By Wednesday night, US intelligence agencies were near certain that an attack was imminent outside Kabul airport, triggering a warning to American citizens to leave the area immediately.
Just 12 hours later, suicide bombers walked through the large crowds to a gate manned by US troops and detonated explosives, killing at least 162 Afghans and 13 US service members.
It was a tragic coda to America’s 20-year war in Afghanistan, the largest loss of life for the US military there in a decade, on the cusp of the full withdrawal of troops by August 31 ordered by President Joe Biden.
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