A Marine seriously wounded in the explosion at the Kabul airport during the final week of the US war in Afghanistan recounted the horrific experience during a HouseForeignGOP hearing. Sgt. Tyler Vargas-Andrews lost an arm and a leg in the 2021 attack.
Sgt. Tyler Vargas-Andrews, who lost an arm and a leg in the 2021 suicide attack at Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport, told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that he had spotted a person matching the description of the expected suicide bomber. He said he was not given the green light to shoot and that the man disappeared."Throughout the entirety of the day on Aug.
"Eventually, the individual disappeared. To this day, we believe he was a suicide bomber. We made everyone on the ground aware. Operations had briefly halted but then started again. Plain and simple, we were ignored," he added."Our expertise was disregarded. No one was held accountable for our safety."
ISIS-K operative Abdul Rahman al Logari, who had been freed from prison at the abandoned Bagram Airfield in August 2021 when the Taliban took over Afghanistan, detonated a bomb that killed 13 U.S. service members and roughly 170 Afghan civilians who were attempting to flee. "A flash and a massive wave of pressure. I'm thrown 12 feet onto the ground when, instantly, I knew what had happened. I opened my eyes to Marines dead or unconscious lying around me," he described, breaking down, adding that his right arm was"completely shredded and unusable," while his"lower abdomen [was] soaked in blood.""I tried to get up but could not.
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