WASHINGTON: Former Afghan security personnel with sensitive knowledge of ALL OF US operations left behind with the American evacuation procedure are vulnerable to recruitment or coercion by Russia, China and Iran, Republican lawmakers said on Sunday (Aug 14), noting that President May well Biden’s administration failed to prioritize evacuating them.
“This is especially true given reports that some former Afghan military personnel have fled to Iran, inch minority Republicans of the US House International Affairs Committee said in a report to the first anniversary of the Taliban takeover of Kabul.
The Biden administration, the particular report said, did not prioritize evacuating US-trained Afghan commandos as well as other elite units in the shambolic Aug 14-30, 2021, US troop pullout and expulsion operation at Kabul international airport.
Thirteen US soldiers passed away and hundreds of Us residents and tens of thousands of at-risk Afghans were left out during the operation.
The administration calls the operation a good “extraordinary success” that flew more than 124, 000 Americans plus Afghans to safety and wound up an “endless” war in which some 3, five hundred US and allied troops, and hundreds of thousands of Afghans died.
But hundreds of US-trained commandos and other former security workers and their families stay in Afghanistan amid reviews the Taliban happen to be killing and torturing former Afghan authorities, allegations the militants deny.
All those former personnel “could be recruited or even coerced into doing work for one of America’s adversaries that maintains an existence in Afghanistan, which includes Russia, China, or even Iran”, the Republican report said.
It known as that possibility the “major national safety risk” because all those Afghans “know the US military and cleverness community’s tactics, techniques, and procedures. ”
Some US officials and professionals say Biden offers sought to move on from Afghanistan with no properly assessing the particular war’s lessons minus accountability for the topsy-turvy evacuation.
The particular Republican report wedded new details of the extraction operation along with congressional testimony and military and information reports to show how the administration overrode US commanders’ advice, failed to adequately plan and disregarded the Taliban’s violations of a 2020 pullout deal.
In another finding, it said the particular administration waited till hours before the Taliban seized Kabul to make key evacuation choices.
They incorporated asking other countries to host transit centers for thousands of Afghan evacuees exactly who worked for the US government during the 20-year American intervention among others at risk of Taliban retribution, said the document.
“Very small was done to organize for a Taliban takeover of the country” or for the evacuation, this said.