{"id":31576,"date":"2017-12-13T18:37:04","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T18:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/uncategorized\/2017\/12\/13\/report-lax-security-allowed-suicide-bomber-to-kill-5-on-bagram-airfield\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T02:47:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T02:47:37","slug":"report-lax-security-allowed-suicide-bomber-to-kill-5-on-bagram-airfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/flashpoints\/2017\/12\/13\/report-lax-security-allowed-suicide-bomber-to-kill-5-on-bagram-airfield\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Lax security allowed suicide bomber to kill 5 on Bagram Airfield"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A local Afghan worker who killed five and wounded 16 in a suicide bombing on Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, last year spent about four months building his suicide vest in his work space on base, according to a U.S. Forces-Afghanistan investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ahmad Nayeb, a former Taliban insurgent hired by a contractor in 2011 to work in Bagram\u2019s non-tactical vehicle yard, detonated the bomb as base personnel were gathering for a Veterans Day 5K fun run before dawn on Nov. 12, 2016, the investigation found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThough the ultimate target for the attack remains indeterminable, the group of soldiers and Fluor employees unwittingly induced the assailant to detonate his suicide vest, likely preventing a far greater tragedy,\u201d Maj. Gen. Thomas James, the investigating officer, wrote in his remarks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All told, Nayeb killed himself, three American soldiers and two civilian contractors, while injuring 16 more American soldiers and one Polish soldier.<\/p>\n\n\n\t