US officials could have many reasons for not disclosing the names of the “ ISIS-K planner and facilitator” taken out in a drone strike Friday …
US officials could have many reasons for not disclosing the names of the “ ISIS-K planner and facilitator” taken out in a drone strike Friday as a down-payment on retaliation for Thursday’s horrific Kabul airport attack, but the reticence is unusual enough to seed suspicion. After all, the enemy certainly knows who they lost. “Normally if they get a high-profile guy they like to name him,” US Army Lt. Col (ret.) Brian Sullivan told The Post. It’s conceivable (as Sullivan noted) that naming the dead would somehow reveal US intelligence secrets, putting at risk sources that (or who) are helping to track more, possibly higher-level ISIS-K operatives — perhaps even the ones killed in Saturday’s drone attack that the military says eliminated a new active threat to the airport.
