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Top British Officials Blast U.S. Claims That U.K. Was Reason Abbey Gate Was Open: ‘It’s Just Not True’

Ryan Saavedra
Top British Officials Blast U.S. Claims That U.K. Was Reason Abbey Gate Was Open: ‘It’s Just Not True’
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Top British officials are forcefully pushing back on classified records that appear to have been leaked by the Biden administration that blame Britain for the Abbey Gate remaining open when an ISIS terrorist detonated a suicide vest, killing 13 U.S. service members and roughly 200 Afghans.

“Just to pick up on something which has emerged from the United States over the past 24 hours, there seems to be an accusation by the Americans that we somehow endangered their forces on the ground by insisting on one of the gates at the airport, remaining open, what is the truth of it?” a Sky News host asked Dominic Raab, Britain’s Foreign Secretary and First Secretary of State.

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