12 U.S. Service Members Killed In Kabul: What We Know About The Attack
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🗓️ 26 August 2021
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New York Times journalist Matthieu Aikens describes the scene at the airport moments after the attack. NPR's Quil Lawrence reports on reaction from the Pentagon.
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| 0:00.0 | The security alert from the US Embassy in Kabul went out around 10.30 a.m. Eastern time Thursday morning |
| 0:06.9 | It instructed Americans to leave the Kabul airport immediately and avoid traveling there after reports of explosions and gunfire |
| 0:15.4 | Just under three hours later the tragic news and this was of course what everybody feared depending on press secretary John Kirby |
| 0:21.7 | Putting out a statement just a short time ago |
| 0:23.3 | Saying a number of US service members were killed in these twin explosions what he called a complex operation a complex attack at |
| 0:30.7 | Kabul International Airport where there are more than |
| 0:33.7 | 5,000 US service members at the moment we now the last US casualty in Afghanistan was in February |
| 0:39.5 | 2020 now as of when we're recording this on Thursday afternoon at least |
| 0:44.6 | 12 US service members are among the dead in these attacks at the Kabul airport and |
| 0:49.3 | To ring what was supposed to be the final hundred hours of America's two-daked military operation in Afghanistan |
| 0:55.7 | The hospital was overwhelmed with patients. We had |
| 1:01.3 | Approximately 60 patients coming in |
| 1:04.9 | 16 dead on arrivals or that Rosela Michele is president of emergency then NGO operating a hospital in Kabul |
| 1:12.6 | 16 people dead on arrival she told NPR Thursday and a problem growing even more critical with the airport in disarray |
| 1:20.2 | There's concern that medical supplies could run low if we don't see any opening of the airport |
| 1:26.7 | This is going to be a serious problem for us, but for the entire country |
| 1:32.8 | Coming up what we know about what happened at the Kabul airport and what it means for the Biden |
| 1:37.4 | administrations goal of completing evacuations from Afghanistan in just a few days time |
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