Kabul USA acknowledges that it killed 10 civilians with a drone, seven children among them, but did not kill any ISIS-K leader
The
CIA
warned of the possible presence of civilians, including minors, minutes before a US bombing in
Kabul
on August 29, where the US Armed Forces mistakenly killed ten people.
This was confirmed by the CNN television network, which cites three sources familiar with this matter.
According to the channel, intelligence officials followed for eight hours on August 29 the movements of the driver of the attacked car,
Zamari Ahmadi
, a worker of a US NGO, for having had a short interaction with several people, in what the US believed that It was a safe house of the
Islamic State (IS) group.
Suspicions against Ahmadi led military commanders to
misinterpret his movements
: they saw him load bottles of water into the back of his vehicle, thinking they were explosives.
In addition, they believed that a second explosion that occurred after a US drone attacked their car was caused by what they
thought were explosives
in the rear of the vehicle, when in reality the safest thing is that it was a propane tank that had behind the parked car, CNN said.
The CIA warning came too late, seconds before a missile fired from a US drone hit Ahmadi's car, killing ten civilians,
seven of them minors
.
Consulted by CNN, the CIA has refused to comment on this information, as has the
Central Command (CENTCOM) of the US Armed Forces
.
In the weeks following the bombing, the
Pentagon
insisted that it had been a "justified" attack on a confirmed terrorist target, without ruling out that a civilian could be killed.
However, on Friday, CENTCOM chief General
Frank McKenzie
acknowledged the "tragic mistake."
"As a combat commander, I am fully responsible for this bombing and its tragic result," McKenzie said at a press conference at the Pentagon, in which he intervened telematically.
The US bombing.
it came three days after thirteen American soldiers were killed and eighteen wounded in an IS attack on the Kabul airport, where there were
dozens of Afghan victims
.
On August 30, the US completed the evacuations of its Afghan nationals and collaborators from the Central Asian country and the
withdrawal of its troops after twenty years
of war in Afghanistan.
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