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dalton99a

(81,637 posts) Thu Aug 26, 2021, 02:16 PM Aug 2021

Troops are welding shut the airport gates

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2021/08/26/explosion-outside-kabul-airport-casualties-unknown/

Multiple sources, including on the ground in Kabul, confirmed to Military Times that troops are welding shut the airport gates in response to the attacks.

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Troops are welding shut the airport gates (Original Post) dalton99a Aug 2021 OP

🤬 Budi Aug 2021 #1

US Citizens were warned Klaralven Aug 2021 #2

Budi

(15,325 posts)

1. 🤬

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Thu Aug 26, 2021, 02:22 PM

Aug 2021

Burn in hell Trump

Klaralven

(7,510 posts)

2. US Citizens were warned

Reply to dalton99a (Original post)

Thu Aug 26, 2021, 02:32 PM

Aug 2021

State Department officials had warned all U.S. citizens at the airport gates to leave “immediately” on Wednesday and await further evacuation instructions.

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