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Afghanistan
US Army colonel branded a MURDERER by ex-special forces for condemning four bus-loads of 300 ORPHANS, Americans and Christians to death at hands of Taliban - after ordering them off Kabul Airport during chaotic withdrawal a year ago
2022-08-28
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] They were given specific orders by the White House. This is more of the kind of thing we discussed at the time.
  • MMA fighter turned soldier Tim Kennedy told a new Amazon documentary of how a colonel with the 82nd Airborne Division turned four bus loads back

  • They included US citizens, green card holders, special visa holders, Christians and orphans

  • All had been processed for passage to the US, Kennedy said, but the colonel queried whether that processing could have been faked

  • They were subsequently bussed back out of the airport, in full view of the Taliban who would have by-then known they'd helped their sworn American enemies
It happened after a team of exceptionally-experienced security level personnel were dispatched into Kabul to gather people approved to fly back to the US on chartered planes after President Biden announced plans to withdraw.

That sparked an almost-immediate capitulation to the Taliban by US-trained Afghan forces, as well as a sudden and chaotic scramble to fly refugees out from Kabul’s besieged airport.

Those collected by the buses included American citizens, green card holders, Afghans who’d helped the war effort and been granted Special Interest Visas, as well as Christians who faced persecution at the hands of the Taliban, and orphaned children.

The incident in question transpired on August 25, members of the groups said in the recently released documentary, outside the Kabul Airport, where days later a suicide blast by ISIS-K agents would leave 13 servicemen and 170 Afghans dead.

Realizing the pressing nature of the situation, fellow SoA founder Nick Palmisciano - a former infantry officer in the US Army - said he, Kennedy, and their other colleagues enlisted the buses to help streamline the evacuation.

The group - which included Kennedy, Palmisciano, Special Forces Officer Dave Johnson, and ex-recon Marine Chad Robichaux - had purchased the buses out of their own pockets, they said, and used them to pick up the various individuals across the war-torn country all through the night.

Days after the buses were turned away, Joe Biden ordered the last of the 13,000 or so soldiers stationed in the war-torn country to withdraw - likely leaving thousands behind to suffer at the hands of the notorious terrorist group.

Send Me, which started streaming on Amazon Prime last week, details the buildup to this event and chronicles one of the largest civilian rescue operations in history - which in this case was foiled by the unidentified colonel.

Johnson, a former special forces officer and ex-Westpoint graduate, recalled of the frantic evacuation effort: 'In one last swoop we thought we could just get one big, big lump through. We had this great little gate that we had arranged ahead of time with the Marines. We have five of them lined up at this one gate - Black Gate.'

At the time, Palmisciano had been waiting at the airport with Sean Lee, the operations officer for Save Our Allies and a 22-year veteran of the U.S. Army, for the buses' arrival.
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Posted by:Skidmark

#10  #8 That was reportedly the major general in command of the division, discussed here. So you can kind of see where the colonel might have gotten the idea.
Posted by: Matt   2022-08-28 15:02  

#9  ^^^ sounds like something from M*A*S*H.
Posted by: DooDahMan   2022-08-28 14:07  

#8  Is't this the same colonel who insisted that a vehicle be taken out on a plane - he essentially kicked those people off the plane to make room for his souvenir.

I heard something like that at the time.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2022-08-28 13:56  

#7  This presumes the WH had sufficient, granular knowledge of the buses and their load to be concerned about them, particularly. The character of their passengers, and why they pose a particular threat to the WH' s plans which were not divulged.
Posted by: Richard Aubrey   2022-08-28 13:02  

#6  Surely a general now due to the fine job he did on behalf of Team Harris-Biden.
Posted by: DooDahMan   2022-08-28 12:37  

#5  I don't see the colonels name.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2022-08-28 11:12  

#4  I don't see the colonels name.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2022-08-28 11:12  

#3  Same story NYP.

"SEND ME" movie trailer
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-08-28 09:19  

#2  Could have properly vetted them in India or Diego Garcia when they had plenty of time. For that matter they could have vetted and started evacuations years earlier when Trump said we were leaving and military brass was arguing and dragging their feet.

Tragedy and nobody will be held accountable. At least not for years.
Posted by: Chunky Lumumba1137   2022-08-28 09:16  

#1  But I was just obeying orders
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-08-28 07:49  

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