A United States military investigation into a deadly Kabul drone strike in August has found that it killed 10 civilians and the driver and the vehicle targeted was likely not a threat associated with ISIS-K, Gen. Frank McKenzie, the top general of US Central Command, announced at the Pentagon on Friday.

McKenzie told reporters at the Pentagon that the strike was a "mistake" and offered an apology.
"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," McKenzie said.
McKenzie added that he is "fully responsible for this strike and this tragic outcome."
The Pentagon had maintained that at least one ISIS-K facilitator and three civilians were killed in what Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Mark Milley had previously called a "righteous strike" on the compound on August 29. The investigation released Friday found that all of those killed in the residential compound were civilians.

In the lead up to the strike, drone operators surveilled the courtyard for up to 4 to 5 minutes. In that time, a male driver left the vehicle. One child was parking the vehicle and other children were present in the car and the courtyard -- as CNN had been told by the Ahmadi family.
The military based the strike on a reasonable certainty standard to launch the strike on the vehicle. Tragically, it was the wrong vehicle, a US military official familiar with the investigation told CNN earlier Friday, adding that no reasonable certainty is not 100% certainty.
Previously, US Central Command pointed to "significant secondary explosions" as evidence of a "substantial amount of explosive material" in the vehicle. On Friday, the US military source said that after reviewing footage from infra-red sensors, they would no longer characterize this as an explosion -- instead, it was more of a flare up.
The US official said that in the time leading up to the strike, the US had at least 60 different intelligence reports about threat streams toward US forces at Hamid Karzai International Airport.
This is a breaking story and will be updated.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/17/politics/kabul-drone-strike-us-military-intl-hnk/index.html?utm_term=link&utm_content=2021-09-17T19%3A07%3A38&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twCNN


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It is well with America. The Americans chased away a good leader and brought in an actionless ruler just as Nigerians chased away a great leader and brought in an apology ruler.

Replace with Nigeria Airforce and see the narrative changed

One country in Africa, the military will deny it even when you catch them red-handed.

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Xscape1993:
It is well with America. The Americans chased away a good leader and brought in an actionless ruler just as Nigerians chased away a great leader and brought in an apology ruler.

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Ipob cannot afford a decent news source outside gazette and beerfraud radio. Trump negotiated the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan with Taliban.

Xscape1993:
It is well with America. The Americans chased away a good leader and brought in an actionless ruler just as Nigerians chased away a great leader and brought in an apology ruler.

You sound very clueless like the leaders you referred to as "good" and "great"

That's a responsible army and not the ones that will deny and invite any doubter to the head office.

Ipob rodents and enemies of their country have started shifting blame to Nigeria . How this rodents reason remains a mystery to me. the super good Americans are always saints according to you but see the genocide they are doing. Am quite sure if it's Taliban the whole world would have been in flames by now attacking and bashing them. And these are the so called heroes trying to liberate the afganistans. As it's USA that struck the whole world is suddenly quite. THIS AIRSTRIKE WAS INTENTIONAL.