The Army investigation into the August 26 Abbey Gate attack at the Kabul airport included interviews with over 130 people.
The Army investigation into theat the airport in Kabul that killed 13 U.S. service members and 170 Afghan civilians included interviews with over 130 people who detailed the weeks ahead of the noncombatant evacuation and its final days.
"Frankly not much leadership came from within the [Department of State] personnel at all, especially, the senior ones," said another official who was involved in evacuating U.S. embassy staff in Kabul to Hamid Karzai International Airport . The official said that his unit went through the embassy compound, evacuating State Department employees who were"intoxicated and cowering in rooms.
"Abbey Gate just had a large parking lot of people, there were people sitting inside the checkpoint under cover that had been there for days waiting," one official said."There was no methodical checking system like there was at North or West Gate. To me, that is the failure. I don't want to say the attack was inevitable, but it was where the risk was."
"We thought [the evacuation] would be an orderly process just like the way we were practicing it," an official said."It just didn't play out that way." Interviews also brought to light previously unreported incidents outside of HKIA involving U.S. military personnel. An Afghan national lost an eye from a flashbang grenade, U.S. Marines shot and killed two Taliban soldiers after they"pointed weapons" at the Marines and a Marine accidentally blew off parts of his hand with a flash-bang grenade.
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