{"id":147322,"date":"2023-09-16T12:00:58","date_gmt":"2023-09-16T16:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=147322"},"modified":"2023-09-16T12:00:58","modified_gmt":"2023-09-16T16:00:58","slug":"the-pentagon-orders-more-interviews-related-to-the-kabul-airport-suicide-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=147322","title":{"rendered":"The Pentagon orders more interviews related to the Kabul airport suicide attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The military is interested in the testimony of service members present at the Kabul airport during the chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal. They are interested in interviewing military personnel and veterans, who were present during the attack, but\u00a0who have not been interviewed about this attack. The Pentagon hopes to obtain new or different information than what previous interviewees provided.<\/p>\n

From the Associated Press News:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Officials on Friday began informing family members of those killed in the bombing as well as members of Congress about the latest plan. Lt. Gen. Patrick Frank, head of Army Central Command, is overseeing the team conducting the interviews, which is led by Army Brig. Gen. Lance Curtis. Gen. Kurilla has asked Frank to provide an update in 90 days.<\/p>\n

In emotional testimony during a congressional hearing in March, former Marine Sgt. Tyler Vargas-Andrews told lawmakers that he was thwarted in an attempt to stop the suicide bombing . He said Marines and others aiding in the evacuation operation were given descriptions of men believed to be plotting an attack before it occurred.<\/p>\n

He said he and others spotted two men matching the descriptions and behaving suspiciously, and eventually had them in their rifle scopes, but never received a response about whether to take action.<\/p>\n

“No one was held accountable,” Vargas-Andrews told Rep. Mike McCaul, R-Texas, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. “No one was, and no one is, to this day.”<\/p>\n

The March hearing was set up to examine the Biden administration’s handling of the withdrawal. Taliban forces seized the Afghan capital, Kabul, far more rapidly than U.S. intelligence had foreseen as American forces pulled out. Kabul’s fall turned the West’s withdrawal into a frenzy, putting the airport at the center of a desperate air evacuation by U.S. troops.<\/p>\n

In April, President Joe Biden’s administration laid blame on his predecessor, President Donald Trump, for the deadly withdrawal. A 12-page summary of the results of the ” hotwash ” of U.S. policies around the ending of the nation’s longest war asserts that Biden was “severely constrained” by Trump’s decisions.<\/p>\n

It acknowledges that the evacuation of Americans and allies from Afghanistan should have started sooner, but blames the delays on the Afghan government and military, and on U.S. military and intelligence community assessments.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Associated Press News has additional information<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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