{"id":691148,"date":"2021-08-27T18:20:20","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T22:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=691148"},"modified":"2021-08-27T18:20:23","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T22:20:23","slug":"fact-check-does-this-video-show-an-explosion-near-the-kabul-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-does-this-video-show-an-explosion-near-the-kabul-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Does This Video Show An Explosion Near The Kabul Airport?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-does-this-video-show-an-explosion-near-the-kabul-airport%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=691148&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1234896295-scaled-e1630091590813.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/1167352343419259\/posts\/1961995897288229\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZionWarrior6\/status\/1430904144269778951\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a> purportedly shows an Aug. 26 explosion near the Baron Hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"6.6880733944954\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BREAKING?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BREAKING<\/a> : Second explosion hit Baron Hotel near <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Kabul?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Kabul<\/a> airport where Americans were rescued last week.<br \/>Reports saying now 30 killed in blasts <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Et74OMlBvV\">pic.twitter.com\/Et74OMlBvV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ZionWarrior (@ZionWarrior6) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZionWarrior6\/status\/1430904144269778951?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 26, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The video predates the Aug. 26 Kabul airport attack and appears to show Israeli airstrikes against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Amid efforts to evacuate foreign citizens and at-risk Afghans from Afghanistan, a suicide bomber targeted the large crowds near Kabul\u2019s airport on Thursday, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2021\/08\/27\/world\/afghanistan-taliban-biden-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New York Times<\/a>. The attack, which the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/08\/27\/asia\/isis-k-explainer-afghanistan-kabul-attacks-cmd-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Islamic State affiliate<\/a> in Afghanistan took credit for, killed 13 U.S. service members and over 90 Afghan nationals, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/western-nations-race-complete-afghan-evacuation-deadline-looms-2021-08-25\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reuters<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Social media users have been falsely claiming footage of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/1167352343419259\/posts\/1961995897288229\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">large<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZionWarrior6\/status\/1430904144269778951\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">explosion<\/a> on a city skyline at night depicts an explosion at the Baron Hotel in Kabul on Thursday. Though there were <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PentagonPresSec\/status\/1430907314043719683\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">initial reports<\/a> of a second blast at the hotel, the Pentagon said Friday that was not the case, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/2021\/08\/27\/afghanistan-live-updates-taliban-kabul-news\/5611093001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">USA Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A reverse image search of key frames from the video revealed it dates back to Aug. 21, several days before the Kabul airport terrorist attack. On Aug. 21, Al Jazeera Arabic posted a version of the footage to its <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AJArabic\/status\/1429194599063375875\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a> account, with the caption roughly translating to: \u201cThe first scenes of the Israeli raids on the sites of the Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"6.6276150627615\">\n<p dir=\"rtl\" lang=\"ar\">\u0627\u0644\u0645\u0634\u0627\u0647\u062f \u0627\u0644\u0623\u0648\u0644\u0649 \u0644\u0644\u063a\u0627\u0631\u0627\u062a \u0627\u0644\u0625\u0633\u0631\u0627\u0626\u064a\u0644\u064a\u0629 \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0645\u0648\u0627\u0642\u0639 \u0644\u0644\u0641\u0635\u0627\u0626\u0644 \u0627\u0644\u0641\u0644\u0633\u0637\u064a\u0646\u064a\u0629 \u0641\u064a \u0642\u0637\u0627\u0639 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%D8%BA%D8%B2%D8%A9?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\u063a\u0632\u0629<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%AE%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\u0627\u0644\u0623\u062e\u0628\u0627\u0631<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EpTPdVg6Zh\">pic.twitter.com\/EpTPdVg6Zh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u0642\u0646\u0627\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u062c\u0632\u064a\u0631\u0629 (@AJArabic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AJArabic\/status\/1429194599063375875?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 21, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/idf-said-to-strike-hamas-targets-in-gaza-in-response-to-shooting-on-border\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Times of Israel<\/a> also linked the footage to the Aug. 21 Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip. The airstrikes that night targeted sites of the Palestinian militant group Hamas, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/two-palestinians-israeli-soldier-seriously-injured-gaza-crossfire-2021-08-21\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reuters<\/a>. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/08\/20\/fact-check-video-people-kabul-welcoming-taliban\/\">(RELATED: No, This Video Does Not Show The People Of Kabul Welcoming The Taliban Into The City)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said Friday that there were \u201cspecific, credible threats\u201d to the airport in Kabul, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/2021\/08\/27\/afghanistan-live-updates-taliban-kabul-news\/5611093001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">USA Today<\/a> reported. Despite concerns about potential future attacks, the U.S. is continuing evacuations from Afghanistan, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/bombings-evacuations-kabul-bb32ec2b65b54ec24323e021c9b4a553\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video shared on Facebook and Twitter purportedly shows an Aug. 26 explosion near the Baron Hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan. #BREAKING : Second explosion hit Baron Hotel near #Kabul airport &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-691148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}