troops had. let the american ambassador state after american troops ha look and in fact, after the last military transported left, i know this because my father was on the last military trsport to leave cambodia, and the ambassador had to travel overland. so yes, we do leave americans hind. senator duckworth is a former army pilot, who was wounded in action and lost both of her legs. senator duckworth knows more about military operations then in military history than anne on the republican side of that committee. in pvious reports of the acuation from afghanistan, we have menoned on this program that the people we left behind in vietnam but tight i d like to focus on one group that i have only mentiod in passing in our previous coverage. according to a 2013 report in the new york times quote by some estimates, tens of thousands of american serviceman father children with vietnamese women during the long war. some of the children were a result of long term
i was born in thailand, but my father worked for the united nations, and to answer my colleague s question, my father chose to stay as long as possible to help the cambodian people as long as possible, and he left after american troops had left. the american ambassador stayed behind after american troops had left and in fact after the last military transport left, i know this because my father was on the last military transport to leave cambodia and the ambassador had to travel overland. we do leave americans behind but this is all tied to operations and how it s planned which is why i think it s so important that we have an independent investigation. maybe the failure here was that we didn t have a plan in place and we didn t act straight before our troops left. if that s the case, we need to learn, that so i would ask for my colleagues to consider this independent commission. we put somebody in charge of it who is not in a decision-making capacity during the 20 years, make it non-par
0 also a key part of the plan was to maintain an embassy in kabul and maintaining that embassy would allow us to continue to engage the government, to continue to provide resources to support the afghan security forces so it was the plan was to leave a diplomatic presence there, and in conjunction with that plan we also were going to leave a small military force there to help secure the embassy, so that was the plan, senator. but you didn t address the issue that you made if it was your plan, you acknowledge it was your plan and your plan said you would do all these things before we got our civilians out. i mean, when in the history of this country have we ever had the u.s. military say and have a plan that we will take our military out first before we take our civilians? i can t imagine that. when you say civilians, are you are you talking. american citizens. american citizens, yeah. the american citizens would come out once a non-combatant evacuation is declared, and
low-level operative in saudi custody who volunteered to carry out the mission. he left and spent time in a southern provence that al-qaeda operates so freely the u.s. official says they have al-qaeda s last banner. he s said to travel overland to united arab emirates where he contacted the saudis and handed it over. the associated press broke the story mon. senior lawmakers come plane they were not briefed in a timely fashion. we have to ask har questions here just to make sure that people aren t trying tous the national security for any other purpose other than national security purposes in keeping americans safe. the f.b.i. lab in quantico, virginia, u.s. officials say the streamline device, so-called brief bomb relied on a chemical that is seen as more reliable detonator. al-qaeda used the same detonator in a bomb that nearly brought down cargo jets