'Left behind', How Qatar betrayed US

Benaw Izzat | Exclusive to iKurd.net

Most of our readers have a good understanding of war. It is always excessive, absolute, without any limits. War provides a context for human error, but when the errors are large and numerous, the cause must be sought elsewhere than in incompetence.

On February 2, the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations received the report of Republican Senator James E. Risch (Idaho) on the American debacle in Afghanistan. After reading “Left Behind” one can no longer use the word withdrawal, debacle is the only word that fits.

Can treason and corruption explain the debacle of the most powerful army in the world? Is it possible that members of the Biden administration had personal interests in orchestrating this tragic end? It is up to you to judge on the basis of the elements coming from the Risch report:

“On April 14, 2021, President Biden announced the full withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan by September 11, which provided 150 days to plan for and execute the withdrawal”.

Biden gave the green light to the evacuation without any discretion and exactly at the most favorable moment of the fighting season for the Taliban. His National Security Adviser, Jake Sullivan is personally involved in the process and did not resigned.

In response, the intelligence community sent tons of warning:

”The Biden Administration ignored numerous intelligence reports about the potential for a speedy Taliban takeover of Kabul”

Everything, absolutely everything is done to make the evacuation a nightmare;

“When the decision to evacuate was belatedly made, the evacuation effort was severely hampered by the earlier decision to close Bagram Air Base. This air base would have improved the ability for evacuations to take place and its abandonment allowed for the release of thousands of extremists, including one who participated in the terrorist attack which killed 13 U.S. service members.”

The Pentagon has effectively admitted that there was no shooting or coordinated attack, only one man found the means to be released from Bagram, find an explosive vest and come to Kabul to blow himself up at the airport. He was alone at the time of the explosion but necessarily supported by a network.

Moreover, the decision to close Bagram in July is catastrophic; we are well beyond human error. The largest US military base in Afghanistan was abandoned in the middle of the night without its new Afghan commander being informed.

“The administration did not make a decision on evacuations from Afghanistan until a National Security Council Deputies Committee meeting on August 14, mere hours before the fall of Kabul.”

National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan insists he’s ‘not heard’ if anyone will be fired for the Afghanistan mess amid calls for him to resign for ‘ignoring Taliban warnings because he wanted to do what Biden wanted’

Not only does the US administration ignore the need to evacuate, it rejects Pakistan’s offers. Only Qatar finds favor in its eyes:

“Offers from the Pakistani government to host evacuees were rebuffed. To its immense credit, the Qatari government was quick to help, and roughly 57,000 people moved through Qatar during the NEO (noncombatant evacuation operation ).”

Do you think the US administration misunderstood the evacuation process?

It was “warned of rapid territorial gains by the Taliban and the subsequent collapse of Afghan security forces, and offered recommendations on ways to mitigate the crisis and speed up an evacuation. e Secretary Blinken largely took no action after receiving the dissent cable.”

And the report to conclude: “This failure of leadership cost U.S. military personnel lives and has left tens of thousands behind to an uncertain fate under Taliban control”.

Hollywood movies are very good at turning military disasters into heroic successes. We will probably soon get a movie called “150 Days” or “Operation Pineapple” to tell us how veterans saved 500 Afghans by breaching the airport wall.

Instead of waiting for this masterpiece, we can also urge the US press to make all the necessary efforts for releasing all the Raven files, or at least a few giga’s of corruption letters. There is no doubt that the American administration has been corrupted, both Democrat and Republican, so was the French [1], the British and Israeli administrations to name a few. Raven ‘s files prove that Qatar was able to infiltrate Israel. President Trump asked Representative Scott Taylor (former Seal) and Rudolph Giuliani to get hold of all the leaks from this operation. They failed. Only the complete publication of all the documents obtained by Abu Dhabi can help identifying the moles.

In Iraq more than anywhere else in the world we have the right to know who we are dealing with. In December 2021, Jake Sullivan former Hillary Clinton adviser tweeted “Countering corruption is a national security priority for the Biden-Harris Administration”. So publish the Raven files!

References on Raven operation:

– [1] They are at the center of several investigations , notably FIFA corruption case.

– Exclusive: Ex-NSA cyberspies reveal how they helped hack foes of UAE (reuters.com)

– ‘Karma’: Inside the hack used by the UAE to break into iPhones of foes (reuters.com)

– Three Former U.S. Intelligence Community and Military Personnel Agree to Pay More Than $1.68 Million to Resolve Criminal Charges Arising from Their Provision of Hacking-Related Services to a Foreign Government | OPA | Department of Justice

Mrs. Benaw Izzat – a special reporter and senior writer for iKurd.net.

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