US and foreign intelligence officials are focusing on a cell of the Islamic State responsible for August 26 Suicide bombing outside Kabul airport, in which 13 American Marines were killed.
according to a Report in the New York Times, US intelligence officials have pieced together a profile of the Islamic State bomber who carried out the suicide bombing outside Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul on August 26, 2021.
Based on the attacker’s profile, the US wants to focus on the IS cell, which they believe was involved in the attack. The NYT report said the US, which has not conducted an airstrike in Afghanistan since August 30, is targeting its “armed MQ-9 Reaper drone flying mission from a base in the Persian Gulf over Afghanistan”. can make.
According to the report, the suicide bomber, Abdur Rahman al-Logari, was recruited by the Islamic State Khorasan (ISIS-K), a Taliban slave.
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Logari was the son of an Afghan merchant who frequently visited India and Pakistan for business. He studied engineering in a college in Delhi. Logari was arrested by Indian agencies in 2017 On the basis of a tip-off from the CIA that he was going to carry out an attack in Delhi sponsored by ISIS-K.
India handed over Logari to the CIA, after which he was lodged in Parwan Jail at Bagram Air Base. Logari remained there until he was freed amidst the chaos that followed the fall of Kabul.
Logari was among several militants freed from at least two high-security prisons after the Taliban captured Kabul on August 15.
On August 26, 2021, Logari carried out a suicide bombing attack on Kabul airport, which occurred while the evacuation operation was underway. The attack killed more than 180 people, including 13 US Marines.
As the NYT reports, US intelligence analysts and military officials say they have focused on learning more about the ISIS-K strike cell after the attack to see if they will conduct any future attacks against the West. planning an attack.