Secretary of State Antony Blinken admitted on Tuesday that he does not know if a person killed in a drone strike in the United States in Kabul was a member of ISIS-K or an aid worker, and that the Biden administration still study the matter.
Senator Rand Paul, R-Ky., Noted Blinken in this regard during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the withdrawal from Afghanistan.
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“The guy the Biden administration drank, was he an aid worker or an ISIS-K agent?” Paul asked, referring to a New York Times report that found the vehicle hit was driven by U.S. aid group worker Zemari Ahmadi, one of ten people the Times said died in the crash. attack.
“Of course, the administration is reviewing this strike and I’m sure a full assessment will be carried out,” said Blinken, who led Paul to put pressure on the issue.
“So you don’t know if he was an aid worker or an ISIS-K agent?” the senator asked. When Blinken said he couldn’t talk about it in the environment they were in, Paul asked, “So you don’t know or you don’t want to tell us?”
“I don’t know because we’re reviewing it,” Blinken admitted.
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Paul criticized the administration’s failure to be unaware of who they had addressed.
“You’d think you’d know beforehand that someone with a Predator drone would know if he’s an aide or an ISIS-K,” he said, before accusing previous administrations of displaying similar behavior.
Earlier, Paul had punished the administration for its failures in the withdrawal from Afghanistan and the evacuation of Americans and allies trying to get out.
“Never in my worst nightmares could I have imagined that an administration would leave and leave weapons worth $ 80 billion to the Taliban,” Paul said. “Dozens of planes and helicopters, thousands of armored carriers, hundreds of thousands of automatic weapons and worst of all, 13 of our brave men and women. Never in my worst nightmares has anyone conceived such colossal incompetence.”
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Paul said the US abandonment of Bagram Air Field will be seen as “one of the worst military decisions in our history”.
Blinken then claimed that much of the planes and helicopters were inoperable or would soon be due to lack of maintenance.