A number of Republican legislators disclosed a surprising revelation after participating in a confidential intelligence briefing regarding the recent lethal attacks on Israel. They expressed a desire to investigate whether weapons supplied by the U.S. to Ukraine and inadvertently left in Afghanistan ended up in the possession of Hamas and other terrorist organizations supported by Iran.
“I think there has to be one,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), a member of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, told the “John Solomon Reports” podcast in an interview that aired on Friday.
“…If we are finding out information and getting told intel that U.S. weapons have fallen into the hands of terrorists, especially with the horrific attack that just happened on Israel, it’s our duty to investigate and find out if that’s happened or not,” she said.
House members refrained from disclosing specific details about the information provided by U.S. intelligence officials earlier in the week. Nevertheless, they expressed their strong belief that American weapons had, in fact, ended up in the possession of terrorists.
“We know that some of the weapons that are being used by Hamas in Israel against our most important ally came out of Afghanistan,” Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-Wyoming) told the “Just the News, No Noise“ TV show, going on to accuse the Biden White House of a less-than-interested response.
“These things are all interconnected. Not just because his (Joe Biden’s) disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan demonstrated a level of weakness and hubris and just tragedy again, to use that word. But now the weapons have found their way into the hands of other terrorists around the world,” she noted further, according to Just the News.
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Current Pentagon and U.S. intelligence officials contacted by Just the News said they are aware of the reports of U.S. weaponry in Hamas’ hands and the concerns of lawmakers. They also add that they are trying to ascertain more information. The U.S. has a database that allies can check with serial numbers when U.S. weaponry is recovered from a crime or war scene, the officials said.
Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) told reporters for Newsweek this June that they had recovered some U.S. small arms weapons left behind in Afghanistan after Biden’s bungled withdrawal of troops inside Gaza and in the hands of Hamas.
A few days later, NBC News reported that U.S. weapons abandoned in Afghanistan had also surfaced in another conflict, the one between India and Pakistan concerning the disputed Kashmir region.
“Since falling into the hands of the Taliban, some of the weapons have been seized from militants in Indian-controlled Kashmir in what experts say could be just the start of their global journey,” the network reported.
Just last week, Ukrainian intelligence officials accused Russia of a purported scheme to supply “trophy” Western weapons acquired from battlefields to Hamas fighters, with the aim of undermining international support for Ukraine, as reported by Just the News.
In August, on the anniversary of Biden’s troubled Afghan withdrawal, a Gold Star parent who lost his Marine son during the final days of the evacuation in a suicide bombing criticized Biden. Mark Schmitz, whose son, Lance Corporal Jared Schmitz, was killed in the Kabul airport attack in 2021, held Biden responsible during an interview on Fox News Channel’s “The Story” with Martha MacCallum, after the current president attempted to shift blame to his predecessor, Donald Trump.
“The advisers were telling Biden not to do what he was going to do. He flat-out ignored it, simply for, I believe, that September 11 original date that he wanted to have as the deadline and moved it up to the 31st,” Schmitz said. “And then turns around and has the audacity to blame Trump for everything.”
On August 26, 2021, a tragic incident occurred in which eleven Marines, two U.S. Army soldiers, and a Navy Corpsman lost their lives, along with approximately 150 Afghan civilians. This devastating event took place when a suicide bomber detonated an explosive vest outside the international airport in Kabul.
During this challenging time, critics strongly criticized Biden for placing U.S. troops in an extremely difficult situation. They were overwhelmed by the influx of Afghans seeking to escape the advancing Taliban forces, all while trying to ensure the security of their own personnel.
