Courtesy: Associated Press
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WASHINGTON DC (77WABC) – The US military is admitting that it killed ten innocent civilians and targeted the wrong vehicle in a Kabul, Afghanistan drone strike.
The strike was intended to kill an ISIS-K terrorist. The US believed it was thwarting another attack on U-S forces and evacuees outside of the Kabul airport. Just days before the strike, 13 US troops were killed outside of the Kabul airport with almost two hundred other innocent civilians looks to escape the Taliban-controlled region.
An investigation by the US Central Command determined that the August 29th drone strike, which top commander General Mark Milley described as a “righteous strike”, actually killed an aid worker with 9 members of his family, 7 of them children.
General Ken McKenzie said in a press conference after announcing the mistake, “I offer my profound condolences to the family and friends of those who were killed. This strike was taken in the earnest belief that it would prevent an imminent threat to our forces and the evacuees at the airport but it was a mistake and I offer my sincere apology.”
