NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — No “specific” or “credible” threats have been directed at New York City in the wake of the deadly suicide attacks carried out near the Kabul airport in Afghanistan, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Thursday.
At his daily briefing Thursday morning, a reporter asked de Blasio if there was an “elevated terror threat in the city now” related to attacks in Afghanistan that killed at least 13 people.
“We’re watching that very closely,” the mayor responded. “We do not have a specific and credible threat directed at New York City right now, but we are watching closely, and obviously our counterterrorism apparatus can move very quickly if we see anything of direct concern to us.”
Two suicide bombers and gunmen targeted crowds massing near the Kabul airport Thursday, in the waning days of a massive airlift that has drawn thousands of people seeking to flee the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. At least 13 people were killed and 15 wounded, Russian officials said.
A U.S. official said the complex attack was “definitely believed” to have been carried out by the Islamic State group, whose affiliate in Afghanistan grew out of disaffected Taliban members who hold an even more extreme view of Islam.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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