Marine at Kabul airport bombing was told not to shoot suspected terrorist

Testifying to a House Committee about the 2021 U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, Marine Sargent Tyler Vargas-Andrews said he was instructed not to shoot a suspected terrorist bomber. "We asked [our commander] if we could shoot. Our battalion commander said, and I quote, ‘I don’t know’…we received no update and never got our answer. Eventually, the individual disappeared. To this day, we believe he was a suicide bomber,” said Sgt. Vargas-Andrews. 13 U.S. servicemen and 170 Afghans were killed from the detonated suicide vest, with Sgt. Vargas-Andrews losing his arm and leg.