US embassy issues second warning, advises Americans to avoid Kabul airport due to 'security...

SSG Robert Mark Odom
..."The U.S. Embassy in Kabul issued a second alert to Americans on Friday, advising them not to travel to the airport and to avoid airport gates due to "security threats" in Afghanistan.

"Because of security threats at the Kabul airport, we continue to advise U.S. citizens to avoid traveling to the airport and to avoid airport gates," the embassy wrote in the alert, which seemingly mirrored the first one.

Unlike the first alert the embassy issued on Wednesday, this one mentions the New Ministry of Interior Gate at Kabul airport as an area in which Americans should immediately flee. "U.S. citizens who are at the Abbey gate, East gate, North gate or the New Ministry of Interior gate now should leave immediately."...