Posted on 08/30/2021 11:16:45 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told top Pentagon leaders to prepare for a potential 'mass casualty event' 24 hours before a suicide bomb rocked the hurried U.S. evacuation at the Kabul airport, new internal DOD documents reveal.
The documents, which the Pentagon condemned as a leak of classified information and urged the media not to report, detail top military officials trying to sort out security in a situation they already deemed a major risk.
'I don't believe people get the incredible amount of risk on the ground,' Austin said on the call.
Austin told more than a dozen leaders who joined a conference call to prepare for a 'mass casualty event,' according to notes on military conference calls obtained by Politico.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley warned of 'significant' intel that ISIS-K was planning a 'complex' attack – military jargon for an attack involving multiple players designed to boost casualties.
Officials even identified the airport's Abbey Gate, where U.S. troops conducted security sweeps, as a high risk target.
According to the report, during a separate call last Thursday, commanders spoke to a plan to close the Abbey Gate. However, U.S. forces kept it open in order despite misgivings to allow British allies to keep up evacuations being staged at the Baron Hotel, located near the gate....
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I don’t believe Biden’s Pfentagon.
Any Marine Lt. Col. could organize security to prevent this sort of thing. Austin is utterly incompetent.
Whew boy... throwing the Brits under the bus to protect their own hides eh? That’s a new low, even for this administration.
If you really want to understand what's happening in the USA, you need to add Russian and Chinese sources to your domestic mix as well, and then use your own rational thinking. Washington DC is an empire of lies and spin.
ya im anticipating a rather brutal response from the UK over this one...
Lets see how brave the son a Bs are in this administration.
I wonder how many of the British elite are now saying to themselves, “I sure wish Donald Trump was still president.”
Few of them would say that out loud, of course. But I wonder how many are thinking it.
Side note to the British elite: You ain’t seen nothing yet. The Biden//Harris clown show is just getting started.
I blame global warming.
UK and how many other allies are regretting supporting empty suit bunglin’ biden over Mr Trump.
And or white supremacists.
Cozying up to the Taliban and trashing our allies.
Great plan.
Next thing you know we’ll turn away 7 bus loads of American women, and leave thousands stranded…
I don’t see the text as anyone “blaming Britain”. We took a risk to accommodate an ally. Given how much Britain has done for us in Afghanistan, it seems like the least we could do. There was a bad result. Should we have treated the Brits like we did those seven bus loads of women?
I was in the Army. We understood the risks, and that an Army unwilling to take risks, to put it on the line, is worse than useless. I regret our loses, but we owe some level of loyalty to our British comrades.
Well they haven’t blamed the Amish Mafia yet.
“..Whew boy... throwing the Brits under the bus to protect their own hides eh? That’s a new low, even for this administration....”
Don’t underestimate how low they can go. We’re talking about bottom dwellers here. That Joe, he’s something else. Isn’t he. /s
When it comes to power, these clowns are like Gollum and the Ring.
Ditto.
I’m not fond of the UK. Their irrational attitudes towards self-defense and free speech are proof that they are not a free country.
But holding the gates open of more of your citizens to escape is what soldiers are supposed to do.
So, Austin is either a prophet or a Taliban collaborator.
I see bidenregime is working on alienating our allies and destroying NATO.
When do folks understand what is in plain sight?
They are curbstomping our country
If WE had not closed (as in handed it over to the Taliban) Bagram none of this would have happened.
Have our illustrious Military “Leaders’ blamed Meghan Markle yet?
For your interest!
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