Grieving Families Of Afghanistan Bombing Victims Take Aim At Harris

LOADING ERROR LOADING A day before a congressional medal ceremony honoring their children, parents of some of the 13 U.S. troops killed in the August 2021 attack on the Kabul, Afghanistan, airport criticized Vice President Kamala Harris and the White House for not doing enough to prevent the bombing. We are going to have more Marines and soldiers dead because of this administration.” The families of the military service members who died in the suicide bombing at the airport’s Abbey Gate have taken on a higher public profile recently, with an appearance at the Republican National Convention in July and in connection with the filming of an appearance by Trump at a memorial ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery that was later used in a TikTok campaign video. McCaul said the release of the 353-page report, the product of three years’ worth of hearings, interviews and document requests and written by the Foreign Affairs Committee’s Republicans, was not political, even though it came out a day before the Trump-Harris debate. “We must honor all 2,461 American servicemembers we lost in Afghanistan ― including the 13 killed in the ISIS-K Abbey Gate terrorist attack — with an honest investigation; this GOP report, regrettably, is just political theater,” Meeks said. “SIGAR found that the single most important factor in the collapse in August 2021 was the U.S. decision to withdraw military forces and contractors from Afghanistan through signing the U.S.-Taliban agreement in February 2020 under the Trump administration, followed by President Biden’s withdrawal announcement in April 2021,” the SIGAR report said.