WASHINGTON: Previous Afghan security employees with sensitive understanding of US operations left out by the American evacuation operation are vulnerable to recruitment or coercion by Russia, Cina and Iran, His party lawmakers said on Sunday (Aug 14), noting that President Joe Biden’s administration failed to prioritise evacuating them.
“This is especially genuine given reports that will some former Afghan military personnel have got fled to Iran, ” minority Conservatives of the US Home Foreign Affairs Committee said in a survey on the first wedding anniversary of the Taliban takeover of Kabul.
The Biden management, the report said, failed to prioritise evacuating US-trained Afghan commandos and other elite products in the shambolic August 14 to August 20, 2021, US troop pullout and evacuation operation at Kabul airport terminal.
Thirteen ALL OF US soldiers died plus hundreds of US citizens plus tens of thousands of at-risk Afghans were left behind throughout the operation.
The administration calls the particular operation an “extraordinary success” that travelled more than 124, 000 Americans and Afghans to safety and wound up an “endless” war in which a few 3, 500 ALL OF US and allied soldiers, and hundreds of thousands associated with Afghans died.
But hundreds of US-trained commandos and other former security personnel and their families remain in Afghanistan amid reports the particular Taliban have been killing and torturing previous Afghan officials, accusations the militants deny.