Explosion outside Kabul Airport. Casualties unconfirmed. per Bloomberg

[JohnSJ]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/explosion-reported-outside-kabul-airport

[Johnny2X2X]

1. Awful

We knew this attack was coming, wish we could have stopped it.

[blogslug]

2. Here's the Bloomberg link

Link to tweet

Bloomberg
@business

JUST IN: The Pentagon confirmed an explosion at the Kabul airport in Afghanistan
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-26/ap-newsalert-pentagon-spokesman-confirms-explosion-outside-kabul-airport-no-word-on-casualties

[JohnSJ]

3. +++

[nitpicker]

4. And a link to BBC

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-58279900

[Johnny2X2X]

5. Sounds like they targeted the entrance manned by UK soldiers

Hopefully he was IDed and shot before he was in a crowd and that's what made the bomb go off.

[Shanti Shanti Shanti]

6. It was only a matter of time before this powderkeg blew, get all the troops out NOW

[Johnny2X2X]

7. This was an ISIS attack

Now hold the Taliban to account for holding up their end of the deal and rooting out ISIS. The Taliban considers ISIS and enemy already.

[Shanti Shanti Shanti]

9. They are ALL fucking terrorists, fuck the Taliban, "US personnel among the wounded"

[JohnSJ]

8. That is why the US warned for Afghan's to stay away from the airport. I suspect their is from who

they call isis-K, who are enemies of the Taliban, and keeping us there would be a disaster, and this only confirms it

[Johnny2X2X]

11. That's what it sounds like

This stuff was happening all along.

Kabul was better when the US ruled, but there were still suicide bombers. And people act like it was a paradise for women and LGTBQ citizens. It wasn't, women were still subjugated to all sorts of oppression and LGTBQ people were still being killed in Kabul when the US was in control.

[Takket]

13. Yeah CNN has been saying for days US officials were expecting an attack

This is no surprise. Only surprising it took this long.

[kentuck]

10. Sounds like a suicide bomber?

Not always predictable. Troops must be vigilant that this does not escalate.

[Johnny2X2X]

12. 3 US troops injured

Let's hope not severely.

Sounds like there will be a lot of fatalities as the bomb was detonated in a crowd.

[Johnny2X2X]

14. Twin suicide bombers

One at the airport and one at an airport hotel. Probably timed to wound people fleeing the first bomb.

At least 13 dead and 15 wounded, American personnel among the wounded.