{"id":696053,"date":"2021-08-29T10:36:02","date_gmt":"2021-08-29T14:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=696053"},"modified":"2021-08-29T10:36:04","modified_gmt":"2021-08-29T14:36:04","slug":"pentagon-admits-taliban-released-thousands-of-isis-k-prisoners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pentagon-admits-taliban-released-thousands-of-isis-k-prisoners\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon admits Taliban released thousands of ISIS-K prisoners"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fpentagon-admits-taliban-released-thousands-of-isis-k-prisoners%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=696053&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--><div id=\"attachment_2503462\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2503462\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taliban prisoners stand in line during their release from the Bagram prison, next to the U.S. military base in Bagram, some 50 km north of Kabul. (WAKIL KOHSAR\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 7:32 AM PT \u2013 Sunday, August 29, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>The Pentagon admitted the Taliban released thousands of ISIS-K militants from former U.S.-controlled prisons. On Friday, Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby acknowledged the prisoners release after being questioned on why they weren\u2019t removed before the U.S. troop pullout earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Kirby said he couldn\u2019t account for an exact number, but that it was \u201cclearly in the thousands.\u201d He added, \u201cas for emptying out, remember we were turning things over to Afghan national security forces, that was part of the retrograde process, was to turn over these responsibilities. And so they did have responsibility for those prisons and the bases at which those prisons were located.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd of course as the Taliban advanced, we didn\u2019t see the level of resistance by the Afghans to hold some territory, some bases, and unfortunately those were the bases the Afghans didn\u2019t hold,\u201d Kirby responded, redirecting the blame.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pentagon Press Sec. John Kirby says \u201cthousands\u201d of ISIS-K prisoners were released from the Bagram Airfield prison by the Taliban. The Biden administration decided to abandon Bagram Airfield in the dead of night last month. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UujfCrd88N\">https:\/\/t.co\/UujfCrd88N<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Q2HZlQtMyW\">pic.twitter.com\/Q2HZlQtMyW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 America Rising (@AmericaRising) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmericaRising\/status\/1431277613344083975?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 27, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The ISIS-K prisoner release came just days prior to the attack on U.S. soldiers and Afghan citizens by an ISIS-K suicide bomber on Thursday, which took the lives of around 170 people. \u201cI think one of the things we\u2019ll need to look at is the extent to which escaped ISIS prisoners had a role in planning and carrying out this attack,\u201d said former ambassador-at-large for counterterrorism, Nathan Sales.<\/p>\n<p>Kirby\u2019s release of this information came as the Biden administration has continued to receive scrutiny for the disaster in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/afghanistan-border-crisis-plague-biden-admin\/\">Afghanistan, Border Crisis Plague Biden Admin.<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban prisoners stand in line during their release from the Bagram prison, next to the U.S. military base in Bagram, some 50 km north of Kabul. 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