![]() 29 drone strike in Kabul that killed 10 civilians, including an aid worker and seven children. military admitted to a tragic mistake in an Aug. Drone Strike Killed the Wrong Person A week after a New York Times visual investigation, the U.S. The very next day, a similar group was turned back at the border after the Taliban imposed new travel-document rules. On one day in June, for instance, 43 family members traveling overland were allowed to cross into Pakistan. Ahmadi’s aid organization in Afghanistan is a saga of passport problems, bureaucratic red tape and Taliban capriciousness. The odyssey of the family members of Zemari Ahmadi, the driver of a white Toyota sedan that was struck by the American drone, and others employed by Mr. The rest have been stuck for months in a diplomatic limbo after being taken to three countries to await screening to enter the United States. Nearly a year later, fewer than a dozen of the 144 family members have been resettled in the United States and 32 people remain trapped in Afghanistan with little hope of getting out soon, advocates for the family said on Monday. drone strike before American troops withdrew from Afghanistan, the Biden administration pledged to help surviving members of the family relocate to the United States for their safety. military mistakenly killed 10 civilians, including seven children, last August in the final U.S. "Maybe now would be a good time to retire phrases like 'targeted killing' and 'precision strike,' since these phrases have nothing at all to do with what we're actually doing," said Jameel Jaffer, director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University.WASHINGTON - Soon after the U.S. of killing at least 30 Afghan civilians-including 14 children-and violating international humanitarian law with a series of drone strikes in May of that year. ![]() In 2019, the United Nations released a report accusing the U.S. drone operation in Afghanistan were not the intended targets. According to documents leaked by former Air Force intelligence analyst Daniel Hale-who was sentenced to nearly four years in prison last month-nearly 90% of the people killed during one five-month period of a U.S. strikes have killed hundreds of Afghan civilians in recent years. troops from Afghanistan after two decades of devastating war and occupation.ĭespite officials' claims that the drone assassination program is highly precise and targeted at militants, U.S. Launched in the wake of a deadly ISIS-K attack on Kabul's international airport, the drone strike came just two days before the August 31 deadline for the withdrawal of U.S. "It is unclear what may have happened," Urban added, "and we are investigating further." strike may have been due to "a large amount of explosive material inside" the targeted vehicle. Urban suggested that "additional casualties" from the U.S. Central Command, acknowledged in a statement that "there were substantial and powerful subsequent explosions resulting from the destruction of the vehicle" that the U.S. #GroundTheDrones\u201d - CODEPINK Bill Urban, a spokesperson for the U.S. \u201cToo many children have already died from US drone strikes. "The military presence, and the civilian deaths it's brought, has become a key recruiting tool for terrorists." must leave Afghanistan," said Trita Parsi, executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. One neighbor at the scene of the attack said in an interview with CNN that "not much is left of their house and nothing can be recognized, they are in pieces." The person estimated that as many as 20 people may have been killed in the U.S. "I do not know what to say, they just cut my arms and broke my back, I cannot say anything more." "The American aircraft targeted us," said Shahyad. Shahyad added that three of the victims were girls who were just two years old or younger. attack killed his father, his two brothers, four of his young cousins, his niece, and his sister's fiance. ![]() Samim Shahyad, a 25-year-old journalism student, told the New York Times that the U.S. strike were all "from a single extended family," the Post reported. carried out in Kabul over the weekend-"hit a nearby vehicle" that the Pentagon claims was an "imminent" threat. Relatives of the victims told the Washington Post that the strike-which was the second attack the U.S. We cannot accept one more, let alone six." "Too many children have already died from U.S. drone strike purportedly targeting a suspected ISIS-K vehicle in a residential neighborhood of Kabul, Afghanistan killed at least 10 members of a single family-including six children-as they were getting out of their car on Sunday.
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