A United States military freight airplane that flew into Afghanistan recently has actually stimulated speculation about restored American control on the tactical Bagram air base.
According to regional media reports, the C-17 airplane removed from Doha’s Al Udeid military base, shown up in Afghanistan through Pakistan on Sunday, and landed at Bagram.
The airplane was apparently bring senior United States intelligence authorities, consisting of CIA deputy chief Michael Ellis, and military devices, Khaama Press reported.
The outlet declared the Taliban had actually turned over the base, which president Donald Trump revealed interest in recovering throughout his governmental run, to the United States.
The claim was promptly rejected by Taliban’s primary representative Zabiullah Mujahid who explained it as “propaganda”. He stated the Taliban had total control of the air base.
American takeover of the base was “difficult”, Mr Mujahid stated, and “there is no requirement for any nation’s military existence in Afghanistan at present and the Islamic Emirate will not permit such an action”.
Zia Ahmad Takal, a deputy representative at Afghanistan’s foreign ministry, released a rejection too. “This news is not proper,” he informed The Independent.
The Independent has actually connected to the United States defence department for remark.
The Bagram air base, north of the capital Kabul, acted as the command node for American and allied Nato forces for twenty years as they waged a war versus the Taliban and Al Qaeda.
The base, the size of a little city, was recorded by the Taliban not long after Western soldiers abandoned it, shutting down power and escaping as they withdrew from the nation, in the summertime of 2021.
Bagram has 2 runways and over 100 parking areas for fighter jets referred to as revetments since of the blast walls which safeguard each airplane. Among the runways, integrated in 2006, determines 12,000 feet long.
It likewise boasts a traveler lounge, a 50-bed medical facility and hangar-sized camping tents filled with products like furnishings.
Mr Trump has actually consistently discussed taking control of the Bagram base. He declared last month that Washington prepared to go back to the base since it now apparently hosted Chinese soldiers.
” I am the one who got our military existence to under 5,000 however we were going to keep Bagram, not since of Afghanistan however since of China, since the air base is precisely one hour from where China makes its nuclear rockets,” Mr Trump stated. “So, we were going to keep Bagram.”
Bagram was among the biggest air bases worldwide, total with “among the greatest and most effective runways”, the United States president included. “And we offered it up. And you understand who is inhabiting it at the minute? China. Due to the fact that Biden offered it up. So, we are going to keep that.”
At the time, Mr Mujahid dismissed Mr Trump’s remarks as “psychological” and stated United States authorities must “refrain” from making “declarations based upon dubious info”.