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This month’s release of a U.S. military investigation examining the August 26 terrorist bombing that killed 13 U.S. service members in Kabul, Afghanistan has reportedly caused several of the victims’ family members to question the U.S. government’s official story.
The Pentagon report released earlier this month stated that the ISIS bombing at the Abbey Gate near the Kabul International Airport as the United States military was attempting to evacuate thousands from Afghanistan was “not preventable.” Several family members of the 13 service members killed in the attack told the Washington Post they have doubts about that conclusion.
This image made available to AFP on August 20, 2021 by Human Rights Activist Omar Haidari, shows a US Marine grabbing an infant over a fence of barbed wire
(Courtesy of Omar Haidiri/AFP via Getty Images)
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“All those Marines who were there will tell you that they felt scared,” Shana Chappell, mother of 20-year-old U.S. Marine Kareem Nikoui, who was killed in the blast, told the Washington Post. “They were surrounded by the freaking Taliban. They were out in the wide open, and they were sitting ducks.”
“They were put in an untenable situation,” the parents of deceased Staff Sgt. Darin Taylor Hoover said. “Yes, it was a humanitarian effort on their part. And they did the absolute best that they could do given the circumstances. However, they should not have been put in those circumstances in the first place.”
A commercial airplane is seen at the Hamid Karzai International Airport a day after U.S troops withdrawal in Kabul, Afghanistan August 31, 2021.
(Reuters/Stringer/File Photo)
Chappell also took issue with the Pentagon’s conclusion that the loss of life was caused by one single bombing and believes that members of the military were hit with small arms…
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