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Also why did choose to evacuate from Hamid Karzai International Airport? Bagram would have been easier to defend.
by MrBuddyCasino 5y ago
Also why did choose to evacuate from Hamid Karzai International Airport? Bagram would have been easier to defend.
- DanTheManPR 5y agoBagram is about 25miles outside of Kabul, though.
- nanis 5y agoBecause they abandoned Bagram in the worst way possible: > US left Bagram without telling new commander: Afghan officials > Before the Afghan army could take control of airfield, looters ransack barracks and rummage through storage tents. That there sent a strong signal to both the Taliban and the ANA. [1]: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/5/us-left-bagram-airfield-without-notice-afghan-officials-say https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/5/us-left-bagram-airfi...
- SV_BubbleTime 5y agoWe already left Bagram. We did so overnight and it was a surprise to the Afghan forces we trained and left in charge there. EDIT: And last month… people were pulling the wiring for copper among other savage https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/dollar800b-scrapyard-bagram-air-base-pillaged-after-us-troops-abandon-it/ss-AALQgFr https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/dollar800b-scrapyard-ba...