Two suicide bombing attacks in Kabul have resulted in American, allied and civilian casualties. Both blasts were just outside the gates of the Kabul International Airport. One detonation at the “Abbey Gate”, and the second detonation appears to have happened between the Baron Hotel and the “Baron Gate” entrance.
There are U.S., U.K. and civilian casualties. The Associated Press is reporting 13 fatalities. Pentagon Spokesperson John Kirby confirmed some of the original, albeit sketchy, details:
♦ Associated Press – KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Two suicide bombers and gunmen targeted crowds massing near the Kabul airport Thursday, in the waning days of a massive airlift that has drawn thousands of people seeking to flee the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. At least 13 people were killed and 15 wounded, Russian officials said.
A U.S. official said the complex attack was “definitely believed” to have been carried out by the Islamic State group, whose affiliate in Afghanistan grew out of disaffected Taliban members who hold an even more extreme view of Islam.
At least 13 people died and 15 were wounded, according to Russia’s Foreign Ministry, which gave the first official casualty count. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby also confirmed the blasts, saying one was near an airport entrance and another was a short distance away by a hotel.
The U.S. official said members of the U.S. military were among the wounded. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss ongoing operations.
Even as the area was hit, the official said evacuation flights continued to take off from Kabul airport, which Western governments earlier warned was a target.
One explosion went off in a crowd of people waiting to enter the airport, according to Adam Khan, an Afghan waiting nearby. He said several people appeared to have been killed or wounded, including some who lost body parts.
The Taliban condemned the attack, saying it happened it an area controlled by U.S. forces. (read more)
♦ Reuters Newswire – WASHINGTON, Aug 26 (Reuters) – There were at least two explosions near Kabul’s airport amid a huge and chaotic evacuation effort from Afghanistan on Thursday, the Pentagon said, with civilians and U.S. service members among the casualties of what was described as a “complex attack.”
A source familiar with U.S. congressional briefings said U.S. officials strongly believe that the Afghan affiliate of Islamic State, known as Islamic State Khorasan (ISIS-K), after an old name for the region, was responsible. ISIS-K is opposed by the United States and the Taliban.
A Taliban official said at least 13 people were killed in the blast, including children, and many Taliban guards were wounded. A U.S. official, citing initial information, told Reuters as many as 5 U.S. military personnel may have been hurt, including at least one seriously.
A surgical hospital run by an Italian charity said it was treating more than 60 wounded. The attacks came after the United States and allies urged Afghans to leave the area because of a threat by Islamic State militants. (read more)
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/breaking-4-us-soldiers-killed-3-wounded-twin-blasts-kabul-airport-biden-abandons-americans-afghanistan/
Death toll is 10 US Troops God bless and protect our troops. Heartbreaking. I was born on an Air Base raised in Military Family. This is Gutwrenching to watch.
from another forum. . .
Biden
Harris
Sullivan
Blinken
Austin
Milley
All incompetent and total failures to their country. They are useless politicians and bureaucrats. Resignations are due from all. Austin and Milley have dishonored themselves and brought great shame to the US Military – for that they will never be forgiven. Theirs is a lifetime disgrace.
You left out the a puppeteer, Susan Rice.
Add Rice, Obama, Jarrett. If they’ve set foot in the WH since January; they own this as much!
Oh, and add Psakish!t for lying @ any of it!
Also add General Scottie Miller. He’s the genius that developed and pushed the evacuation plan. He recently retired. No wonder.
This looks like the same tactic used by Al Zarqawi in Iraq, where he set off mass murder bombs alternately against the Sunnis and Shia, to incite a civil war. Apparently, someone doesn’t want the US to pull out of Afghanistan, and so blows up a bunch of people, including US Soldiers, and so the Taliban get blamed?
It’s a blatant show of force from a TERRORIST group that has the great satan on the run…. Did anyone really think that after 20 years of war they were going to magnanimously let us off the hook when we are cornered??? They will pack the perimeter with human shields and make us kill innocents to hold the line for our withdrawal and make a big spectacle when they use US SAM’s to blow a few of our planes out of the air. If I was the Taliban commander that is what I would do or watch my back for the kife headed for it by the man that will deliver supreme victory.
I think “sophisticated” must be a code word for an intelligence operation. They always use the same word when someone tapes an alarm clock to a block of wood here in America.
Or makes inert Cesar Sayoc devices.
“materials with the capability of becoming flammable” or whatever the BS description was last time
I picked up on that too, but look at it from a slightly different (not incompatible) angle.
When ISIS was at its height, “sophisticated” seemed to mean a series of coordinate attacks at multiple locations conducted by specially-trained teams. The November 2015 attacks in Paris, which most people only remember now as the “Bataclan attack,” is perhaps the classic example of a “sophisticated attack.”
In contrast there is the “lone wolf” attack, which has become more common, involving a single (active) attacker using a weapon (usually a knife or vehicle) targeting random individuals.
So resurrecting the long-discarded term “sophisticated” means something. Even if the media is using the term “correctly,” which might be the case if the reports of multiple bombings at specific locations is accurate, the fact that they are using it at all may be important. These shifts in word choice (remember when “assault rifles became “long guns” in media coverage?) usually signal the transition from one meta-narrative to another meta-narrative.
I suspect in this case it means there will be a new campaign of “sophisticated” attacks in the West, the last of which was nearly five years ago: the 2016-2017 New Year’s Eve attacks in Istanbul… if we even consider Istanbul “semi” Western.
And yes, there have been multiple jihadi attacks since then in the West. I am not dismissing those attacks or their victims as insignificant, only distinguishing those attacks from ones perpetrated by trained and coordinated teams of killers.
Responding to another post and had some additional thoughts, wanted to add them here as well.
“Complex” or “sophisticated” means the person speaking wants you to blame ISIS. “Lone Wolf” means the person speaking wants you to believe “Not all Muslims.”
“A US official” wants us to be mad at ISIS today, whether we should be or not.
This should make the rounds along with the same pic and the lead, “Pelosi and Biden’s DOMESTIC POLICIES FOR AMERiCANS.
Looks like the CIA wants Uncle Joe out and Kamala in.
100%.
Kamala probably would like a little out and in.
She’s a pro so all she get’s out of the deal is money.
There was NOT ONE USA combat death in Afghanistan after President Trump signed a drawdown agreement with the Taliban UNTIL NOW !!!
Army Sgts. 1st Class Javier Gutierrez and Antonio Rodriguez were the last Americans to die in battle in Afghanistan on Feb. 8, 2020. Two other service members — Army Staff Sgt. Ian McLaughlin and Army Pfc. Miguel Villalon — were killed in combat there in January last year.
Weeks after their deaths, the U.S. and Taliban signed a deal under which Washington pledged to fully withdraw U.S.-led international forces from the country by May 1 of this year provided the Taliban held up its end of the agreement, including stopping attacks on foreign troops, and barring terrorist groups such as al-Qaida from using Afghanistan as a springboard to attack the U.S. or its allies.
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/middle_east/us-goes-one-year-without-a-combat-death-in-afghanistan-as-taliban-warn-against-reneging-on-peace-deal-1.661464
this is the narrative, people say JOe was trying to avoid – which is why he pulled the military out and not the civilians.
turns out they struck before Aug 31. HE is seeing his team turned on him now.
Just remember, Biden said over and over, the buck stops with him. It’s all yours Joe.
I other words, he felt the fallout would be worse from an American civilian death rather than a military death?
What a stupid, stupid man.
I still feel Jill and the generals could have seen to it this stupid plan of Biden and the SOS could have been thwarted.
Conrad Black said succinctly: ”
A moron would know that when evacuation is intended, the vulnerable, the civilians, the dependents, and the local supporters should all be evacuated under cover of the military and the armed forces should leave last in an orderly manner and in a well-covered and protected retreat.”
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We shouldn’t take any of them except a very few already vetted SIV military — and not their extemded families. Ft. Hood. “Home-grown” second generation extremism. Etc. We don’t even want more “children” like Ilhan Omar.
Exactly!
When I served in Germany in the cold war era there was a plan in place to evacuate all dependents, civilians, and our personal items, to CONUS if war with the Warsaw Pact seemed immanent.
I don’t believe for a minute they didn’t have an existing plan for evacuation in place. It’s SOP. They chose this. It’s intentional.
The President, Vice President and the entire Biden administration should resign TODAY!
Unfortunately we have an evil vindictive octogenarian waiting up on deck .
Pray for our troops and their loved ones.
I can barely breathe— I can’t imagine what they’re going through.
We are way beyond impeachment and resignations. That doesn’t cut it. This is Crimes Against Humanity by the whole Administration.
I can’t imagine the helplessness loved ones here must feel for our troops over there. How sickening.
Forget the whole administration. Washington D.C. needs to go. From this point forward, I despise every government employee. Get a real job.
As a gold star mom all I can feel right now is rage against the incompetence and futility as well as incredible sadness for those young soldiers and their families. Their pain is indescribable….may God’s Grace sustain them.
EVERYONE WHO DID/ARE DOING NOTHING TO CORRECT 2020 AND ARE TO THIS DAY ALLOWING IT TO STAND… THIS IS ON YOU!
TIRED OF HEARING AMERICA/OUR COUNTRY BEING BLAMED, TORN DOWN…AMERICA/MOST AMERICIANS ARE GOOD!
IT IS A GROUP OF CORRUPT/EVIL AMERICA HATING CREATURES THAT ARE ALLOWING THE DARK SIDE OF THIS WORLD TO BECOME MORE DESTRUCTIVE ALL FOR POWER AND THE ALMIGHT DOLLAR!
@HeshmatAlavi
#UPDATE
Third explosion reported in Kabul, Afghanistan. Gunfire also heard.
Pentagon-connected source tells @kylenabecker as many as 13 U.S. service members are now believed killed, 20 troops wounded, 10 in critical condition.
Over 210 killed & wounded reported in total.
On Telegram:
?UPDATE ON BREAKING NEWS:
We’ve just learned the awful news that 10 US Marines have been killed in Kabul, Afghanistan during an airport explosion.
@realClintEastwood
Yes, they updated it. So horrible.
Trust the Taliban, and Say Oops after they kill the troops you hate = ChinaJoe’s plan
carterzest—just wanted to greet you
The Kabul horror show is unfortunately just getting started. It will soon be impossible to fly in or out of that airport if that’s not already the case. Remaining US forces will have to fight their way on the ground to the Pakistan border which is at least 141 miles away. Ugh.
Sounds like it might take a war to fix this problem. Maybe another 20 years except now we are helping the Taliban get rid of ISIS-k.
Hopefully the Libyan MANPADS Hillary sold to the terrorists are past their expiration date.
with the Taliban having access to VISA printing machines left behind.
good luck DHS, you are traitors anyways so this is rhetorical. WhistleBlow and prove us wrong.
All those poor folks trying to flee are now hostages, they are not coming home. Bin laden has won and the terrorists will be having one hell of a world party on 9/11. God help us, we could use a few mean tweets right now.
Four Marines have been murdered, along with others. For what? For what?
It is up to 13 marines and soldiers killed and estimates of over 200 dead in total.
The great reset.
Evil demands it’s season.
Oh, it was “complex”. Well.
It must be real hard to deal with when it’s complex.
Yea, I want Kirby’s droopy face, sad eyes and shifty words to come before me on media to express his profound sadness, ending with some line about “pray…” all of which means nothing. None of this passes the smell test!
Something is very rotten here, and I am not talking about our enemies, I am talking about our so called leaders in government, Washington DC and our military. Nothing adds up anywhere close to common sense.
American citizens are being played while a much more, deeper inside the beltway game is being played out, now with the blood of soldiers in the backdrop. When will the American public wake up?
Will it take more bodies and destroyed lives?
Admiral Kirby a H. Clinton foot soldier….
1 + 1 = 2 is complex to these buffoons’
If you think about it. Benghazi was all about smuggling weapons to terrorist countries. The amount of weapons and supplies Biden left behind is a stroke of genius to the Chicago gang. What’s more the doofus in chief gets the blame but the end result is the same. Mission Accomplished!
You couldn’t have smuggled that cache in a million years.
NEVER LET A GOOD CRISIS GO TO WASTE
Since you bring up Chicago… Gang members have been claiming for years that they see men in suites leaving open trucks full of weapons in the back streets of Chicago. This really is the same thing – on a bigger scale.
I was never in complete doubt when the residents of Compton blamed the CIA for introducing crack into their neighborhoods back in the 80’s. Eisenhower was a smart man
No worries about prosecution if the Big Guy gets his 10%.
And the same people are in this administration. a ll the same subhumans.
If intelligence knew beforehand that there would be suicide bombings, why did they not know the 300,000 man (300 according to Biden) Afghan army would cut and run? Honestly, this has got to stop. People are dying while this clown show of a regime laughs its way back into hiding.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/08/u-s-diplomat-blames-the-victims-state-dept-warned-americans-to-leave-afghanistan-every-three-weeks-since-april/
America’s Voice says that 11 Marines and 1 Navy medic have now been killed.
Dear God, help us find some way to rid ourselves of these traitors directing this mess.
The only comment to offer is disgust on 2 accounts.
First, what is so complex about bombers moving through a friendly territory to deliver their weapons. This was no master minded inspired operation.
Second, the State Department and DoD purposely created this target for the bombers. That means the “exit” ransom price has been agreed upon that is so outrageous during the meeting between the CIA and Taliban, a horrendous incident was needed to justify it.
ISIS-K?
Meet the NEW bombers
Same as the OLD BOMBERS…
Old Joe got fooled again.
And the decision to stay in Afcrapistan after the tail end of 2001 (by which time most Al-Qaeda that had been there were either dead or in Pakistan), and win hearts-and-minds, and do lots of COINing, and getting to know the noble people of Afghanistan, and respecting Islam, and Great Islamic Society Nation Building, and birthing, training, mentoring, tutoring, paying and praising our Great General’s great creation, the mighty Afghan Army, because as the genius George Bush said, “Islam is Love, not Hate, and has so much to offer the world” , all because if we didn’t fight them (which was now the Taliban) there, tomorrow we would have to fight them in Honolulu and next week in San Francisco, killed and wounded one hell of a lot more.
So how many dead soldiers media will tolerate to cover the a$$ of that pedo scam?
Nance is a Grade A Dink… but he’s going to regret that Tweet.
The same guy who said there is no difference between Christian anti-abortionists and Muslim terrorists. this explains why we have daily suicide bombings at abortion clinics here in America, no?
The O’biden regime didn’t set these soldiers up for no reason (other than not caring). What do they have planned here. Something big is coming down.
Read PDJT’s agreement to pull out of Afghan. The stipulations that must be met.
Commenter Jx provided these.
https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Signed-Agreement-02292020.pdf
https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/02.29.20-US-Afghanistan-Joint-Declaration.pdf
What does the last sentence in that image say???????????????????????????????
Unconscionable only applies if these people had a conscious, but they don’t – not the cardboard cut outs in front of the camera and the plethora of those behind the scenes calling the shots. Welcome to evil.
Cowardice. Evil.
Evil Cowardice.
they are celebrating. This is why Kamala laughs, not out of nervousness.
…but not surprising.
They’re trying to get joeboy to sit up and take his meds. And trying to figure out what to have him say.
Having been around a number of people in various stages of mental decline, and seeing their demeanor, I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s in a full blown tantrum right now, alternately raging, crying, screaming. “What are they* doing to me?”
Because it is, and has always been, all about him. Since he’s never had to account for his corruption, incompetence and evil, he simply can’t process anything that would impute guilt or wrongdoing to himself. Zero capacity for self-reflection or shame. Seen daily in Hunter.
*They being everyone not named Jill, who, in my opinion, is as much to blame as anyone.
Gateway pundit reporting 60 dead. Includes 11 Marines 1 medic.
We’re importing more of the same. Up to 100 Afghans we imported on our military aircraft were on terror watch lists. And you can be sure the number is way higher than that. Our nation is enveloped by sick, sociopaths who are calling the shots aided by a hefty number of cowards who allow them free reign.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/08/25/report-up-to-100-afghans-seeking-resettlement-in-u-s-flagged-by-terrorism-watch-lists/
Col. Tony Schaffer – Military Intelligence for 30 years, now in ‘private’ intelligence:
Tony Shaffer
@T_S_P_O_O_K_Y
Ugh – 13 service members – and more attacks are likely according to intelligence…
Reading multiple sources that say 20 US military wounded – 10 in critical conditions.
I think there’s 2 possibilities on why this Admin. f*cked this exit from Afghanistan in such a fantastical way:
1) If the Dems really think/believe that they are going to “get away” w/ 2020 Voter Fraud>>>> they did it so we would have to STAY in Afghanistan. They never wanted to pull out in Aug. to begin with and now they’re looking for excuses to stay. Today they got one.
2). If the Dems think they *won’t* get away w/ 2020 voter Fraud , and Trump will be re-instated, >>>>> They wanted to f*ck things up so badly to set the stage/cause problems for him and his Admin.
#2 is guranteed to get alot of new “policies for terrorism” implemented in the next few weeks – to target Bible Lovers.
On your #2:
That’s exactly what I’ve been thinking all year about the mass invasion facilitated by this corrupt regime. Given the sheer numbers involved, that conclusion is inescapable.
Yes. It seems all the mayhem has been done *purposely* in an attempt to sabotage the Trump Admin. when he gets back in.
I actually believe liberals minds are this stupid. They always think they are the smartest people in the room.
Bombings and shooting will be happening all over the US as never before with all these Mid-Easterners soon flooding Cities and towns near you. Biden’s support of terrorist will make Obama’s support seem childs-play. Jihad is Jihad and suicide bombing is suicide bombing.
If Trump were to come back what in the World would he come back to? Trump cleaned it up once does it mean he would have to clean it up again?
Not to mention all of the “refugees” (the ones that aren’t outright terrorists) are completely unwilling to assimilate into our culture.
They support sharia, beheadings, bombings, genital mutilation, etc.
They will never be Americans.
Please, no more future Congresswomen from Minnesota and Michigan
Perhaps one of the current ones will say later today, “Some people did something…”
And they rape rape rape. Women, girls, boys and goats. Savages all.
This time Trump would have to create a Cat 6 Hurricane to clean up any significant part of it.
Terrible just terrible. There are no words to express my anger and disgust. This is what we got as a result of a stolen election. Pence and all the other traitors from the GOP should rot.
Well if you think that’s bad. Wait until they get here.
Several thousand arrived a week ago
And every one of them took a seat away from an American who couldn’t get on the plane.
And at least 100 (that’s the number we admit to, but you can be sure it’s much higher) were on the no-fly terror list. Discovered after they got here. Think they were/will be removed to be returned to their homeland? Not.
Good thread.
Any decent military leaders maybe down rank willing to take over? Our boys are getting murdered over there!
You guys still think Biden isnt going to step down or be impeached? Joebamas plan to install Kamala could not be any more transparent. Any they dont have to worry about losing in 2022 either now that the covid flu has been weaponized to rig the elections.
Miss lindsay is an enemy of the people of this great country. Being a phony conservative should not let him escape the scrutiny he deserves and as long as Hannity has him on, same goes for him.
This doesn’t fit this Thread but I think it does because it’s all coming unraveled, everywhere you look. Prepare accordingly.
Afghanistan is getting ugly, our reputation as a country is in the gutter. Will the US dollar be next to lose credibility?
If so, hyperinflation will hit us. And it happens fast, overnight. Nowhere to run, no time to prepare after it hits.
It’s easy to ignore VAERS and little peasants dying from the jabs. But I have been seeing their sophisticated ones beginning to take a hit. It will be harder to hide. 3rd sophisticate person being harmed by the jabs I read about in the last 24 hours.
This is very sad.
Our poor soldiers being forced to take the jab.
Palintir bought 50mill in gold bars. thats Peter Thiels Spy company.
I’d follow him, to win in any choice for now.
Very sad, especially how many people died after the jab that aren’t followed up on. If it doesn’t work to stop the spread and doesn’t reduce hospitalization from Covid, then it can only be concluded that the risk of death from the jab is too much since it only adds deaths and not reducing. Remember, PDJT said just one life is too many.
A lot of people do fine with the jab, but they would’ve with Covid anyway. This person died directly because of the jab and probably had no risk of dying from Covid. That’s the lease people need to view this from, especially since Covid cases are going up even after all them vaccines.
The FED has already destroyed the dollar by printing trillions to pay for the ongoing stimulus.
Build, back, better means tear everything down and start from scratch.
JUST IN – CIA Director Burns met Taliban leader Abdul Ghani Baradar in Kabul on Monday (WaPo)
The CIA took part in his arrest in Karachi 11 years ago. Now he gets to meet the CIA chief in a Taliban-run Kabul.
UPDATE – Taliban spokesman denies any such meeting with the CIA took place.
https://mol.im/a/9928133
Updated headline at the daily mail…60 dead with children among casualties. Great reporting job with constant updates. Lots of pictures. The comment section is top notch, plenty of excellent commentary with good observations. Your comment is noted and you can find it again easily and add or contribute to a coversation.
I wonder if they will let Biden call the families of the service members. He can’t be trusted to be compassionate…
If you were a family member of one of those KIA, would you want a call from him today? I wouldn’t.
You are right……
When cleansing time comes…NO MERCY
If Biden comes out and starts he teary eyed story using his son Beau’s “service” I’m going to scream! Beau was never in danger in the ME it was all just a resume enhancer to run for POTUS. Then there is Hunter shoed into “service” and fortunately the Navy was not afraid to dishonorably discharge him from the Navy….of course not a peep from the Big Guy. Bottom line is he’s used his kids for his personal agenda.
What should our strategy be?
Biden cannot remain as CIC. He is a clear and present danger!!
What do we do? Impeach and let Kamala be installed? would that be better? We don’t have options it seems.
I would love to know what Sundance thinks is the best way forward here.
The only thing is to let it take its course. Kamala will be a disaster and people will hopefully be turned off from the Dem plantation. Like I’ve been saying is there is such a stark difference that people can relate to and feel about the economy (wages, prices, gas, etc) between Trump and Biden. Kamala will make it worse. Trump will prob get 100 million votes in 2024.
What a joke: Fox has Chrissy on, blathering, as if he’s supposed to be some expert on military maneuvers and some kind of expert on Biden.
The image and video that China, Russia, Iran and Taliban are ultimately going to go for is shooting a plane down. This situation is going to turn into a backlash against America on the world stage, and it was all intentional.
China probably has provided transportation to every jihadist in the ME to get to Kabul to join the “Revolution” of We Hate America!
The Chinese will soon be replacing the Taliban Flag with the flag of China.
The WH is in over their head.
Next week Taiwan!
Where are all those commentators that said on Biden’s installation: “Finally, an adult in the White House.”
No one would get in a car if he were driving, but he is in charge of our military? I am sure he inspires a lot of confidence in Americans and our allies. Hope this isn’t inconveniencing his sleeping. Maybe he needs to go back to Delaware to get a good night’s sleep.