Posted on 08/26/2021 10:17:09 AM PDT by USA Conservative
Two explosions, one just outside the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul and another at the nearby Baron Hotel, caused several casualties Thursday. The attacks came less than a day after the U.S. Embassy warned U.S. citizens to get out of the area. Here’s what we know so far:
The explosion outside the Kabul airport is “definitely believed” to have been carried out by the Islamic State group, a U.S. official told The Associated Press. The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the Thursday attacks were carried out by two suicide bombers and gunmen.
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby confirmed that two explosions took place outside Kabul’s airport on Thursday causing “U.S. and civilian casualties,” part of a complex attack that came after repeated warnings of a threat by the United States and its allies.
According to Kirby, the first blast took place right outside the airport’s Abbey gate and the second at the nearby Baron Hotel. Scattered gunshots were heard after the blasts.
Large crowds of Afghans have been gathering daily at the airport in hopes of fleeing the country following the Taliban takeover. Kirby did not give precise figures but reports from the field say that there are at least 40 dead and 120 wounded, with the majority in critical condition, arriving at Kabul hospitals following the terror attacks, according to a local NYT reporter.
Images coming in from Kabul airport as a huge explosion rocks the abbey gate area:
The moment of the explosion was caught on video:
Horrific aftermath following the terror attack at the #Kabul airport. Viewer discretion is advised despite being blurred:
Another video: (warning: graphic video)
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And here’s the Commander-in-chief with his laser-focused statement from a few days ago:
He also walked away from a reporter who asked him about the threat Americans now face from ISIS.
Although U.S. forces have suffered casualties, there have been no reports of injuries or fatalities among British soldiers or government officials, the British defense ministry said.. The ministry statement did not mention whether any British civilian trying to leave Afghanistan was hurt or killed.
The bombings at the Kabul airport on Thursday is a reminder of a fundamental truth: War is an ugly, bloody, violent affair.
That may seem self-evident, even simple. Everybody has heard the “war is hell” cliché at some point. But it bears repeating at this moment, while Americans argue furiously about the wisdom of withdrawing from Afghanistan, because so much of the argument for staying depends on a vision of the war there being essentially bloodless.
“Mr. Biden’s decision to withdraw all U.S. forces destroyed an affordable status quo that could have lasted indefinitely at a minimum cost in blood and treasure,” former Ambassador Ryan Crocker wrote last week in a lacerating essay for The New York Times.
“In the last several years, the United States has maintained a relatively small force in Afghanistan, largely devoted to providing surveillance, logistics, and air cover for Afghan forces while taking minimal casualties,” columnist Bret Stephens offered. “Any American president could have maintained this position almost indefinitely — with no prospect of defeating the Taliban but none of being routed by them, either.”
There is something disturbing about the casual disregard for American lives underlying those statements: “Minimal” casualties means only a few soldiers killed or maimed, only a few families back home devastated by the loss of their loved ones. Even if you accept that idea, Crocker and Stephens and the other hawks aren’t really arguing that the sacrifice is worth it, but rather that there won’t be any real sacrifice at all.
The Kabul attacks demonstrate the lie of that notion. As of this writing, at least three U.S. troops were reportedly injured in the blast — and it won’t be surprising if the casualty numbers go higher. As a number of commenters have pointed out over the last two weeks, a primary reason American forces have suffered so few casualties in recent months is because the Taliban expected U.S. forces to exit.
Impeach Biden.Impeach Biden etc
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Chuck Schumer. Nancy Pelosi.Chuck Schumer. Nancy Pelosi.Chuck Schumer. Nancy Pelosi.Chuck Schumer. Nancy Pelosi.Chuck Schumer. Nancy Pelosi.Chuck Schumer. Nancy Pelosi.
Someone is preparing the idiot Biden to be removed.
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Someone is preparing the country USA to be removed.
BidenHarris & Cabinet and Joint Chiefs need to go. This is atrocious.
How to get rid of this shameful betrayal of our country, citizens and brave soldiers?
Remember how they said on 9/11 ‘everything changed forever”.
In fact nothing changed.
Apparently the bribes Biden is paying the Taliban for “security” is not doing much good. The Taliban leadership ( whoever they are) is not sharing the loot or have little control over the jihadists. There no doubt many Taliban and jihadists who lost many friends and relatives in the 20 year war. Most actually believe that great heavenly rewards await them if they die trying to kill “infidels”. They have little regard for their fellow Muslims who are trying to leave.
Most Americans today never heard of Bataan or the British evacuation of Khartoum. It seems likely commentators will be talking, writing and referencing those sad events soon.
“World leaders reacted to Biden’s inauguration by offering congratulations, jockeying for position at the forefront of his foreign policy agenda, and in some cases pleading for the reversal of his predecessor’s policies.
Among most messages was a palpable sense of relief, as the international community embraced Biden’s pledge to reenter a series of global pacts and organizations that President Donald Trump cut loose.”
https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/20/europe/global-reaction-joe-biden-inauguration-intl/index.html
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Reversing his predecessor’s policies. How’s that working out?
Of course it is intentional. Nobody is this inept. A boy scout leader would do a better job than these murderers.
President Trump said that defeating the Taliban would take a week and require killing 10 million people.
Okay, then that’s what should have been done.
Trump also said, “I’m not going to do that.”
To Trump and Biden: We elect Presidents to do what is required.
#BenedictBiden
#MAGA2024
Disappointed in that choice of words. Many would put a sharper point on it: for many of the actors it is not incompetence, it is an agenda. (See the large number of political out-of-the-anti-MAGA-closet officials in this admin and elsewhere in our society.)
Incompetence can be fixed, political agenda's need to be conclusively defeated and for that to occur in a civil manner one needs an effective party in opposition.
This terrorist act was done by ISIS, whom the Taliban says is a lackey for US interests. There’s plenty of proof out there that the US and our allies like Israel and Turkey have discreetly supported ISIS.
https://geopolitics.co/2017/04/27/israeli-defense-minister-confirms-israel-backing-of-isis-in-syria/
https://nypost.com/2019/09/21/why-isnt-the-media-covering-turkish-president-erdogans-ties-to-isis/
This is a ruse by the globalists to keep our troops in Afghanistan, which is strategically located and not a country they want to abandon. This is just a prelude to hostage taking and continued terrorist attacks over there designed to keep us from leaving. Just watch and see.
Remember the Marxists attempted to impeach Trump for a phone call. Therefore if a phone call warranted impeachment, what should this carnage this President created call for?
I believe we can officially start calling him Pres. FUBAR, or at least veterans can whilst offering a heartfelt single-finger salute.
Yes it is. It is the agenda of the circle of incompetence the conspiracy of incompetent people to protect their sinecures in petty offices thinking they can run anything and everything. It is the agenda of the Windmans' of this world - I am the Ukraine expert and they never consulted me.
You have to be in DC to watch it and understand how much of a real thing this is. These incompetent folks can recognize each other from across a parking lot. They find each other at conventions because they all speak in the same language of vague and evasive generalities.
I thought that the first thing the terrorists would is to take out one of the planes full of military and American civilians. Guess there is still time.
$10 says he won’t be there to meet the planes.
10 dead US military dead.
“ Latest reports are 4 Marines.....so far.”
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Just saw a news alert.. “at least 10 marines and soldiers are dead”
I hope that’s not true but it likely is.
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