The House Foreign Affairs Committee is threatening to subpoena the State Department as part of a probe into the Biden administration’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, CNN first reported late Thursday.
For the good of our Republic, Biden’s handlers should avoid placing our sadly compromised commander in chief in situations where his meandering mind compromises the security of our nation.
One year after the final U.S. military evacuation flight took off from Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, thousands of Afghans remain in temporary housing at a facility in the Persian Gulf. But the State Department may be shutting down operations, leaving about 5,500 Afghans in a desperate limbo.
More than $7 billion worth of US-provided military equipment was in the hands of the Western-backed Afghan government when it collapsed last year — and much of it fell into the hands of the Taliban after the Biden bugout, the Defense Department’s inspector general said in a report released Tuesday.
It was Biden’s actions that ensured the collapse of the Afghan government and the takeover of the country by an integrated jihadist network — the Taliban, al Qaeda, and the Haqqani Network — largely controlled by Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency.
At 06:18 local time (01:38 GMT), two missiles slammed into the balcony, killing the 71-year-old but leaving his wife and daughter unscathed inside. All the damage from the strike appears to be centred on the balcony.
His death could prompt al-Qaeda supporters or other linked terror groups to target US facilities and personnel, said the state department.
Zawahiri was killed by a US drone in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Sunday.
Panorama has revealed disturbing evidence of war crimes by the SAS in Afghanistan – and of subsequent attempts to cover them up. Getting to the bottom of this story involved four years of painstaking detective work.
“It was not NATO expansion or Western warmongering that pushed Russia to invade. It was Western weakness that convinced Putin he could get away with attempting to swallow Ukraine. He saw America as too internally divided and distracted, and Europe as too bureaucratic and soft to stop him,” she will say. “And sadly, I have to say he wasn’t wrong.”
This week, McKenzie testified in the Senate Armed Services Committee.
“ISIS and AQ (al Qaeda) are seeking to exploit a reduction of U.S. CT (counter-terrorism) efforts in Afghanistan to reinvigorate their adherents and increase their ability to plot and direct external attacks,” McKenzie said in written testimony.
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