Ground assault by Taliban kills Daesh terrorist who spearheaded August 2021 bombing at Kabul airport that left about 170 Afghans and 13 US troops useless, US officers affirm.
(AFP Archive)
The Taliban authorities has killed the alleged mastermind of a devastating suicide bomb assault that left some 183 folks useless on the Kabul airport throughout the chaotic withdrawal of US forces in 2021, US officers stated.
He was a key Daesh-Khorasan determine “directly involved in plotting operations like Abbey Gate, and now is no longer able to plot or conduct attacks,” White House spokesperson John Kirby stated in a press release, referring to the Abbey Gate entrance to the Kabul airport the place the blast occurred.
He didn’t identify the Daesh militant.
The chief of the Daesh cell that deliberate the assault was killed by Taliban authorities in latest weeks, a senior US administration official instructed Politico on situation of anonymity on Tuesday.
The official instructed Politico that the United States had not been concerned within the raid, and wouldn’t say when it befell or determine the alleged Daesh member killed, citing “sensitivities.”
But the official stated that the goal “was someone who remained a key plotter, an overseer of plotting” for Daesh-Khorasan, the department of the group working in Afghanistan and neighbouring Pakistan.
The official stated US intelligence has been working to verify the killing, and that the Biden administration has held off saying it till the households of the 13 US troops could possibly be instructed.
“We are not partnering with the Taliban, but we do think the outcome is a significant one,” the senior official instructed Politico.
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‘Staging floor’ for Daesh
The bomber detonated amongst packed crowds on the airport’s perimetre as they tried to flee Afghanistan on August 26, 2021. The blast killed some 170 Afghans and 13 US troops who had been securing the airport for the traumatic exit.
It was one of many deadliest bombings in Afghanistan lately, and prompted a wave of criticism of President Joe Biden for his determination to drag American forces in another country practically 20 years after the US invasion.
The pullout, ending on August 30, 2021, noticed Taliban fighters sweep apart Western-trained Afghan forces in simply weeks, forcing the final US troops to mount the determined evacuation from Kabul’s airport.
An unprecedented army airlift operation managed to get greater than 120,000 folks in another country in a matter of days.
Biden has lengthy defended his determination to depart Afghanistan, which critics have stated helped trigger the catastrophic collapse of Afghan forces and paved the best way for the Taliban to return to energy 20 years after their first authorities was toppled.
Nothing “would have changed the trajectory” of the exit and “ultimately, President Biden refused to send another generation of Americans to fight a war that should have ended for the United States long ago,” the White House National Security Council stated in a report back to Congress earlier this month.
A latest Washington Post report citing leaked Pentagon paperwork stated the US believes that because the withdrawal, Afghanistan is turning into a “staging ground” for Daesh group.
The Taliban and Daesh have lengthy engaged in a turf warfare in Afghanistan, and consultants have pointed to the militant group as the most important safety problem for the brand new Afghan authorities going ahead.
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