LONDON: England did not encourage to maintain the monastery of the open gate at Kabul airport before a suicide bomber detonated explosively on site, British foreign secretary Dominic Raab told Sky News on Tuesday.
A politico report on Monday said American forces decided to keep the gate open longer than they wanted to allow Britain to continue to evacuate personnel.
“We got our civilian goods from the processing center by the gate monastery, but it was not true to suggest that, in addition to securing our civilian staff inside the airport, that we pushed to leave the open gate,” Raab said.