and i have been going to the airport basically every day since the fall of kabul to the taliban, and every day, you felt a sense of mounting dread, and on top of all of the horrible things you were seeing, that something like this would happen and it did. the taliban is playing an important role for the internationals, the americans here. preventing all of kabul rushing onto the air field like they did last week where you had scenes of people hanging off airports. so the west needs the taliban actually to keep people back. at the same time, how are they going to filter people without checking their documents? so you can see why the situation is so extraordinarily confused. and when you re talking about, i mean, in one of the videos we have seen where there are a lot of dead and injured, i mean, the seems like there is blast walls on either side. there s kind of a drainage ditch or a sewage ditch. if it s a crush of people like that, how does somebody who is just arriving there to try
they re most exposed, as troops were patting down an evacuee at a kabul airport gate, searching for a bomb, he or she, that s still unclear, detonated one. this is close up war. the breath of the person you are searching is upon you. while we have overwatch in place we still have to touch the clothes of the person that is coming in. ultimately americans have got to be in danger to do these searches, there s really no other way to do it. reporter: another bomb exploded a few hundred yards from the first as isis fighters sprayed gunfire, afghans tumbled, dead and injured, into a sewage ditch. we drove through this exact spot a few days ago, a corridor flanked by concrete blast walls that leads right to an airport gate. the u.s. is relying on the taliban to pre-screen the crowds pushing to get into the airport, hoping for a flight out of afghanistan. patting them down before they re checked again by u.s. troops. this stragerringly new bizarre
and an affiliate of the islamic state group says it carried out the attacks. we will look at what it means for the future of afghanistan. and seeking another escape route as thousands of afghans struggled to flee their country. we report from the border with pakistan. hello and welcome. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. president biden s vowed to hunt down the islamic state militants who carried out a twin bomb attack at kabul airport, which killed at least 13 us service personnel and dozens of afghans. the first explosion happened just before dusk outside the abbey gate, leaving bodies strewn in a sewage ditch. the second blast was near the baron hotel, which has been used by some western nations as a staging point for evacuations
we ll look at what that means for the future of afghanistan. and seeking another escape route , as thousands of afghans struggle to flee their country we report from the border with pakistan. president biden s vowed to hunt down the islamic state militants who carried out a twin bomb attack at kabul airport, which killed at least 13 us service personnel and dozens of afghans. map)the first explosion happened just before dusk outside the abbey gate, leaving bodies strewn in a sewage ditch. the second blast was near the baron hotel, which has been used by some western nations as a staging there had been warnings in recent days that an off shoot
carried out the attacks what now, for the us led withdrawal from afghanistan? it s eight in the morning in singapore, and 8 pm in washington where president biden has vowed to continue airlifts out of afghanistan despite the deadly bombings at kabul airport on thursday. at least 60 people died in the attacks including 12 us military personnel. the first explosion took place just before dusk outside the abbey gate at kabul airport, leaving bodies strewn all over a sewage ditch. the second blast happened near the baron hotel, which has been used by some western nations as a staging point for evacuations since the airlift began.