drone aircraft from that compound to numerous other locations in the city before the decision was made to attack it at a point just a couple of miles from Kabul airport, McKenzie said. intelligence in the preceding 48 hours had determined was used by the Islamic State group to plan and facilitate attacks. 29, such a vehicle was detected at a compound in Kabul that U.S. intelligence had indicated a likelihood that a white Toyota Corolla would be used in an attack against U.S. forces,” he added, referring to the Islamic State group’s Afghanistan affiliate. “Moreover, we now assess that it is unlikely that the vehicle and those who died were associated with ISIS-K or were a direct threat to U.S. “I am now convinced that as many as 10 civilians, including up to seven children, were tragically killed in that strike,” McKenzie said.

forces and more than 120,000 civilians from Kabul airport, expressed his condolences to the family and friends of those killed. military operations in Afghanistan, including a final evacuation of U.S.

14, unfolded under a near-constant threat of attack by the Islamic State group’s Afghanistan affiliate. government by surprise and forced it to send several thousand troops to the Kabul airport for a hurried evacuation of Americans, Afghans and others. The speed with which the Taliban overran the country took the U.S. war that ended as it had begun in 2001 - with the Taliban in power in Kabul. News organizations later raised doubts about that version of events, reporting that the driver of the targeted vehicle was a longtime employee at an American humanitarian organization and citing an absence of evidence to support the Pentagon’s assertion that the vehicle contained explosives. 29 strike, Pentagon officials asserted that it had been conducted correctly, despite 10 civilians being killed, including seven children. The car was believed to have been carrying explosives in its trunk, he said.įor days after the Aug. He said the decision to strike a white Toyota Corolla sedan, after having tracked it for about eight hours, was made in an “earnest belief” - based on a standard of “reasonable certainty” - that it posed an imminent threat to American forces at Kabul airport. McKenzie apologized for the error and said the United States is considering making reparation payments to the family of the victims. Central Command, told a Pentagon news conference. “The strike was a tragic mistake,” Marine Gen. WASHINGTON (AP) - The Pentagon retreated from its defense of a drone strike that killed multiple civilians in Afghanistan last month, announcing Friday that a review revealed that only civilians were killed in the attack, not an Islamic State extremist as first believed.

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