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US says drone strike kills alleged planner of Kabul airport bombing
No doubt they killed someone. And given the thousands of ISIS-K hard boys recently released from Afghan prisons by the Talibs as they rampaged across the landscape, the odds are good the unnamed man deserved killing, even if not necessarily for the thing he is currently accused of.
[IsraelTimes] A US dronezap early Saturday killed a bad boy in the group blamed for the deadly suicide kaboom at the Kabul airport, US officials said, while American forces working under heightened security and threats of another attack pressed ahead in the closing days of the US-led evacuation from Afghanistan.

The attack in eastern Afghanistan killed a member of the country’s Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 affiliate, US Central Command said.

The command spokesman, Navy Capt. William Urban, said officials knew of no civilian casualties. US officials gave no immediate information on the person killed, including any possible link to the suicide bombing.
NBC News adds:
"U.S. military forces conducted an over-the-horizon counterterrorism operation today against an ISIS-K planner," said Capt. Bill Urban, front man for U.S. Central Command, in a statement. "The unmanned Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
 occurred in the Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
 Province of Afghanistan. Initial indications are that we killed the target. We know of no civilian casualties."

Two U.S. defense officials familiar with the strike told NBC News that the target of tonight's dronezap was an ISIS-K fighter thought to be involved in planning for future attacks. The strike was in Nangarhar Province in eastern Afghanistan, where ISIS-K had a large presence several years ago before being largely ousted by the Afghan military and the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
The unnamed ISIS-K planner was riding in a vehicle with one associate at the time of the strike, driving in an isolated area. The defense officials said the strike was carried out by an MQ-9 Reaper drone and munitions that were selected for precision and in order to minimize any civilian casualties.
Update from Khaama Press at 6:00 a.m. EDT:
Local people in Jalalabad city said that the strike was carried out in Police District 7 of the city Saturday midnight.

As per the latest information, the US evacuation mission was not interrupted and the total number of evacuees now amounts to 111 thousand people.

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Posted by: trailing wife 2021-08-28
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