{"id":35969,"date":"2021-08-27T11:29:37","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T02:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/aug\/27\/afghanistan-taliban-live-news-kabul-airport-attack-bomb-explosion-civilians-us-marines-killed-abbey-gate-is-islamic-state-biden-vows-revenge-latest-updates"},"modified":"2021-08-27T18:56:50","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T09:56:50","slug":"kabul-airport-attack-biden-vows-revenge-for-afghanistan-explosion-that-killed-dozens-as-us-forces-brace-for-further-attacks-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35969","title":{"rendered":"Kabul airport attack: UK has entered \u2018final hours\u2019 of evacuation; Biden vows revenge for Afghanistan explosion that killed dozens \u2013 live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/aug\/27\/afghanistan-taliban-live-news-kabul-airport-attack-bomb-explosion-civilians-us-marines-killed-abbey-gate-is-islamic-state-biden-vows-revenge-latest-updates?page=with:block-6128849a8f080ef844e7715a#block-6128849a8f080ef844e7715a\">UK defence secretary says \u2018sad fact is not every single one will get out\u2019<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/aug\/27\/afghanistan-taliban-live-news-kabul-airport-attack-bomb-explosion-civilians-us-marines-killed-abbey-gate-is-islamic-state-biden-vows-revenge-latest-updates?page=with:block-612803098f08b1506f20feb8#block-612803098f08b1506f20feb8\">Biden says the US will \u2018hunt down\u2019 Islamic State leaders responsible<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/aug\/27\/afghanistan-taliban-live-news-kabul-airport-attack-bomb-explosion-civilians-us-marines-killed-abbey-gate-is-islamic-state-biden-vows-revenge-latest-updates?page=with:block-612830358f080ef844e76da0#block-612830358f080ef844e76da0\">American forces bracing for further attacks<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/26\/afghanistan-large-explosion-hits-entry-gate-kabul-airport\">Civilians and soldiers dead after two suicide bombs strike Kabul airport<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/26\/isis-affiliate-iskp-is-prime-suspect-for-kabul-airport-suicide-bomb\">Islamic State claims responsibility for Kabul airport blasts<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/26\/boris-johnson-uk-continue-final-stages-kabul-airlift\">Boris Johnson: UK will continue with final stages of Kabul airlift<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/27\/kabul-airport-attacks-what-we-know-so-far\">Kabul airport attacks: what we know so far<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/26\/it-was-like-doomsday-wait-at-kabul-airport-descends-into-terror\">\u2018It was like doomsday\u2019: wait at Kabul airport descends into terror<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/afghanistan\">See all our Afghanistan coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2021-08-27T09:54:44.117Z\">10.54am <span class=\"timezone\">BST<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p>It is \u201cclearly not good enough\u201d that documents identifying Afghan workers and job applicants were found on the ground at the <strong>British<\/strong> diplomatic mission in Kabul, <strong>Ben Wallace <\/strong>has admitted.<\/p>\n<p>The defence secretary said <strong>Boris Johnson<\/strong> \u201cwill be asking some questions\u201d about how the papers were left unsecure.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll find out and get to the bottom of it. The evidence looks pretty clear. Clearly it\u2019s not good enough, simple as that. I think the prime minister will be asking some questions, I think we need to understand, quite rightly, how that happened.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">How <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FCDOGovUK?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FCDOGovUK<\/a> handled this crisis will be the subject of a coming <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CommonsForeign?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CommonsForeign<\/a> inquiry. The evidence is already coming in.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3edJLkIZGe\">https:\/\/t.co\/3edJLkIZGe<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2021-08-27T09:36:42.953Z\">10.36am <span class=\"timezone\">BST<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p>The DUP leader <strong>Sir Jeffrey Donaldson<\/strong> has said he is seeking urgent clarification from the <strong>UK<\/strong> government about people from <strong>Northern Ireland<\/strong> who remain in Afghanistan, PA reports.<\/p>\n<p>The UK has entered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/27\/uk-minister-not-everyone-out-kabul-rescue-final-hours-afghanistan\">the final stages of its Kabul evacuation<\/a> and no more people will be called to the airport to leave, the Ministry of Defence has said.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst I understand absolutely the need to protect our armed forces and the civilian staff who are working at Kabul Airport, I am concerned that perhaps there remain British citizens who haven\u2019t yet been transported, evacuated out of Kabul.<\/p>\n<p>I am seeking clarity on that from the Foreign Office and the Home Office today. That includes some Northern Ireland citizens whose cases I have been dealing with. I hope that by now they are in the airport compound and will be transported home but those are matters that we need to clarify.<\/p>\n<p>That is correct. I just hope that a way can be found to help those people be evacuated.<\/p>\n<p>Some of them work for NGOs, for charities, doing humanitarian work. I just don\u2019t know what attitude the Taliban will take to such organisations now and therefore our thoughts are with the families here at home who are so anxious and distressed about what they are seeing on their TV screens and deeply worried about their loved ones.<\/p>\n<p>I am aware of cases that fit that category and they remain in Afghanistan at this moment of time, including aid workers who work for an Irish aid agency, some of whom come from Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>My understanding is that they have not yet been evacuated but I am seeking clarification on that and I will be raising this with the Irish prime minister today and giving him specific details of those cases.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/aug\/27\/afghanistan-taliban-live-news-kabul-airport-attack-bomb-explosion-civilians-us-marines-killed-abbey-gate-is-islamic-state-biden-vows-revenge-latest-updates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK defence secretary says \u2018sad fact is not every single one will get out\u2019; Biden says the US will \u2018hunt down\u2019 Islamic State leaders responsible; American forces bracing for further attacksCivilians and soldiers dead after two suicide bombs strike Kabul&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1081,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1081"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35969"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35983,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35969\/revisions\/35983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}