A brand new congressional report has revealed that hundreds of Afghan army personnel — together with numerous elite US-trained Afghan commandos – have fled to Iran.
In a 120-plus-page report into the ultimate days of the struggle in Afghanistan and chaotic US withdrawal from Kabul one yr in the past, Texas’s Consultant Michael McCaul, the highest Republican on the Home Overseas Affairs Committee, stated the forces have been skilled in fight by US particular operators, in some circumstances inside the US, and “might be a severe nationwide safety menace to the US if they’re captured or flip.”
Noting {that a} ‘important’ variety of Afghan particular forces and about 3,000 Afghan safety forces crossed the border into Iran, the report warned that they may expose delicate US army coaching and intelligence to Tehran as they “know not solely our techniques however who these elite army officers are,” the report stated, based on the Washington Free Beacon and Overseas Coverage.
“At the moment, we’re nonetheless reeling from the injury that was accomplished final August, together with emboldening and empowering our overseas adversaries,” McCaul stated in an interview.
The report concluded that in ongoing US efforts to soundly evacuate Afghans who assisted the US authorities, “no particular prioritization standing has but been granted to any former Afghan army personnel regardless of the safety dangers highlighted by the Biden administration’s personal State Division.”
Mick Mulroy, a former deputy assistant secretary of protection and CIA paramilitary officer, stated that the commandos and different particular items had no choice and “the one place you may go to flee the Taliban was Iran.”
