Posted on 08/27/2021 3:08:57 PM PDT by Eddie01
The death toll in Thursday’s terrorist attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, rose overnight, and more than 200 people are now believed dead from a suicide bombing near Hamid Karzai International Airport, where many were desperately trying to escape the country on final evacuation flights. Although the Pentagon initially said there were two explosions, they walked back the claim Friday afternoon and said it was only one.
“The death toll in a pair of suicide bombings that rocked Kabul yesterday has now risen to nearly 200 on Friday as evacuation flights remain ongoing,” Fox News reported early Friday. “169 Afghans were killed according to two officials who spoke to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity. The U.S. said 13 service members were killed in the deadliest day for American forces in Afghanistan since August 2011.”
Information on casualties has been slow in coming. At the end of the day Thursday, the death toll was still under 100. A reporter for the New York Times, on the ground in Kabul, cautioned that the Taliban appeared to be instructing Kabul’s health care workers not to release timely and accurate death counts, which could mean that deaths are undercounted.
A United States official also told Fox News that the “death toll for the attack could climb higher still” “because some people may have taken bodies away from the scene before they could be counted.”
Used American explosives.
That means the number of killed is getting close to that of the 1998 bombing of the American embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, which was accomplished by Osama Bin Laden’s organization, Egyptian Islamic Jihad.
Good thing Biden has a ‘laser focus’ on the threat of terrorism during the withdrawal…
This is so sad.
Wait to see what’s coming to New York City soon
Just about all our firearms have a laser focus as well.
Although the Pentagon initially said there were two explosions, they walked back the claim Friday afternoon and said it was only one.
Perhaps they did not deserve it, but I answered a SPAM call from an over overwhelmingly democratic state today, (trying to sell me insurance) I gave them an earful on how they are are shitbags and former humans for voting for this administration. They need to be cursed and swore at for voting for Dr. Death and her husband. I am not proud of the fact I learned to curse in 7 languages by living overseas for 20+ years. But, sometimes those words are appropriate and useful. Today was that appropriate time. You cannot reason with the left, it doesn’t work. You can spit at them call them names. The woman hung up on me after about 5 minutes. I bet that SPAM site does not call back.
Listen to empty rhetoric,wave the flag,watch the fire trucks and listen to bagpipes and simply think we actually did forget.
There were two blasts, maybe more.
You trust the pentagon after all this?
The pentagon is in on the spin it down.
What’s next only 4 people were hurt with minor injuries?
What is your limit for BS, before you get with the program?
I love toying with those spam callers; I can imitate an old Jewish lady quite well so sometimes I’ll speak in Yiddish or Hungarian to them. My dad does a great Pakistani/English accent.
Yeah, I was not toying. I was as rude, abusive, and threatening as I could possibly be. When she tried to defend her politics I told her: “Go f*** yourself with a wire-brush. Everything you believe is wrong. You are a hateful, ignorant, self-centered C***-S**t who deserves to be raped and beaten to death by an Islamic terrorist.”
That’s when she hung up on me.
And, no, I am not sorry I said those things to her.
The ending of Afghani war is worse in some ways than ending Vietnam war. I do not recall any Americans left behind in Vietnam who wanted to leave. And no soldiers were bombed near the departing aircraft. Although 50,000 military casualties can never be lived down.
why no mention of the injured?
media were reporting 1,300 injured long ago - it was on RT plus it’s documented here.
27 Aug: Mehr News: Death toll from Kabul Airport blasts
hits 110
The death toll after a series of terrorist attacks near the Kabul airport on Thursday reached 110, a source in the Afghan Health Ministry said on Friday.
Earlier in the day, the source said that explosions injured over 1,330 people.
The Pentagon has confirmed the death of 13 US servicemen...
https://en.mehrnews.com/news/177855/Death-toll-from-Kabul-Airport-blasts-hits-110
dead and injured figures are likely to rise, giving a good indication how big the bomb was - the bomb that somehow got through Taliban security outside Abbey Gate.
Aljazeera addressed accusations that Taliban were involved in the bombings, and a reporter mentioned two buses the Taliban placed across the road in front of the Abbey Gate. of course, Aljaz said the Taliban denied any involvement.
the ***buses get a mention here. was was the bomb in the bus/buses they placed close by, which also kettled in the people who were killed or injured??:
27 Aug: ABC Australia: Here’s what we know about how the Kabul airport bombings unfolded
By Alexis Moran with wires ABC/AP/Reuters
The Taliban “warned the foreign forces of the repercussions of the large gathering at Kabul airport”, a spokesman for the Taliban’s political office told Al Jazeera TV on Thursday.
The spokesman, Mohammad Naeem, said the gathering of a large number of people prevented adequate security measures from being taken...
***There are reports the two attacks were separate but simultaneous, one by a suicide bomber near buses lined up outside Abbey Gate, where the blast was followed by small arms fire...
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-27/how-the-kabul-airport-bombings-unfolded/100412018
while MSM tries to separate Taliban & ISIS-K (or whatever), it was the Taliban who released all the ISIS prisoners around the country.
^^this
“Vigilante justice” may finally come about after all the shit going down.
Lockdowns
Increased drug and alcohol use
Depression and anger
Mandatory vax
Loss of job due to not taking the vax
Inflation
Potential economic crash
Lawlessness
etc.
On 9-11, NYC, I’m waiting for a Halal Islamo vendor selling sodas to pull out an AK47 out, and light the place up.
I wouldn’t go near the place.
This infantry and armor Vietnam combat vet would like to issue a forlorn welcome to the club to all of my contemporary veteran comrades. But in the case of South Vietnam, they DID fight fairly effectively for over 3 years after the last US combat units were withdrawn, until their logistical train was cut due to Democrat (is there a pattern here?) machinations in the wake of Watergate and Richard Nixon. They smashed and repelled the NVA’s 1972 Easter Invasion quite handily, with US air support. Remember, a black clad guerilla Army did NOT seize and flatten the gates of the Presidential palace in Saigon. It was T-54, and T-55/T-59 tanks lavishly supplied by the Soviet Union and Red China, It is very difficult to defend against an armor led blitzkrieg when your artillery firing batteries are rationed to 10 rounds a day, and your aircraft can’t fly due to lack of fuel and spare parts.
Now, we have a senile old DEMONRAT goat as POTUS, with an utterly inept and inadequate plan for withdrawal from Afghanistan, as he pitifully begs the Taliban to not damage US soil in the form of the US Embassy whenever they seize Kabul, as they leave a treasure trove of first line US equipment for them to seize, and before they had arranged to evacuate US citizens securely.
There is no real comparison to relatively orderly withdrawal of US combat forces from South Vietnam, other than the role of the DEMONRATS as they ultimately undermined both countries, no matter how many ways they attempt to falsely analogize it.
From two suicide vests? Not buying it. It’s way beyond the normal death toll from these. Fact is there are too many bodies around the killer to absorb the blast and shrapnel.
Not buying this Special-K bullsh!t. It was the Taliban and quite possibly the CIA. Had to be snipers involved at the very least.
It has that stink to it.
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