Just hours after the Joe Biden said that he was informed by US military commanders that another attack on the troops may come within the next 24-36 hours, the US embassy in Kabul warned of a "Specific" and "Credible" threat for the area around the airport, urging US citizens to "Immediately" leave the area.
In a security alert issued early Sunday, the US embassy sounded the alarm about a potential attack at the Kabul airport, two days after a suicide bombing killed some 170 Afghans, 13 US servicemen and two British nationals.
Due to a specific, credible threat, all U.S. citizens in the vicinity of Kabul airport, including the South gate, the new Ministry of the Interior, and the gate near the Panjshir Petrol station on the northwest side of the airport, should leave the airport area immediately.
Earlier on Saturday, Biden said that despite intelligence suggesting an attack at the airport is "Highly likely", the US would continue to evacuate the remaining Americans and Afghan allies.
"Update: On Saturday afternoon, just hours after the US reportedly droned some unnamed"ISIS-K planners and facilitators" who were said to be behind the Kabul airport bombing, Joe Biden warned that "the situation on the ground continues to be extremely dangerous, and the threat of terrorist attacks on the airport remains high," and said that his military commanders informed him that "an attack is highly likely in the next 24-36 hours.
In a purposefully "Remarkable" turnaround for Biden's catastrophic evacuation of Afghanistan, where the intelligence never even considered the option of a Taliban surge thus handing over the country to the militant Islamists on a silver platter, late on Friday the US said its intelligence had finally redeemed itself when it carried out a drone strike in eastern Afghanistan against an Isis-K "Planner" behind the deadly attack on Kabul airport on Thursday, even as countries wrap up desperate efforts to evacuate thousands of Afghans trying to flee, potentially sparking an even more aggressive retaliation from the organization.
The alleged drone attack came in the wake of new warnings from top American security officials that another terror attack in Kabul is likely, just days ahead of Tuesday's deadline for withdrawing US forces from Afghanistan.
Sunday, August 29, 2021
US State Dept Urges US Citizens To "Immediately" Leave Kabul Airport Area Due To "Specific, Credible" Threat
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