And so thirteen Americans were killed. And no investigation has been held, no one was held responsible, because they’re all one big club in Washington, and they look out for one another.
“Kabul airport bomber was known for ‘days’ before explosion that killed 13 Americans: ex-Marine,” by Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Post, August 25, 2022:
A Marine wounded in last year’s suicide bombing at Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport claims the bomber was spotted near the airport days before the explosion that killed 13 American service members.
“We knew about him two days prior to the attack,” Tristan Hirsch of Chico, Calif., told his hometown paper, the Enterprise-Record, referring to the Aug. 26, 2021, bombing that also left at least 170 Afghans dead.
“We knew what he looked like. The CIA let us know,” he added about getting the heads up to look out for the suspicious man.
Hirsch said his fellow Marines recognized a man fitting the CIA description approach the airport’s Abbey Gate — where thousands were trying to enter in order to flee the country as their government fell — on multiple occasions prior to the attack.
“The day prior and the day during, he’d show up and leave,” said Hirsch, who no longer serves in the Marines. He clarified that he did not see the bomber personally.
The Post could not independently confirm Hirsch’s account, and many civilians approached the Abbey Gate multiple times in their efforts to escape the country ahead of the expected brutality of Taliban rule.
But at least one Marine was confident enough he’d identified the suspected bomber that he radioed for permission to kill him.
“A friend of mine who was a sniper racked back his rifle and was ready to kill the guy,” Hirsch told the newspaper. “We asked for permission and the reply was, ‘Let me get a military judge to see if it’s legal.’”
Hirsch also repeated the claim, echoed by others in the immediate aftermath of the attack, that there was a second bomber in the crowd who failed to detonate….
Barbara says
This reminds of when the politicians would not allow the downed pilots and other know soldiers missing. The military had about a 48 hour window to successfully rescue him. BUT politics came first. Reputations of the president’s policy was more important.
somehistory says
Okay, so a guy known to have been a terrorist….the taliban opened the prison and let out hoards of them…was identified, the military was given a heads-up to be on the lookout for him, and when he shows up, a “judge” has to decide if he can be killed….in a war zone? And the answer is “no.”
How about the two women killed at the capitol in d.c. on Jan 6…Ashley Babbit shot by a cop; and another woman whose name I cannot recall, beaten with a baton by cop, and stomped on by cops, and people trying to rescue her, beaten back and she died.
What “judge” decided it was “legal” to murder them? In a civilian, state-side, protest?
There is something very evil going on. This country, once held up as a beacon of liberty and law, on its way to Armageddon as a leader of demon forces.
We can’t honestly claim we have not been warned.
Rev. 16
Wellington says
America: Founded by near geniuses, now run by fools, the actually malevolent and idiots. This is the long and short of it and it fills me with great sadness in my heart.
gravenimage says
Kabul airport jihad bomber was known days before explosion, CIA and Pentagon wouldn’t give permission to kill him
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Suicidal insanity–quite literally.
And the evacuations never should have taken place from Kabul airport to begin with–which never could have been properly secured–but from Bagram Airbase. That the airbase was shut down not just before evacuations were complete, but even before *civilian* evacuations were complete, is incompetent of the most basic kind.
gravenimage says
“OC communities making sure 13 Americans killed in Kabul airport bombing are remembered on anniversary”
https://www.ocregister.com/2022/08/26/oc-communities-making-sure-13-americans-killed-in-kabul-airport-bombing-are-remembered-on-anniversary/
Here is touching story–but one that should have been unnecessary:
“Marine names son after 2 Camp Pendleton friends killed in Kabul airport bombing a year ago”
https://www.ocregister.com/2022/08/26/marine-names-new-son-after-two-camp-pendleton-friends-killed-in-kabul-airport-bombing-a-year-ago/
Walter Sieruk says
It’s so terribly amazing ,in the most negative sense, that all those Muslims who engage in the jihad suicide /homicide bombing as well as jihadist suicide/homicide attacks with firearms because of the deceptions of false religion of Islam that they have no idea ,at all that they have became dangerous and deadly to themselves and others in a false causem, of false religion which has many false doctrines.
One of which is that a a lust -filled paradise that contains much sex for the Muslim/jihadist who dies for the case of Islam’
About that lust-infested Islamic paradise ,that Bible had predicted the coming of such false doctrines and the men who accept such story /doctrines as “truth.”
For the Bible informs its reader “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers ,having itching ears and shall be turned unto fables.” Second Timothy 4:3,4. [K.J.V.]
Likewise the Bible also predicted the coming of false teachers as those imams, who indoctrinate such false teachings into the hearts and minds of young men . For in Second Peter 2:1 which reads “But there were false prophets among the people , even as there shall be false teachers among you , who privily shall bring damnable heresies ,even denying the Lord that bought them , and being upon themselves swift destruction.”
“Damnable heresies” or to be more specific a “bannable heresy” such a false doctrine is that a paradise with many virgins in to to wed at deadly Muslim jihadist.
This deception of such a place as that kind of paradise is so completerly ingrained in the mind and heart of dedicated jihadist/Muslim that some of them even make a video recording to be played after he become a “martyr” about his “wedding with the virgins “that he will have in that paradise.
Such a video only reveals how totally ignorant he really is about the teaching of Jesus, who he views as a genuine prophet, For Jesus taught in Matthew 29,30. “Jesus answered and said unto them.”Ye do err not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God. For in the resurrection they will neither marry ,nor are given in marriage, but are as the angles in heaven.”‘
The Bible further warns against believing in such religious stories ,as in instructs against giving “heed to fables…” First Timothy 1:4.
In great contrast, to the jihadist with his Islamic fable of a such a paradise with ‘dark-eyed houris”, Christians have the reality of Second Peter 1:16 which reveals “For we have not followed cunningly devised fables ,when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitness of his majesty.”