Looters Moved Into Afghanistan's Bagram
Airfield Hours After U.S. Troops Left
Newsweek,
by
Julia Marnin
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
7/2/2021 12:11:55 PM
Dozens of looters moved into Afghanistan's Bagram Airfield just hours after U.S. troops vacated the airfield after a nearly 20-year occupation. The district administrator for the town of Bagram, Darwaish Raufi, told the Associated Press that since the troops' departure was not coordinated with local officials, the airfield's gates were not secured. This allowed looters to unlawfully enter before Afghan forces could secure the airfield. "Unfortunately the Americans left without any coordination with Bagram district officials or the governor's office," Raufi said. "They were stopped and some have been arrested and the rest have been cleared from the base," Raufi
Reply 1 - Posted by:
bldrrepub 7/2/2021 12:21:27 PM (No. 833672)
Base command must've been at a CRT session and couldn't coordinate with Afghan sources.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Ribicon 7/2/2021 12:34:04 PM (No. 833690)
The door was left unlocked, and the premises looted; what could be more American that that? One thing's for sure: Dung Bidet is blameless.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 7/2/2021 12:37:59 PM (No. 833699)
How many billions did Bagram cost, remind me.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
hershey 7/2/2021 12:43:03 PM (No. 833708)
Why didn't they blow the sh(& out of the place as they left? How much material was left? Biden is a dung heap of a president...
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How many billions did that worthless 20 year occupation cost us, #3? We have been bled white by these endless little ME excursions, and for what?
I am amazed that Xiden didn't stop the pull out since it was Trump's idea, but I am glad we are gone. Now we need to get the hell out of Syria and Iraq and Saudi Arabia and Qatar too. I keep hearing the argument about keeping Iran at bay, but the costs in blood and treasure aren't worth it. If we really want to keep Iran at bay, burn them to the ground once and get it over with. Garrisoning the ME forever is not what most taxpayers want, but it makes billions in profits for the MIC.
Bring our boys home. They did their duty. It's time to protect OUR borders and leave the ME to sort itself out.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Ribicon 7/2/2021 1:23:32 PM (No. 833751)
The US taxpayers were bled dry, sure, but consider the profits made by the defense industry, not to mention the countless dollars skimmed off cash assistance. All that, plus the President Dubya administration had the US Marines stationed to protect the opium poppy fields, so as not to upset the local warlords. “If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.” – James Madison
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna 7/2/2021 1:25:45 PM (No. 833752)
I lived at Baghram for 2 years. We built billions of dollars worth of infrastructure on that base.
And it had the best BBQ
DFAC in the country.
Whoooah !!!
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#6 - Madison, and most of our founders, were men before their time. Comparing the genius of our founding fathers with the dreck we are saddled with today is positively depressing.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Roscoelewis 7/2/2021 2:28:19 PM (No. 833811)
I hope all that is truly over and done and finished for good.
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Bagram was the scene of the Marine Corps’ greatest loss of aircraft since Vietnam.
In retrospect the whole thing should have been a punitive expedition and not our longest war.
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My GAS meter doesn’t register regarding the hell hole ME and it’s crazies. Glad we are going.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
dwa 7/2/2021 3:49:22 PM (No. 833901)
This is woke SecDef Austin's military -- too busy focusing on "white supremacy" in the ranks and wokeness to run an efficient and effective US military organization. Put a Leftist in charge and this is what you get, total incompetence.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
bpl40 7/2/2021 5:37:36 PM (No. 833979)
Before saying 'Glad we are outta there'. Consider this. What if terrorists re-assemble in a Taliban run Afghanistan. Put together a dirty bomb in Baghram and transport it to New York harbor on a tramp steamer. Considering what DeBlasio has done to New York one might be tempted to say - how will you know the difference. But you get the point.
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Looters? Really?
Some former shipmates were part of the turnover of Naval Comm Station San Miguel to the Philippine Navy in 1992 when we began our post-Pinatubo pull-out of Subic Bay and Clark. It wasn't long after a comprehensive accounting of the all facilities and the handing over of keys to the locked buildings that the looters showed up there. Not your everyday, urban, grab-n-go blm looters, mind you. Breaking into buildings and taking what wasn't nailed down was just the start. Light switches and receptacles (including the outlet boxes) removed, the associated Romex torn through the walls, even the conduit between buildings ripped up from below the ground. Pretty impressive.
Judging by photos elsewhere of the adjacent junkyard just outside Bagram, looks like we're leaving plenty of electronic waste behind, some of which the "tollybahn" will no doubt use to assemble the bomb to which #13 alludes.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
MickTurn 7/2/2021 9:42:01 PM (No. 834126)
I'm pretty sure our troops left some 'gifts' NO ONE will want...
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
RussZilla 7/2/2021 11:54:00 PM (No. 834185)
Twenty years there and the only change there was for the worse. When are we going to learn? All of the wars in our lifetime have had the same result.
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Numerous buildings were looted before someone noticed.