Rubio designates Afghanistan as 'state sponsor of wrongful detention': 'Despicable tactics'
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio designated Afghanistan as a state sponsor of wrongful detention and demanded the Taliban release Americans in its custody.
"I am designating Afghanistan as a State Sponsor of Wrongful Detention," Rubio said in a statement. "The Taliban continues to use terrorist tactics, kidnapping individuals for ransom or to seek policy concessions. These despicable tactics need to end."
The secretary also called on the terror group to free a pair of Americans who are "unjustly detained" in Afghanistan.
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