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Old 31st Aug 2021, 17:12
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The entrances to the terminal are reported to be littered with discarded cartridge cases, somehow I can’t see that being the way US forces would have disabled systems - they would have been much more methodical, and of course that quantity of gunfire would have been reported.

There were reports of heavy gunfire - but after the last flights had departed.

In the meantime the US forces are reported to have taken out the aircraft on the ground by shooting out their windows, windscreens and tyres as well as vital engine and hydraulic systems. The last two aren’t obvious in the photos now available, the former are….










https://www.nbcnews.com/video/abando...t-119858245948
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