A Marine who survived the fatal bombing at a Kabul airport during the 2021 US withdrawal from Afghanistan said he was told not to kill a suspected ISIS terrorist who he believes was responsible for…
and were tracking a man whom intelligence officers believed was a suicide bomber “throughout the entirety” of the day leading up to the explosion.
Vargas-Andrews told the committee that his team continually updated intelligence teams that day on the suspect’s actions, noting the men were an “anomaly in the crowd” and “both had obvious mannerisms that go along with who we believed him to be.” Vargas-Andrews was working in the crowd outside the airport’s Abbey Gate when an ISIS terrorist detonated the suicide vest.The marine believes that the man was the suicide bomber responsible for killing 13 Americans and more than 160 Afghans later same day.When Whited finally arrived, Vargas-Andrews said his team showed him evidence and photos of the men.
“He again replied he did not know who and would find out. We received no update and never got our answer,” he said. “Eventually the individual disappeared. To this day we believe he was a suicide bomber.” “We were ignored. Our expertise was disregarded,” he said of the lead-up to the blast. “No one was held accountable for our safety.”Afghanistan during the mission, but the Biden administration has been regularly criticized
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