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Eugene

(61,595 posts)
Sat Sep 11, 2021, 07:17 PM Sep 2021

US drone strike mistakenly targeted Afghan aid worker, investigation finds

Original reporting: Times Investigation: In U.S. Drone Strike, Evidence Suggests No ISIS Bomb (New York Times)

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Source: The Guardian

US drone strike mistakenly targeted Afghan aid worker, investigation finds

Zemari Ahmadi, who died alongside nine others had no connection to terrorism, a New York Times investigation suggested

Richard Luscombe
@richlusc
Sat 11 Sep 2021 16.18 BST

The US mistakenly targeted and killed an innocent aid worker for an American company in a drone strike in Afghanistan, the New York Times suggested in an investigation into the country’s final military action of the recently concluded 20-year war.

The victim, the newspaper said, was 43-year-old Zemari Ahmadi, who died with nine members of his family, including seven children, when a missile from a US air force Reaper drone struck his car as he arrived home from work in a residential neighborhood of Kabul.

US military officials have insisted the targets of the 29 August operation were Islamic State suicide bombers plotting an attack on Kabul airport similar to that which killed 13 American troops helping with evacuations, and more than 170 others three days earlier.

The action, Gen Mark Milley, chair of the US joint chiefs of staff, insisted, was a “righteous strike” against Isis-K members who had been observed at points during the day loading what a surveillance team thought to be explosives into the vehicle and visiting a known safe house of the terrorist group.

But the Times’ reporting, compiled from extensive video analysis, interviews with Ahmadi’s colleagues and family, and visits to the scene, casts considerable and potentially devastating doubt on that US official version of events.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/11/us-drone-strike-mistakenly-targeted-afghan-aid-worker-investigation-finds
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US drone strike mistakenly targeted Afghan aid worker, investigation finds (Original Post) Eugene Sep 2021 OP
well crap DURHAM D Sep 2021 #1
Oh great. These "suggestions" from The NYT really make my day. NOT! abqtommy Sep 2021 #2
War is Hell - beginning to end Backseat Driver Sep 2021 #3
I remember Hawkeye on MASH saying that war is worse than Hell marie999 Sep 2021 #5
Just let that be the capstone on whole murderous enterprise. marble falls Sep 2021 #4
kick for visibility Celerity Sep 2021 #6

Backseat Driver

(4,339 posts)
3. War is Hell - beginning to end
Sat Sep 11, 2021, 07:43 PM
Sep 2021

RIP - the dead and victims; Americans, allies, friends, and peaceful civilians - healing to the afflicted whose memories of shame, allegiances, and survival remains in hidden private hearts of grief and sorrow. Judgment to the responsible to seek forgiveness and strength to learn in a time of hell and live with those choices.

 

marie999

(3,334 posts)
5. I remember Hawkeye on MASH saying that war is worse than Hell
Sun Sep 12, 2021, 05:24 PM
Sep 2021

because there aren't any innocent people in Hell.

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