RASC News Agency: Several days after the United States Central Command (CENTCOM) released its latest investigation concerning the attack at the “Blue Gate” of Kabul Airport during the evacuation process, The Washington Times reported, citing its sources, that Abdul Rahman Al-Logari, the identified perpetrator of the attack, had been brought to Afghanistan by the United States from India.
According to the publication, which released the report on the evening of Wednesday, April 24, citing a number of Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives’ Foreign Affairs Committee, Al-Lugari had been apprehended in 2017 while attempting an attack in India and was subsequently transferred to Afghanistan by the United States. The report notes, “He (Al-Logari) was moved from one prison to another until he was transferred to Bagram Prison in January 2021, a significant airbase then under U.S. control.”
One of the sources, whose name was not disclosed in the report, stated that U.S. forces left the Bagram base at midnight on July 2, 2021, without coordinating with Afghanistan forces. According to the source, Al-Logari and several other imprisoned ISIS members remained incarcerated at the Bagram military base prison until the base was seized by the Taliban.
After the Taliban took control, the perpetrator of the attack at the Blue Gate of Kabul Airport on August 15, 2021, was released by the group 11 days before the attack occurred. The report highlighted that senior American commanders expected the Taliban, who released Al-Logari and his associates, to identify any ISIS infiltration. The report further emphasized that most Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives’ Foreign Affairs Committee believed that U.S. military personnel could have prevented the suicide bomber from approaching the Blue Gate of Kabul Airport.
One of the committee members stressed, “The committee does not agree that preventing the attack at the Blue Gate was unavoidable.” A few days earlier, CENTCOM published a new investigation regarding the ISIS attack at the Blue Gate of Kabul Airport in August 2021, stating that the attack was unavoidable.
The attack resulted in the deaths of 13 American military personnel and more than 170 Afghanistani civilians.
