On Thursday, 13 U.S. military personnel -- 11 Marines, two Army soldiers, and a Navy corpsman -- were killed in a suicide bombing as they were working essentially as refugee processing clerks instead of acting as a badder-than-bad security force for evacuating personnel and Afghanis.
But what happened after that suicide bombing attack made matters even worse.
According to Politico, the remaining diplomatic mission in Afghanistan felt it was necessary to place new trust in the Taliban that has ringed the Hamid Karzai International Airport where the evacuations out of Kabul are taking place after U.S. forces were attacked and killed. Reports said that a splinter faction, ISIS-K, was responsible for the attacks, but as CNN noted in an interview with an ISIS-K commander that aired on Friday but was conducted two weeks ago, fighters and elements of that group moved freely in and out of the city.
And someone within that diplomatic mission also provided the Taliban -- the Taliban, the militant group U.S. and NATO troops have been fighting for two decades -- the names of all Americans remaining in Afghanistan, some of whom are not going to make it out ahead of the Aug. 31 deadline.
“Basically, they just put all those Afghans on a kill list,” one defense official, who, like others, spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the subject matter, told the outlet.
“It’s just appalling and shocking and makes you feel unclean," the official added.
Politico noted further:
U.S. officials in Kabul gave the Taliban a list of names of American citizens, green card holders and Afghan allies to grant entry into the militant-controlled outer perimeter of the city’s airport, a choice that's prompted outrage behind the scenes from lawmakers and military officials.
The move, detailed to POLITICO by three U.S. and congressional officials, was designed to expedite the evacuation of tens of thousands of people from Afghanistan as chaos erupted in Afghanistan’s capital city last week after the Taliban seized control of the country. It also came as the Biden administration has been relying on the Taliban for security outside the airport.
One of the reasons why many military planners and several U.S. lawmakers with military and combat experience did not want Biden to collapse onto the airport at Kabul was because it was too difficult to defend, as we've seen. The better option, they said, would have been to keep enough U.S. forces at the massive Bagram Air Base, which was the nerve center for U.S. and NATO operations for two decades, because it would have been easier to defend.
Biden, mind-addled as he is, said no, however. No more troops.
In a press conference the day of the attack, Biden couldn't say for sure whether the list had been turned over to the Taliban but he didn't dispute the report, either.
"There have been occasions when our military has contacted their military counterparts in the Taliban and said this, for example, this bus is coming through with X number of people on it, made up of the following group of people. We want you to let that bus or that group through," he said. "So, yes there have been occasions like that. To the best of my knowledge, in those cases, the bulk of that has occurred and they have been let through.
"I can't tell you with any certitude that there's actually been a list of names," he added. "There may have been. But I know of no circumstance. It doesn't mean that it doesn't exist, that here's the names of 12 people, they're coming, let them through. It could very well have happened."
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