{"id":693427,"date":"2021-08-28T13:05:14","date_gmt":"2021-08-28T17:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=693427"},"modified":"2021-08-28T13:05:16","modified_gmt":"2021-08-28T17:05:16","slug":"fact-check-no-this-photo-was-not-taken-during-the-aug-26-terrorist-attack-near-kabuls-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-no-this-photo-was-not-taken-during-the-aug-26-terrorist-attack-near-kabuls-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: No, This Photo Was Not Taken During The Aug. 26 Terrorist Attack Near Kabul\u2019s Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/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-no-this-photo-was-not-taken-during-the-aug-26-terrorist-attack-near-kabuls-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=693427&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\/2021-08-26T202712Z_1_LYNXMPEH7P0ZH_RTROPTP_4_AFGHANISTAN-CONFLICT-1-scaled-e1630090046512.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Dilsedesh\/status\/1430894578001846287\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Twitter<\/a> purportedly shows the moment the Aug. 26 bombing took place near Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"4.3548387096774\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The moment of Kabul airport blast. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Kabul?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Kabul<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KabulAirport?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#KabulAirport<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Taliban?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Taliban<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Afghanistan?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Afghanistan<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WrGRkO1Tgx\">pic.twitter.com\/WrGRkO1Tgx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Vasundhra Chauhan (@Dilsedesh) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Dilsedesh\/status\/1430894578001846287?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 26, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The photo dates to Aug. 16, ten days before the Kabul airport attack occurred.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Thursday\u2019s suicide bombing killed 13 U.S. service members and over 160 Afghans outside Kabul\u2019s airport, where people have been flocking in hopes of evacuating Afghanistan since the Taliban took control of the country, the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/bombings-evacuations-kabul-bb32ec2b65b54ec24323e021c9b4a553\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Associated Press<\/a> reported. The militant group Islamic State Khorasan (ISIS-K), an Islamic State offshoot in Afghanistan, claimed responsibility for the terrorist attack, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/08\/26\/1031244804\/kabul-airport-explosion-afghanistan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The claim that the image of a cloud rising near the airport shows the moment of the Aug. 26 attack in Kabul has been circulating on both <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Dilsedesh\/status\/1430894578001846287?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/7700emergency\/posts\/1714004725459859\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>. In reality, the photo was taken ten days before Thursday\u2019s suicide bombing occurred. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/08\/19\/fact-check-indian-air-force-plane-evacuating-afghanistan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Does This Image Show An Indian Air Force Plane Evacuating People From Afghanistan?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The picture, taken by Wakil Kohsar for AFP, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/news-photo\/soldiers-stand-guard-as-in-the-background-afghan-people-news-photo\/1234713237?adppopup=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">can be found<\/a> on the Getty Images website. It shows U.S. service members standing guard as \u201cAfghan people wait at the Kabul airport in Kabul on August 16, 2021, after a stunningly swift end to Afghanistan\u2019s 20-year war, as thousands of people mobbed the city\u2019s airport trying to flee the group\u2019s feared hardline brand of Islamist rule,\u201d according to its caption. It appeared in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/world\/gallery-in-photos-taliban-take-control-as-afghans-attempt-to-flee-to-the\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">news<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/world-news\/2021\/08\/16\/afghanistan-taliban-kabul-control-us-evacuation-middle-east\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stories<\/a> before the Aug. 26 terrorist attack as well.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera on Aug. 26 published an article featuring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/gallery\/2021\/8\/26\/in-pictures-explosion-outside-kabul-airport\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">actual photos<\/a> of the smoke from the explosion and injured victims being carried from the blast site. President Joe Biden promised the same day that the U.S. would hunt down and punish those responsible for the attack, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/afghanistan-kabul-attack-biden-retribution-12-service-members-killed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CBS News<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. military on Friday conducted an \u201cover-the-horizon counterterrorism operation\u201d against an \u201cISIS-K planner\u201d that is believed to have \u201ckilled the target,\u201d U.S. Central Command spokesman Capt. Bill Urban announced, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/politics-news\/u-s-retaliates-against-isis-drone-strike-afghanistan-n1277844\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NBC News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Twitter purportedly shows the moment the Aug. 26 bombing took place near Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. The moment of Kabul airport blast. #Kabul &#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-693427","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\/693427","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=693427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693427\/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=693427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}