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So called elite commnados from the "300,000 strong Afghan forces" that received US taxpayers funded training and top notch weapons for past 20 years are threatening to joing ISIS terrorists if they are not evcuated? This after they fled and failed to fight against ragtag Taliban.
Nov 12, 2021
Abandoned Afghan commandos may turn to ISIS if US does not help
By Jennifer Griffin | Fox News
National Security correspondent Jennifer Griffin has details of Guam Governor Lourdes Aflague Leon Guerrero's letter to President Biden on the possibility of evacuating Afghans to the Pacific island on 'Special Report'
Glenn Pangelinan, nicknamed Pango, is a human intelligence officer who served multiple deployments with the U.S. military in Afghanistan supporting Navy SEALs. Since the U.S. withdrawal, he's worked tirelessly helping veteran groups extract vulnerable Afghan allies.
"We're not in the business of leaving people behind," Pangelinan, a native of Guam, told Fox News. "This is critical as a statement to those in Europe and those in Asia that when you help the United States, we're going to stand by you no matter what."
Pango just returned from a two-week site survey to his native Guam to meet with the governor and see if Guam could serve as a transit hub for thousands of Afghan commandos and their families.
What keeps him and other veteran-led private rescue groups _ as well as certain members of Congress — up at night are the highly trained Afghan commandos who are still in safe houses across Afghanistan, thinking the U.S. is coming to rescue them and are getting increasingly desperate.
"The estimate is 5,600. They're completely vetted. These are individuals that were given tradecraft by the intelligence community," Pango explained. "These are folks who have been given special tactics of weapons training."
And the U.S. may need them again someday to fight ISIS.
Rep. Mike Waltz, R-Fla., wants Congress to pass legislation to make it easier for the Biden administration to evacuate these vetted allies.
foxnews.com/world/abandoned-afghan-commandos-may-turn-to-isis-if-us-does-not-help
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The agency prioritized the evacuation of Zero units and their families even as many vulnerable U.S. employees and human rights activists were left behind.
Andrew Quilty, Matthew Cole
October 6 2021
Before the Taliban took control of Kabul in August, the U.S.-backed Afghan commandos known as Zero units were the ghosts of the Afghan battlefield. Along with their CIA advisers, they were feared and, in recent years, virtually invisible.
But in the hectic, violent weeks between the Taliban victory and the U.S. military withdrawal, fighters belonging to a Zero unit known as 01 — and other linked militias known collectively as National Strike Units, or NSUs — helped the Americans secure Hamid Karzai International Airport. Firing warning shots day and night, 01 fighters sought to corral and search crowds of Afghans and foreigners trying to enter the airport to board evacuation flights, much as Taliban fighters struggled to maintain control at other airport entrances around the same time.
One evening in late August, an Afghan 01 commander whose fighters were guarding the airport’s northwestern gate asked an Intercept journalist taking photographs to identify himself to the fighter’s American handler. The handler, who was wearing a baseball cap and had a pistol strapped to his waist, suggested that if the journalist wanted to leave on an evacuation flight, he should do so immediately. Soon, the man said, he’d be evacuating “my guys,” referring to the 01 fighters. After that, the gate would be closed for good. The American then turned to the 01 commander and explained the value placed on a free press by citizens of the country to which he and his fighters would soon be flown.
The CIA prioritized the evacuation of Zero unit members from Afghanistan, flying out as many as 7,000 of the former commandos and their relatives even as thousands of vulnerable former U.S. government and military employees, human rights activists, and aid workers were left behind. NSU commandos refused to allow a former U.S. government interpreter through the airport gates unless she gave them $5,000 each for herself, her husband, and their three children, Al Jazeera reported. The woman, who said she and her relatives were beaten by NSU members at the airport, could not afford the bribe.
Most coverage of the CIA’s efforts has been laudatory. But the Zero units were known for deadly night raids that killed an untold number of civilians across Afghanistan. The Intercept documented 10 raids conducted by 01 in Wardak Province, southwest of Kabul, in which at least 51 civilians, including children, were killed — many at close range, in execution-style assaults. Most 01 missions were led by a small number of CIA “advisers,” as their Afghan fighters knew them, or U.S. special forces borrowed from the Pentagon’s Joint Special Operations Command.
theintercept.com/2021/10/05/zero-units-cia-afghanistan-taliban/
Nov 12, 2021
Abandoned Afghan commandos may turn to ISIS if US does not help
By Jennifer Griffin | Fox News
National Security correspondent Jennifer Griffin has details of Guam Governor Lourdes Aflague Leon Guerrero's letter to President Biden on the possibility of evacuating Afghans to the Pacific island on 'Special Report'
Glenn Pangelinan, nicknamed Pango, is a human intelligence officer who served multiple deployments with the U.S. military in Afghanistan supporting Navy SEALs. Since the U.S. withdrawal, he's worked tirelessly helping veteran groups extract vulnerable Afghan allies.
"We're not in the business of leaving people behind," Pangelinan, a native of Guam, told Fox News. "This is critical as a statement to those in Europe and those in Asia that when you help the United States, we're going to stand by you no matter what."
Pango just returned from a two-week site survey to his native Guam to meet with the governor and see if Guam could serve as a transit hub for thousands of Afghan commandos and their families.
What keeps him and other veteran-led private rescue groups _ as well as certain members of Congress — up at night are the highly trained Afghan commandos who are still in safe houses across Afghanistan, thinking the U.S. is coming to rescue them and are getting increasingly desperate.
"The estimate is 5,600. They're completely vetted. These are individuals that were given tradecraft by the intelligence community," Pango explained. "These are folks who have been given special tactics of weapons training."
And the U.S. may need them again someday to fight ISIS.
Rep. Mike Waltz, R-Fla., wants Congress to pass legislation to make it easier for the Biden administration to evacuate these vetted allies.
foxnews.com/world/abandoned-afghan-commandos-may-turn-to-isis-if-us-does-not-help
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The agency prioritized the evacuation of Zero units and their families even as many vulnerable U.S. employees and human rights activists were left behind.
Andrew Quilty, Matthew Cole
October 6 2021
Before the Taliban took control of Kabul in August, the U.S.-backed Afghan commandos known as Zero units were the ghosts of the Afghan battlefield. Along with their CIA advisers, they were feared and, in recent years, virtually invisible.
But in the hectic, violent weeks between the Taliban victory and the U.S. military withdrawal, fighters belonging to a Zero unit known as 01 — and other linked militias known collectively as National Strike Units, or NSUs — helped the Americans secure Hamid Karzai International Airport. Firing warning shots day and night, 01 fighters sought to corral and search crowds of Afghans and foreigners trying to enter the airport to board evacuation flights, much as Taliban fighters struggled to maintain control at other airport entrances around the same time.
One evening in late August, an Afghan 01 commander whose fighters were guarding the airport’s northwestern gate asked an Intercept journalist taking photographs to identify himself to the fighter’s American handler. The handler, who was wearing a baseball cap and had a pistol strapped to his waist, suggested that if the journalist wanted to leave on an evacuation flight, he should do so immediately. Soon, the man said, he’d be evacuating “my guys,” referring to the 01 fighters. After that, the gate would be closed for good. The American then turned to the 01 commander and explained the value placed on a free press by citizens of the country to which he and his fighters would soon be flown.
The CIA prioritized the evacuation of Zero unit members from Afghanistan, flying out as many as 7,000 of the former commandos and their relatives even as thousands of vulnerable former U.S. government and military employees, human rights activists, and aid workers were left behind. NSU commandos refused to allow a former U.S. government interpreter through the airport gates unless she gave them $5,000 each for herself, her husband, and their three children, Al Jazeera reported. The woman, who said she and her relatives were beaten by NSU members at the airport, could not afford the bribe.
Most coverage of the CIA’s efforts has been laudatory. But the Zero units were known for deadly night raids that killed an untold number of civilians across Afghanistan. The Intercept documented 10 raids conducted by 01 in Wardak Province, southwest of Kabul, in which at least 51 civilians, including children, were killed — many at close range, in execution-style assaults. Most 01 missions were led by a small number of CIA “advisers,” as their Afghan fighters knew them, or U.S. special forces borrowed from the Pentagon’s Joint Special Operations Command.
theintercept.com/2021/10/05/zero-units-cia-afghanistan-taliban/
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