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Source: Sputnik
Pressure Piles on Raab After Reports UK Embassy Told Afghans to Wait by Airport Gate Before Bombing
Just before 6 p.m. on 26 August a huge bomb went off near Abbey Gate, the main entrance to Kabul Airport, killing 13 US service personnel and 163 Afghans. A suicide bomber was to blame and the terrorist organisation, Daesh-Khorasan*, has claimed responsibility.
The BBC programme "Newsnight" said it had seen emails suggesting the British Embassy told people to "use the Abbey Gate (near) to the Baron Hotel" despite UK and US military and intelligence knowing there was a severe threat from extremists.
Earlier this week a report on the US website Politico claimed the US forces guarding the airport kept Abbey Gate open longer than they wanted because the British wanted more time to get evacuees out.
Politico said the US commanders planned to close Abbey Gate by Thursday afternoon but decided to delay it so their British allies could continue evacuating their personnel, based at the Baron Hotel.
One Afghan interpreter told the BBC if he had followed the British Embassy's advice to go to Abbey Gate he would have been dead.
Please go to Sputnik to read more.
Extreme Wahhabism is the Brainchild of British Intelligence Agency
British officials told Afghans to wait at the main Abbey Gate entrance to Kabul Airport only hours before last week's suicide bombing there, according to reports.
The BBC programme "Newsnight" said it had seen emails suggesting the British Embassy told people to "use the Abbey Gate (near) to the Baron Hotel" despite UK and US military and intelligence knowing there was a severe threat from extremists.
Taliban walk in front of a military airplane a day after the U.S. troops withdrawal from Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan August 31, 2021.
Earlier this week a report on the US website Politico claimed the US forces guarding the airport kept Abbey Gate open longer than they wanted because the British wanted more time to get evacuees out.
Why were Afghan nations being directed by British embassy to Kabul airport on day of suicide attack when threat imminent? Spoken to several who told me messages were conflicting/confusing. This comes as @DominicRaab faces Qs from MPs on his handling of situation in #Afghanistan
— Sima Kotecha (@sima_kotecha) September 1, 2021
Politico said the US commanders planned to close Abbey Gate by Thursday afternoon but decided to delay it so their British allies could continue evacuating their personnel, based at the Baron Hotel.
One Afghan interpreter told the BBC if he had followed the British Embassy's advice to go to Abbey Gate he would have been dead.
He said: "If I had followed their advice, I would be no more. I said I won't because I don't feel safe as the situation was getting worse. It would be madness to go there and that saved my life. It was our own judgment that saved our lives".The latest reports are bound to crank up the pressure on British Foreign Secretary Raab, who has been urged to resign.
Please go to Sputnik to read more.
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The British have been at this for a very long time: Creating their enemies.
The Japanese couldn't deal with the rapidly deteriorating circumstances so they cut and run:
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