Afghanistan: ISIS-K jihad bomber who murdered 13 Americans at Kabul airport had just been released from prison
Oct 6, 2021 2:00 pm By Robert Spencer Leave a Comment
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“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.
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/10/afghanistan-isis-k-jihad-bomber-who-murdered-13-americans-at-kabul-airport-had-just-been-released-from-prison