{"id":651446,"date":"2021-08-16T14:51:18","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T18:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=651446"},"modified":"2021-08-16T14:51:21","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T18:51:21","slug":"biden-withdrawal-leaves-navy-vet-in-talibans-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-withdrawal-leaves-navy-vet-in-talibans-hands\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Withdrawal Leaves Navy Vet in Taliban\u2019s Hands"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-withdrawal-leaves-navy-vet-in-talibans-hands%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=651446&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"28.402985074627\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/\">National Security<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Mark Frerichs on verge of becoming &#8216;Bob Levinson of Afghanistan,&#8217; advocate says<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"952\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/0001-736x952-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/0001-scaled-e1629136245601.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/0001-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/0001-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/0001-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/0001-1187x1536.jpg 1187w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/0001-1583x2048.jpg 1583w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/0001-1400x1812.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/0001-379x491.jpg 379w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tFBI\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/jack-beyrer\/\" title=\"Posts by Jack Beyrer\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Jack Beyrer<\/a> \u2022 August 16, 2021 2:50 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"75.637019230769\">\n<p>Navy veteran Mark Frerichs remains a hostage of the Taliban as the Biden administration panics to bring home troops and civilians remaining in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Frerichs, a civilian contractor kidnapped by the Taliban in January 2020, could be left behind in the panic to evacuate Americans who are trapped in Kabul as the city comes under Taliban control. President Joe Biden only mentioned Frerichs, whose location is unknown, once in a July speech, though government officials have&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/the-taliban-kidnapped-a-navy-vet-in-afghanistan-the-biden-administration-risks-leaving-him-behind\/\">assured<\/a> the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>&nbsp;they are urgently working to retrieve him.<\/p>\n<p>Charlene Cakora, Frerichs&#8217;s sister, released a statement that urges readers to remember Frerichs and calls for his return home.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Please remember that my brother, Mark Frerichs, is a hostage of the Taliban,&#8221; Cakora <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IAmAmnaNawaz\/status\/1426938863654670337?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>. &#8220;We want all US troops home safely, but my brother should be able to come home too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mark Frerichs is on the verge of becoming \u2018the Bob Levinson of Afghanistan,&#8217; another American hostage left behind because his government had other priorities,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IAmAmnaNawaz\/status\/1426938867001737216?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> Eric Lebson, a hostage advocate and former National Security Council director of Afghanistan and Pakistan affairs. &#8220;The opportunity to bring Mark home has been in place since last summer, but just takes the will of the White House to make it happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bob Levinson, a former FBI agent who was detained by Iran in 2007, is now presumed dead.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban has floated the idea of swapping Frerichs for Bashir Noorzai, a drug trafficker who has ties to the Taliban and is in U.S. custody. Both the Trump and Biden administrations resisted such an exchange, but time may be running out. The Taliban seized unprecedented leverage in talks with the United States by seizing the Afghan capital of Kabul over the weekend. Some Americans reportedly remain behind Taliban lines within Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Security Mark Frerichs on verge of becoming &#8216;Bob Levinson of Afghanistan,&#8217; advocate says  FBI  Jack Beyrer \u2022 August 16, 2021 2:50 pm &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}