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US still hunts perpetrators of 2021 Kabul airport attack
Christopher Maier, US assistant secretary of defense for special operations and low intensity conflict, said that the network bethind the attack is “pretty degraded” but not eliminated.
Three years after a suicide attack at Kabul's international airport that killed 13 American troops and scores of civilians during the United States' withdrawal from the country, a US Department of Defense official said on Friday that the US still hunts those behind the attack.
Christopher Maier, US assistant secretary of defense for special operations and low intensity conflict, said that the network bethind the attack is “pretty degraded” but not eliminated.
“A lot of allied and partner disruptions” of the Daesh network have reduced its “capability to conduct such an attack,” Maier said in a brief interview after a breakfast meeting with reporters Friday.
President Joe Biden promised the day of the attack that “we will not forgive, we will not forget, we will hunt you down and make you pay.” Maier said “we are in the process of doing that,” and “we have made significant dents in this network that conducted the Abbey Gate attack.”
Republicans have repeatedly criticized Biden for the chaotic withdrawal of US military from Afghanistan.
Former US president Donald Trump said in a recent election rally that US standing in the world “began to unravel with the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, the worst humiliation in the history of our country.”
Maier said “we continue to assess that Abbey Gate” was the work of “more than one individual” who benefited from the Daesh infrastructure. Since then, he said, the US and partners “have had clear cases where we’ve been able to disrupt the network that was associated with Abbey Gate.”
UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan and head of UNAMA, Roza Otunbayeva, is expected to brief the UN Security Council on the situation in Afghanistan on Wednesday after UNAMA released its quarterly report Tuesday.
Tanja Fajon, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia, will preside over the meeting.
UNAMA’s latest report, which includes information gathered after the last report dated June 13, states that security incidents have increased against the same period last year; restrictions on women have increased, and almost more than 24 million people still need humanitarian aid.
The Islamic Emirate, meanwhile, expects that the reality of Afghanistan should be reflected in Otunbayeva’s report.
IEA has already asked UNAMA many times to reflect on the realities of Afghanistan in its reports and to refrain from exaggerating small issues.
Otunbayeva stated in her last report that by August 30 of this year, only 24.9 percent of the $2.9 billion dollars required for aid to Afghanistan had been provided.
Acting Minister of Interior Affairs Sirajuddin Haqqani met on Tuesday with the Japanese Ambassador to Kabul,Takayoshi Kuromiya, the ministry said in a statement.
Abdul Matin Qane, the spokesperson for the Ministry of Interior, said in a post on X that apart from expressing satisfaction over the improved security situation, they discussed boosting Japan's aid to Afghanistan.
They also discussed a working group with UNAMA to tackle issues related to narcotics.
A spokesman for Afghanistan’s foreign affairs said Tuesday Islamic Emirate diplomats have been posted to Oman to reopen the Afghanistan embassy.
Hafiz Zia Ahmad Takal said in a post on X the embassy in Muscat opened last Sunday.
Takal added that resuming the activities of the Afghan embassy with the cooperation of the host country will play a constructive role in strengthening political, economic, social and religious relations between Kabul and Muscat.
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