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Mastermind of Kabul Airport Attack Killed by Taliban Forces

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By Web Desk Published April 26, 2023 4 Min Read
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Taliban government forces killed the militant Islamic State group mastermind of a devastating suicide bomb attack at the Kabul airport during the chaotic withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan in 2021, the White House said on Tuesday.

The bomber detonated a device among packed crowds at the airport’s perimeter as they tried to flee Afghanistan on August 26, 2021.

The blast killed 170 Afghans and 13 US troops securing the airport for the traumatic exit.

It was one of the deadliest bombings in Afghanistan. Moreover, it prompted a wave of criticism of President Joe Biden for his decision to pull American forces out of the country nearly 20 years after the US invasion.

Taliban authorities have since killed the leader of the militant group that planned the attack, White House national security spokesman John Kirby said.

“He was a key ISIS-K official directly involved in plotting operations like Abbey Gate, and now is no longer able to plot or conduct attacks,” Kirby said, referring to the spot outside the airport where the attack occurred.

ISIS-K refers to the Islamic State Khorasan, the group branch operating in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

“He was killed in a Taliban operation,” Kirby added without giving any details.

Taliban government officials have so far not responded to AFP requests for comment.

The pullout, ending on August 30, 2021, saw Taliban fighters sweep aside Western-trained Afghan forces in just weeks, forcing the last US troops to mount the desperate evacuation from Kabul’s airport.

An unprecedented military airlift operation managed to get more than 120,000 people out of the country in days.

Biden has long defended his decision to leave Afghanistan, which critics have said helped cause the catastrophic collapse of Afghan forces and paved the way for the Taliban to return to power two decades after their first government 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 said in a report to Congress earlier this month.

A recent Washington Post report citing leaked Pentagon documents said the United States believes that Afghanistan is becoming a “staging ground” for the militant Islamic State group since the withdrawal.

In his statement, Kirby said Tuesday: “We have made clear to the Taliban that it is their responsibility to ensure that they give no haven to terrorists, whether Al-Qaeda or ISIS-K.

“We have made good on the President’s pledge to establish an over-the-horizon capacity to monitor potential terrorist threats, not only from Afghanistan but elsewhere around the world where that threat has metastasized, as we have done in Somalia and Syria.”

The Taliban and IS have long engaged in a turf war in Afghanistan. Experts have pointed to the jihadist group as the biggest security challenge for the new Afghan government going forward.

Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers insist they have full control of security in the country, have largely eliminated any IS threat, and that there is no Al-Qaeda presence.

They have still not acknowledged the assassination of then Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in June last year by a US drone strike in Kabul. (AFP)

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