The unnamed Capitol Police who fatally shot Ashli Babbitt at the January 6 events was ‘formally exonerated’ after an internal probe in a new report by NBC News on Friday…
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BIDEN ADMINISTRATION TELLS AMERICANS STRANDED IN AFGHANISTAN TO PAY FOR THEIR OWN FLIGHTS HOME…SPEECHLESS…
President Joe Biden’s administration is telling Americans who are stranded in Afghanistan to pay for their own passage back to the U.S…
‘Nobody can get to Kabul airport’….
Westerners and Afghan visa holders are facing fresh hell at Kabul airport today as they try to flee Afghanistan…Ex-pats say they cannot reach checkpoints to get into the airfield because ‘terrified locals’ are blocking them…Britons, Norwegians, Australians, and Canadians all said their way out of the country was blocked by crowds of Afghan refugees and Taliban guards who dished out beatings and whippings seemingly at random…
Pentagon Pressed On Why British Paratroopers Leaving Kabul Airport to Rescue Brits While American Military Isn’t Ordered to Do Same…
Maj. Gen Hank Taylor said ‘our main mission continues to be to secure’ the Kabul airport…
CIA Counter-Terrorism Chief Joins Growing List of Officials Saying Biden WAS Warned Afghanistan Could Capitulate in Days…
Douglas London said Biden was being ‘misleading at best’ in his denials…London was the CIA’s counter-terrorism chief for south and south-west Asia…He then worked as a volunteer adviser to the Biden campaign…
Taliban ‘Carrying Out Door-to-Door Manhunt’: Intelligence Group…
The Taliban terrorist group is carrying out a highly organized door-to-door manhunt for people on their wanted list, according to the head of a nonprofit providing intelligence to the United Nations…
BIDEN ADMINISTRATION MOVED TO DISMANTLE PROTECTIONS FOR CITIZENS TRAPPED OVERSEAS MONTHS BEFORE KABUL’S FALL: MEMO
The Biden administration moved in June to dismantle a system designed to protect American citizens trapped abroad — just months before the Taliban took over Afghanistan, stranding thousands of Americans in the Central Asian country…
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin Says U.S. Doesn’t Have Capability to Leave Kabul Airport and Evacuate Americans…
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Joint Chief’s Chairman Mark Milley held a Pentagon press briefing today about the unfolding crisis in Afghanistan. [Full Presser Here] As the Taliban has taken full control over the country and capital, the U.S. presence in Kabul has been reduced to securing the airport as a temporary fortress, and telling U.S. citizens to try and get there…
Gen. Milley Claims Nobody Expected Taliban to Take Afghanistan in Just 11 Days…He’s a Liar…All of Them Are…
As President Biden continues to insist that he regrets nothing and that there was no way for his administration to predict how swiftly Afghan military forces would collapse, allowing the Taliban to regain control of the entirety of Afghanistan, after the US pullout, Gen. Mike Milley spoke at a press briefing on Wednesday to help cover for his boss, yet the president’s excuses are starting to contradict one another…
Why the Afghan Army Folded to the Taliban…
The Taliban’s swift takeover of Afghanistan caught the West by surprise, as no one had expected that the Afghan government forces would not put up a fight and vanish into thin air so quickly…
The War Nerd: Was There a Plan in Afghanistan?…
Was there ever a plan there? So what was supposed to happen back in October 2001, when the US forces invaded? I’ve been going through the papers of record, the NYT and WaPo, to see what the official line was, year by year. The first years of an occupation are the most important, so I’ve focused on the first five full years of US occupation, 2002-2007. You can find a good timeline of these years here, but it’s much harder to find any trace of a plan…
FLASHBACK: This Is Why U.S. Military Trained Afghan Defense Forces Collapsed…
The loss of U.S. contractors could trigger a game-changing shift in the military balance between the Taliban and the Afghan government…
U.S. Intelligence Warned in July That American Trained Afghan Defense Forces Would Capitulate to the Taliban…the Same Month Biden Said the Government Wouldn’t Fall…
In July, Biden said a Taliban takeover was ‘not inevitable’ and rubbished the idea of a hurried evacuation of the U.S. embassy in Kabul…But a new report suggests intelligence agencies delivered a string of increasingly dire warnings about the possibility of a Taliban takeover…One assessment in July said government forces were unprepared for a Taliban assault on Kabul…
Taliban Commander Who Gave Taunting Victory Speech from Kabul Palace Was Released from Guantanamo After Claiming He Was a ‘Simple Shopkeeper’…
A Taliban commander claimed he spent eight years in Guantanamo Bay in a triumphant speech from inside the Presidential Palace in Kabul Sunday…This came as the militants declared an Islamic state of Afghanistan after President Ashraf Ghani fled his country amid chaotic scenes…Experts identified the commander and former Gitmo detainee as Gholam Ruhani, who was accused of being a longtime security agent for the Taliban…
UNREALISTIC TIMELINES, UNSUSTAINABLE GOALS MADE ‘VICTORIOUS U.S. WITHDRAWAL’ FROM AFGHANISTAN IMPOSSIBLE…
A “victorious U.S. withdrawal” from Afghanistan was impossible to achieve because the U.S. government created unrealistic timelines to rebuild the country, leading to short-term fixes such as injections of troops, money and resources, according to the watchdog agency created by Congress to provide oversight…
Pentagon Admits Taliban Has Billions in U.S. Weapons…
If anyone was holding out hope that the Pentagon has some clue where all those billions in weapons that accumulated in Afghanistan over the past 20 years ended up, don’t…
U.S. State Department Tells Americans in Afghanistan to Head to the Kabul Airport but “Cannot Guarantee Your Security”…
How would you like to be one of the 15,000+ American citizens in Kabul, or surrounding region, and getting this notice from the United States State Department:…
‘This one will hurt for a long time’: U.S. Veterans Despair As Taliban Take Over Much of the Country They Fought In…
U.S. troops who deployed to Afghanistan over the past two decades say the Taliban’s rapid conquest of much of the country in the past week has left them stunned and dismayed…
The U.S. Government Lied for Two Decades About Afghanistan…
Using the same deceitful tactics they pioneered in Vietnam, U.S. political and military officials repeatedly misled the country about the prospects for success in Afghanistan…
“A Big Money Funneling Operation” — Afghanistan Vet Reflects on Withdrawal of U.S. Forces…
As the withdrawal of US military forces from Afghanistan nears (apparent) completion, images of Bagram Airfield littered with deserted fleets of American-made vehicles — ripe for the taking of whoever ends up with control of that base — have come to exemplify the enormous waste our 20-year intervention is leaving behind…
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