{"id":1871807,"date":"2023-03-08T13:28:51","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T18:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/marine-wounded-in-kabul-airport-bombing-says-no-one-was-held-accountable-for-our-safety\/"},"modified":"2023-03-08T13:32:43","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T18:32:43","slug":"marine-wounded-in-kabul-airport-bombing-says-no-one-was-held-accountable-for-our-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/marine-wounded-in-kabul-airport-bombing-says-no-one-was-held-accountable-for-our-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"Marine wounded in Kabul airport bombing says &#8216;no one was held accountable for our safety&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmarine-wounded-in-kabul-airport-bombing-says-no-one-was-held-accountable-for-our-safety%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1871807&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<div id=\"Brid_63974197\" class=\"brid\" style=\"width:16; height:9;\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\">                <meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Trump showed Taliban leader satellite picture of his house in threat to \u2018obliterate' him\">               <meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Former President Donald Trump said that at one point when he was in the White House, he threatened one of the top members of the Taliban by sending him a satellite picture of his house and saying he would \"obliterate\" him. The conversation between Trump and Abdul Ghani Baradar, who is now the deputy prime minister of Afghanistan, happened as the former president sought to withdraw all U.S. troops from the country \u2014 a goal he was adamant about accomplishing that was later completed in August 2021 under President Joe Biden. However, Trump threatened that if the Taliban launched an attack as U.S. troops were exiting the country, \"we're going to hit you harder than any country has ever been hit,\" he said.\">               <meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT2M0S\">               <meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2022-09-23 23:02:59\">               <meta itemprop=\"thumbnailURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/localimages\/1104458_th_1663974179.jpg\">               <meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/cdn.brid.tv\/live\/partners\/19383\/sd\/\">              <\/div>\n<p>               <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> var _bp=_bp||[]; _bp.push({ \"div\": \"Brid_63974197\", \"obj\": {\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"16\",\"height\":\"9\",\"video\":\"1104458\"} }); <\/script>               <script type=\"text\/javascript\" async src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script>              <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A Marine was severely injured in an explosion at Kabul&#8217;s airport, during the last week of the U.S. <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/war-in-afghanistan\">war in Afghanistan<\/a> On Wednesday, the horrendous experience of Capitol Hill was shared during a hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Sgt. Tyler Vargas-Andrews lost his arm and leg during the 2021 War. <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/pentagon-identifies-fallen-troops-kabul-airport\">suicide attack<\/a> At Kabul&#8217;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. <\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/restoring-america\/courage-strength-optimism\/previewing-first-gop-led-house-hearing-on-afghan-withdrawal-stunning-failure-of-leadership\">PREVIEWING FIRST GOP-LED HEARING ON AFGHAN WITHDRAWAL: &#8216;STUNNING FAILURE OF LEADERSHIP&#8217;<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Throughout the entirety of the day on Aug. 26, 2021, we disseminated the suicide bomber information to ground forces at Abbey Gate,&#8221; He explained that he had been with an older man. &#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<figure class=\"Figure mb-1 mb-sm-3 mb-md-1 article-lead-photo data_invisible\" data-align=\"center\" data-image-size=\"fixed\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n<div class=\"Figure-container\"> <picture><source media=\"(max-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" width=\"767\" height=\"429\" data-image-size=\"1060x600_md\"><\/source><source media=\"(max-width: 768px)\" width=\"767\" height=\"429\" data-image-size=\"1060x600_md\"><\/source><source media=\"(max-width: 1440px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" width=\"645\" height=\"361\" data-image-size=\"1060x600_xl\"><\/source><source media=\"(max-width: 1440px)\" width=\"645\" height=\"361\" data-image-size=\"1060x600_xl\"><\/source><source type=\"image\/webp\" width=\"1060\" height=\"593\" data-image-size=\"1060x600\"><\/source><source width=\"1060\" height=\"593\" data-image-size=\"1060x600\"><\/source>                                 <\/picture><figcaption class=\"Figure-caption\" itemprop=\"caption\"> A video of U.S. Marines in Abbey Gate shows them before a suicide attacker struck Hamid Karzai international Airport, Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 26, 2021. New research shows that Donald Trump and Joe Biden made the crucial decisions to pull out all U.S. soldiers from Afghanistan, which led to the Taliban taking over last year.                 <\/figcaption><div class=\"Figure-credit\" itemprop=\"author\"> (Department of Defense via AP File,)                <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Vargas-Andrews claimed that Vargas-Andrews was in Vargas&#8217; 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. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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,&#8221; He concluded. &#8220;Our expertise was disregarded. No one was held accountable for our safety.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Vargas and Andrews were later with Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Darin T.Hoover was the one he described, calling him a &#8220;keeper.&#8221; &#8220;friend and mentor,&#8221; I went looking for an Afghan interpreter among the crowd and was waiting for his family&#8217;s arrival when the bomb went off.<\/p>\n<p>ISIS-K operative Abdul Rahman al Logari, <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Click Here to Read More <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense-national-security\/kabul-safety-accountability\">Marine wounded in Kabul airport bombing says &#8216;no one was held accountable for our safety&#8217;<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11px\"><em>&#8220;The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author of the article and not necessarily shared or endorsed by Conservative News Daily&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1896750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[8303,18952,6283,8101,5646,20984,7801,8390,13770],"class_list":["post-1871807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-no","tag-accountable","tag-airport","tag-bombing","tag-held","tag-kabul","tag-marine","tag-safety","tag-wounded"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1871807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1896750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1871807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1871807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1871807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}