Troops knew ‘an attack was coming’ at Kabul airport but their hands were tied, investigation reveals
'If you had been there, you would have seen that an attack was coming.'
By Jeff Schogol | Published Feb 8, 2022 6:40 PM
The Marines tasked with guarding Abbey Gate at Hamid Karzai International Airport were horribly exposed, but so many other partner nations were using the gate for their own evacuation efforts that it was impossible to coordinate with them all, according to 82nd Airborne Division Command Sgt. Maj. David R. Pitt.
“I know that if Golf Company had the gate by themselves that is not how they would have run the gate,” Pitt said. “If they could have, they would have shut that gate down, but they couldn’t because there were so many countries. If you had been there, you would have seen that an attack was coming. It wasn’t imminent, but it was a high probability.”
On Aug. 26, a suicide bomb attack at Abbey Gate killed 13 U.S. service members and up to 170 Afghans. Pitt, who was later interviewed for a U.S. Central Command investigation into the attack, said the security situation at Abbey Gate was untenable because “other countries were just walking through with evacuees, and we didn’t know who they were.”
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/afghanistan-abbey-gate-attack-security-problems/
