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https://dailycaller.com/2024/04/15/its-bullsht-marine-at-center-of-new- afghanistan-probe-accuses-pentagon-of-covering-up-evidence/

A Marine at the center of a supplemental probe into the deadly suicide
bombing during the 2021 U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan accused
the Pentagon of concealing information showing it could have been
prevented.

Former Sgt. Tyler Vargas-Andrews caused a stir after he testified in March
2023 that he had sights on an individual he and others on the ground
believed to be the suicide bomber while in the guard tower next to Abbey
Gate, but was denied permission to engage. After CENTCOM opened up a new
probe into the incident to address his allegations and found nothing to corroborate them, the former sniper told the Daily Caller News Foundation
he agreed the bomber suspect at the time was a “separate individual” from
the man the Pentagon just identified as the perpetrator but stood by his testimony.

“That is the truth. For anyone to say that this wasn’t preventable when we
had on the ground intel passed to us stating the threat, it’s bullshit. We
were told that the bomber was headed to Abbey Gate in real time, we all
knew that,” he told the DCNF.

“I believe that a lot has been covered up,” he added. (RELATED: Pentagon
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Vargas-Andrews lost two of his limbs in the bombing, which took the lives
of 13 U.S. service members and killed and wounded dozens of Afghan
civilians.

Marines stationed in and around the watchtower near Hamid Karzai
International Airport’s Abbey Gate may have confused formal intelligence
with “spot reports” made by service members in real time that had not been vetted, the secondary review found, according to The Washington Post.

“Over the past two years, some service members have claimed that they had
the bomber in their sights, and they could have prevented the attack,” a
U.S. official on the supplemental review team said on Friday, according to
CNN. “But we now know that is not correct.”

While Vargas-Andrews disputed the finding, he did not dispute that the
person Marines at the time believed to be the prime threat was not the
eventual bomber, he told the Post.

The first investigation completed in November 2021 concluded a lone
suicide bomber managed to bypass Taliban checkpoints but contained nothing
to suggest the perpetrator had been identified or that a request to shoot traveled up the chain of command, interview logs show.

Investigators, “although as thorough as they could be,” told Vargas-
Andrews and his team during the course of the secondary probe that photos
of the bomber, which were taken while the sniper team was tracking
threats, could not be retrieved from any facility in the Pentagon or a
U.S. intelligence agency.

“They stated they combed through everything high and low,” he told the
DCNF. “So what happened to those hundreds of photos, which are potential intelligence? That is a failure.”

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This is the image provided comparing the man officials say was the bomber
(L) & the man snipers at the gate believed to be the bomber (R) hours
before the attack.

Intel analysis of the two "received the strongest negative possible
rating" that they were the same, officials said

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLN28xsXoAA4pvp?format=jpg&name=360x360

Many photos Vargas-Andrews’ sniper team collected, and photos taken by
other units, vanished during the course of the chaotic evacuation in
August 2021, a person familiar with the investigation told the Post. Those included two individuals the snipers requested to shoot.

One individual nicknamed the “man in black,” due to his black headscarf
and shaved head, was thought to be the suicide bomber, CNN reported.

Vargas told the DCNF the photo of the suspect referenced in the report
came from a cell phone and was taken from the display on his team’s camera

CENTCOM’s secondary report identified the bomber as Abdul Rahman Al-
Logari, an Islamic State (ISIS) operative whom the Taliban had recently released from prison, according to CNN. Cross-comparison of the figures in
each photo — CENTCOM obtained al-Logari’s prison mugshot — “received the strongest negative possible rating” they depicted the same person,
officials said.

Vargas-Andrews maintained he still had an opportunity to engage the
bomber.

“I will stand by my testimony and what we experienced till the day I die,” Vargas-Andrews told the DCNF.

CENTCOM did not immediately respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.


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