A brand new congressional report has revealed that 1000’s 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 conflict 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, mentioned the forces have been skilled in fight by US particular operators, in some instances throughout the US, and “could possibly be a severe nationwide safety risk 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 might reveal delicate US army coaching and intelligence to Tehran as they “know not solely our ways however who these elite army officers are,” the report mentioned, based on the Washington Free Beacon and Overseas Coverage.
“As we speak, we’re nonetheless reeling from the harm that was completed final August, together with emboldening and empowering our overseas adversaries,” McCaul mentioned in an interview.
The report concluded that in ongoing US efforts to securely 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, mentioned that the commandos and different particular items had no possibility and “the one place you may go to flee the Taliban was Iran.”
