Documentary Claims US Colonel Blocked Busloads of Americans Trying to Flee Afghanistan – Opinion

As RedState’s Jennifer Van Laar exclusively reported in October 2021, a U.S. Army Major General ordered more than 50 evacuees attempting to escape Afghanistan off one of the last U.S. military flights to leave Kabul. A new document now claims that this is true. Five busloads of evacuees — American Civilians — were blocked last August as they desperately tried to flee the war-torn country during the chaotic evacuation.

Let’s start with the October flight. Van Laar’s first report stated that Major General Christopher Donahue was the commander of All American Division and ordered that the October flight be evacuated to allow for more space. Taliban souvenir.

According to soldiers under his command, Donahue instructed all passengers on a C-17 transport aircraft to disembark to allow him to load a souvenir onto their plane.

That souvenir, or “war trophy,” was an inoperable Taliban-owned Toyota Hilux with a fully operational Russian ZU-23 anti-aircraft autocannon mounted in the bed. Once the Hilux was loaded passengers were allowed back on the plane, but, of course, there wasn’t room for all of them. Troops on the ground said that at most 50 and possibly as many as 100 people were still at Kabul in order to accommodate the Hilux.

It’s believed that many of those left behind were likely killed, in part because of information provided to Taliban commanders by Donahue himself. If all of this is true, particularly Donohue’s alleged interaction with Taliban commanders, words cannot describe this guy’s reprehensible actions.

Van Laar reported the plot on RedState.

[I]It was a Toyota Land Cruiser rather than a Hilux. There was no refusal to allow Americans or evacuees to travel to America because the truck took up too much space in a C-17. Also, all paperwork was complete for the truck’s museum status. A private from Iraq traded two cans of chewables for the truck.

Anger, yet again? You should be — as should every decent, freedom-loving American who grew up proud of the U.S. military. But, as claimed in the documentary I referenced at the top, it was far worse in the final days of Afghanistan than we were told — unconscionably so.

According to AP Sunday reports, a U.S. Army colonel turned away buses of Americans, their allies and children as they fled the Afghan capital. The unidentified colonel was accused of “murdering” the passengers by witnesses who said he blocked passengers of five buses from getting on planes that could have flown them out of Kabul.

Members of a high-level special operations volunteer team make the shocking claim in the new documentary, “Send Me.”

Jack Carr, Navy SEAL Sniper and New York Times bestseller, tweeted this:

The story of 13 friends who set out to rescue an Afghan translator quickly became one of the most important civilian rescue efforts in human history. This powerful, emotional documentary is available via this link.

What are the chances of Joe Biden, Lloyd Austin, and Mark Milley — all of whose unforgivable decisions responsible for the Afghanistan tragedy must never be forgotten — seeing the documentary?

The refugees all had verified documents and had been searched by Marines when they arrived at the airport’s secret US military-controlled Black Gate on Aug. 25, 2021, at around 3 a.m., team members said in the documentary, where they were met by an unidentified official from the 82nd Airborne Division who refused to let the buses through.

MMA fighter-turned-soldier Tim Kennedy said:

A colonel came out to demonstrate that in essence he could make the decision on whether someone could board a plane. The colonel made the call to ‘put everybody back out.

Kennedy said, even though the team had explained to him that bags belonging to the Americans, Allies and Afghan Orphans were being screened, they still arrived at the airport. He also stated that the colonel fired back.

I don’t care who they are — they get back on those buses and those buses go back into Kabul.

The colonel then ordered the evacuees back into the bus and off the base at gunpoint, said several members of the team, knowing they would pass through a Taliban “security force.”

“This decision to turn this bus around essentially just killed — just murdered these people,” former Marine Chad Robichaux, said, adding: “And by the way, some of these people are children; some of these people are women; some of these people are Americans that we just sent back to the Taliban.”

Although their only goal was to rescue one Afghan interpreter from the Taliban, it turned out to be a much greater mission than they expected. It was reported that 800 people were able to wait for planes in the second night, even though the Taliban had become more vicious and Afghans seemed more desperate. Nick Palmisciano was a former soldier and is now a writer, producer and director.

It’s impossible to explain the level of desperation people felt. You can see that people tried to hold on to their C-17s for the first two days. That’s desperation that Americans don’t understand. People threw their babies against the wall. [of the airport] … not realizing that on the other side of the wall was concertina wire.

Decent American also don’t understand and Never willSome people, in particular, believed they could be freed from the grips of the most violent terrorist organization on Earth and placed under the protection of American forces.

Little did the desperate evacuees know that despicable men like Maj. Gen. Christopher Donahue and an unidentified Army colonel had other plans and would shockingly return them to the horror of Taliban “justice,” sealing their unknown fates.

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