So secret that

John Hudson @John_Hudson · 50m SCOOP: CIA Director Bill Burns held a secret meeting with Taliban leader Abdul Ghani Baradar in Kabul on Monday, the highest-level face-to-face encounter between the Taliban and Biden administration since the militants seized the Afghan capital 1/It's quite the tete-a-tete. Biden’s spymaster is also his most seasoned diplomat. For Baradar, playing counterpart to a CIA director comes with a tinge of irony 11 years after the spy agency arrested him in a joint CIA-Pakistani operation that put him in prison for 8 years 2/The CIA declined to comment on the secret meeting (as it always does when asked about the director's foreign travel) but the Burns-Baradar chat likely involved the looming deadline for the US to conclude its evacuation. Also a great chance for Burns to size up the Taliban chief

Come notizia dovrebbe bastare per il momento a tenere buoni gli alleati del G7.

Sarà interessante ascoltare ذبـــــیح الله atteso nel pomeriggio per una conferenza stampa.

Update

Extending deadline to Aug 31st was a unilateral decision by US against the agreement.We won't allow it anymore & call on them to evacuate by that date, they have the possibilities, they have planes, the airfield is with them & they can evacuate people by that date. (translated by taliban activists)

Burns sembra un personaggio di Downtown Abbey.

Quando si manda uno a trattare, bisogna tenere conto di contesto-obiettivi-profilo interlocutore.

Non basta il biglietto da visita da capo di CIA.

Update 2

He also made clear that with each day of operations on the ground, we have added risk to our troops with increasing threats from ISIS-K, and that completion of the mission by August 31st depends on continued coordination with the Taliban, including continued access for evacuees to the airport. In addition, the President has asked the Pentagon and the State Department for contingency plans to adjust the timeline should that become necessary.

Ormai è terrorizzato. Il ricatto europeo non ha aiutato.