{"id":2012949,"date":"2023-08-26T11:30:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-26T15:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-could-have-prevented-kabul-airport-bombing-congressional-investigator\/"},"modified":"2023-08-26T11:32:17","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T15:32:17","slug":"biden-admin-could-have-prevented-kabul-airport-bombing-congressional-investigator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-could-have-prevented-kabul-airport-bombing-congressional-investigator\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressional investigator blames Biden administration for Kabul airport bombing."},"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\">18<\/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%2Fbiden-admin-could-have-prevented-kabul-airport-bombing-congressional-investigator%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=2012949&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 Deadly Abbey Gate Attack: Investigating the Mistakes<\/h2>\n<p>Nearly\u200d two years ago, an ISIS suicide bomber detonated an explosive outside the Abbey Gate at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, wounding \u200bdozens and killing dozens more, including 13 U.S. service members. Now, \u200ca congressional investigator \u2062working\u200d for the Republican House\u200c majority believes key actions taken by President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration\u200b set in motion the events that led to this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/this-cop-joined-the-protest-that-became-a-riot-she-says-d-c-cops-colluded-with-antifa\/\" title=\"This Cop Joined the \u2018Protest\u2019 That Became a Riot. She Says D.C. Cops Colluded With Antifa.\">deadly attack<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Biden \u200dadministration doesn&#8217;t really want to talk about this very much, and I think that\u2062 the reason why is that the Abbey Gate attack likely did not have\u200c to happen and there&#8217;s a few reasons why,&#8221; former investigative\u200c reporter Jerry Dunleavy explained in an\u2064 interview with NTD News&#8217; &#8220;Capitol Report.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Dunleavy,\u200b who worked as a reporter\u200b with the Washington Examiner until June, now serves as an investigator for the Republican majority on the House\u2063 Foreign Affairs Committee. He detailed the mistakes he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sam-bankman-fried-agrees-to-testify-before-congress-i-had-thought-of-myself-as-a-model-ceo\/\" title=\"Sam Bankman-Fried Agrees To Testify Before Congress: \u2018I Had Thought Of Myself As A Model CEO\u2019\">believes led<\/a> to the Abbey Gate attack in &#8220;Kabul: The Untold Story of Biden\u2019s Fiasco and the\u200c American Warriors Who Fought to the\u2063 End,&#8221;\u200b a new book he co-authored with former U.S. Army captain and\u2064 author James Hasson.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Related Stories<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/world\/defence-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/no-spike-in-florida-coronavirus-cases-despite-no-mask-mandate\/\" title=\"No Spike in Florida Coronavirus Cases Despite No Mask Mandate\">department<\/a>-flew-half-empty-mercy-flights-from-kabul-in-part-to-save-fuel-5438332&#8243;>Defence Department Flew Half-Empty Mercy Flights From Kabul, in Part to Save Fuel<\/a> &#8211; 8\/2\/2023<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/world\/afghan-taliban-raid-in-kabul-kills-3-isis-terrorists-5141250\">Afghan Taliban Raid in Kabul \u2063Kills 3 \u2064ISIS Terrorists<\/a> &#8211; 3\/22\/2023<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>ISIS-K, the Afghanistan branch of \u2064the ISIS\u2063 terrorist group, has claimed responsibility for the Abbey Gate suicide bombing and identified Abdul Rahman al-Logari as the assailant \u200cwho detonated the explosives that killed 11 U.S. Marines, one U.S. Navy corpsman, and one U.S. Army soldier.<\/p>\n<p>As part of\u200b his research on his forthcoming book, Mr. Dunleavy determined that this ISIS-K member, al-Logari, had been held at the Parwan Detention Facility, a prison located at the Bagram airbase in Afghanistan. U.S. forces abandoned the air base\u200d in\u200b July 2021, and al-Logari was likely freed when Taliban forces seized\u2062 control of the base on Aug. 15,\u200d 2021.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we&#8217;d held Bagram, that ISIS-K terrorist who killed those 13 \u200dAmericans on August 26, he would have been behind bars rather than being freed by the Taliban,&#8221; Mr. \u2063Dunleavy stated.<\/p>\n<p>Further emphasizing the strategic importance of the Bagram airbase, Mr. Dunleavy went on to say\u2062 that President Biden\u200c and those advising \u2062him through \u2064the U.S. withdrawal of Afghanistan had a responsibility \u200dto organize the effort so that\u200c the United States could evacuate its\u200d people and get\u2063 Afghan allies out of the country and\u2062 &#8220;keep the Afghan military on the field fighting.&#8221; The U.S.-backed Afghan government collapsed as Taliban forces seized the capitol of Kabul on Aug. 15, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Obviously, that closure\u200c of Bagram was a terrible decision and probably the death knell of the Afghan Republic,&#8221; Mr. Dunleavy said.<\/p>\n<h2>US Troops Not Permitted to Target ISIS<\/h2>\n<p>Even after the Bagram base fell, Mr. Dunleavy believes there were chances\u200c to stop \u2063ISIS-K before the Abbey Gate attack, but that the Biden \u2062administration was too reliant on maintaining a delicate relationship with the Taliban while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/death-toll-rises-from-kabul-suicide-bombing-pentagon-walks-back-second-explosion-claim\/\" title=\"Death Toll Rises From Kabul Suicide Bombing; Pentagon Walks Back Second Explosion Claim\">evacuation efforts continued<\/a>. After the Taliban seized Kabul, U.S. forces managed a ceasefire with the Taliban, with neither side directly attacking the other \u2064while\u2064 U.S. evacuation efforts continued.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Dunleavy said U.S. intelligence officers believed ISIS-K was staging at a hotel near the Kabul airport as they\u200c prepared to carry out their attack. He said U.S. military \u200bleaders asked the Taliban to raid \u2064the hotel but that the \u200bTaliban never did. In another instance, a U.S. military team sought to target another ISIS-K location but had that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-could-have-prevented-kabul-airport-bombing-congressional-investigator\/\" title=\"Congressional investigator blames Biden administration for Kabul airport bombing.\">request denied \u200damid fears<\/a> that it would compromise the uneasy\u2064 peace with the Taliban.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And so at the end of the day, all of President Biden&#8217;s decisions\u2064 led the U.S. military to have to be conducting a mass evacuation in a tiny airport, where we&#8217;re relying on our enemies, the Taliban, to provide security and obviously that \u200dwas a dangerous decision,\u200c and ultimately, a deadly one,&#8221; Mr. Dunleavy said.<\/p>\n<p>In February of last year, the U.S. Department of Defense concluded an investigation of the Abbey Gate attack, assessing there was nothing the troops on the ground\u200d could have done differently to prevent the attack.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Based on our investigation \u200cat the tactical level, this\u200b was not preventable and the leaders\u2064 on the ground followed the\u200d proper measures and any time there was\u2063 an imm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 2 years ago, an ISIS suicide bomber killed and injured many near Kabul&#8217;s Hamid Karzai International Airport. 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