WASHINGTON — The Biden administration aided the United States during its 20-year war with the Taliban, and thousands of Afghans still stranded in the war-torn country. There are no plans to help. The top Republican on the House Foreign Relations Committee argued in a dismal report that
Rep. Michael McCall (R-Texas) saidthat "tens of thousands" of Afghans He warned that he remained "trapped" and threatened with reprisals from the fundamentalist government.
Those left behind include former Afghan military elites, translators and female leaders whom the United States has promised protection.
A minority in the congregation has found that the Biden administration still has no plans to help its endangered Afghan allies who fought side by side with the U.S. military. , left the Afghan capital Kabul on August 30, 2021, after a chaotic evacuation mission marked by an ISIS-K suicide attack, 13 US soldiers and 160 Afghans.
The United States and partner countries airlifted some 130,000 people out of the country during weeks of missions, but McCaul reports that many more have had to fend for themselves.
"After the evacuation debacle, A minority in the Commission argued that America's position in the world had deteriorated, that the United States was less secure than it had been, and that the Afghans most at risk of Taliban reprisals remained trapped in Afghanistan.
Those left behind in the face of Taliban crackdown were very hopeless, the Texas lawmaker said, with a watchdog report in May of this year putting about 3,000 members of Afghan security forces at risk. Members were found to have fled to neighboring Iran like the West, and the Kabul-backed government collapsed.
McCor's team said nothing about the evacuation. Reviewed hundreds of reports and memorandums, interviewed witnesses, and visited Pakistan, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar in preparing the report, several of which they claim contributed to the failed pullout.
For example, only 36 State Department officials were in Kabul to screen 124,000 evacuees, according to a report. If people were on site, the process would go faster and more
"Several US Marines stationed at Abbeygate [at Kabul Airport] told Army investigators that US State Department personnel were on the ground. They said they were rarely present and when they did appear were inconsistent," the report said.
They also criticized the poor evacuation plan, stating that "senior leaders in the offices of Vice President Kamala Harris and First Lady Jill Biden's office are allies of Afghanistan vulnerable to groups of veterans." "It was so unorganized that I asked them to help the Americans." outside the country.
"The fact that administration officials felt the need to go to volunteer organizations and tactical-level commanders on the ground rather than using the State Department or other governments. The entity's formal internal processes stress that "all contingency plans" were not actually put in place," the report said.
Despite continuing to monitor Afghanistan from afar and killing al-Qaeda leader Ayman Zawahiri in the Kabul drone attack on July 30, the report criticized the Biden administration's "beyond the horizon" counter-terrorism strategy, criticizing Afghanistan's
A report Tuesday by the Office of the Inspector General of Defense backed up the claim.
``The US government has made progress in its counter-terrorism operations in Afghanistan. Implementation has faced significant challenges due to the lack of a physical presence in the country, the lack of partner forces, lack of information and lack of access to nearby military bases," the Pentagon report said. .
ISIS-K also continues to have "intentions and capabilities" said. Attack US government facilities, equipment, and personnel in South and Central Asia. However, he noted that the group has so far focused its attacks only on non-U.S. targets in Afghanistan and neighboring countries. Yes, but it doesn't have the capability," the Pentagon report said. “[Defense Intelligence Agency] reported that there was no indication that ISIS-K planned, trained, or conducted a terrorist operation targeting the continental United States.”
Pentagon report The Taliban have seized about $7.1 billion worth of military equipment left behind by the US in Afghanistan, according to the Taliban. This includes approximately $923.3 million in aircraft and her $4.1 billion in military vehicles, some of which were inoperable during the evacuation.
fleets of both aircraft and vehicles," the report said. says. "Without this ongoing support, the long-term operability of these assets will be limited."
It included approximately $294.6 million and $511.8 million in weapons such as rifles, grenade launchers and howitzers, although it is unknown how many are still in service.
In the future, McCaul called for additional analysis of withdrawal and evacuation missions in the report. Please don't let it happen again.
