The Taliban have halted all flights of Afghan evacuees for the past 2 weeks in a dispute about how Kabul airport is run and who is allowed on evacuation flights, a congressional source, 2 refugee advocates and a source familiar with the matter say.
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Before the flights stopped, the Taliban were using the seats to send migrant workers out of Afghanistan to Qatar, Saudi Arabia and other destinations to find work, according to the congressional source and the source familiar with the matter. While Taliban fighters were designating who got the seats, it is not clear whether the people leaving were hardened Taliban fighters, sympathizers, civilians or a combination of the groups.
But the source familiar with the matter said that in some cases, the Qataris are operating the flights for the Americans and that the decision to deny seats to the Taliban was at the urging of the U.S.
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