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Kabul airlift still faces high risk of attack: Pentagon

by AFP
August 27, 2021
in US News, World News
US Army Major General William "Hank" Taylor says the Pentagon is investigating the deadly attack at Kabul airport which left scores dead, including 13 US service members/AFP

US Army Major General William "Hank" Taylor says the Pentagon is investigating the deadly attack at Kabul airport which left scores dead, including 13 US service members/AFP

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon said on Friday the ongoing evacuation from Afghanistan faces more threats of attack a day after a suicide bomber and possible associated gunmen killed scores at a Kabul airport gate.

US General Hank Taylor said evacuation flights from the airport carried on at a high pace amid heightened security after Thursday’s attack claimed by the Islamic State group, and that investigations were underway on how the attacker, or attackers, got close to the gate.

He told reporters that only one suicide bomber, and not two as initially reported, carried out the attack, which killed at least 85 people, including 13 US troops.

“We do not believe that there was a second explosion at or near the Baron hotel, that it was one suicide bomber,” Taylor said.

US Defense Department Spokesman John Kirby said the operation continues despite intelligence suggesting IS-Khorasan, the Afghan arm of the Islamic State, aims to launch more attacks.

“We still believe there are credible threats … specific, credible threats,” Kirby said.

“We certainly are prepared and would expect future attempts, absolutely,” he added.

“We’re monitoring these threats, very, very specifically, virtually in real time.”

— Direct fire —

A Taliban fighter stands guard at the site of the suicide bombing at Kabul airport/AFP

Initial reports of Thursday’s attack said there were two suicide bombers, one at the airport’s Abbey gate and another at the nearby Baron hotel, which had been used by some countries to organize groups for evacuation.

However, Taylor said the initial investigation concluded there had been only one bomber, who detonated the explosive just outside the Abbey Gate, where thousands of Afghans were crowded hoping to be allowed into the airport by US soldiers for evacuation.

The huge explosion was followed by “direct fire” from one or more gunmen, details on which remain unknown.

It also remained unclear how the 13 US troops, part of more than 5,000 who have been running the airport and controlling its security since August 14, were killed.

An investigation into the incident is underway, Kirby said.

“Clearly something went wrong.”

The Pentagon officials said US forces continue to work with the Taliban — the insurgency the United States fought for two decades until they seized power in Kabul on August 15 — to manage the exodus through the deadline of August 31.

Taylor said around 111,000 people had been evacuated since August 14 as part of the airlift, and 12,500 in the previous 24 hours alone, on 89 US and coalition flights.

He said 5,400 more were at the airport Friday awaiting evacuation.

Other countries said they were ending their own evacuation flights on Thursday and Friday, as the US forces begin mapping out their own pullout of troops and equipment by the Tuesday deadline.

Kirby said that as long as qualified evacuees are moved into their port, they will be flown out.

“We will be able to fly out evacuees right up until the last moment, that’s going to be the goal,” he said.

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