Armed American Civilians on Private Plane to Afghanistan Arrested in Dubai(newsweek.com)
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Armed American Civilians on Private Plane to Afghanistan Arrested in Dubai
https://www.newsweek.com/armed-us-citizens-caught-way-afghanistan-raising-concerns-rogue-civilian-operations-1626852
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Exactly. I'm surprised this hasn't gotten picked up by more news sources yet.
What was their purpose? To fight the Taliban? To recover US citizens? Recover high value items? To aid the Taliban?
The article makes it sound like a bunch of civilians chartered a flight on their own but it had to have been backed by some very high level interests.
What was their purpose? To fight the Taliban? To recover US citizens? Recover high value items? To aid the Taliban?
The article makes it sound like a bunch of civilians chartered a flight on their own but it had to have been backed by some very high level interests.
The amount of permits, fees, plans and various payoffs that need to be made for a flight to even cross through middle eastern borders is daunting. This doesn't seem like an imaginary rambo mission for that reason.
There are a lot of questions, but I wonder why they thought it necessary to drag weapons along. Anyone who has ever been involved in a civilian flight over there would have told you how dumb that is.
Couldn't they have just bought a few RPGs and AKs down at the local bazaar like everyone else? They probably could have picked up a few ARs too, right?