Now we all know.
Protection Secretary Lloyd Austin, Joint Chief’s Chariman Mark Milley, and CentCom Commander Normal Kenneth McKenzie all knew in regards to the Kabul Airport terrorist bombing hours prematurely on the Abbey Gate.
The highest US Army leaders knew that the Abbey Gate Troopers had been on the best danger.
13 US servicemen and girls had been killed within the assault.
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Politico reported:
(Politico) – Simply 24 hours earlier than a suicide bomber detonated an explosive exterior Hamid Karzai Worldwide Airport, senior navy leaders gathered for the Pentagon’s each day morning replace on the deteriorating scenario in Afghanistan.
Talking from a safe video convention room on the third ground of the Pentagon at 8 a.m. Wednesday — or 4:30 p.m. in Kabul — Protection Secretary Lloyd Austin instructed greater than a dozen of the division’s high leaders world wide to make preparations for an imminent “mass casualty occasion,” in line with labeled detailed notes of the gathering shared with POLITICO.
Throughout the assembly, Gen. Mark Milley, the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Workers, warned of “important” intelligence indicating that the Islamic State’s Afghanistan affiliate, ISIS-Ok, was planning a “complicated assault,” the notes quoted him as saying. Commanders calling in from Kabul relayed that the Abbey Gate, the place Americans had been advised to collect in an effort to acquire entrance to the airport, was “highest danger,” and detailed their plans to guard the airport.
“I don’t imagine individuals get the unimaginable quantity of danger on the bottom,” Austin stated, in line with the labeled notes.
On a separate name at 4 that afternoon, or 12:30 a.m. on Thursday in Kabul, the commanders detailed a plan to shut Abbey Gate by Thursday afternoon Kabul time. However the People determined to maintain the gate open longer than they wished in an effort to permit their British allies, who had accelerated their withdrawal timeline, to proceed evacuating their personnel, based mostly on the close by Baron Resort.
American troops had been nonetheless 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 practically 200 individuals, together with 13 U.S. service members.
