Afghan charged in deadly bombing at Kabul airport gave false confession, his attorney tells jurors

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ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — U.S. authorities “got the wrong man” when they charged an alleged Islamic State militant in a deadly suicide bombing at a Kabul airport during the American military’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, a defense attorney said Monday at the start of the man’s trial in Virginia. Mohammad Sharifullah is accused of scouting the bomber’s route to the airport before the attack that killed nearly 200 people, including 13 U.S. service members, at the end of America’s lon