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A heavily fortified C.I.A. base in Kabul has been destroyed. With an explosion heard across Kabul, Americans destroyed the base so its contents would not fall to the Taliban. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/28/us/politics/cia-base-destroyed-kabul.html
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