Confusion, Chaos, War Crimes: Inside the Harrowing First Days of Biden’s Botched Afghanistan WithdrawalKristina Wong 6 Oct 2021
The Biden administration has sought to portray its botched Afghanistan withdrawal as a success, citing the evacuation of over 124,000 people in 16 days.
However, the harrowing first few days of the evacuation showed how little advance planning there was as the Taliban closed in on the capital.
According to several firsthand witnesses, the ensuing panic and chaos created a disaster zone at the Kabul airport that American troops had to gain control of, and in the process, witness war crimes and other human tragedy.
One witness called it “trying to build the airplane while flying.”
As the Taliban advanced on Kabul, the Pentagon began mobilizing forces for a non-combatant evacuation operation (NEO) on August 12.
U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Ross Wilson finally triggered the NEO on Saturday, August 14 (Washington time).
Panic ensued at the embassy. The U.S. embassy’s database had to be remotely wiped as employees on the ground in Kabul escaped. Some embassy staff fled without an extra change of clothes or shoes to the Kabul airport, where they stayed for the next two weeks.
An Afghan American who advised four four-star U.S. generals as a GS-15 U.S. government employee with a security clearance was in Afghanistan visiting his sick mother and received no notice from the embassy.
“The embassy didn’t even bother to call me to tell me, ‘Hey…you need to go to this gate.’ … Nobody. No one, the embassy line was not working. There was no embassy,” he told Breitbart News in a recent interview.
Instead, his brother called him on the morning of August 15 (Kabul time) to tell him that the Taliban had entered Kabul.
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