{"id":2006103,"date":"2023-08-20T05:06:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-20T09:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/taliban-didnt-take-chance-to-take-out-isis-before-suicide-attack-killed-13-us-service-members-book\/"},"modified":"2023-08-20T05:07:52","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T09:07:52","slug":"taliban-didnt-take-chance-to-take-out-isis-before-suicide-attack-killed-13-us-service-members-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/taliban-didnt-take-chance-to-take-out-isis-before-suicide-attack-killed-13-us-service-members-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban missed opportunity to eliminate ISIS before 13 US service members were killed: Book"},"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\">28<\/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%2Ftaliban-didnt-take-chance-to-take-out-isis-before-suicide-attack-killed-13-us-service-members-book%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=2006103&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--><h2>The Taliban&#8217;s Failure and the Deadly Consequences: A Shocking Revelation<\/h2>\n<p>A new book has uncovered \u200ca <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fans-claim-new-star-wars-book-hints-obi-wan-kenobi-is-bisexual\/\" title=\"Fans Claim New Star Wars Book Hints Obi-Wan Kenobi Is Bisexual\">startling revelation<\/a> about the Taliban&#8217;s inaction and its impact on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-u-s-special-forces-vets-secretly-rescued-hundreds-of-afghan-allies-left-for-dead-amid-biden-withdrawal\/\" title=\"Report: U.S. Special Forces Vets \u2018Secretly Rescued\u2019 Hundreds Of Afghan Allies \u2018Left For Dead\u2019 Amid Biden Withdrawal\">deadly terrorist attack<\/a> that claimed the \u2063lives of 13 U.S. \u2062service members during the\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-house-republican-majority-will-affect-defense-policy-heres-how\/\" title=\"A House Republican Majority Will Affect Defense Policy. Here\u2019s How\">chaotic 2021 withdrawal<\/a> from Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>As the U.S. military prepared to leave Afghanistan, the Taliban swiftly overthrew the U.S.-backed government, taking advantage of an Afghan army that had\u2063 become overly reliant on American support. With the U.S. military conducting an evacuation operation from Kabul&#8217;s Hamid Karzai International Airport, the Taliban provided an outer layer of security due\u2064 to the threat posed \u2062by terror groups.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, defense leaders argued that despite the Taliban&#8217;s less-than-ideal\u2063 reputation, they could\u2062 be \u200btrusted in this particular instance because both\u200b sides shared\u2062 a common\u2063 goal: the swift\u2063 departure of the U.S. military from the\u200c country.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;They established a firm perimeter outside\u2064 of the airfield to prevent people from coming on the airfield during our departure,&#8221; said retired\u2062 Gen. Frank McKenzie, the head of\u2064 U.S. \u2064Central Command at the time.\u2062 &#8220;And we&#8217;ve worked that with them for \u200ba number of\u200d days.\u2064 They did not have direct knowledge \u2064of our time of departure &#8230;\u200c But they were actually very helpful and useful\u2063 to us as we closed down operations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>However, \u2062two years later, the \u2063U.S.&#8217;s relationship with the Taliban during the evacuation has\u200d come under scrutiny. President Joe Biden authorized the sharing of threat\u200b assessments with the Taliban\u2062 just days after they seized power.<\/p>\n<p>Intelligence officers had information indicating that ISIS-K was planning an attack near\u2064 the airport. The U.S. requested the Taliban to take action against the hotel being used by ISIS-K members,\u200b but they failed to do so, as revealed in the declassified after-action review from U.S. Central Command.<\/p>\n<p>The shocking details of the Taliban&#8217;s inaction have\u200b come to light in the recently \u2062released book,\u200d &#8220;Kabul: The Untold Story of Biden&#8217;s Fiasco and the American Warriors Who Fought to the End.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I \u2064think that this was something\u200b that \u2063was a failure in\u200c Afghanistan for\u2063 20 years, a lack of\u2064 understanding Afghanistan and understanding the Taliban because things are always more complicated\u2064 than that,&#8221; said Jerry Dunleavy, one of the authors of the book. &#8220;So did the Taliban have an interest that aligned \u200cwith us?\u2062 Well, the Taliban wanted us to leave? Right. And, President Biden wanted to stick to the \u2064withdrawal\u2064 date of August 31 and so, in that sense, you know, the Taliban wanted us out, we wanted to get out. And so \u2064we\u2064 worked together, right?\u200b But in other ways, the Taliban\u2019s interests very much do not align with those of the United\u2063 States.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The problematic relationship with the Taliban goes \u2064beyond their role \u200bin\u200c providing security at the airport. The U.S. military abandoned its crucial airfield, Bagram, in \u200bearly July \u20642021, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/taliban-didnt-take-chance-to-take-out-isis-before-suicide-attack-killed-13-us-service-members-book\/\" title=\"Taliban missed opportunity to eliminate ISIS before 13 US service members were killed: Book\">included prisons housing thousands<\/a> of \u200bsuspected \u200dterrorists. The Taliban gained control of the base and released the prisoners,\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/covid-19-killed-14-of-new-yorks-nursing-home-population\/\" title=\"COVID-19 Killed 14% Of New York\u2019s Nursing Home Population\">including thousands<\/a> of\u2063 Taliban fighters.<\/p>\n<p>Among the released prisoners was Abdul\u200d Rahman al Logari, an ISIS-K fighter who had previously been arrested\u2063 for planning a terror attack in\u2062 India. The\u2062 CIA had tipped off the Taliban about his arrest, and he was brought to Parwan\u200d prison to serve his sentence.<\/p>\n<p>Tragically, \u2062al Logari was the individual who carried out the suicide attack outside the Kabul airport, resulting in the deaths of 13 U.S. service members and numerous \u200bAfghan civilians. This \u2064attack stands as one of the deadliest incidents in the U.S.&#8217;s two-decade presence in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Simply by maintaining Bagram, we would have not just had a much safer, much more orderly \u2064evacuation, we would not have\u2063 just been more successful at getting Americans and Afghan allies out, we \u2062wouldn&#8217;t have just been able to maybe stop\u200d the \u2064Taliban from \u2063taking Kabul, but the terrorists who killed 13 Americans\u200c on August 26 would have been in jail,\u200d would \u2063have \u200djust \u200dbeen stuck behind bars rather than being freed,&#8221; Dunleavy emphasized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban ignored US intelligence and missed an opportunity to attack an ISIS-K base before a deadly terrorist attack during the 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal. 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