US warns Americans to flee from the gates of Kabul airport
International | August 26, 2021
This is the result of one of the many errors of the Biden withdrawal from Afghanistan: Abandoning Bagram Airbase, which is now in the hands of the Taliban. There is only one runway at the Kabul airport, and the place is tough to defend. Our service members are in danger there, and the perimeter is not secured and clearly now being threatened by someone. According to a bulletin by the U.S. embassy in Afghanistan. Because of security threats outside the gates of Kabul airport, we are advising U.S. citizens to avoid traveling to the airport and to avoid airport gates at this time unless you receive individual instructions from a U.S. government representative to do so. U.S. citizens who are at the Abbey Gate, East Gate, or North Gate now should leave immediately. The bolding of the sentence above is by the State Department, for emphasis…. (Excerpts from White House Dossier)