Kabul Airport Bombing Unpreventable, Military Review Claims by Wim De Gent – US Politics News

The suicide bombing at the Kabul airport that killed U.S. troops and Afghans in August 2021 was not preventable, according to a new review by U.S. Central Command.
The findings, released Monday, clarified that a “bald man in black” spotted by U.S. service members the morning of the attack was not the bomber and refuted the assertions by some service members who believed they had a chance to take out the would-be bomber but did not get approval.
In the press release, the U.S. military, for the first time, confirmed that the bomber was Abdul Rahman al-Logari, an Islamic State militant who had been in an Afghan prison but was released by the Taliban when it seized control of the country far more rapidly than U.S. intelligence had foreseen….