{"id":36198,"date":"2021-08-31T06:32:57","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T21:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/30\/report-reveals-us-decision-to-keep-open-kabul-airport-gate-before-attack"},"modified":"2021-08-31T06:32:57","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T21:32:57","slug":"report-reveals-us-decision-to-keep-open-kabul-airport-gate-before-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36198","title":{"rendered":"Report reveals US decision to keep open Kabul airport gate before attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leaked notes show US plan to close \u2018high risk\u2019 Abbey gate pushed back to allow UK evacuation to continue<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/aug\/30\/afghanistan-live-news-kabul-taliban-latest-updates-airport-attack-islamic-state-isis-k-us-drone-strike-civilians-children-killed-deaths-reported\">Afghanistan: live updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A gate at Kabul airport was kept open by US commanders to allow the UK to continue evacuating personnel despite warnings of an imminent \u201cmass casualty event\u201d, according to a leaked US report.<\/p>\n<p>US forces had planned to close Abbey gate on Thursday afternoon because it was deemed to be at the \u201chighest risk\u201d, according to classified notes of video conference discussions among senior military figures just 24 hours before the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/27\/kabul-airport-attacks-what-we-know-so-far\">attack<\/a>, which were obtained by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/08\/30\/pentagon-mass-casualty-attack-kabul-507481\">Politico<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/30\/report-reveals-us-decision-to-keep-open-kabul-airport-gate-before-attack\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaked notes show US plan to close \u2018high risk\u2019 Abbey gate pushed back to allow UK evacuation to continueAfghanistan: live updatesA gate at Kabul airport was kept open by US commanders to allow the UK to continue evacuating personnel despite warnings of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2098,"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":[46,61,44,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36198","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\/2098"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36199,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36198\/revisions\/36199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}