On 17 September 2021, General Kenneth McKenzie accepted responsibility for the killings.
Later it acknowledged the attack as a mistake after reviewing footage that showed three children coming to greet Ahmadi at his sedan before they were killed.
The United States military initially denied the allegations, with almost everything senior defense officials asserted in the weeks after the drone strike turning out to be false. The attack was conducted by the Over-the-Horizon (OTH) Strike Cell group of the U.S. At 4:53 PM, a single Hellfire missile was launched, killing 7 children and 3 adults. When he stopped at a compound erroneously believed to be an ISIS safe house, six Reaper drones surrounded the compound. The day of the attack, Ahmadi ran errands for his employer including picking up a laptop and delivering water. In actuality, Ahmadi was a worker for Nutrition and Education International, a California-based aid group.
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forces believed that subsequent attacks from ISIS were imminent, and through a series of erroneous intelligence decisions, linked a white 1996 Toyota Corolla and its driver, Zemari Ahmadi, to a terrorist plot. During these evacuations, the airport was attacked by a suicide bomber, which killed at least 183 people. In the days after the Fall of Kabul, mass civilian evacuations took place at Hamid Karzai International Airport. The attack occurred soon after the Fall of Kabul that led to the end of the War in Afghanistan that lasted from 2001 to 2021. personnel faced disciplinary action for the attack. confirmed that the target of the strike was a Toyota Corolla carrying aid workers and that only civilians had been killed in the strike. Eyewitnesses and later independent investigations disproved this. initially said that the vehicle targeted in the strike had visited an IS safe house and that there had been a number of secondary explosions, implying there had been explosives at the scene. On 29 August 2021, an unmanned drone attack by the United States killed 10 civilians in Kabul, Afghanistan, including 7 children. United States Central Command ( United States Armed Forces) Meanwhile also earlier today, at least 20 civilians were reportedly killed in a suicide truck bomb attack carried out by the Taliban in the southern province of Zabul.10 civilians killed, including 7 children and Zemari Ahmadi Most of those killed are reported to be farmers. There are conflicting reports over the number of civilians killed in the attack, with the reported death toll ranging from nine to 35. “US forces in Afghanistan must ensure that all possible precautions are taken to avoid civilian casualties in military operations.”Īfghanistan’s Defence Ministry and a senior US official in Kabul confirmed the drone strike, which took place in the Khoghyani district of Nangarhar province in the early hours of Thursday morning. “That a US drone strike purportedly targeting IS militants could instead result in the deaths of scores of farmers is unacceptable and suggests a shocking disregard for civilian life. “On yet another deadly day in Afghanistan, once again it is civilians who bear the brunt of the violence involving armed groups, the Afghan government and their backers in the US military. Responding to the reported killing of numerous farmers in a US drone strike in Afghanistan - on the same day that 20 civilians were reportedly killed in a suicide bomb attack on a hospital - Daphne Eviatar, Amnesty International USA’s Security with Human Rights Director, said: ‘Once again it is civilians who bear the brunt of the violence’ - Daphne Eviatar More than 50 civilians killed in separate attacks - one a Taliban suicide bombing on a hospital
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