Article 6M3DE US review finds August 2021 suicide bombing at Kabul airport was unpreventable

US review finds August 2021 suicide bombing at Kabul airport was unpreventable

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Findings also detailed how a bald man in black' thought by service members to be the bomber was misidentified

The suicide bombing at the Kabul airport that killed US troops and Afghans in August 2021 was not preventable, and a bald man in black" spotted by US service members on the morning of the attack was not the bomber, according to a new review by US Central Command.

The findings, released on Monday, refute assertions by some service members who believed they had a chance to take out the would-be bomber but did not get approval. And, for the first time, the USmilitary 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 as the group took control of the country that summer.

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