Thanks, Joe!
“ISIS-K suicide bomber who carried out deadly Kabul airport attack had been released from prison days earlier,” by Oren Liebermann and Natasha Bertrand, CNN, October 6, 2021:
(CNN)The ISIS-K suicide bomber who carried out a terrorist attack at Kabul international airport in late August, killing 13 US service members and dozens of Afghans, had been released from a prison near Kabul just days earlier when the Taliban took control of the area, according to three US officials.
Two US officials, as well as Rep. Ken Calvert, a California Republican who said he had been briefed by national security officials, said the suicide bomber was released from the Parwan prison at Bagram air base. The US controlled the base until it abandoned Bagram in early July. It had turned over the prison to Afghan authorities in 2013.
The revelation underscores the chaos around the final days of the withdrawal from Afghanistan and the struggle of the US to control a rapidly deteriorating situation around the airport as it relied on the Taliban to secure the perimeter of the airport.
The Parwan prison at Bagram, along with the Pul-e-Charkhi prison near Kabul, housed several hundred members of ISIS-K, as well as thousands of other prisoners when the Taliban took control of both facilities hours before taking over the capital with barely a shot fired in mid-August, a regional counter-terrorism source told CNN at the time. The Taliban emptied out both prisons, releasing their own members who had been imprisoned but also members of ISIS-K, which is the terror group’s affiliate in Afghanistan.
Eleven days later, on August 26, it was one of those prisoners who carried out the suicide bombing at Abbey Gate, killing the 13 US service members, including 11 Marines, one soldier and one sailor. They would be the last US troops killed in Afghanistan as part of America’s longest war.
As of Tuesday, one Marine injured in the attack remains in a serious but stable condition at Walter Reed Military Medical Center near Washington, the Marine Corps said in a statement. Another Marine is receiving care at a specialty facility, while 16 others are receiving outpatient treatment.
Two US officials confirmed attacker’s identity
ISIS-K took credit for the attack and named the suicide bomber as Abdul Rehman Al-Loghri. Two US officials confirmed the identity of the attacker. FirstPost, an English-language news site based in India, was first to report that he had been released from the Bagram prison.
The rapid transition from released prisoner to suicide bomber highlights the dangers Afghanistan could pose without a US military presence on the ground to monitor the latest developments in the country. Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley said the threat from Afghanistan is currently lower than it was after the 9/11 attack, but he warned that conditions “could be set” for a reconstitution of al Qaeda or ISIS-K.
“It’s a real possibility in the not too distant future — six,12, 18, 24, 36 months that kind of timeframe — for reconstitution of al Qaeda or ISIS,” Milley said at Capitol Hill hearing last week, “and it’s our job now, under different conditions, to protect the American citizens against attacks from Afghanistan.”…
gregbeetham says
Yes and it’s every Muslim’s job to pursue Jihad against the Kaffir, it doesn’t matter if you call them ISIS-K or Al Qaeda or the Taliban or citizens of Afghanistan, they are all Muslims and we are the Kaffir.
Wellington says
The disaster which is Joe Biden and his handlers just keeps giving and giving. Truly, it is important for all of sense and knowledge to realize that much of American government from the national to the local level is now peopled who are deficient, ignorant, incompetent, arrogant and, in some instances, actually malevolent.
The American government in general, and there are many exceptions, has now become more of an enemy of the American people than the British government was of the American colonists back in the 1760’s, 1770’s and 1780’s. Indeed, people like George III, George Grenville, the Marquis of Rockingham and Lord North come off better and better the more you compare them to the many malignant Bozos now “operating” in the American governmental system.
The entire American governmental system as it now exists with all its waste, its stupidity, its corruption, its control-freak behavior, its incompetence, and its contempt for the average American is absolutely not what the Founding Fathers of America intended for one of the greatest experiments in the history of mankind, i.e., the American Republic, a representative democratic republic which at its best has had no peer in all of man’s history.
But being ruined now by people aplenty who suck all around. Damn.
roberta says
” peopled who are deficient, ignorant, incompetent, arrogant and, in some instances, actually malevolent.”
I dont see any but the malevolent, and Im thankful that they are deficient, ignorant, incompetent, and arrogant.
Just think how bad it would be if they had 1/2 a brain to put toward their designs.
James Lincoln says
Wellington says,
“The disaster which is Joe Biden and his handlers just keeps giving and giving.”
100% true, and there appears to be no current “backstop”.
gravenimage says
Grimly true.
RichardL says
Let’s go Brandon!
Walter Sieruk says
That wicked fiend Joe Biden, no doubt, doesn’t even really care about those thirteen US soldiers who died because of him. All he’s really interested in is going on vacation and having his ice cream as well as coming on to youngsters for sex.
Infidel says
On a different note, following the IS-K attack on a Kabul mosque, the Taliban did launch a few swift retaliatory attacks against IS-K targets. And this time, it wasn’t some sap who happened to cooperate w/ us
This Alien vs Predator war was bound to start sooner or later. The Taliban may need all the weapons we left there: it’s too early for them to distribute them to Tajik or any other jihadists
gravenimage says
Afghanistan: ISIS-K jihad bomber who murdered 13 Americans at Kabul airport had just been released from prison
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Yes–I’d heard this before. Suicidal insanity.
gregbeetham says
I have recently learned that suicide is regarded as a sin in Islam but martyrdom isn’t, apparently there is a difference.
I guess if you belong to a death cult that has a heavenly brothel as a reward for martyrdom then they would have the suicide vs. martyrdom thing sorted with their Allah in advance.
OLD GUY says
Hey letting criminals out of prison is now vary popular with the left. Hell in gang shootings in Chicago they don’t even charge the shooters that the Police catch on camera, not enough evidence. What could go wrong? We are living in a world where nobody is responsible for their bad decisions, even when they cause grave harm to others. It’s always societies fault that a person goes wrong, how about the parenting or lack there of. When the punishment fails to meet the crime there is no deterrent to the criminal.
Our criminal law system protects and provides for a speedy trial and YEARS of APPEALS for the CRIMINAL, but provides little other than a life long process of a chance for JUSTICE for the victims.
And on top of that we the people pick up the tab for expensive defense lawyers bills, along with the prosecutions and court cost. The TAX PAYER gets screwed both ways. No wonder the APPEALS system drags on for years, its a CASH COW for lawyers.