The American military on Sunday launched an airstrike that hit and destroyed a suspected suicide bomber’s vehicle on the way to the Kabul airport, The Epoch Times reported.
A spokesperson for U.S. Central Command confirmed the airstrike, but Defense Department officials have not yet commented on it.
“US 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,” Capt. Bill Urban, CENTCOM spokesperson, told reporters.
“We are confident we successfully hit the target. Significant secondary explosions from the vehicle indicated the presence of a substantial amount of explosive material,” Urban said. “We are assessing the possibilities of civilian casualties, though we have no indications at this time.”
“The fact that two of these individuals are no longer walking on the face of the earth, that’s a good thing,” Pentagon spokesman John Kirby told reporters on Saturday.
The Pentagon responded with Friday’s strike because an ISIS suicide bomber killed 13 American soldiers at the Kabul airport on Thursday.
Kirby believes the Taliban released thousands of ISIS prisoners when the group regained control of Afghanistan after a two-decade American occupation.
President Joe Biden‘s administration left American soldiers in harms way so that they could assist in bringing more than 100,000 Afghans to the United States for permanent settlement.
Biden’s withdrawal plan has morphed into another mass migration scheme with no regard for American citizens.
Now that the Biden administration has imported the Afghans, it will bring the final Americans home.
“We are down to a population of 300 or fewer Americans who are still on the ground there, and we are working actively in these hours and these days to get those folks out,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Sunday.
