The Taliban freed the Kabul airport suicide bomber from prison just days before he killed nearly 200 people—and 13 American troops.
and formal end to the United States’ longest war. The revelation of the bomber’s identity was months in the making,reports. The ISIS affiliate in Afghanistan, Islamic State Khorasan, quickly took credit for the attack a week after the Aug. 26 bombing. In its weekly newsletter on Sept. 2, ISIS-K identified the assailant as Abdul Rahman al-Logari,
. But since then, it’s become clear that al-Logari was the same person who had plotted an attack in India that was foiled by the CIA, according to the. After a tip-off by Americans, al-Logari was caught by Indian security forces then turned over to the CIA and shipped to Afghanistan, where he waited in prison until he was released just 11 days before he carried out his mass murder.
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