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{{quotebox-float|“Basically, they just put all those Afghans on a kill list,” said one defense official, who like others spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive topic. “It’s just appalling and shocking and makes you feel unclean,” according to ''Politico.''<ref>https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/26/us-officials-provided-taliban-with-names-of-americans-afghan-allies-to-evacuate-506957</ref>}}
{{quotebox-float|“Basically, they just put all those Afghans on a kill list,” said one defense official, who like others spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive topic. “It’s just appalling and shocking and makes you feel unclean,” according to ''Politico.''<ref>https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/26/us-officials-provided-taliban-with-names-of-americans-afghan-allies-to-evacuate-506957</ref>}}
People who had worked for the Afghan government went into hiding, "awaiting their death sentence."<ref>https://www.mediaite.com/news/fox-news-aishah-hasnie-relays-terrifying-accounts-from-friends-in-afghanistan-waiting-on-their-death-sentence-after-taliban-seized-us-biometric-system/</ref> At least 24 students from [[San Diego]] school district and 16 parents had tickets to fly out but were not able to get to the airport.<ref>https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-08-24/students-from-cajon-valley-school-district-stranded-in-afghanistan?utm_id=36108&sfmc_id=4509190</ref> ''The New York Times'' reported that about 600 American University students were “terrified” after having a list with their names and passports shared with the Taliban. The students were informed by the university president "evacuations were permanently called off” and the airport “has announced there will be no more rescue flights” before the Biden regime's self-imposed August 31, 2021 deadline.<ref>https://thepoliticalinsider.com/report-american-university-students-in-afghanistan-terrified-after-having-a-list-of-their-names-given-to-taliban/</ref> ''The Times'' reported that the Taliban posted a picture of themselves on [[social media]] standing at the entrance of a university building saying that’s where America trained infidel “wolves.” A Taliban attack on the campus in 2016 killed 13 people, including seven students.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Popalzai |first1=Masoud |title=U.S. woman killed in Taliban attack: 'Beautiful, funny and ... fearless' |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2014/01/18/world/asia/afghanistan-violence/index.html |website=CNN |access-date=}}</ref>
People who had worked for the Afghan government went into hiding, "awaiting their death sentence."<ref>https://www.mediaite.com/news/fox-news-aishah-hasnie-relays-terrifying-accounts-from-friends-in-afghanistan-waiting-on-their-death-sentence-after-taliban-seized-us-biometric-system/</ref> At least 24 students from [[San Diego]] school district and 16 parents had tickets to fly out but were not able to get to the airport.<ref>https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-08-24/students-from-cajon-valley-school-district-stranded-in-afghanistan?utm_id=36108&sfmc_id=4509190</ref> ''The New York Times'' reported that about 600 American University students were “terrified” after having a list with their names and passports shared with the Taliban. The students were informed by the university president "evacuations were permanently called off” and the airport “has announced there will be no more rescue flights” before the Biden regime's self-imposed August 31, 2021 deadline.<ref>https://thepoliticalinsider.com/report-american-university-students-in-afghanistan-terrified-after-having-a-list-of-their-names-given-to-taliban/</ref> ''The Times'' reported that the Taliban posted a picture of themselves on [[social media]] standing at the entrance of a university building saying that’s where America trained infidel “wolves.” A Taliban attack on the campus in 2016 killed 13 people, including seven students.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Popalzai |first1=Masoud |title=U.S. woman killed in Taliban attack: 'Beautiful, funny and ... fearless' |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2014/01/18/world/asia/afghanistan-violence/index.html |website=CNN |access-date=}}</ref>
===Suicide bombing===
''Politico'' reported that according to a classified [[leak]] from the [[intelligence community]], the Pentagon knew well in advance that a suicide bomber was coming to the Kabul airpirt Abbey Gate long before the explosion. According to the leak, the military knew where and when the attack was coming, and Lloyd Austin warned allies to avoid the area. Austin, Mark Milley, and CentCom Commander General Kenneth McKenzie all knew in advance the Abbey Gate was going to be bombed on Thursday, August 26, yet they kept the gate open.
{{quotebox-float|"Just 24 hours before a suicide bomber detonated an explosive outside Hamid Karzai International Airport, senior military leaders gathered for the Pentagon’s daily morning update on the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan.
Speaking from a secure video conference room on the third floor of the Pentagon at 8 a.m. Wednesday — or 4:30 p.m. in Kabul — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin instructed more than a dozen of the department’s top leaders around the world to make preparations for an imminent “mass casualty event,” according to classified detailed notes of the gathering shared with POLITICO.
During the meeting, Gen. Mark Milley, the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, warned of “significant” intelligence indicating that the [[Islamic State]]’s Afghanistan affiliate, ISIS-K, was planning a “complex attack,” the notes quoted him as saying. Commanders calling in from Kabul relayed that the Abbey Gate, where American citizens had been told to gather in order to gain entrance to the airport, was “highest risk,” and detailed their plans to protect the airport. “I don’t believe people get the incredible amount of risk on the ground,” Austin said, according to the classified notes.
On a separate call at 4 that afternoon, or 12:30 a.m. on Thursday in Kabul, the commanders detailed a plan to close Abbey Gate by Thursday afternoon Kabul time. But the Americans decided to keep the gate open longer than they wanted in order to allow their [[British]] allies, who had accelerated their withdrawal timeline, to continue evacuating their personnel, based at the nearby Baron Hotel.
American troops were still processing entrants to the airport at Abbey Gate at roughly 6 p.m. in Kabul on Thursday when a suicide bomber detonated his explosive vest there, killing nearly 200 people, including 13 U.S. service members.<ref>https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/30/pentagon-mass-casualty-attack-kabul-507481</ref>}}
==ISIS-K==
==ISIS-K==