Fact:
On April 3, 2017, the day Vladimir Putin was due to visit the city, a suicide bombing was carried out in the St. Petersburg metro, killing 15 people and injuring 64. An al-Qaeda affiliate, Imam Shamil Battalion, claimed responsibility.
The Hill: Biden enters perilous final hours of Afghanistan mission
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CEP Advisory Board Member Ambassador Nathan Sales quoted: "'We should brace ourselves for more chaos and disorder,' said Nathan Sales, who led the State Department’s Counterterrorism Bureau during the Trump administration. 'It’s very difficult to do an evacuation at the same time you're doing a military retrograde, and that’s essentially the situation we’re in now.'"
Date
August 30, 2021
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