The head of a private squad of US military veterans headed to Israel to rescue trapped Americans angrily said they only needed to help because the Biden administration refused to protect its own citizens even though they were “held at gunpoint.” “
“We used to be feared, now we’re laughed at,” Bryan Stern told The Post about the US failure that forced him to maintain Project DYNAMO, the rescue force he first assembled after Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.
“There’s never been anything like DYNAMO before — because there’s never been a need for anything like DYNAMO before,” he said.
“The net result is that the American people continue to be in danger, and America continues to embarrass itself on the world stage,” he said of what he saw as a weak foreign response.
Although he declined to single out any leader to blame, Stern said he felt once again “the American people are being held at gunpoint” while terrorists continue to kidnap and kill citizens.
Bryan Stern, CEO and founder of Project DYNAMO, told the Post that he felt compelled to rescue Americans trapped in Israel because the US State Department had yet to intervene. Project Dynamo
“Hamas thinks we’re stupid,” he said of the terrorists who have killed at least nine Americans, with many more unaccounted for after the weekend atrocity in Israel. “They laugh at us.”
Stern said he founded his Tampa-based nonprofit in 2021 after Biden left “blue passport Americans” in Afghanistan, with follow-up missions in Ukraine, Sudan and wildfire-ravaged Maui.
Stern said his goal in Israel is to rescue Americans trapped in the Palestinian territories and those trapped between them.AP
As with each of them, the military did not intervene because the government failed to live up to its basic tenet: “We are not abandoning our people, forever.”
“We don’t have a capability problem, we don’t have a capacity problem,” Stern said of the military, a community he has been a part of “for 25 years.”
“The US government is watching on TV – there is no logical way to explain,” he said of the failure to help.
Stern also wants to rescue the American hostages “through Gaza and into Lebanon.” Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto/Shutterstock
He insisted that his squad would gladly step aside and hand over the rescue to the government if the army was called to take over.
Instead, his group has received hundreds of requests from Americans, their families and other allies who need help in Israel as Hamas continues to kidnap individuals, he said.
“We have dozens and dozens of people who have signed up with us,” he claimed.
Stern claims the US government failed to act on Israel, and left thousands of Americans behind following President Joe Biden’s hasty decision to pull troops out of Afghanistan in 2021. Yuri Gripas – Pool via CNP / MEGA
In Israel, the group – made up of special operations forces and veterans of the intelligence community, as well as civilian volunteers – hopes to rescue American hostages “through Gaza and into Lebanon,” freeing those trapped in the Palestinian territories, and those stuck between the West Bank and Gaza “where it was a shooting match.”
Stern founded the veterans group shortly after Afghanistan withdrew.
He would not say how Project DYNAMO would work with the Israeli government under Operation: PROMISED LAND, but said “we are a professional rescue organization” recognized by the government.
“Our motto is ‘Don’t be a spectator,'” he said.
“I think the moral of the story is that we actually have to be Americans,” he said.
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