US Still Hunts Attackers Who Killed Americans During Afghan Exit
- Terrorist group is ‘pretty degraded,’ Pentagon official says
- Trump blames Biden and Harris for the ‘disastrous withdrawal’
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Three years after the suicide bomber attack at Afghanistan’s Abbey Gate that killed 13 US service personnel and about 170 Afghan civilians, the network behind the perpetrator is “pretty degraded” but not eliminated, the Pentagon’s civilian commando chief said.
“A lot of allied and partner disruptions” of the ISIS-K network have reduced its “capability to conduct such an attack,” Christopher Maier, assistant secretary for special operations and low intensity conflict, said in a brief interview after a breakfast meeting with reporters Friday.