An additional review by the US military into the deadly Abbey Gate bombing during the Afghanistan withdrawal in 2021 has concluded that service members had not previously seen the suspected bomber ahead of the attack. The review aimed to clear up outstanding questions about the attack and revealed that service members believed they had the bomber in their sights due to conflated intelligence reporting.
The bomber was identified as Abdul Rahman al-Logari, a member of ISIS-K, who had been released by the Taliban from a prison near Kabul just days before the attack. The new review, conducted by US Army Central, included 52 additional interviews on top of the more than 100 already conducted in the original US Central Command investigation released in February 2022.
