The situation at the airport in Kabul is becoming more and more confusing and dangerous: The US government has confirmed media reports about the risk of an attack by the terrorist militia Islamic State (IS) at the airport or in the vicinity. “The threat is real, it is acute, it is ongoing,” said US President Joe Biden’s National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan, on CNN yesterday.
“We are working intensively with our intelligence services to find out where an attack could come from,” said Sullivan. Take the warnings “dead serious”. The radical Islamic Taliban and the IS branch active in the region are enemies and have fought against each other in the past.
- Video: Journalist Shams Ul Haq describes the actions of the Taliban in Afghanistan.
“Heartbreaking Scenes”
Sullivan also said the scenes outside the airport were heartbreaking. “We work every single minute, every single hour, every single day to create as much order and security as possible.” Americans also have difficulty getting through the chaos outside the airport. “This is a logistical challenge that we’ve been working hard on. We now believe we have alternative methods of getting Americans to the airport.” Sullivan did not provide any information about which methods it could be.
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British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said it was impossible to fly out all those in need of protection in time. No nation is able to save everyone by the August 31 deadline, Wallace told the Mail on Sunday. EU Foreign Affairs Representative Josep Borrell was also pessimistic about the fate of thousands of local workers.
According to eyewitnesses, the Taliban fired into the air in front of Kabul airport on Sunday to force people rushing to the airport into orderly queues. Thousands of people were desperately trying to get seats on the planes that Western countries use to fly their compatriots and Afghans threatened by persecution out of the country.
Seven dead in mass panic
According to the British Ministry of Defense, seven Afghan civilians were killed in a mass panic in the crowds near the airport on Saturday. In the past seven days there have been at least 20 deaths here, said a NATO representative.
