RuneWarrior
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Its happening..... just when you thought this Kabul airport shit show was over. The CIA niggers have struck right back bombing the packed Kabul airport, reports saying 13 have been killed but telling from the videos, there is no way that there hasn't been at least 100 dead if not much more.
"A “complex attack” involving at least two explosions outside the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Thursday killed more than a dozen people, according to multiple reports.
U.S. service members and Afghan civilians were among the casualties, the Pentagon said.
Citing a Taliban official, Reuters reported that a suspected suicide bomb exploded outside one of the main gates at Hamid Karzai International Airport, killing at least 13 people, including children and several Taliban guards.
Another explosion occurred outside the Baron Hotel, which is near the airport and is often frequented by Americans in Kabul.
A U.S. official told the Associated Press that the attack is “definitely believed” to have been carried out by the Islamic State terrorist group.
ISIS-K, the group's affiliate in Afghanistan, is also an enemy of the Taliban.
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby confirmed the explosions on Twitter on Thursday morning, writing, “We can confirm that the explosion at the Abbey Gate was the result of a complex attack that resulted in a number of US & civilian casualties. We can also confirm at least one other explosion at or near the Baron Hotel, a short distance from Abbey Gate. We will continue to update.”
The airport has been the site of a massive airlift operation by the U.S. military to evacuate tens of thousands of Americans, at-risk Afghans and citizens of allied nations out of Afghanistan following the Taliban’s takeover of the country less than two weeks ago.
On Wednesday evening, the U.S. Embassy in Kabul issued a security alert warning Americans to stay away from the airport and instructing anyone outside the gates to “leave immediately” due to unspecified “security threats.” The British and Australian governments had also issued similar warnings ahead of the explosion.
The U.S. has been racing to evacuate as many people from Afghanistan as possible before Aug. 31, when the last American troops are scheduled to withdraw from the country. Earlier this week, President Biden confirmed that he intends to stick with that withdrawal deadline, despite calls to extend, citing the growing threat that the terrorist group Islamic State Khorasan poses to U.S. troops on the ground in Kabul.
“Every day we’re on the ground is another day we know ISIS-K is seeking to target the airport,” Biden said Tuesday. “The sooner we can finish, the better.”
As of Wednesday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that more than 4,500 American citizens and their immediate family members had been evacuated from Afghanistan, and up to 1,500 others were still waiting to leave.
Since Aug. 14, the U.S. has evacuated and facilitated the evacuation of approximately 95,700 people, according to an update released by the White House Thursday morning."
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Source: https://news.yahoo.com/explosion-outside-kabul-airport-152423467.html
