Marine wounded in Kabul airport bombing says ‘no one was held accountable for our safety’

A Marine was severely injured in an explosion at Kabul’s airport, during the last week of the U.S. war in Afghanistan On Wednesday, the horrendous experience of Capitol Hill was shared during a hearing.

Sgt. Tyler Vargas-Andrews lost his arm and leg during the 2021 War. suicide attack At Kabul’s Hamid Karzai international Airport, he told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that the man he saw was a match for the suicide bomber. The man was then reported missing by the man, who he said that he had not been given permission to shoot.

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“Throughout the entirety of the day on Aug. 26, 2021, we disseminated the suicide bomber information to ground forces at Abbey Gate,” He explained that he had been with an older man. “They both had obvious mannerisms that go along with who we believed him to be. They handed out small cards to the crowd periodically, and the older man sat calmly and seemingly coached the bomber. Over the communication network, we passed that there was a potential threat and an attack imminent. This was as serious as it could get.”

Vargas-Andrews claimed that Vargas-Andrews was in Vargas’ sights and ready to shoot, while Vargas said his battalion commander denied that he knew if the bomber could be taken out. The man vanished.

“Eventually, the individual disappeared. To this day, we believe he was a suicide bomber. We made everyone on the ground aware. Operations had briefly halted but then started again. Plain and simple, we were ignored,” He concluded. “Our expertise was disregarded. No one was held accountable for our safety.”

Vargas and Andrews were later with Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Darin T.Hoover was the one he described, calling him a “keeper.” “friend and mentor,” I went looking for an Afghan interpreter among the crowd and was waiting for his family’s arrival when the bomb went off.

ISIS-K operative Abdul Rahman al Logari,