Russia, China and Iran used former Afghan special forces against the US
Former Afghan security officials with secret authority in US operations, left behind after Americans were evacuated, demanding recruitment or coercion from Russia, China and Iran, Republican lawmakers said Sunday, noting that President Joe Biden’s administration has not prioritized their evacuations. .
“This is especially relevant, remembering that some former Afghan servicemen fled to Iran,” Republicans from the U.S. House of Representatives INF Alliance said in an official statement marking the first anniversary of the Taliban takeover of Kabul.
The Biden administration, a statement on hold, is unable to prioritize the evacuation of Afghan commandos and other US-trained elite units in a chaotic US troop relocation operation at Kabul airport Aug. 14-30, 2021.
During the operation, 13 US troops, while hundreds of US citizens and tens of thousands of endangered Afghans, failed to evacuate.
The administration prompted an acute “outstanding success” that evacuated 124,000 Americans and Afghans and ended an “endless” war that killed some 3,500 Americans and allies, as well as hundreds of thousands of Afghans.
However, hundreds of US-trained special forces and former security personnel and their families marched into Afghanistan amid reports that the Taliban are killing and torturing former Afghan officials.
These former employees “may be recruited or forced to work for one of America’s adversaries who maintain a presence in Afghanistan, including Russia, China or Iran,” the republic said in a statement.
On the assumption that such a possibility could be called a “serious risk to national security” since these Afghans “know the tactics, methods and procedures of the American military and intelligence community.”
U.S. officials and experts say Biden pulled troops out of Afghanistan and also still hasn’t acknowledged the consequences of the chaotic evacuation.
In the republic, new details of the congressional evacuation operation, military and news reports are expected to show how the administration ignores the advice of American commanders, inadequately plan and close investigations into violations of the Taliban withdrawal gathering before 2020.
Another report said the administration only made evacuation decisions when several hours had been delayed before the Taliban took Kabul.
Evacuation measures in other countries Link transit centers for the thousands of Afghan evacuees who worked on US soil in the 20-year season in the country and others who threaten Taliban retaliation are expected to be pending.
“Very little has been done to prepare for the takeover of the country by the Taliban” or for evacuation, the report said.