‘Inexcusable:’ Hill hears of chaos, confusion, lack of accountability in Afghan pullout
House GOP kicks over promised oversight hearings on 2021 foreign policy debacle
By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times - Updated: 8:00 p.m. on Wednesday, March 8, 2023
U.S. troops at the Kabul airport on Aug. 26, 2021, thought they had identified the Islamic State suicide bomber who killed 13 Americans and nearly 200 Afghans at the height of America’s frantic military exit. But confusion over the rules of engagement and exactly who could give the order to fire allowed the bomber to escape and carry out the attack, one service member recalled.
Other personnel at the scene told lawmakers at a Wednesday hearing that the Biden administration at sundown stopped processing the U.S. citizens and Afghan allies frantically trying to board planes and flee the country. That decision, they said, helped create a massive bottleneck and turned the airport into a scene of chaos, confusion and human suffering.
Perhaps most disturbing of all, witnesses to the U.S. pullout from Afghanistan said they watched as some desperate Afghans purposefully killed themselves on the razor-wire fences that surrounded the Kabul airfield, choosing a painful, public suicide over the treatment they feared from the extremist Taliban government that retook control of the nation with stunning speed as the American and allied forces departed.
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