Ever since the Taliban took over Afghanistan, several unrelated old images from different parts of the world and a plethora of misinformation has stormed the Internet. Many users have been sharing misinformation in context with the present situation in Afghanistan. Now, an image of a soldier doing a security check of a man who is armed is viral as it is from a security check post at Kabul airport.
The image is viral on both Twitter and Facebook with same claim. Chief Sub Editor of The Lallantop Abhishek Kumar shared the image with a caption that reads ‘#afghanistan एयरपोर्ट पर सिक्योरिटी चेक की मनोरम तस्वीर.. मतलब एपिक है ये..!’ Archived version of this tweet can be found here.
A Twitter user Satya Arya tweeted the image with a caption that reads ‘You might be a terrorist, but still you have to ho through the mandatory security checks at #kabulairport
#Afghanistan’. Archived version of the tweet can be found here.
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A Facebook account Rami jartuk posted the image with a caption that reads ‘Security check at Kabul Airport 😂’
Another Facebook account Abhimanyu zucced posted the image with a caption that reads ‘Security check at kabul airport’
For more claims from Facebook click here, here, here, here, and here.
FactO check:
A reverse image search of the viral image directed us to a tweet by a user ‘yemenfelix1′. The account belongs to Amjad Tadros, journalist and Middle East Producer for CBS News. Amjad tweeted the image with a caption that reads ‘Memories from #yemen: Houthi soldier searching a man going into a rally: Qat, daggers & machine guns allowed!’ , dated 1 July 2015.
Memories from #yemen: Houthi soldier searching a man going into a rally: Qat, daggers & machine guns allowed! pic.twitter.com/TFevPYz9pv
— yemenfelix1 (@amtadros) July 1, 2015
Going through his Twitter profile we came to know that he was with Clarissa Ward, who is a foreign news correspondent with CBS news then. Clarissa Ward was reporting from the ground on the humanitarian crisis facing Yemen at that time.
We also found a video by CBS News Evening on YouTube. At 1:24, in the video we can see people checking other people carrying guns.
Conclusion:
The image is not from Kabul, Afghanistan but from Sana, Yemen and from 2015. So the claim of it being from Kabul airport security check is misleading and false.