The official narrative is that an ISIS-K suicide bomber got through Taliban “security” and detonated, resulting in the deaths of 13 U.S. military personnel and a number of Afghans. Yet what the people on the ground keep saying is that there was a firefight afterward.
Why it matters.
If there was a firefight, then there was a significant terrorist presence at HKIA and the narrative that the Taliban were providing security falls apart.
The Biden admin and its brass claimed to have partnered with the Taliban, and claimed that the terrorists could be trusted. They have every incentive to cover up evidence that a sizable terrorist contingent was actually on the scene.
So what really happened that day?
For Chappell and some of the other families of those killed that day, the release this month of a U.S. military investigation examining the attack has caused them to question whether Defense Department officials distorted its findings. In interviews, they castigated the Biden administration for placing their loved ones — most, like Nikoui, barely 20 years old — into such a dangerous situation and said that the Marines who survived the explosion told them they endured a firefight afterward — claims the Pentagon has dismissed.
This is a core issue here. Why would military personnel lie about being in a firefight? What possible motive could there be? We know why Biden’s people would be motivated to lie about their decision to trust the Taliban.
On Feb. 4, U.S. military officials announced at the Pentagon that, after an extensive investigation, they had determined that a single suicide bomb with “disturbing lethality” caused the staggering loss of life.
But according to their full report, survivors of the attack described a more complex situation. In witness statements, Marines recalled coming under and returning gunfire, sprinting to the blast site to treat survivors with tourniquets and clotting agents, and struggling to find enough refrigerated storage for all of the remains.
One reconnaissance Marine with 15 years of military service said that, after the explosion, he heard “snaps and cracks of rounds all around him” and observed what appeared to be people suffering from gunshot wounds. Like all but a few witnesses, this individual’s name was redacted from the report.
Another Marine recalled shooting numerous times.
“I went in and saw a lot of Marines shooting by the Jersey barrier,” the Marine said. “There was a lot of smoke. I couldn’t see where they were firing. They grabbed me and I started firing my weapon as well. I don’t know what I was firing at.”
A Marine scout sniper who was in a nearby tower said he saw a child suffering from what he surmised were gunshot wounds, because of the size of the injuries. He recalled beginning to treat the child, only to discover a much larger fatal exit wound.
“I can say for sure that we could have been hit,” he told investigators. “Three shots hit the tower. One was in line with my head.”
Chappell, who lives about 100 miles from Camp Pendleton in Norco, Calif., said that her son’s Marine friends have visited her frequently and believe they were attacked with small-arms fire after the bombing.
“I talked to one kid personally, face-to-face at my son’s burial,” she said. “That’s how I found out about gunfire. He showed me his scar and told me had been shot.”
There were experienced personnel there with plenty of battlefield experience. They know what they’re talking about and they know the difference between gunfire and something else. The administration’s brass however insists that they were delusional.
Marine Col. C.J. Douglas, who investigated the reports of gunfire, said during the Pentagon news conference that there is “no proof that any U.S. or Afghan person was injured or killed by gunfire.” The confusion, he said, likely stemmed from “the fog of war and disorientation due to blast effects.”
“Plainly put,” Douglas said, “the blast created instant chaos and sensory overload.”
No doubt. Except that there were people there who had been in combat on multiple battlefields and had experienced the fog of war and disorientation. It doesn’t explain specific physical evidence of gunshots.
Navy Capt. Bill Urban, a U.S. Central Command spokesman, said analysis by certified medical examiners and explosives experts determined that the “majority of casualties” attributed to the bomb came from ball bearings, primarily five millimeters in diameter each. The ball bearings caused entry and exit wounds “similar to rifle gunshots caused by 5.56 mm bullets,” and prompted doctors to classify some injuries as gunshot wounds that were not, he said.
Again, after Iraq and Afghanistan, there are plenty of people on the scene who were unlikely to make that mistake.
The administration is working hard to deny and dismiss the notion of a firefight even though it’s not at all implausible that Taliban and Marines could have exchanged fire in the aftermath of the suicide bombing.
It would be an entirely plausible explanation. So why deny it so vocally?
One answer would be that what they’re covering up is not just a fog of war firefight, perhaps brief, but Taliban complicity in the attack. And that complicity ties in with the complicity of the Biden administration in turning over Kabul and airport security to the Taliban.
libertyORdeath says
Everything they say is a lie. I remember the reports of a firefight on the day of the bombing.
mortimer says
$32-million Beijing Bribed-man lied at every stage of the ill-considered, disastrous withdrawal and lies constantly now.
Almost every sentence he speaks contains falsehood.
somehistory says
Well, liars lie. And biden and his string-pullers and his henchpeople are all liars. That fact has been proven again and again.
Thank you, Mr. Greenfield, for exposing yet more lies by the liars who so easily dismiss Truth and Lives that truly matter. They will “reap as they sow.” No question about that. And no lies, either.
somehistory says
OT
https://www.glennbeck.com/radio/explained-they-ll-use-our-finances-to-take-full-control?utm_source=glenn-dailyPM&utm_medium=
“Explained: They’ll use our FINANCES to take FULL control’
gravenimage says
Was There a Firefight After the Jihad Suicide Bombing at Kabul Airport?
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Trusting the bloody *Taliban* was always madness.
Oren says
No matter how economically beneficial it might be to the Afghan muslims to pretend to be friends with the americans and the europeans, their hatred of non muslims supersedes rational considerations. Like I have pointed out before, if you take western money the muslim people will hate you and your regime will become unstable, but if you hate america and europe, and support attacks against their presence, then your regime will be loved by the people and stable.
Might as well evacuate all american troops, its not like you are going to kill more muslim and taliban than they can stomach, establishing for yourself A place in afghanistan. Why wait for more americans to die before you run? In G-d I trust.
OLD GUY says
Why would any sane person trust the Taliban? Thats like trusting that rattle snake sunning its self on your patio to not bite you when you pick it up. How dumb can our leadership be?
Walter Sieruk says
That jihad suicide /homicide bombing in Afghanistan was terrible.
All those horrendous jihadist murder attacks were the outcome of the Islamic doctrine from the Qu’ran [the Koran] of a sexual paradise with many virgins, houris , in it for the male Muslim /jihadist who dies fighting in the jihad for the cause of Islam is found in the “holy book” of Islam, the Koran, in Sura 44:54. 55: 56. 78:31. Also there is the Koranic instruction of Sura 9:111 which teaches, “The believers fight in Allah’s Cause, they slay and are slain, they kill and are killed.” Getting back to the origin doctrine of Islam from the Koran of a sex –filled paradise with many houris for the use only by the male jihadist who dies fight for the advancement of Islam.
All this started when the founder and prophet of Islam, Muhammad manufactured Islam he put, had stolen, some of sex doctrine of Zoroastrian mythology and a yet smaller bit of Hindu mythological sex teachings along with as well as mixture pagan Arabian folklore and myth plus a heavy dose of Judaism and Christianity. Also, some of it apostate “Christianity” For the prophet of Islam, Muhammad, couldn’t discern the difference between genuine Bible based Christianity and bogus “Christianity.”
Those words and teaching Muhammad gathered from many sources, including the virgins /sex place mythology. , and taught as “Divine Truth” were written down on many things then later compiled and then went into the composition of the Koran. So, the hoax of the Koran is actually a mixture and fusion Judaism Christianity and mythology of other religions and now the Muslim clerics with the Koranic brainwashing of young Muslims who are thoroughly mind programmed into believing this Islamic/Koranic virgins’ myth.
This deception of false doctrine /myth into the thoughts of some people was predicted in the Bible along with the false teachers who engage in the indoctrination of such a myth /doctrine into the minds and hearts other people. For it is written, “For the time will come when they will not stand wholesome teaching but will follow their own fancy and gather a crown of teachers to tickle their ears. They will stop their ears to the truth and turn to mythology.” Second Timothy 4:3,4. [N.E.B.]