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The Washington Post has looked at the security challenges at Kabul’s airport.
The Post reports that:
At a typical well-defended military installation, security centers on what officials call ‘defence in depth,’ something that appeared to be impossible to establish at the airport, said Sam Lerman, an Air Force security forces veteran whose unit protected Bagram air base in Afghanistan in 2011 and 2012.
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