The Glenn Beck Program - Best of The Program | Guests: Rudy Atallah & Saber Nasseri | 8/23/21

Episode Date: August 23, 2021

Pat Gray joins to further discuss what the Taliban have been doing since their Afghanistan takeover and how a major terrorist is helping shape Afghanistan’s future. Nazarene Fund COO Rudy Atallah gives an update on the rescue mission, but the two things holding the organization back from fulfilling its mission are the Taliban and America’s own State Department. Afghan interpreter Saber Nasseri calls to discuss his experiences in Afghanistan and how his family is being targeted. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oh, it's Monday. What a Monday it is, too, Stu, right? I mean, nothing going on in the news. Well, except for, did you see that the ATF is redefining automatic weapons and taking just a few triggers off the market? And they don't need to go to Congress. They can get all of these things done now. Oh, good, good, I'm glad. So we have that going on for you.

Also, something is happening in Afghanistan. I've heard something about this. We'll get into the details. He may not have heard any of these developments, but they're shocking. Right. And the president is standing by his decision. And strangely, no one will answer the question directly. Is he even competent at this point?

Wait until you hear what happened on the news shows over the weekend on Sunday news shows. That ends so much more on today's radio program. You can subscribe at. blazed d.com slash glenn promo code is glenn to save 10 bucks off your subscription as well as make sure to go to the nazarene fund.org it's available still up there we're still raising money even though you've passed the 26 million dollars is what we're at it's an amazing thing we have a lot of people to save and not a lot of time you're listening to Biden has it handled and in fact you know the sycophans at ABC. I mean, they even pointed out how correct he was. Listen to this. Hey, you're reporting early

yesterday from the Kabul airport was frankly terrifying. We didn't talk to you in person because you were being chased out of the airport in a armored car. And you even had it much easier than the average Afghan, right? So President Biden has basically said now, hey, it was a really chaotic scene four or five days ago. He took control. He said to make it more orderly. From what you've been seeing, does that hold water? It's just not true. I mean, what has happened? What is fair to say is that they took control of the military side of the airport. They secured the perimeter. They managed to move all those people we saw on the runway, those tragic scenes of people clinging on to C-17s. But they didn't just go home. Of course they didn't. I mean, there are

thousands and thousands of people down there. It is a very scary, wild and dangerous place. Oh. Well, other than that, other than that, just like Biden said. I should say, I think that was Friday. So every report says it's deteriorated since then. So that was the high water mark of our Yeah, of course. Of course. We have people on the ground now in Kabul and it is

not good. Let me just give you a couple of things here. I'm just reading around what I can. Between 20,000 and 40,000 refugees are outside of the gates

trying to get in. The DOD on Saturday was not allowing anyone in. 16,000 people were stranded inside the gates at the terminal and on the tarmac waiting for flights. They, the Taliban is just checking if this. The Taliban is using biometrics along the northern border to ID. Afghans who worked for the coalition forces and killing them. Now, gee, how are they getting the biometric information on those people? That's, uh, huh.

That's weird, isn't it? That's weird. I wonder if we, oh, we did leave all of that information, didn't we? Oh, yeah, it was us again. Shoot. Yeah, that's, uh, that kind of sucks. You know, what's not being mentioned at all is that the vice president of Afghanistan and did not flee the country and was saying, hey, I'm over here.

Wait a minute. I'm part of the government. Trying to organize a resistance. Yeah, trying to organize a government and a resistance. And we're completely ignoring it. Well, the Taliban says, who cares what the Taliban says? Did you see that the Taliban issued a red line to the United States government today? Yeah.

A red line. Do not cross this red line. Or else. Or else. What? Yeah. What are we talking about here? I know.

We let the clip a minute ago and they're like, well, we were trying to deal with the Afghan, the Taliban requirements. The Taliban requirements? Who? We're the United States of America. They don't require things of us. What is happening? It's, it's madness.

And, you know, like a few people put together an armed resistance in northern, some of the northern districts. Not with any of the military equipment. that we left behind. No, the Taliban has it all. Right. They put together a small little resistance and drove them out of their villages. Why are we doing that throughout the whole country?

Why aren't we doing that at the gates of the airport? Right. It is, it's sick. It is really sick what's, what's happening. By the way, CBS News, they have finally, finally given us something. crystal clear that on who to blame

for the Taliban if you've lost your crop and your land or the Afghan government hasn't paid enough attention to you then of course the Taliban can come and exploit it they claim that

climate change is partially to blame for the rise of the Taliban now when I read that first I thought Babylon B right no CBS News CBS News. That was a serious point, is what you're saying.

It was a serious point. You know, if that's what, you know. Well, the only thing you can do when the temperature rises, point nine degrees, no matter what the cause is. Go to the Taliban. Turn to Islamists. Yeah. Yeah. That's usually what you do.

That's pretty much what you do. Yeah. My crop has died. What do I do? Go to the Taliban. Let's go murder some girls. Yeah. Right.

You know what I mean? That's the normal response. Sharia law? It's the only alternative to climate change. Hey, here's another one. I don't know if we covered this in our agreement with the Taliban, but this should have been a big don't do this to the Taliban, one of our little red lines.

One of America's most wanted terrorist with a $5 million bounty on his head is in Kabul. He's reappeared. And he is now one of the Taliban leaders mapping out the future of the country. His name is Khalil Harkani, and he has pledged a new era for Afghanistan. He was leading prayers for the Taliban fighters at a mosque there in Kabul. The Harkhanis, that's I guess a bunch of brothers, have been blamed for some of the deadliest terror attacks across the world in recent years. They have been designated as a foreign terrorist group by the United States and United Nations, despite their reputation,

they are expected to be a powerful player in the new regime following the Taliban's takeover in Afghanistan. Another key leader of the Harkani network is Anus Harkani. That is a good name. Now, some might say it's pronounced an ass, but I think it's anus Harkani.

Uh-huh. He was also, anus was in the capital on Friday. He runs a Anus runs a shadowy group. That's not a surprise to me. Yeah, one of the most powerful networks

behind the Taliban. And, and, you know, they, they, they've, they've been on the jihad since the Soviets were in. And now they're, you know, we, the CIA used them as an asset. As an asset,

anus. And his group was an asset for the CIA. That's good. Yeah. We were involved in that one too, huh? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Wow. You guys see the picture of the Taliban before and after the CIA training? No. You didn't see that photo? No. On the top was the Taliban all gathered together with their AK-47s with their fingers on the triggers. Post-CIA, they all had the fingers off the trigger and in the safety position. Yes.

Oh, that's good. Yes. So the CIA trained them not to put their fingers on the trigger unless you're going to shoot somebody. And I think that's what they do now. Should they have tried to train them to not shoot the nine-year-old children? Yes, they probably should have. I'm going to say yes on that one. That was in the next lesson.

But we needed to get out of there. We needed to get out of there. Did you see the mock of Iwo Jima? Yeah. You see this still? I don't know that I did it. They have the military uniforms now. in our military uniforms and all of our assets,

this is them mocking Iwo Jima, raising the flag. My gosh, is that real Taliban flag. Yeah, it is. I mean, this is so embarrassing. They're mocking us. I can't believe that Twitter is still allowing them. Facebook is still allowing them.

I mean, the Taliban has a meme department now and they're mocking us? I saw an article that said, how can you, how can you cancel forever the former president of the United States Donald Trump, but you have the Taliban leadership up there?

Well, they're following the rules of Twitter. They're following the rules of Twitter. Oh. Oh, okay. Huh. All right. Wow. I can't. I just don't even know how to. Keep them up there, I guess.

Whatever. Mm-mm. By the way, a flashback back to 2010 letter back in the found in 2010 revealed that al-Qaeda targeted President Barack Obama, but not Joe Biden because Osama bin Laden considered Biden to be an incompetent fool that would lead the U.S. into crisis. What? Where do you get that? He had forbidden al-Qaeda from trying to assassinate Joe Biden because he considered the then vice president to be incompetent. It was likely to lead the U.S. into a crisis if he were to assume the presidency. That era, Joe Biden was incompetent. What is this era still Biden?

Incontinent as well. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program. Rudy is our CEO of the Nazarene Fund. Rudy, welcome. How are you? Thanks, Glenn. Good to hear your voice. Good to hear you. Can you give us an update? You're on the air, by the way.

Give us an update on everything you can. Yes. So we're getting our first 340 passengers out as we speak. The plane is getting ready to take off. It's on the ground. It's on the ground and being loaded? Yes, it is. Okay, good. So that's good news. A lot of the people that are boarding are.

are extremely dehydrated. We had to move aprons because the tarmac is covered in feces. There are over 16,000 people inside the airfield. It's an absolute mess. The outside gate was just closed because of IED threats from ISIS. Taliban are blocking people on the outside perimeter of the airport and not allowing them through. President Biden says that there's no harm coming to U.S. citizens or people they're trying to get in, that they're not being beaten by the Taliban or anything else. Can you... Everything that's come out of this, this administration has been nothing but lies. Right now, our biggest obstruction has not been, has not been, you know, our ability to extract people, but it's been the U.S. State Department that's a diplomatic front. However,

however, right now, we, you know, different countries that want to take people or have agreed to take people are requesting diplomatic notes from the State Department that when they arrive, you know, one, two, three will happen. And the State Department keeps telling us we will not write any notes. We will not give you any support whatsoever. So we're in the middle of diplomatic wrangling's trying to figure out when we go rotate people in, rotate planes in to take them out, where we're going to take them to next destination. So we're in concert talking to, we have countries that will take them. Why is our State Department not willing to say, yes, you can move them?

They've been the biggest obstruction. I mean, guys in DOD that I'm working with are leaning forward in the saddle to help us, but the State Department not a single soul in there is being helpful whatsoever. I understand a lot of congressmen and senators are angry. They're writing letters and they're trying to get things moving, but it's been extremely slow. I've never, ever in my entire life, seen anything so messed up and so discombone. It's just, it's just been a nightmare for us.

But we're determined to get people out. I mean, we're figuring out different angles, different ways. The threat keeps increasing every single day for the people not and not only from, you know, from the different radical groups on the ground, but we're talking about dehydrations, people who are sick with medical conditions. And, you know, there's no food and water, no bathrooms, like I said. So, you know, every second I hear different stories of Air Force wanting to send planes. They're focusing on American citizens, getting American citizens out, but we also have the

SIVs and people who help us. Until we clear the airfield from the inside, we can't bring people from the outside in. So that's the biggest dilemma right now. So that's the part that we're trying to solve as fast as we can. How fast is the military transport planes going? in and out? There are some planes coming in. I heard there's going to be a fairly big rotation of military planes coming in today,

but focused on American citizens. I have not confirmed that yet. I'm trying to confirm it. And I'll be jumping on some phone calls afterwards. But it's been, I mean, the problem is, is normally when you do a non-combatant evacuation, you put the Department of Defense in charge. and then basically the State Department backbenches and supports.

In this case, it's flipped around. So the State Department is trying to run the show, and the Department of Defense is in the back as backbenching. That's why it's gotten so messed up. And the State Department is providing zero support, zero help. Are other operations outside continuing outside of the airport? We're working, yes. I mean, we're working on that diligently.

It's just, you know, the threats are so high right now and getting worse. So, you know, without disclosing much, we're working on one piece of it. And we're coming up with lots of different options as we focus our attention on the airport at the same time. Okay, so do we have the first plane ready to take off here in just a few minutes? What time should that be taking off? Do you know? I think we only have a half hour on the ground, don't we? No, no.

We have a little bit longer than the ground. It's going to be closer to an hour and a half, two hours. But, yeah. Is that going to be followed by another one? Are we in a system yet of being able to rotate them? We are in the middle of trying to sort out the diplomatic issue on the other end, but we have to clear any more people coming in. And that's all because of the State Department. The State Department could take care of this right now.

Oh, absolutely, but nobody's stepping forward. I mean, we spent the – I haven't slept in three days. It's all we've been doing is calling people and trying to get this issue sorted out. My objective has been, you know, let's get them out of Afghanistan, wherever we take them, and then deal with the aftermath there. But it's, you know, it's hard when you fly a plane and then it gets diverted midair to, you know, to another place. And then it sits on a tarmac and, you know, with a bunch of passengers who are dying of dehydration in the back. And then you make matters worse. So we're trying to sort that out all at the same time.

All right. What can we do here that would help? Should we call our senators? Should we, what can we do? Call senators, call congressmen, get people to shake the State Department from the inside out and get them to provide us at least some diplomatic support where we can just go. We have the assets to fly the planes. We have the people on the ground to move the people,

but we just need at least countries that will take them and help us with that portion of it. And we also, we're asking for the State Department to give these planes what? Diplomatics. Go ahead. Yes. We want, we want them to work through our embassies in the various countries just to say, you know, they will give a diplomatic note and say, please, if you take these refugees for 10 days or whatever, you've got them, and then you can rotate them out to next destination.

At least it gives us a little bit of time to work with the bigger countries, you know, Western countries that have agreed to take, you know, refugees permanently, you know, time to cycle in other aircraft that come in and take them to final destination. Okay, good. Thank you very much, Rudy. And God bless you. We are praying for you and millions are praying for all of the people involved on your team. Thank you.

Thank you for all your support. You bet. Bye-bye. Rudy Atali, he is the CEO of the Nazarene Fund. he was on the National Security Council for presidents passed and been in the Air Force for, I don't even know, 30 years, and is a remarkable, remarkable man. So here's what I'd like to do. And if we can get one of our producers on the phone, let's get Ricky and Sarah start to man the phone.

Let's get some of these senators and congressmen that we know on the phone and on the air. We need you to call your senators and congressmen. There's some things that are going on that you will find out about later. We're trying not to ruffle feathers until we can get people out. there's no reason to finger point until we get things out but the state department is a is a problem is a big problem and we need those members of congress to to move it is this is one of the hardest most heartbreaking things i have ever been involved in uh i i get good news and then the A rug is ripped out from underneath me.

The way this is being handled is insanity. Absolute insanity. I've seen government operations. And government operations don't always go your way, but they at least will make sense. If it's a military operation, it will at least make sense to some degree. This makes no sense.

on what is going on. And we're a week into it. And they're still doing this. We have, what is it, nine days? Is it nine days to the 31st? I don't even know the date today. It's 23rd today. Okay.

So we are running out of time. And as he's saying, it's getting worse on the ground. They are becoming more and more emboldened. And we have to get these people out. and we have the planes on standby. We have everything ready. When I asked if we were doing some of the other things outside, you don't know how people are risking their lives to help people right now.

We have people that are in grave, grave danger right now, trying to get people to the airport. You will be amazed when you hear this whole story. but we need you to call your senators and congressman right now flood them right now and tell them we need the State Department to give diplomatic passes to the airplanes that are loaded up with these refugees to allow the UAE to tell the UAE to take these people and hold them for 10 days until they can go someplace else. We've already coordinated all of these other countries.

We have everything we need. We have absolutely everything we need, except the Taliban is holding the gates and stopping us from bringing in some people. We're working on workarounds for that. And then the other obstacle, and these are the two. the Taliban and our State Department. We already have everything else we need. We have the countries where they are going to be accepted,

where they'll be gladly taken. We have places for them to hold until they go to their final destination. We have it all. We don't have all of the people because the Taliban, as Rudy just said, the president is lying to you. He is lying to you. They are beating people at the gates. The other obstacle is our State Department.

I believe it's one and the same. Please call your Senator and your Congressman right now and ask them to please clear the problems with the State Department. to get these refugees out. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. Saber Nasiri is known by a lot of people as Saber Rock. He is an Afghan interpreter. And now his family is being hunted by the Taliban

because he was such a hero in helping the U.S. Saber, welcome to the program. Good morning, everybody. and thank you so much, sir. How are you? I'm 50% okay because I never give up. Even I lost my fingers in the war. Even I was on a front line,

but I know my family, they're hunting right now in Afghanistan, and they have not been saved yet. And the Taliban, they're looking my family around the airport of Kabul Airways. report, but I never lose hope. I just kindly ask everyone to pray for me and we can we can save them. So if you don't know what happened to Saber, he was one of the lead guys early on in the war in the Helmand province, which was one of the most violent regions in the area.

and they had to drive a wedge between the Afghani villagers and the Taliban, and all of the communication then would be driven right through Rock, if you will, Saber Rock. And it ended up really, really, really well. They were doing a documentary film of it at the time. And because of that, he had a $300,000 dollar balance. on on his head and and your family now are it has some of the family has gotten out and are in Dubai and we don't want to identify the family at all but you have other other members of your family

that you're trying to get out and you say they're at the gates of the base yes I cannot share the location right now but they're around the airport and you know I'm a little bit sad it becomes three weeks I couldn't sleep good and 24 hours I sleep one hour because I don't feel you know happy I'm very upset I cannot eat because my my heart and this pain is from my heart you know why because I fought for this country I I'm an American citizen and I sacrifice for this country and they even made a documentary movie about me, that I won Amy Award, Hollywood Amort.

And now, Mr. Joe Biden, that I respect and like him, I know one day he will change Afghanistan. I know one day he will listen to the people of Afghanistan. But unfortunately, he broke my heart. Mr. Joe Biden broke my heart because he, left my family behind he left the other allies behind and so you know some of the military force military retire like Colonel Mard de Vido Mr. Brad Park CEO of Hollywood Film Festival and Nancy Reward especially Lukasra brothers that they made the movie about me

and also Congressman Cressa Smet, Green Barrett, Jerry Torres, they all retire Army and military forces. They are helping me. But Joe Biden, Mr. Joe Biden didn't. Mr. Joe Biden is supposed to support and save my family. He says that the Taliban is not beating people. It's not their abiding by. you know, the way they should behave in international law.

Any comment on trusting the Taliban and what's really happening on the ground? Whatever he said, maybe he mentioned to the social media, but I will give you proof that the Taliban, they're looking for those people who serve for U.S. government, who serve for like a journal, Cornell. They are searching every single house. They beat a lot of people. They tell my family members.

They beat my brothers, both brothers that they are in Dubai right now. His name is Rahim Ahmadi, Mahir, Nasiri. So they're beating everyone. I have proof. You know, the people of Afghanistan want peace in democracy without interfere of foreigners. But people of Afghanistan say, we want majority people of Afghanistan said we want America we want United States forces to stay in Afghanistan for good if not at least they can stay for 50 years

because United States military there and other countries for 17 years why they're lifting us behind what our we didn't do anything so the voice is you the voice are from people of Afghanistan. They're innocent people of Afghanistan. Now, look, a lot of people they're leaving Afghanistan. What does it mean? It means they don't like Taliban. Majority of people of Afghanistan, majority means 99% of people of Afghanistan,

they don't like Taliban. Then they are kindly requesting from Mr. Joe Biden. Mr. Joe Biden can change everything, can save all people of Afghanistan. ton. So they are kindly requesting, please, Mr. Joe Biden, save us from beast, save us from animals, Taliban or animals. So let me ask you this, Saber, the Taliban army did not the Taliban, the Afghani army did not stand up to the Taliban. But we're seeing now all throughout the country, these citizens in towns all over the country standing up and kicking them out of the area. What is what happened to the army? What happened to, you know, your president?

Good. Thank you so much that you brought that. I graduated from political science in Afghanistan, and I'm an expert about Afghanistan. I travel all over Afghanistan. So it means that I'm telling you the truth. So a majority of right now, a majority of a U.S. Afghan army, A.N. A Afghan National Army, they are trying to join Mr. Ahmed, Mr. Ahmad, which is he is the son of the leader of Afghanistan. Ahmad Shah Masu, killed by Taliban. He was the hero and champion. Now they start because 95% of Afghanistan covered by Taliban. 5%, which is Panshir province and north, and some of the province and north,

they are under control of Majahedin. They are under control of the people who beat the Russia, who beat the China, who beat England, who beat the Pakistan and India, whatever. But what happened was the, The manager, the so-called president, Mr. Ashraf Ghani, he elected by U.S. government. He elected by president of the United States, whatever was. He was the fraud, briber, and fascist president we ever had.

He was the hated president of Afghanistan. So then the Taliban, they became. came strong. Why? Because Mr. Ash Afghani was supporting Taliban under table. And they, Mr. Ash Afghani released a lot of Taliban. Mr. Ash Afghani brought the representative of Taliban on the table. Taliban was, was lost the war. America won the war. But Hamid Karzai, Ashafghani, Ashafgani, they support Taliban. You know, the Taliban, they didn't expect that they get the all province of Afghanistan like a water. Why? Because Mr. Ashafghani called every core. We call, we have 11 corps in Afghanistan. They call them, they said, leave all your core, all your battalion

for Taliban. But the people, the army, our army, Afghanistan army, And they said, we can fight. We have tanks. We have helicopter. We have omination. And we have everything. But Karzai and also Ashafghani said, no, leave it to them. That's why we lost Afghanistan.

The problem, majority of people of Afghanistan said, if we see Ashafghani anywhere, we will not leave him alone. They are very, very, very upset from Afghanistan. So when he left, because he apparently left with his family and his gold and everything else, it was kind of, it looked as though he was leaving because of the Taliban. He wasn't, according to you, he's leaving because the people were angry with him? Correct. He left Afghanistan for two reasons.

Number one, he is told. 50 million thousand dollars even he didn't took five million dollar with him he gave him to the PPS the reason why he left because the people was hungry on him number two he left because of the money he stole the money he got it he you know there was a three guy three person control all afghanistan number one ash Afghani number two uh... doctor moheb which is he He was not a doctor, he was a nurse, and there was another guy, Puzzli, Mr. Fazli. These three gentlemen cover all Afghanistan. That's why the Taliban became upset.

The people of Afghanistan became upset. They said, as better, the people of Afghanistan said, it's better that we can leave Afghanistan because these three gentlemen sold every single mind to the neighbors. But they have three, they have to face. Number one, the first phase is just polishers. I'm sorry to say that. He polished everybody. He, you know, he showed his sympathy to the people.

But the other phase was just selling our country, our people, our army, our tank to the enemies of the human being. Right. Including China. Right? That's where the, that's where the mines went. Of course, the copper mine from east of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai sold it before, then Ashafghani sold it. But they sold it and they act under table, not on the table. And I'm sorry to say that.

Kindly, I'm requesting from Mr. Joe Biden, please follow and emphasize Mr. Ashrafgani. You know, we won the war. I'm a U.S. citizen. United States won the war. But now Taliban, they got celebration. They got party. They said we beat Russia, we beat America.

It's not true. It's not true. If the United States want to win the war or jump back, we have one length, we have a big unit right now. They are located in north of Afghanistan, we call Panshir province. The Pansir leader, Mr. Ahmad, son of Ahmad Shah Maseut, champion of Afghanistan, you can just Google it. He said we have 200 special forces units,

and the Taliban, they scared from them. Yesterday, Taliban lost three villages and five cities. Right. So, Croatian started. The people, the northern people, northern line people say, we don't need support of United States now. Right. United States want to support us. We are kindly requesting and welcoming American forces.

We don't need military person. We need our nation. We need air support. Yeah. Then we promise in one year we will get all Afghanistan. We promise that. So we have a strong unit now. Saber, I appreciate the insight on this.

And I do hope that we change our tactics here because we are just abandoning our friends and so many women. women and so many little girls and children from having a safe future and a future of freedom. Saber Nasseri, thank you very much. Our best to you. We will pray for your family and we will do all we can to make sure that your family is with you here as an American citizen. God bless you.