Not sure if this is OT, but brain cancer specifically is an inaccurate statement by the President: Biden Exaggerates Science on Burn Pits and Brain Cancer - FactCheck.org ETA - however, the lack of a link may be due to limited data.
Or.........were they told it would not happen so quickly? Biden claimed that it would not happen so quickly, maybe they thoughtlessly, believed him FGS.
I'm not sure where I read or heard - but when we pulled out of Bagram, documents were left behind - which listed names of people on the payroll/who worked for the US. I'm pretty sure that is why the Taliban is knocking on doors and tracking them down.
How soon the rescued forget.
I'll respectfully disagree with your assessment of failure on the troops on the ground. They could not maintain a safe perimeter, nor were they given orders to do that. MOO
THAT is exactly why Americans and Afghanistan citizens who were helping Americans should have been evacuated long before our military were removed. Taliban should have never been allowed to move on the cities of Afghanistan. Period.Isis affiliate is prime suspect for Kabul airport suicide bombing
Jason Burke
Thu 26 Aug 2021 16.30 BST rbbm.
Analysis: Group known as Islamic State Khorasan Province, or Isis-K, poses ‘acute’ and ‘persistent’ threat, says US
Smoke rising near the blast site at Kabul airport. Photograph: Xinhua/Rex/Shutterstock
''Many have been worried by an intensification of attacks linked to Isis-K in recent months.''
“The trajectory of ISKP has been one of resurgence after a tough time in 2019 and the first half of 2020 … but they went silent suddenly since the Taliban takeover and a possible reason for that was the group were gearing up for a new campaign,” said Charlie Winter, a senior research fellow at London University’s Centre for the Study of Radicalisation.''
The crowds, planes and infrastructure at the airport provide an obvious venue for the kind of mass-casualty attack that Isis has become known for. But Winter said, the situation was also, for the group, a “perfect meeting of diverse targets” in Afghanistan: the US military, Afghans who have helped the western effort and are therefore seen as collaborators and the Taliban, which Isis-K sees as “apostates”.
Isis-K is likely to see an attack against the airport as a “great victory”.
- “They achieve several things: they hit legitimate targets (from their perspective), they send a signal of still being a force to be reckoned with and they challenge the Taliban’s state project by highlighting that the group can’t secure Kabul.”
You are right. The previous administration never should have made a deal that legitimized them as the leadership when we left, and they never should have released the 5,000 prisoners that are now in charge. They had every reason to hang out and pounce at the right time - because they were legitimized, and are now complimented as great fighters and negotiators at rallies by the guy who made the deal.
