U.S. Kills Suicide Bombers in Kabul, U.S. Official Says

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A U.S. military drone strike blew up a vehicle filled with suicide bombers in Kabul on Sunday, a Defense official said, hours after President Biden had warned that a terrorist attack against the Afghan capital’s airport was “highly likely.”

A spokesman for U.S. Central Command, Capt. Bill Urban, said the military was trying to determine whether the strike had caused civilian casualties, though he noted that there was no immediate evidence of that. The official who said suicide bombers had been targeted spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a military operation.

“U.S. military forces conducted a self-defense unmanned over-the-horizon airstrike today on a vehicle in Kabul, eliminating an imminent ISIS-K threat to Hamad Karzai International airport,” Captain Urban said, referring to the Islamic State Khorasan group. He added: “We are confident we successfully hit the target. Significant secondary explosions from the vehicle indicated the presence of a substantial amount of explosive material.”

Earlier Sunday, the United States Embassy in Kabul had said that there was a “specific, credible threat” to the airport area, where a suicide bombing on Thursday killed about 170 civilians and 13 members of the American military. State Department officials have issued several similar warnings in recent days.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-strikes-credible-threat-in-kabul-us-sources-say/ar-AANS5xT

U.S. drone strikes an ISIS-K vehicle packed with explosives in Kabul

WASHINGTON – The United States carried out a military strike on Sunday against an ISIS-K target in Kabul, a development that comes in the final days of an immense humanitarian evacuation mission.

"U.S. military forces conducted a self-defense unmanned over-the-horizon airstrike today on a vehicle in Kabul, eliminating an imminent ISIS-K threat to Hamad Karzai International airport," U.S. Central Command spokesman Navy Capt. Bill Urban wrote in a statement.

"We are confident we successfully hit the target. Significant secondary explosions from the vehicle indicated the presence of a substantial amount of explosive material," he added.

There were no known civilian casualties following the strike.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-drone-strikes-an-isis-k-vehicle-packed-with-explosives-in-kabul/ar-AANS3xj

[PatSeg]

1. We must have some incredible intelligence resources

to be able to identify one vehicle in such a congested area.

[drray23]

2. Isis k is a sworn enemy of the talibans

And they ( the talibans) are providing intel to us. It has been reported that’s what going on.

[BeyondGeography]

3. +1

Gives them deadline enforcement leverage too. There is logic in the world at times.

[PatSeg]

5. Yes, I've read that

Ironic twist to it all.

[CrackityJones75]

4. I have bo reason to not believe it.

But how would we know? I mean really how would we even know that anything at all was blown up. We need to get out of the war business as fast as possible. When we constantly view killing as success we are lost. I don’t mean to say that we shouldn’t be protecting people and stopping these things but all of our warring necessitates more warring.

[gohuskies]

6. Sounds like exterminating a horde of murder hornets

Who are on their way to meeting the 40 virgin brides….

[albacore]

7. Probably the R9X.... whole bunch of blades rather than explosives.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-used-a-special-hellfire-missile-in-afghanistan-airstrike-on-islamic-state-11630190876

[Takket]

8. Good riddance.