{"id":1227933,"date":"2022-01-20T14:53:56","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T19:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1227933"},"modified":"2022-01-20T14:54:05","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T19:54:05","slug":"pentagon-releases-video-of-august-drone-strike-that-killed-afghan-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pentagon-releases-video-of-august-drone-strike-that-killed-afghan-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon Releases Video Of August Drone Strike That Killed Afghan Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpentagon-releases-video-of-august-drone-strike-that-killed-afghan-family%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1227933&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Pentagon has publicly released 25 minutes of video footage of the August 29 U.S. drone strike in Kabul that killed 10 civilians, including seven children, for which no one has been held accountable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe newly released videos show the view from above Kabul as the military tracked a white Toyota Corolla through parts of the city, believing that it was an ISIS-K car laden with explosives and building a case for targeting it with a preemptive strike,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/01\/19\/politics\/military-releases-videos-august-drone-strike-killed-civilians\/index.html\">CNN<\/a> reported, adding, \u201cIn reality, the military was tracking Zamarai Ahmadi, an Afghan who worked for Nutrition and Education International, a nongovernmental organization focused on food security. Ahmadi had applied for a special immigrant visa and intended to bring his family to the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the immediate aftermath of the strike, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/570402-top-general-acknowledges-others-killed-in-drone-strike-targeting-isis-car-bomb\">stated<\/a>, \u201cWe had very good intelligence that ISIS-K was preparing a specific-type vehicle at a specific-type location. We monitored that through various means, and all of the engagement criteria were being met. We went through the same level of rigor that we\u2019ve done for years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know from the variety of other means that at least one of those people that were killed was a ISIS facilitator,\u201d he continued. \u201cWere there others killed? Yes, there are others killed. Who they are, we don\u2019t know. We\u2019ll try to sort through all that. But we believe that the procedures at this point \u2014 I don\u2019t want to influence the outcome of an investigation \u2014 but at this point we think that the procedures were correctly followed and it was a righteous strike.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/12\/13\/us\/politics\/afghanistan-drone-strike.html?smid=tw-share\">The New York Times<\/a> reported that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin directed two officials to deal with any sanctions regarding the incident. Neither recommended action:<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Austin left the final word on any administrative action, such as reprimands or demotions, to two senior commanders: Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr., the head of the military\u2019s Central Command, and Gen. Richard D. Clarke, the head of the Special Operations Command. Both officers found no grounds for penalizing any of the military personnel involved in the strike, said John F. Kirby, the Pentagon\u2019s chief spokesman.<\/p>\n<p>Seven children were killed in the strike. The dead included Ahmadi, his three children, Zamir, 20, Faisal, 16, and Farzad, 10; Ahmadi\u2019s cousin Naser, 30; Ahmadi\u2019s three nephews, Arwin, seven, Benyamin, six, and Hayat, two; and two three-year-old girls, Malika and Somaya.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>A CENTCOM spokesman stated, \u201cWhile the strike was intended for what was believed to be an imminent threat to our troops at Hamad Karzai International Airport, none of the family members killed are now believed to have been connected to ISIS-K or threats to our troops. We deeply regret the loss of life that resulted from this strike.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast month, the Pentagon said that no punitive action would be taken against military personnel involved in the botched drone strike.&nbsp;Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said senior commanders had made their recommendations to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin \u2013 none of which included holding any officers accountable,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10421069\/Pentagon-declassifies-footage-botched-Afghanistan-drone-strike-killed-10.html\">The Daily Mail<\/a> noted.&nbsp;Kirby asserted, \u201cWhat we saw here was a breakdown in process and execution in procedural events, not the result of negligence, not the result of misconduct, not the result of poor leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pentagon has publicly released 25 minutes of video footage of the August 29 U.S. drone strike in Kabul that killed 10 civilians, including seven children, for which no one has been held accountable. \u201cThe newly released videos show the view from above Kabul as the military tracked a white Toyota Corolla through parts of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1227933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1227933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1227933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1227933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1227933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}