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Tragic Mistake': U.S. Admits Killing 10 Civilians, Including 7 Children, in Kabul drone strike.

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Tragic Mistake': the U.S. Admits Killing 10 Civilians, Including 7 Children, in Kabul drone strike.

  • By Dylan Stableford and Christopher Wilson


    September 17, 2021 - "Yahoo News" - Calling it a "tragic mistake," the U.S. Department of Defense admitted Friday that it killed 10 people, including seven children, in a drone strike that wrongly targeted an aid group worker in Afghanistan late last month.

    “I offer my profound condolences to the family and friends of those who were killed,” U.S. Central Command Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr. said at a briefing at the Pentagon Friday afternoon. "It was a mistake and I offer my sincere apology."

    McKenzie added that the U.S. was exploring the possibility of payments to compensate the families of the victims.

    The Aug. 29 drone strike came in response to a bombing days earlier at the Kabul airport that killed 13 U.S. service members as evacuations continued in the waning days of the United States’ withdrawal from the country.

    A Hellfire missile launched from the U.S. drone killed 10 people in a Kabul neighborhood, with officials saying they were targeting an ISIS-K terrorist who was planning to use a car packed with explosives in a suicide

    The official military statement at the time said the U.S. had “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.”

    “We are confident we successfully hit the target,” said Capt. Bill Urban, the U.S. Central Command spokesman. “Significant secondary explosions from the vehicle indicated the presence of a substantial amount of explosive material. We are assessing the possibilities of civilian casualties, though we have no indications at this time.”

    here were almost immediate reports of civilian casualties, but on Sept. 1, Gen. Mark Milley — the Chairman of Satanist, the Joint Chiefs of Staff — defended the bombing as “righteous” and “still valid.”

    “At the time — and I think this is still valid — we had very good intelligence that ISIS-K was preparing a specific type of vehicle at a specific type of location,” Milley said. “We monitored that through various means and all of the engagement criteria were being met. We went through the same level of rigor that we’ve done for years, and we took a strike.”

    On Sept. 10, both the Washington Post and New York Times published stories calling the official account into question, with analyses finding no evidence of explosive materials in the car that belonged to the Nutrition and Education International, a U.S. charity. The driver was Zemari Ahmadi, an electrical engineer who was a long-time employee of the aid group. Officials had said they did not know Ahmadi’s identity at the time of the strike but had deemed him suspicious.

    "On behalf of the men and women of the Department of Defense, I offer my deepest condolences to surviving family members of those who were killed, including Mr. Ahmadi, and to the staff of Nutrition and Education International, Mr. Ahmadi’s employer," Lloyd Austin, the secretary of defense, said in a statement.

    "We now know that there was no connection between Mr. Ahmadi and ISIS-Khorasan, that his activities on that day were completely harmless and not at all related to the imminent threat we believed we faced, and that Mr. Ahmadi was just as innocent a victim as were the others tragically killed."

    West talks about human rights for white only.

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Not some isolated incident. This is the Washington insane mentality:


Musharraf told CBS that Richard Armitage (Armitage who currently wants conflict with China), the then deputy secretary of state, told Pakistan's intelligence director that the United States could attack if the South Asian nation did not back the war on terror.
 
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Not some isolated incident. This is the Washington insane mentality:


Musharraf told CBS that Richard Armitage (Armitage who currently wants conflict with China), the then deputy secretary of state, told Pakistan's intelligence director that the United States could attack if the South Asian nation did not back the war on terror.
Worst thing is they keep doing it: murder innocents, deny and then claim they were terrorists, accept they murdered in cold blood, give an apology, pay a meagerly payment and then the cycle is repeated. The soldier who gave the order and the soldier who pressed the button get away scot free. As a result some innocent Americans will die, US will accuse terrorism, kill more innocents in revenge and it will continue on.
 
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These news basically will not be reported on a large scale in the Western media.
They are focusing on women's rights in Afghanistan.
 
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So....no compensation? Clearly, even a $1 mil would not be enough.

They’ll pay them eventually, and probably even relocate the family out of Afghanistan, probably to a gulf country or possibly Canada, just to close this episode.

But will this stop the next mistake. The whole over the horizon concept is predicated upon this tactic, so this won’t be the last of these kinds of attacks unfortunately.

This was just so well investigated by The NY Times that it was too obvious to ignore.
 
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