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\nU.S. Marine Sgt. Tyler Vargas-Andrews<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cDuring and After the Fall of Kabul: Examining the Administration\u2019s Emergency Evacuation from Afghanistan.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Republican-led House Foreign Affairs Committee held its first hearing Wednesday on the United States’ precipitous troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, \u201cOne of the worst foreign policy failures in American history.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the panel is a U.S. Marine who was deployed there during the chaotic withdrawal in August 2021 and was badly injured in the subsequent IED blast. His testimony is devastating.<\/p>\n

Sgt. Tyler Vargas-Andrews recounted to the Committee how his team deployed to Hamid Karzai International Airport on Aug. 26, 2021, and were tracking a man who intelligence officers believed was a suicide bomber \u201cthroughout the entirety\u201d of the day leading up to the explosion.<\/p>\n

Poetrooper sends.<\/p>\n

Marine Sniper: I Was Denied Permission to Take Out Kabul Airport Suicide Bomber<\/h3>\n

Spencer Brown<\/strong><\/p>\n

After many long months without oversight or accountability for President Joe Biden’s disastrous and deadly withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan, the House of Representatives’ Republican majority is finally doing what the preceding Democrat majority never did: hearing from those whose lives were forever changed on the front lines of the chaos in Afghanistan at the end of two decades of U.S. involvement. <\/p>\n

Tyler Vargas-Andrews, a sergeant in the United States Marines, was in Kabul as the Biden administration’s haphazard withdrawal took place. He was at Hamid Karzai International Airport (HKIA) watching the chaos unfold, and he was one of the hundreds of individual wounded when a suicide bomber attacked one of the airport’s gates where hundreds of individuals were waiting to be screened for evacuation.<\/p>\n

In an emotional opening statement to the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday, Vargas-Andrews told his story, one that the Biden administration never highlighted and Democrats in Congress apparently didn’t want on the record. <\/p>\n

On August 26, 2021, Vargas-Andrews was in position at HKIA when he noticed suspicious individuals outside the gate to the airport as thousands of people were attempting to flee Afghanistan as it fell to the Taliban, fearful for the future and what retribution anyone who’d helped American forces over the previous twenty years would face. <\/p>\n

“I requested engagement authority when my team leader was ready on the M110 Semi-Automatic Sniper System,” Vargas-Andrews said, testifying in his personal capacity. “The response: leadership did not have the engagement authority for us \u2014 do not engage.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Townhall<\/a><\/p>\n

The hearing comes seven months after the committee\u2019s then Republican minority published an interim report examining the withdrawal, characterizing it as a \u201cstrategic failure\u201d and criticizing the administration for not adequately preparing for the Taliban takeover. The white House responded to that report stating it was \u201criddled with inaccurate characterizations, cherry-picked information, and false claims.\u201d <\/p>\n

These falsehoods and inaccuracies were not actually identified by White House reps. ISIS terrorist Abdul Rahman al Logari, who had been freed from prison at the abandoned Bagram Airfield when the Taliban took over Afghanistan, detonated the bomb that killed 13 U.S. service members and roughly 170 Afghan civilians. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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