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In secret texts, U.S. military officials lamented leaving Americans behind in Kabul
BLUF:[Just The News] "We are f*cking abandoning American citizens," an Army colonel assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division wrote Sunday in frustration in a series of encrypted messages that detailed the failed effort to extricate a group of American citizens, hours before the last U.S. soldiers departed Afghanistan. The text messages and emails were provided to Just the News by Michael Yon, a former Special Forces soldier and war correspondent who was among the private citizens working with private networks and the military to rescue stranded Americans. Yon told Just the News that a group of Americans were abandoned at the Kabul airport, pleading for help as military officials told them they were finished with evacuations. Related: Michael Yon: 2021-08-21 32 Afghans trapped between Poland and Belarus: Refugee group Michael Yon: 2021-08-15 Michael Yon: The Incentives That Caused a Global Migrant Crisis, from Lithuania to the Darién Gap Michael Yon: 2021-06-09 DABS: 23 Power Pylons Destroyed, Damaged in 1 Month Posted by: Besoeker 2021-09-01 |
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