Protesters disrupt Afghanistan withdrawal hearing, call Blinken the 'secretary of genocide''

Protesters disrupt hearing on Afghanistan withdrawal, calling Blinken the 'secretary of genocide'' | Pro-palestine protesters briefly disrupted a congressional hearing with outgoing Secretary of State Antony Blinken testifying.

Blinken finally expressed remorse that the Biden administration had not done more to protect the 13 US troops who were killed in an ISIS-K suicide bombing during the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021.

“I think today, especially of the 13 heroes that we lost at Abbey Gate. And I deeply regret we did not do more and could not do more to protect them,” Blinken said as he testified Wednesday on Capitol Hill. “And to those families who are here with us today, you’re in my thoughts and my prayers.”

Blinken, 62, mixed a conciliatory tone with a defensive message during his hotly anticipated appearance before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, which came after months of bickering with the panel to answer questions about its probe into the botched bug out from Kabul in August 2021.

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