veteran Mark Frerichs kidnapped in Afghanistan on January 31. The administration Trump, who was aware that was missing, went forward and the February 29 signed Friedensabkomme anyway. Provided is a ceasefire Taliban against US troops in exchange for their eventual retirement, but made no specific mention of hostages, nor specify any protection for US contractors, current and former US officials tell TIME. E ‘was to bring startling admission by President Donald Trump, American prisoners home a high priority has done before. Now some lawmakers in Washington asking for a trade Trump administration with the Taliban to find a tougher agreement and free Frerichs and Paul Overby, another American in Afghanistan disappeared in 2014 from Florida Republican Congressman Michael Walzer, a veteran of the Afghanistan war, TIME says that during a conference call from the State Department with US lawmakers in late April, he wondered why the United States “continue to negotiate with a unit, the Taliban / Haqqani -., who took hostage during the negotiations, and continues to hold it, “says Catherine Mary” Molly “Phee, Congressman on the US team that negotiated the deal, said Amb. that “the taking of hostages, is not technically a violation because it does not explicitly in the matter.” He recalled that he added that the State Department was “to take action to get him free, do not want to join the call.” Waltz says his he and other lawmakers angrily respond to the call. A State Department official said Phee a very different recollection of the call had. “It was clear that it is not to be taken by the Taliban of American hostages or keeping them in order,” and that the agreement “does not contain an explicit commitment by the Security Taliban threaten us. That is, attacks of any kind against the Americans” the official said, on condition of anonymity to discuss to discuss the controversial exchange. Critics of the contract, such as Waltz, head of the US Amb Taliban say traders. Zalmay Khalilzad seems to be more interested in maintaining the agreement that he signed personally that turn the screws to secure the release of Taliban Frerichs or looking Overby. Keeping intact the business key for the US withdrawal of troops Trump promised his followers before the presidential elections of 2020. Frerichs family ‘, but says that they put their faith in Trump. “We know that President Trump is doing everything he can American hostages come home safely,” Charlene cakora, sister of Mark Frerichs told TIME in a statement through an intermediary. “He will not let Mark behind. We trust that it will cut does not let its diplomats even more interested with the guys waiting for my brother, along with their release”. The peace agreement should Feb. 29 Taliban attacks against US troops in exchange for their withdrawal stage end of a period of 14 months and to start peace talks between the militants and an Afghan delegation. Previously, these intra-Afghan negotiations have failed to materialize in an ongoing controversy about the number of captured Taliban, the Afghan government is ready to solve, as part of the agreement. The Taliban have stepped up their violent attacks against Afghan security forces. The US military mission in Afghanistan has the power to share detailed data stopped these accidents, according to the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR). The US military would only say that SIGAR in March, after signing the agreement, the Taliban avoided attacks against US forces, while attacks against Afghan troops reinforced. The Taliban has refrained from officially announced the start of its spring fighting season in an apparent nod to the deal, but have intensified attacks, the State Department and the US military have prompted the group to name attacks on Afghan forces ratchet down. “The world, #Taliban asked violence and focus on # COVID19 set. Now it’s time to stop the violence,” wrote Sonny Leggett, a spokesman for US forces in Afghanistan, on Twitter on Saturday. “Generate attacks attacks while moderating generated moderation,” he added in a later tweet. “If the violence can not be reduced – then yes, there will be answers.” Commerce American entrepreneur Mark R. Frerichs, former Navy diver and civil Lombard, Illinois, was abducted by elements of the Haqqani Network, on January 31, the current and former US officials confirmed TIME. US officials and Afghan officials have confirmed that the Haqqani time were behind the kidnapping. He was held for a period of Khost province in southeast Afghanistan, he said on the margins of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, a former US officials. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive issue. The militant Haqqani network is responsible for some of the most brutal and deadly attacks against US troops in nearly two decades of conflict in Afghanistan. Their leader Sirajuddin Haqqani is the deputy commander of the Taliban, with a brother on the team that negotiated the agreement with the Americans. Haqqani wrote in support of the peace agreement an opinion piece that appeared in The New York Times. The cell FBI Hostage Recovery merger would not comment on ‘the case, for example, beyond this, that Mark Frerichs and all Americans held hostage abroad, returned to work with our partners to ensure home’ Frerichs in a statement Monday at TIME via e-mail. Believed to have been kidnapped the two Americans in Afghanistan is a freelance writer Paul Overby, the center missing in May 2014 in the city of Khost, while searches of the book. There are million dollar reward for information leading to her safe return and recovery. His wife Jane Larson asked for his release in 2017 in an article published in a Pakistani newspaper, but declined to comment for this article. Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen says once that his organization does not hold the entrepreneur nor the Haqqani family. “Mark Frerichs is not hijacked by the Taliban. Of course, Dr. Khalilzad asked for his release, but our people did not know where he was,” he said in Doha on Monday, referring to the recent Khalilzad requests made to find and drop it. Shaheen has offered no comment to Overby. The US-Taliban deal almost did not happen when Trump of negotiations in September 2019 went to a Taliban attack in Kabul that killed several people, including a US soldier. The Taliban has sought other ways to contact Trump talks directly restart and finally voted American Kevin King and the Australian Timothy publish weeks that had been held for three years by the Haqqani network, in November, in exchange for three high-profile prisoners including Sirajuddin Haqqani brother Anas, say Afghan officials TIME. American talks resumed in December. But Frerichs and Overby were missing, initialed as Trump February 29 deal that a timetable for complete withdrawal created us according to the conditions, including the progress in intra-Afghan talks. This is a marked change from Trump manage individual cases previous hostages and previous governments. Legendary US negotiator Amb. Famous conversations about Richard Holbrooke Dayton stopped for a week to talk about peace to deliver waste to Serbian militias a US journalist James O’Brien recalls, the first US envoy for Hostage affairs, a position created in the Obama administration. “This was a test,” he said long indeed say: “How can I give you rely peace if you can not deliver this an American” The peace agreement seems to be little to be done for every American to protect not wear uniforms, an administration of a high standard and a former official time show the US that the US business with the sign does not apply to Taliban thousands of US entrepreneurs who work for the protection, care and feed the American military. “Take the key to a uniform,” the administration official tells TIME. “If the person killed or kidnapped a US armed forces in uniform, then the Taliban would contract violation. However, technical contractors are not covered by the deal.” In fact, the conditions that are in violation of the agreement say peace are “incredibly tight,” the former US military officer serving in Afghanistan recently. “If the Taliban shot a uniform military members and took public credit, would be a violation … And if the person was connected with the military, but not in uniform (the contractor or, where applicable, public employees), not would be hurt, “the official said. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive issue. Another US military officials familiar with the deal have agreed that contractors are “a big gap” in the contract in general, adding that the state party to any international installation and maintenance is not clear “, in particular those used by companies not registered in the US “or other coalition nations. Not only will the status of their protection under the uncertain peace, it is unclear whether they are connected to the same schedule US withdrawal, as the troops supporting them. If these entrepreneurs have to leave in the same 14-month window while American forces do, the official said, would be devastating impact on the Afghan forces because the parties have almost all of their logistics and maintenance. “If you were founded Blackhawks and A-29, the Afghan security forces would lose much of their mobility and combat air support,” the official said, speaking anonymously because he did not speak in public, was authorized. US Central Command in Afghanistan and the US military did not respond to requests for comment. However, officials of the State Department insisted that contractors are covered by the contract, the official said, “it contains an explicit commitment by non-US security Taliban threaten. That is, attacks of any kind against the Americans.” -In John Walcott / Washington copyright Image of Sabawoon-NurPhoto / Getty Images Wali signaling
The American hostages Left Behind Trump for Taliban peace deal
