CIA Evacuated ‘Extremely Brutal’ Afghan Commandos for US Resettlement
Thousands of Afghan fighters suspected within execution-style killings of civilians being brought to US
Members of the so-called ‘ Zero units’, a shadowy Afghan paramilitary force sponsored and controlled by the ALL OF US Central Intelligence Agency, enjoyed priority status for expulsion to safety to the United States, former senior US plus Afghani intelligence officials and a former Afghan commando along with direct knowledge of the situation have told The Intercept.
More than 122, 000 people, including tens of thousands of Afghan nationals who collaborated with US and NATO energies during the 19+ year battle and occupation of Afghanistan, were evacuated from Kabul in the second half of Aug after the country fell towards the Taliban.
As many as 7, 000 of the ex-commandos and members of their families are believed to have been flown out of Afghanistan, most of them very first taken to a US military base in Qatar, and later flown to facets in Virginia and Nj, Ramstein Air Base in Germany, and the United Arab Emirates prior to permanent resettlement, according to the sources.
Collectively known as ‘ National Strike Units’, Zero device commandos assisted US makes in guarding Hamid Karzai International Airport in the final two weeks of evacuation operations from Kabul, where they reportedly engaged in shaking down Afghans which had assisted US and NATO forces during the 19+ year war by challenging money to get through the airport gates. Al Jazeera reported on one such incident, in which a good interpreter was beaten simply by commandos, and told that will she, her husband plus their three children would not be allowed through the gates unless she paid them $5, 000 for herself and each member of her family members. The woman was turned away, unable to afford the bribe.
The Zero Unit forces were said to are already given priority over the Afghan National Army’s elite unique forces commandos. Two former members of the special allows said that no formal effort was made to evacuate all of them and their families, leaving them to go into hiding and fend for themselves as Taliban forces began hunting for previous government officials and military personnel. At least four of the ex-commandos are feared to get been tracked down and murdered, according to The Intercept’s sources.
The CIA is thought to have had significant influence in the evacuation of Kabul, with a report within the Washington Post last week calculating that up to 20, 000 Afghans who collaborated with the agency and members of the family made it onboard evacuation flights – constituting nearly one third of the sixty, 000 or so Afghans the United States took in overall.
Trail of Bloodshed and Fear
In the course of their operations, often together with CIA agents or US special forces troops, Zero Unit forces gained a reputation for extreme brutality against non-combatants, with Human being Rights Watch and other legal rights groups accusing them of a range of abuses and downright war crimes including the performance of civilian adults plus children during nighttime raids.
Created like a guerrilla paramilitary-style force, Absolutely no units were originally imagined by the CIA partly as a means to fight Taliban practitioners travelling back and forth between the porous Afghanistan-Pakistan border. The makes allowed the US to send systems on cross-border raids – something US personnel didn’t want to risk due to Washington’s officially cordial relations with Islamabad. The commandos were furthermore used to carry out missions that might tarnish the US’s reputation, with use of Zero unit fighters said to allow for possible deniability by Washington if you think fighters engaged in illegal activity or war crimes. The particular forces were amalgamated into a joint program between the CIA and Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security intelligence service in 2010, with the US financing the units’ operations.
In 2019, former Afghan National Security Consultant Hamdullah Mohib confirmed which the force was controlled by CIA, and said that he or she was “ not fully aware” how they operate. In January 2021, the Biden administration reportedly indicated that they would pull the plug on funding for and cooperation with Zero unit forces in one year’s time.
Late this past year, an in-depth investigation straight into Zero unit activities in just one region found that more than a six-month period in 2019, over 50 civilians, including women and children, were murdered in cold blood by the commandos in a series of raids in the province of Wardak – about 110 kilometres southwest of Kabul.
In a 2019 report , civil community activists and other sources told Human Rights Watch regarding “ systemic human rights violations” involving CIA-backed paramilitaries, police and other security energies including torture, disappearances plus extrajudicial killings.
Thursday marks the 20th anniversary of the start of the 2001 US-led invasion of Afghanistan. Begun in the aftermath of the 9/11 terror attacks in New York and Washington, DC on the pretext of the need to eliminate suspected terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden, the particular war in Afghanistan quickly became a nation-building objective. Brown University’s Costs associated with War project estimates which the war cost US people over $2. 2 trillion (or about $300 mil per day for nearly 20 years). Up to 100, 000 Afghan civilians, 70, 500+ Afghan security forces personnel, tens of thousands of Taliban fighters, over 3, 500 US and coalition troops, and 4, 000+ western mercenaries were murdered in the conflict.
Bin Laden was reportedly killed in Pakistan in May 2011 in a Navy SEAL team raid and dumped into the sea, but the US-led war in Afghanistan continuing for over ten more many years after that.
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