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'Suicide bomb' kills 13 at Kabul airport: Multiple casualties, including children – with three US Marines wounded - as explosion tears through crowd hours after ISIS attack warning
UK Daily Mail ^ | 08/26/2021 | Jennifer Smith, Robert Ibbetson, Harriet Alexander

Posted on 08/26/2021 7:50:12 AM PDT by DFG

A suicide bomber has attacked Kabul airport, just hours after officials warned of an 'imminent' ISIS bomb threat, killing at least 13 people and injuring at least three US troops.

The blast was outside The Baron Hotel, at the Abbey Gate of Kabul airport. Westerners were staying in the hotel before their evacuation flights.

At least three US troops were injured. It's unclear if any Americans were killed in the explosion but harrowing scenes show bloodied Afghans being removed from the scene on wheelchairs. One witness reported that a baby was among those killed.

The attack came just hours after officials were warned that ISIS was plotting something against the crowd of Western citizens and allies at the airport.

Now, as many as 1,500 Americans remain stranded in Afghanistan with increasingly bleak options;

Hide in your homes and risk missing the chance to be flown out on one of the last evacuation flights Make a run for the Pakistan border, which is now overrun with Afghans and nearly 200 miles away Go to the airport, where there is a risk being blown up, shot at or getting lost in the crowd Despite the escalating chaos, the US's top diplomat made the astonishing claim on Thursday morning, before the explosion, that it was 'relatively safe' on the ground and people should still be able to make their way there.

Now, Americans in Afghanistan are being told not to go to the airport.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; biden; bidenforeignpolicy; islam; islamic; kabul; muslim; muslims; seebreakingnews; taliban; wediditjoe
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1 posted on 08/26/2021 7:50:12 AM PDT by DFG
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To: DFG

I figured this would eventually happen.


2 posted on 08/26/2021 7:51:18 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: DFG

Nothing to see here. The most incompetent admin since Jimmy Carter has

EVERYTHING under control!


3 posted on 08/26/2021 7:51:45 AM PDT by hillarys cankles
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To: DFG

According to a guest on Steve Bannon’s War Room that 4 US Marines are being reported as KIA....

Tragically this is just the beginning....


4 posted on 08/26/2021 7:53:06 AM PDT by srmanuel (`)
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To: DFG

Biden really screwed this up, now it’s his legacy.


5 posted on 08/26/2021 7:53:37 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: DFG

Reagan was demonized for exchanging weapons for hostages.

I guess ol’ joe is making up for that by giving afghans weapons AND hostages.


6 posted on 08/26/2021 7:53:54 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: DFG

News reporting 4 KIA American soldiers! Probably killed with our very own military stuff left behind. Incompetent fools! And still no resignations.


7 posted on 08/26/2021 7:53:59 AM PDT by RoseofTexas
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From all I read over the past few days, the number of Americans outside of Kabul is closer to 10K. The 1500 number was just made up by the Pentagon yesterday.

If anyone has information to the contrary, please feel free to post your evidence.

8 posted on 08/26/2021 7:54:03 AM PDT by Sir_Humphrey ( I wiIl not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered! My life is my own!)
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To: DFG

America running like little girls. NEVER did I EVER think I would live to see this day.


9 posted on 08/26/2021 7:54:30 AM PDT by devane617 (RUN FOR LOCAL ELECTED OFFICE! COUNCIL,SCHOOL BOARD, ETC.)
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To: DFG

Yea lets bring more of these people to the USA.


10 posted on 08/26/2021 7:54:39 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: RoseofTexas
News reporting 4 KIA American soldiers!

Any links?

11 posted on 08/26/2021 7:55:39 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: DFG
This will quickly spiral out of control.

And Biden will address the nation and talk about the great job he's doing with the Vaxes.

12 posted on 08/26/2021 7:56:20 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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To: DFG

Someone got impatient about receiving his virgins and figured this was his last chance?


13 posted on 08/26/2021 7:56:23 AM PDT by Little Ray (Civilization runs on a narrow margin. What sustains it is not magic, but hard work. )
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Right on schedule.

One on a plane next?, on takeoff or landing?


14 posted on 08/26/2021 7:56:32 AM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: DFG

A second explosion was just reported, apparently at a hotel where Americans were staying at in anticipation of getting out.


15 posted on 08/26/2021 7:56:33 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe
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To: DFG

New meaning to airport terminal.... Damn them all!


16 posted on 08/26/2021 7:56:38 AM PDT by ArtDodger
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Most Americans alive today never heard of Bataan. Nevertheless they may soon be experiencing another Bataan at Kabul. There has been massive incometence resulting in our remaining troops being at severe risk and unable to safely withdraw. thanks to Biden they are at the mercy and whim of the Taliban jihadists.


17 posted on 08/26/2021 7:57:00 AM PDT by allendale
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To: Psalm 73
This will quickly spiral out of control. And Biden will address the nation and talk about the great job he's doing with the Vaxes.

And his progress in bankrupting the nation with 3.5 trillion is unnecessary spending.

18 posted on 08/26/2021 7:57:49 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: DFG

How does anyone know its “ISIS” or any other group? They can’t even determine if Americans were killed, yet the media already know who did it?


19 posted on 08/26/2021 7:58:13 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: hillarys cankles

Worse than Carter by far.
It hasn’t even been a year.


20 posted on 08/26/2021 7:58:44 AM PDT by EEGator
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