BREAKING: The US military spent Tuesday alerting the families of the 13 US service members killed in the ISIS-K suicide bombing at the Kabul airport in August 2021 that the Taliban had recently killed an alleged terrorist cell leader behind the attack.
The ISIS-K suicide attack killed 11 Marines, one Navy hospitalman, and one Army staff sergeant and wounded 45 more U.S. troops at the Hamid Karzai International Airport on Aug. 26, 2021, amid a chaotic and disastrous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. Nearly 200 Afghans were also killed, and dozens more were wounded in the blast as the United States led evacuation operations while the Taliban, including Haqqani Taliban faction forces, provided security outside the airport.A U.S.
“The intelligence that they have gotten is that the leader of the ISIS cell that planned the bombing at Abbey Gate has been killed by the Taliban,” Hoover said of the short briefing he was given by the military. The U.S. defense official again declined to name Logari on Tuesday, saying, “We defer to the FBI’s investigation on that, so you would have to talk to them.”
“Any time a terrorist is taken off the board is a good day. But this doesn’t diminish the Biden administration’s culpability for failures that led to the attack on Abbey Gate, and will in no way deter the committee’s investigation,” Rep. Michael McCaul , chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told the Washington Examiner on Tuesday. “I will not sleep until every stone is unturned and these Gold Star families have answers — and justice.
"Plain and simple, we were ignored," Vargas-Andrews testified in March."Our expertise was disregarded. No one was held accountable for our safety."
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