Pentagon officials say there was one explosion near the Kabul airport, not two as it had reported on Thursday.
Amid “concrete” threats of additional terrorist strikes, the U.S. military rushed to push through its final evacuations from Afghanistan while trying to piece together the details of, one of the single deadliest days for American service members and Afghan civilians.
The Pentagon said it had determined there was just one suicide bomber and a single blast — not two explosions as it first reported. Because of the enormous crush of people thronging the Kabul airport entry, the death toll was unusually high. Thirteen U.S. service members, most of them Marines, were killed, and Afghan hospital officials revised the Afghan civilian count to more than 150.
The Pentagon blamed its initial erroneous report — that a second bomb exploded near a hotel outside the airport — on the confusion surrounding the catastrophic event. “Clearly there was a break in the security process” set up to screen people arriving at the Kabul airport, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Friday. Part of that process is in the hands of the Taliban, which controls the
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