Pentagon drone strike on Afghanistan ISIS
stronghold kills man believed
to be mastermind behind Kabul airport
bombing that left 13 US troops
and 170 Afghans dead
Daily Mail (UK) & Associated Press,
by
Harriet Alexander
&
Staff
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
8/28/2021 2:40:55 AM
The Pentagon has launched a drone strike in the Islamic State's stronghold in eastern Afghanistan, killing a man believed to be involved in planning Thursday's Kabul airport bombing.The drone hit an ISIS-K member in Nangahar province, U.S. Central Command said. U.S. official told Reuters the strike was approved by President Joe Biden. The retaliation came less than 48 hours after a devastating suicide bombing claimed by the group killed as many as 170 Afghans and 13 American service members at the Kabul airport. The strike killed one individual, and spokesman Navy Capt. William Urban said they knew of no civilian casualties.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Geoman 8/28/2021 3:03:34 AM (No. 895502)
Biden probably borrowed some strategy from Bill Clinton and struck a few empty tents so he could claim they got the mastermind behind the airport bombing.
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Gee. That didn't take long. Joe is back!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Condor44 8/28/2021 3:14:21 AM (No. 895505)
Don't believe this. Its all bs,
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
seamusm 8/28/2021 3:19:41 AM (No. 895508)
There is nothing this president can do to bring back those who have died at his hands. ISIS-K isn't responsible, Biden is.
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Having a hard time convincing myself that the state dept./pentagon/administration would never lie to us about anything......
I think they lie to us ALL the time.
God bless those who died and their families
MAGA
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
judy 8/28/2021 3:51:16 AM (No. 895515)
Believed to be mastermind....typical Biden ...
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
anniebc 8/28/2021 4:08:00 AM (No. 895519)
Troops and Afghans were killed by the bombing. No other Americans were harmed in the bombing, right? That's because why?
A whole drone took out "a man." They made sure to mention that there were no civilian casualties. Who is this man? What's his rank, since he's not a civilian? Note these quotes from the article:
"Initial indications are that we killed the target. We know of no civilian casualties.'"
"It wasn't clear if that individual was involved specifically in the Thursday suicide blast outside the gates of the Kabul airport,"
"A reaper drone, which took off from the Middle East, struck the militant who was in a car with an Islamic State associate. Both are believed to have been killed, an official told Reuters."
What kind of casualty is the second person in the car?
Put me down for this is bull-crap.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
watashiyo 8/28/2021 4:37:36 AM (No. 895526)
He was just released from prison trying to turn his life around.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
paloalto 8/28/2021 4:58:29 AM (No. 895533)
... also an aspiring rapper.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 8/28/2021 5:52:53 AM (No. 895546)
#3 is correct. This is all BS.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Wizard of is 8/28/2021 6:05:53 AM (No. 895553)
The outrage here is that if this story is just BS (which it almost certainly is) our enemies know it. Our enemies also know just how devious and inept our government is, as well has how much it holds the American public in contempt.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
MissGrits 8/28/2021 6:27:27 AM (No. 895556)
And if this is true, which it probably isn’t, how do they know where this ONE person is and they don’t know where ALL the Americans are in Afghanistan? What a sh1tshow, guys!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
dman 8/28/2021 6:39:00 AM (No. 895562)
No aspirin factories in Afghanistan ?!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Cousair 8/28/2021 6:44:10 AM (No. 895572)
Not a very good swap, 183 soles looking for a better life and one heartless IsIs gang leader.
If our "Surrender in Chief" had it the other way around, 183 IsIs faceless gangesters and 1 person looking for the better life then I would fake a smile.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
SweetPea3 8/28/2021 6:48:45 AM (No. 895576)
So they say.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Otis Gill 8/28/2021 6:50:48 AM (No. 895580)
Our government lies to us every day.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 8/28/2021 7:00:14 AM (No. 895584)
Call me dubious. Shades of Vietnam. When the brass wanted a body count you gave them one.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Ruhn 8/28/2021 7:03:08 AM (No. 895586)
Has there been any accountability on this vindictive, angry, confused, and misinformed girl regarding her words and consequences? She’s obviously never heard of Posse Comitatus Act.
Marine LtCol Stuart Scheller was relieved for cause in 24 hours, after he posted a video, knowing full well what the consequences would be, to highlight the very issue of accountability of civilian and military leadership in the fallout over AFG.
Something is seriously wrong now.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
BarryNo 8/28/2021 7:08:43 AM (No. 895593)
Wag... the... Dog...
Its the only military operation liberals instinctively do right. Cover your ass and make someone else pay for it!
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I lean toward the opinion of #3 on this.
People were told to stay away from the airport (so they knew it was coming).
Now they tell us they did a precision strike to take out the mastermind (so they knew who he was and where he was).
So why didn't they blow him and his bomb up before it happened?!
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 8/28/2021 7:21:09 AM (No. 895603)
I believe the State Department - - because a business card was found on the man's mutilated body. It identified him as - -
"Ralph W. Isis — Your Local Mastermind Terrorist — Serving Jihadists Since 1996 — No Job Too Big/No Job Too Small — An Equal Opportunity Employer — Please Visit Our Website"
That's pretty conclusive evidence that he was the guy.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 8/28/2021 7:31:59 AM (No. 895613)
There is little to believe in up there in Washington, DC anymore. The odor of corruption emanating from the halls of Congress, from the White House and now from the Pentagon gets stronger by the news cycle. The media doesn't mention it because they can't smell smoke on themselves or when they're sleeping. Also, it looks like Biden has been taking acting lessons. The tears, the taunts and the tales, oh my!
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
bpl40 8/28/2021 7:38:33 AM (No. 895619)
Joe's baby food factory!
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
JackBurton 8/28/2021 7:53:53 AM (No. 895637)
So. They remembered that we have drones and how to use them?
It's a start.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Jebediah 8/28/2021 7:55:34 AM (No. 895639)
And I am SURE that the military had the intelligence re: this drone because Afghanistanis are rebelling against ISIS and gathering in that corner of the country. That is the ONLY way we would have known where to strike, as we have cut off all other intelligence at the knees. Pathetic.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
udanja99 8/28/2021 8:05:19 AM (No. 895644)
Tell me this all of you Pentagon, State and WH brass, why didn’t you start droning them as soon as they starrted creeping out from under their rocks weeks ago? You knew where they were and you watched them start taking over cities and you did NOTHING! Right this minute our “intelligence communities” are watching their movements in real time via satellite and we only take out one guy?
Remove every one of these useless tools in DC and put Lt. Col Scheller in charge.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
FunOne 8/28/2021 8:31:02 AM (No. 895662)
“It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.” –From Macbeth, by William Shakespeare
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They can't tell me which Americans are in country or how many, but they identified, found and exterminated the mastermind for the bombing in less than 48 hours, in a far reaching province.
Bull fn sht.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
chillijilli 8/28/2021 8:41:42 AM (No. 895670)
Bee Ess. He's trying to make us believe that our intel suddenly was right on the money and so credible that we could pinpoint and take a single guy out with a drone strike? Just a few days ago we were told that our intel supposedly couldn't figure out that the Taliban was on the march toward Kabul and maybe it would be a good idea to secure the airport for evacuations??? This is as bogus as Biden claiming he will "hunt down and make those responsible pay." The suicide bomber can't be hunted down, he blew himself up. Good show, Joe.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Red Ghost 8/28/2021 8:46:12 AM (No. 895678)
No freakin' way this bunch of clowns and traitors took out some ISIS-K "planner" with a drone or anything else for that matter. The Biden clown show that abandoned Bagram Air Base in the middle of the night, and left behind not only nearly $100 billion in US taxpayers' jets, helicopters, and sophisticated equipment, but US citizens, allies and Afghans that helped the US and its allies, women and children, did not, I repeat, no way in hell had the cujones and the skill to take out some ISIS goat with a drone. A little too conveeeeenient, don't you say, to make the installed administration look good.
Lies, lies and more lies. I hope everyone involved in administration rots in Hell for their lies, mendacity, and their traitorous behavior that has led to the death so far, of 13 of our best and brightest soldiers as well as nearly 170 other poor souls trying to flee the disaster that these clowns made.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Strike3 8/28/2021 8:55:41 AM (No. 895689)
They can pinpoint one individual fighter but they can't find their butt with both hands and a flashlight? Tell me another one. Our thirst for vengeance points to Washington, not some goat-fondler in the hills of Afghanistan.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Bluefindad 8/28/2021 9:00:49 AM (No. 895698)
Why does a suicide bombing need a mastermind?
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
Lonestar Jack 8/28/2021 9:01:57 AM (No. 895699)
Why take out one? Take out 100. It gets a lot more attention from ISS-K
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
janjan 8/28/2021 9:04:49 AM (No. 895701)
More lies. They have no idea who the ‘mastermind’ was behind this attack. No one in Biden’s so-called Administration has told the truth about anything. The media will cling to this story like a life raft. They’ve got nothing else.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
AbingtonJim 8/28/2021 9:12:31 AM (No. 895713)
Biden and his generals thought this was going to distract us, it's not!
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
planetgeo 8/28/2021 9:15:22 AM (No. 895717)
Bombing mastermind or a goatherder moonlighting as an Uber driver for ISIS-Special K? You decide. Somebody ask General Milley Vanilli or Circleback Psacki if using 1 Reaper-per goatherder is a good kill ratio and effective use of our expensive hardware for "winning" wars (as opposed to being cool hardware demos).
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
Socio 8/28/2021 9:17:24 AM (No. 895720)
Now the MSM can tote Biden on their shoulders as a heroic redeemer, when in reality they probably killed a goat.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
Laotzu 8/28/2021 9:28:44 AM (No. 895729)
Yeah those islamofascist leaders are known for the vast amounts of time they spend alone. You almost never see them with anyone. And given the vast mansions they live in, there is almost nobody ever within a country mile.
Complete and utter BS. An insult to the American people for assuming we're stupid enough to believe it.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 8/28/2021 9:31:23 AM (No. 895733)
Or did this supposed drone strike actually blow up a bale of hay and our generals spun it as hitting an isis stronghold where its top guy just happened to be hanging out trying on US military uniforms.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
Anti_democRAT 8/28/2021 9:31:51 AM (No. 895734)
I don't believe it. This regime has 0 credibility. I do believe that the record shows that anything coming out of this regime from january 20 has been a disaster for the american people and with this last failure of global impacts. This regime must go.
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
red1066 8/28/2021 9:51:28 AM (No. 895758)
Did they get the ID of this guy from the Taliban? If so, then he was probably one of the Afghan's that worked with the U.S. military.
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
bighambone 8/28/2021 10:00:06 AM (No. 895764)
With what has been going on with Biden and his “woke” Generals lately, it is not out of the question for some to wonder if the supposed target of the drone strike was really a high level so-called ISIS-K planner or some 7th century goat herder who somehow got on the CIA’s radar, in an incident that will now be used as a crutch to get Biden and his crew off the hook. If and when that happens the Biden crew can only blame themselves.
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 8/28/2021 10:04:57 AM (No. 895772)
Who is the mastermind behind this concocted BS? Those democrats are quick with their hail Mary pass stories this is right out of Bill Clinton's playbook tail wagging the dog.
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 8/28/2021 10:06:35 AM (No. 895774)
They could have saved money by just giving him the Covid vaccine.
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
Zigrid 8/28/2021 10:21:55 AM (No. 895789)
I will believe this story when an officer from OUR military confirms it happened...no fake news pronouncements of how wonderful; biden/obama is...did Susan rice approve? never mind commie/harris...she's incognito in Vietnam apologizing for American racism...and giving away taxpayer's dollars as reparation...what a doofus!!!
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Reply 46 - Posted by:
heartsurgeon 8/28/2021 10:26:29 AM (No. 895792)
I'm probably too cynical.
Need proof...release videos.
"a man believed to be involved in planning" - some random dude
"they knew of no civilian casualties" - only a lawyer would say this.
I CALL FAKE
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Reply 47 - Posted by:
bighambone 8/28/2021 10:36:59 AM (No. 895802)
Who knows because as this Biden fiasco has been conducted, they may have taken out the local “Door Dash” guy!
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Reply 48 - Posted by:
Speedypetey 8/28/2021 10:39:54 AM (No. 895806)
Is this theater staged for the teleprompter news narrative and their product of public education viewers?
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Reply 49 - Posted by:
john56 8/28/2021 10:49:22 AM (No. 895816)
Maybe the Tailban gave Biden's stooges a "list" of their leaders and where their tents are located. And I'm sure it's an accurate list.
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Reply 50 - Posted by:
Ribicon 8/28/2021 11:04:56 AM (No. 895825)
“We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.” Former CIA Director William Casey, February 1981
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Reply 51 - Posted by:
rytwng 8/28/2021 11:11:40 AM (No. 895832)
You mean the drone got Biden? He's the reason.
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Reply 52 - Posted by:
jigzsaw 8/28/2021 11:25:28 AM (No. 895846)
Only 12 more to go…
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Reply 53 - Posted by:
cold porridge 8/28/2021 11:36:01 AM (No. 895861)
I call BS on this one. They may have done a drone strike, but the story of them "believing it was the man involved in planning the airport bombing" is suspect. They needed a story the back up useless Biden's story of "we will hunt you down".
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Reply 54 - Posted by:
stablemoney 8/28/2021 12:18:55 PM (No. 895936)
They didn't try to arrest him, bring him back to the USA for trial, and us provide an attorney? When is Eric Holder going to speak out about this?
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Reply 55 - Posted by:
DVC 8/28/2021 12:28:26 PM (No. 895945)
And why would we believe ANY of this at this point?
The government has lied to us about every single other thing it has told us since January 6th, so my starting point is that this is probably another lie. If enough different observers, with different PRIMARY sources support it, it might be true. Just because the US government said so.....Hah, I assume they are lying.
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Reply 56 - Posted by:
Italiano 8/28/2021 12:51:10 PM (No. 895967)
Bullcrap.
Probably a poor innocent goatherd.
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Reply 57 - Posted by:
little guy 8/28/2021 1:55:49 PM (No. 896011)
If anyone other than Demo-craps actually believe this lie is true, I have a bridge going from Brooklyn to Manhattan that I'd like to sell you!
This is "fake news" ... meant to get a headline and knock the bad press about Biden being a moron off the front pages. His running dog followers all think it's ok now because we got 'em back! Actually ... no we didn't.
Also notice the total lack of discussion about our bleeding border crisis and the fact that the beloved Left-leaning Supreme Court told Biden everyone needs to wait in Mexico and be pre-approved for amnesty before coming across our border. Note how that has NOT happened.
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Reply 58 - Posted by:
Cardsfan 8/28/2021 2:23:02 PM (No. 896039)
Not possible - Joe told us there are no ISIS members in Afganistán
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Reply 59 - Posted by:
pensom2 8/28/2021 3:03:33 PM (No. 896089)
When PDT took out Qasem Soleimani, there was video and plenty of other evidence. Where's the evidence of this one? What's the name of this goatherd? How do we know he was riding in a car with a "driver"? Crickets.
While this alleged "hit" was an attempt to reduce the rumblings about the incompetence of the Biden administration and the military, it's also possible that the military recommended the hit, even if on a mediocre-level Isis-K functionary, to try and flush out some of the higher-level Isis-K leaders, to put the fear in them that the vaunted USA satellites may have likewise discovered where they are hiding out.
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I saw some snippy "reporter" at a presser insinuate that this was a vengence strike. Then he asked if we knew who the bomber was. Of course this was a venence strike. What's wrong with that, bud?
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Reply 61 - Posted by:
Shirl's court 8/28/2021 5:38:13 PM (No. 896208)
Why aren't they bombing Bagram Air Base and all the equipment we left to them?
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Reply 62 - Posted by:
Felixed 8/28/2021 6:27:30 PM (No. 896238)
Our dead and wounded have been avenged... we got the _mastermind_!
Joe went right at it, as easy peasy as besting Corn Pop.
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Reply 63 - Posted by:
Republic Can 8/28/2021 7:49:33 PM (No. 896339)
The "drone strike" is a red herring.
That charge had been planted for a while, waiting for Achmed to funnel a big crowd through that particular gate before setting it off. That big of an explosion would require more than one suicide sally and a few bars of thermite or whatever. 180 dead? I smell fish.
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