Trump says ‘bad things’ will happen if Afghanistan does not return Bagram air base
By Katharine Jackson and Phil Stewart
Washington (Reuters) -US President Donald Trump threatened Afghanistan to “bad things” to Afghanistan if he did not return the Bagram Air Base to the United States on Saturday and refused to ignore unity to repeat it.
“If Afghanistan does not give back the United States to the United States, bad things will happen to those who build Bagram Airbase,” Trump said. He said.
Trump said on Thursday that the United States tried to regain the control of the base used by the American forces after the 11 September 2001 attacks. He told journalists to Afghanistan on Friday.
The withdrawal of the American forces in 2021 led to the seizure of US bases and the overthrow of the US -backed government with the Islamist Taliban movement in Kabul.
Afghan officials stated that he opposed the presence of a revived US presence.
The existing and former US officials are specially warned that the re -processing of the Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan may appear as the re -appreciation of the country and require more than 10,000 unions and may cause advanced air defenses to be deployed.
Trump said that he wanted to acquire regions and places ranging from Panama Canal to Greenland from the Panama Canal, and focused on Bagram for years.
On Saturday, he asked the US troops to send the base over and over again, and Trump refused to give a direct answer: “We will not talk about it.”
“Now we are talking to Afghanistan and we want it back soon. And if they don’t, you’ll learn what to do if they don’t.
The spreading airport was the main base of the American forces in Afghanistan in the attacks by Al Qaeda in New York and Washington by the twenty -year war, which was followed by September 11, 2001.
The base once counted fast-food restaurants such as Burger King and Pizza Hut to shops that sell everything from electronics to Afghan carpets. He also hosted a large prison complex.
Experts say that the expanding air base will be difficult to security at the beginning and the great manpower will need to work and protect.
Even if the Taliban accepts the re -processing of Bagram after the negotiations, it will have to be defended from a series of threats, including the Islamic State and Al Qaeda militants in Afghanistan.
Furthermore, the US may be vulnerable to an advanced missile threat of Iran, which attacked a large air base in Qatar in June after hitting Iran’s nuclear areas.
(Reporting by Katharine Jackson; Editing Leslie Adler and Andrea Ricci)
