House Republicans Demand Docs on U.S. Withdrawal From Afghanistan

WASHINGTON — House Republicans on Friday called on the Biden administration to release information about the chaotic U.S. departure from Afghanistan.

GOP lawmakers asked for all documents, communications, information, and documentation related to the Biden administration. “disastrous military and diplomatic withdrawal from Afghanistan.”

“U.S. servicemen and women lost their lives, Americans were abandoned, taxpayer dollars are unaccounted for, the Taliban gained access to military equipment, progress for Afghan women was derailed, and the entire area is now under hostile Taliban control,” James Comer, a Republican Representative from Kentucky, and other important GOP members wrote the following:

“The American people deserve answers and the Biden Administration’s ongoing obstruction of this investigation is unacceptable,” Comer was also named chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee.

On August 31, 2021, the U.S. completed its withdrawal from Kabul’s airport. Effectively, the departure ended a two-decade-long conflict that began shortly following the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.

Biden directed the complete withdrawal of about 3,000 U.S. troops leave Afghanistan April 2021. He asked all American servicemembers at the time to leave war-weary America by September 11, 2021. Later, he extended the deadline to August.

In October 2001, just weeks after the September 11 attacks, the United States began its war on Afghanistan. At the time, the Taliban offered refuge to al-Qaeda which planned and executed the terrorist attacks at the Pentagon and World Trade Center.

The conflict claimed the lives of approximately 2,500 U.S. military personnel. It claimed the lives More than 100,000 Afghan soldiers, police officers and civilians.

Terrorists belonging to the ISIS-K group were arrested during the last week before the withdrawal. 13 U.S. military personnel were killed And dozens of Afghans in an assault outside the airport. U.S. forces launched strikes To try and stop other attacks.

Biden and Jill Biden, the first lady, traveled to Dover Air Force Base in order to meet privately with the family members. fallen U.S. service members They watched before the elegant transfer of American flag-draped caskets, from a C-17 military aircraft cargo plane to a car. For every U.S. military servicemember who is killed in action, the process takes place.

It marked Biden’s first visit to a dignified Transfer Since he was elected president.

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