started :( U.S. troops injured in ISIS attacks on Kabul airport

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https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/26/explosion-rocks-kabul-airport-as-us-tries-to-evacuate-thousands-506937

U.S. troops injured in ISIS attacks on Kabul airport

The number of casualties is unclear.

 

 

Evacuees wait to board a Boeing C-17 Globemaster III at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul, Afghanistan. | Sgt. Isaiah Campbell/U.S. Marine Corps via AP

By LARA SELIGMAN, ALEXANDER WARD, DANIEL LIPPMAN, PAUL MCLEARY and ANDREW DESIDERIO

08/26/2021 10:01 AM EDT

Updated: 08/26/2021 11:03 AM EDT

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Multiple U.S. troops were injured when two explosions shook the area outside Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul in rapid succession this morning, where the United States and NATO allies had been evacuating thousands of people from the city, according to four U.S. officials with knowledge of the situation.

"Initial reports suggest four or more US service personnel may have been injured or killed in the explosion at HKIA,” according to a sensitive-but-unclassified State Department alert viewed by POLITICO.

 

Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby confirmed the first explosion Thursday morning. “We can confirm an explosion outside Kabul airport,” he tweeted. “Casualties are unclear at this time. We will provide additional details when we can.”

 

 

An ISIS militant wearing a suicide vest was responsible for the first bombing, two U.S. officials and a person familiar with the situation told POLITICO, detonating around 5 p.m. local time just outside Abbey gate. That location is where U.S. personnel until recently welcomed American citizens to board evacuation flights, according to four sources with knowledge of the situation. Three sources said the U.S. troops returned fire soon after.

One U.S. official and another person familiar said the second explosion happened outside the Baron Hotel, roughly 300 meters from the site of the first detonation.

NATO troops have been ordered to leave the airport gates immediately, two people said.

The news comes just hours after defense officials began warning about an increased terrorist threat from the Islamic State’s branch in Afghanistan. Defense officials briefed lawmakers on Tuesday about the new threat targeting airport gates and military commercial aircraft evacuating people from Kabul, POLITICO first reported.

Rep. Mike Waltz (R-Fla.), who served in Afghanistan, told reporters today that lawmakers were briefing on this threat during a classified Wednesday session. “So it was a credible and real threat,” he said.

On Wednesday evening local time in Washington, D.C., the U.S. Embassy in Kabul issued an alert warning Americans to avoid the area “[b]ecause of security threats outside the gates of Kabul airport.”

Less than an hour before confirming the explosion, Kirby said the evacuation was continuing and committed to relocating “as many people as we can until the end of the mission.”

 

 

 

As of early Thursday morning, the White House said the total number of people evacuated from Kabul since the operation began on Aug. 14 was 95,700, including 13,400 in the last 24 hours.

“This [attack] is a nightmare,” said Stacia George, director of the Carter Center’s Conflict Resolution Program, who has worked to get vulnerable people out of Afghanistan. “It took incredible courage and strength to get to those gates which are the door to the last reliable way to safety. Although this is happening, people will still keep trying to go back once or if the gates open again because what other choice do they have?”

Before the Taliban takeover, Afghan security forces had long formed a so-called ring of steel around the capital city, with multiple checkpoints operating along main roads and a U.S.-led intelligence system tracking extremists. There have been a series of spectacular Taliban and ISIS attacks in Kabul over the years, but that old system has evaporated since the city’s 

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https://www.foxnews.com/world/kabul-airport-may-see-imminent-attack-perhaps-in-hours-british-official-warns

british predicted yettserday

[anna_gari_maata]

Dems approval rating is going downhill in no time

[csrcsr]

4 minutes ago, anna_gari_maata said:

Dems approval rating is going downhill in no time

BREAKING NEWSPentagon confirms a second explosion occurred at a hotel near Kabul's airport. Watch CNN

[Sucker]

Thank you Thathayya. 

[Sucker]

8 minutes ago, anna_gari_maata said:

Dems approval rating is going downhill in no time

Mid term ki reps controlling ki plan ready and yedaina bills pass kakpothe not in our hands ane comment. 

[anna_gari_maata]

2 minutes ago, Sucker said:

Mid term ki reps controlling ki plan ready and yedaina bills pass kakpothe not in our hands ane comment. 

Frankly I am scared about India situation, we don't have enough manpower to defend

[Sputnik]

Expected. Baghdad ki pattina gathe kabul ki padthundhi next.

[futureofandhra]

11 minutes ago, anna_gari_maata said:

Frankly I am scared about India situation, we don't have enough manpower to defend

nuclear power nothing happens chill

[Sucker]

18 minutes ago, anna_gari_maata said:

Frankly I am scared about India situation, we don't have enough manpower to defend

UK and France kante better next 20 years la. akkadantha allah me paramathma. 

[tacobell fan]

17 minutes ago, anna_gari_maata said:

Frankly I am scared about India situation, we don't have enough manpower to defend

lol you are under estimating Indian Military. We have 2.6 M active duty and 2.1 M in reserve. Though with 1+ Billion Population we could be contributing much more towards our Military but it's still not a bad thing for a size of our country. 

[Raja_Returns]

1 minute ago, tacobell fan said:

lol you are under estimating Indian Military. We have 2.6 M active duty and 2.1 M in reserve. Though with 1+ Billion Population we could be contributing much more towards our Military but it's still not a bad thing for a size of our country. 

Idantha mana modi vallane sadhyam ani gusa gusa nizamena

[pahelwan1]

21 minutes ago, anna_gari_maata said:

Frankly I am scared about India situation, we don't have enough manpower to defend

Em matladtunav vaa 40 lakhs army personnel unnaru. Eriparestaru. Greyhounds are enough to fcuk these maderchoods. 

[futureofandhra]

4 minutes ago, Sucker said:

UK and France kante better next 20 years la. akkadantha allah me paramathma. 

confirmed ah bro 

london first anukunta

[tacobell fan]

Just now, Raja_Returns said:

Idantha mana modi vallane sadhyam ani gusa gusa nizamena

No offense, it doesn't care about political crap. We are spending $88 B on our Military but we should spend lot more to match China at least if not US. I'm sure we can attract more people to join forces if the gov offer better compensation like Medical + Benefits.