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assistant inspector

31 Aug, 6 tweets, 3 min read

summary of karzai airport bombing:
- US knew it was coming
- group that did it aided by US ratlines since at least 2018
- significant number of those killed were shot by american soldiers
- person killed by US retaliatory drone strike was a western ngo employee and his family

sources: "US knew it was coming"
reuters article from before bombing: "Citizens already at the airport's Abbey Gate [where bombing occured], East Gate, and North Gate were advised to leave immediately, said the security alert... "
reuters.com/world/us-embas…

"group that did it aided by US ratlines since at least 2018"
accusations from russian FM lavrov and iranian FM zarif in 2018, based on reports from provincial officials. voanews.com/middle-east/ir… voanews.com/world-news/mid… shar.es/aW73R6

number of commentators including pepe escobar (L) and mk bhadrakumar (R) have mentioned this recently in context of attack asiatimes.com/2021/08/who-pr… indianpunchline.com/us-china-relat…

https://twitter.com/SecKermani/status/1431517279859224579

"significant number of those killed were shot by american soldiers"
BBC correspondent reporting that "significant numbers of those killed were shot dead by US forces"👇

https://twitter.com/SecKermani/status/1431517279859224579

"person killed by US retaliatory drone strike was a western ngo employee and his family"
Times report on family killed in strike nytimes.com/live/2021/08/3…

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