by ZeroHedge News Staff at ZeroHedge
A new military tell-all book has shed more light on Biden’s disastrous Afghan evacuation, and the events which led to a suicide bomber killing 13 American troops at Kabul airport in 2021.
It’s been two years since the disaster at the airport gate which also killed some 170 Afghan civilians who were trying to flee the Taliban’s rapid takeover of the capital. Authors Jerry Dunleavy and James Hasson, the latter a former Army officer who served in Afghanistan, reveal in the book that the foundation for a tragic ending was already laid given that the US relied on the Taliban for security during the chaotic exit.
“Our findings — tucked away in the Pentagon’s own documents and in the own words of military officers personally involved in the Afghanistan evacuation — provide more damning evidence about the dangerous stupidity of relying upon terrorists like the Taliban to provide security at Kabul airport,” co-author Dunleavy has said.
The book is entitled ‘Kabul: The Untold Story of Biden’s Fiasco and the American Warriors Who Fought to the End,’ and comes out this week. It documents at least two opportunities that US forces had to disrupt the attack.
For example, the book reveals that intelligence surfaced of an impending ISIS-K attack on American troops manning entry points a full nine days before the tragic events of Aug.26 at Karzai airport’s Abbey Gate. And up to within two days before the attack, “intelligence channels were humming with warnings”—but the Marines were kept in place to do the impossible task of crowd control while trying to allow airport access to fleeing US citizens, as thousands of desperate Afghans pushed against the gates.
The authors have accessed intelligence files which show that some US officials understood that a violent attack or bombing was almost inevitable:…
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