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.”
The Taliban group in charge of “security” at Kabul Airport have a history of expertise in suicide bombings:
How many American civilians killed or injured in the Islamic attacks? What is being done for them?
Ummm. I was pointing out that the video evidence makes their claim pretty implausible.
Damn straight! This gets my vote for best post of the day.
But why on God’s green earth?
My guess it was to clear Afghans from the gates to ease the crush. And give Biden cover for an early exit.
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