Posted on 08/26/2021 8:12:32 AM PDT by Rummyfan
UPDATE: Fox News reports that at least three U.S. troops have been injured in the attack at the Abbey Gate. Jennifer Griffin reports that this is a “complex attack” including both explosives and a gunfight.
Numerous news outlets are reporting that there has been an explosion outside the Abbey Gate at Hamid Karzai International Airport (HKIA) in Kabul, Afghanistan. Reports indicate it may be a mix of a suiciding bomb and improvised explosive device (IED) attack.
The threat of terrorist attacks at the besieged airport has been all too real since Kabul fell to the Taliban last weekend. The U.S. State Department issued a warning late Wednesday telling Americans not to travel to the airport unless they had been specifically instructed to do so by government personnel. The Taliban, ISIS-K, and al-Qaeda are all known to be in the area. The State Department’s warnings have centered on the threats from ISIS-K.
The Taliban has issued mixed messages and has reportedly blocked and beaten some Americans and Afghans who were en route to the airport, which is the only way out of Afghanistan.
Fox News is now reporting that a gunfight has erupted outside the airport. As many as 5,000 people may be standing outside that gate in the desperate crush to leave the country after Joe Biden’s hasty retreat, in which he decided to close Bagram Air Base and pull the military out before making sure all civilians had departed. Closing Bagram closed two runways and leaves the U.S. military without an effective base of operations other than the surrounded airport
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Nuke it from orbit.
I know the answer before I ask, but I’ll ask anyway:
Where are the SPECTRE gunships?
This is the start of the world wide Jihad against us, US. And the #JihadJunta which is running America right now can’t be more delighted in the way it is going. It is going to get very very ugly by 9/11/21.
Biden will come out, talk about booster shots, then leave without questions or discussion of Kabul...
Biden clown show. Unfortunately, people are dying.
I wish people would stop starting new breaking news threads, covering the same stuff that previous posts are covering.
It’s the only way to be sure.
What a lovely thought.
Notice no /s.
Oh goody, the Left making wars happen...it’s what they do
I guess the Taliban has finished loading all its clandestine terrorists on to our aircraft for transport back to the US.
About a mile from me..........................
SHOCKING!
Go complain to the administrators.
ISIS and Al-Qaeda would love to draw Taliban into a fight with us no matter what the Taliban’s intentions are. We would then have to decide whether to fight or run, which would be a win-win for them. It’s impossible to imagine how Biden could have made the situation worse. He has rewritten the definition of incompetence.
This is urban warfare, doubt that hosing the area with death from above is an option
ISIS just HAD to get a piece of kicking the US and Brits in the cojones while they’re running away…so ISIS can claim victory, too.
It’s win-win for tolly bon
First, the US and Brit get kicked in the cojones
Second, shows the US is no safe protector
Third, kills a bunch of Afghans the tolly were going to butcher anyway, as traitors
Fourth, makes the tolly look moderate compared to the really naughty farm boys in ISIS
And for ISIS…shows that negotiations with the tolly are pretty useless because ISIS has its own agenda
That he has. And his entire administration is trying to live up to his example.
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