Clearly this was an attempt to save face amid the debacle in Afghanistan. It is an appalling crime and demonstrates the incompetence and indifference to human life of the Biden administration.
“Biden droned the wrong guy, innocent aid worker killed in Kabul strike: NYT,” by Steven Nelson, New York Post, September 10, 2021:
A US airstrike in Kabul against a supposed Islamic State bomber actually killed an innocent man who worked for a US aid group and his family, according to newly published testimony and footage — raising the specter that the Pentagon lied to the public about the strike.
The reported case of mistaken identity also further tars President Biden for his chaotic pullout of US troops from Afghanistan, which left behind hundreds of US citizens and thousands of at-risk Afghans.
Zemari Ahmadi and nine members of his family, including seven children, were killed in the airstrike on Aug. 29, one day before the final US evacuation flights from Kabul, his brother Romal Ahmadi told the New York Times.
Ahmadi, who was the apparent target of the strike, worked for 14 years as a technical engineer in Afghanistan for the Pasadena, Calif.-based charity group Nutrition and Education International, which feeds hungry Afghans.
The aid group had applied for him to move to the US as a refugee.
New security footage from his workplace shows Ahmadi, whose neighborhood had unreliable water service, filling containers with water at his employer’s office at 2:35 p,m. shortly before he returned home. Fire-damaged containers consistent with the water canisters were photographed by the Times.
He and colleagues, who had driven to work, also were carrying laptop computers that day, according to security footage, possibly explaining the military’s claim that the targeted Toyota Corolla contained carefully wrapped packages.
The Times disputed the Pentagon’s claim that secondary explosions demonstrated that explosive materials were ignited by the US Reaper drone’s Hellfire missile.
Three weapons experts told the Times there was no evidence of a secondary explosion because there were no blown out walls or destroyed vegetation near the burned-out car. A small crater under car was consistent with a Hellfire missile, the experts said.
The Pentagon initially presented the airstrike as a successful mission to prevent another bombing of the Kabul airport after 13 US service members and at least 169 Afghans died in a suspected Islamic State suicide attack on Aug. 26.
“The procedures were correctly followed and it was a righteous strike” Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said afterward….
Walter Sieruk says
That awful incompetent old fool ,Joe Biden, and his crew can’t do anything right.
gravenimage says
Biden’s handlers’ drone strike killed an aid worker, not an ISIS jihadi as claimed
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Jeeez–I just wish I could be really shocked by this.
somehistory says
This mass murder was called “righteous” by the milley fool.
They don’t care that they murdered a bunch of innocent people…little kids included.
They didn’t care about the military members killed by the terrorist that this strike was supposed to revenge. …This kill was just for show and to brag. They will not be remorseful. They won’t lose any sleep over it. If they ever say ‘sorry,’ it won’t be for real.
Grace says
The gang that can’t even shoot straight.