The ISIS-K terrorist who directed the August 2021 suicide bombing that killed 13 U.S. service members during the Biden administration’s withdrawal from Afghanistan has been killed by the Taliban, a senior administration official told Fox News Digital.
Fox News correspondent Mark Meredith has the latest on the White House report detailing intelligence failures in Afghanistan on 'Special Report.'killed 13 U.S. service members
U.S. Marines with Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force - Crisis Response - Central Command, provide assistance at an Evacuation Control Checkpoint during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 21. U.S. service members are assisting the Department of State with a non-combatant evacuation operation in Afghanistan.
Taliban fighters display their flag while on patrol in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021. The Taliban celebrated Afghanistan's Independence Day on Thursday by declaring they beat the United States, but challenges to their rule ranging from running a country severely short on cash and bureaucrats to potentially facing an armed opposition began to emerge.
Defending the Biden administration’s strategy, the official said President Biden maintains the sentiment that"those who killed and wounded our service members and others, or who continued to use Afghanistan as a base for external plotting would face consequences." FILE PHOTO: A commercial airplane is seen at the Hamid Karzai International Airport a day after U.S troops withdrawal in Kabul, Afghanistan August 31, 2021. REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo
"We have very grave concerns about the Taliban, and the outcome in an instance like this is helpful in the counter-ISIS-K pressure that we see being exercised," the official said."But we just wanted to give families, loved ones of those whose lives were lost in that airport attack two summers ago, to understand we thought we owed it to them to have that understanding," the official said.
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