Original title: Western countries warned of terrorist attacks on Kabul Airport, Taliban spokesperson denied Source: Overseas Network
Overseas Network, August 26. On the 26th local time, Britain, the United States, Germany and many other countries warned that a terrorist attack is likely to occur at Kabul Airport in Afghanistan, and advised their citizens to stay away from the area. However, Taliban spokesman Mujahid refuted these claims, calling the report “incorrect.”
According to media reports such as Fox News, the British Armed Forces Secretary James Shipper said on the 26th that there is now very, very reliable intelligence that a terrorist attack on the Kabul airport in Afghanistan is “imminent” and may be in the next few days. Happened within hours. The British government warned its citizens to stay away from the area.
In addition, an anonymous senior U.S. official confirmed the British report that the threat of a car bomb or suicide bombing by the “ISIS-K” branch organization of the “Islamic State” was assessed as “possibly greater than impossibility.” Earlier, the US Embassy in Afghanistan issued a statement stating that it advised US citizens to avoid going to the airport and avoid the airport gate.
German Defense Minister Annegrett Kramp-Karenbauer stated on the 26th that Germany’s task of evacuating people from Afghanistan has entered the “most dangerous stage” because the threat of terrorism has “increased significantly.”
Belgian Prime Minister De Crowe said that he had received an alert from the United States and that Belgium’s evacuation of personnel from Afghanistan ended on the evening of the 25th local time. In addition, Poland, Denmark, and France also stated that they will end the evacuation of Kabul Airport.
However, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid refuted reports of possible attacks on Kabul Airport, saying that these reports were “incorrect”, but he did not elaborate. (Overseas Net Yang Jia)
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