{"id":794645,"date":"2021-09-20T12:29:35","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T16:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=794645"},"modified":"2021-09-20T12:29:36","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T16:29:36","slug":"pentagon-calls-kabul-strike-tragic-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pentagon-calls-kabul-strike-tragic-mistake\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon calls Kabul strike \u2018tragic mistake\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/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-calls-kabul-strike-tragic-mistake%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=794645&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--><div id=\"attachment_2525041\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2525041\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE \u2013 In this Sunday, Aug. 29, 2021 file photo, Afghans inspect damage of Ahmadi family house after U.S. drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan. The Pentagon retreated from its defense of a drone strike that killed multiple civilians in Afghanistan last month, announcing Friday, Sept. 17, that a review revealed that only civilians were killed in the attack, not an Islamic State extremist as first believed. (AP Photo\/Khwaja Tawfiq Sediqi, File)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 9:15 AM PT \u2013 Monday, September 20, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>The Pentagon admitted that a drone strike in Afghanistan was a \u201ctragic mistake\u201d after the Biden administration hailed it as \u201crighteous\u201d for weeks. An apology from the U.S. appears to mean little to Kabul residents who are now mourning after the strike killed 10 people last month. Seven of those casualties were children.<\/p>\n<p>Sone Kabul resident said the attack should have never happened in a residential area. They have called for the perpetrators to be punished for their actions and suggested the victims deserve compensation.<\/p>\n<p>Head of the U.S. Central Command, Gen. Frank McKenzie initially claimed the strike targeted an ISIS-K suicide bomber who posed an imminent threat to U.S. troops during the final stages of the withdrawal. However, he now he admits the Pentagon got it wrong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe now assess that it is unlikely that the vehicle and those who died were associated with ISIS or were a direct threat to U.S. forces,\u201d stated the general. Pentagon officials rarely make personal apologies, but McKenzie said the U.S. is working to potentially compensate the families.<\/p>\n<p>Sources say U.S. officials targeted the innocent aid worker based on a single visit to a suspected ISIS-K safe house. The intelligence agency did not know the man\u2019s identity while tracking his movements and didn\u2019t learn of his innocence until after he, along with seven children, were dead.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports Saturday, the CIA had foreknowledge that innocent children would be killed in the drone strike and tried to warn Biden. By the time the warnings came through, however, the missile was seconds from its target. Yet, that didn\u2019t stop the Biden administration from publicly touting the operations success..<\/p>\n<p>The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark Milley immediately hailed the attack as a \u201crighteous strike\u201d in what appeared to be an effort to divert the public\u2019s attention from the 13 service members killed in a suicide bombing at the Kabul airport just days earlier.<\/p>\n<p>GOP lawmakers have now come down hard on the administration for it\u2019s deadly mistake. For instance, Rep. Ann Wagner (R-Mo.) said that war always has collateral damage, but Biden\u2019s drone-striking only innocent people then directly lying to the public about it should never have been allowed or be forgotten.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanna know why the Biden administration spiked the ball and claimed they took out ISIS-K when, in fact, it was a nutrition aid worker and 7 children,\u201d she stated. \u201cIt continues on the full scale debacle that is this withdrawal from Afghanistan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wagner also said Biden\u2019s so-called \u201cover the horizon\u201d security in Afghanistan is a myth and the U.S. homeland is in a worse security situation than it has been in years. The representative maintained that Biden wanted out at any cost and the cost has been more than $85 billion in equipment and 13 dead service members.<\/p>\n<p>In a tweet, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) asked if Biden personally ordered the drone strike. The Republican pointed out that former President Barack Obama ordered numerous strikes personally, including one that targeted a wedding.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Obama authorized individual drone killings. Is it unreasonable to ask if Biden approved this killing of an aid worker and 7 children? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3rlb3KbutT\">https:\/\/t.co\/3rlb3KbutT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RandPaul\/status\/1439019320714141697?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 18, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Republican senator believes that future tragedies can be prevented if Congress fights to take back its own war powers.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/nunez-on-biden-reducing-fla-monoclonal-supply-politics-at-its-worst-disgusting\/\">Nunez On Biden Reducing Fla. Monoclonal Supply: \u2018Politics At Its Worst, Disgusting\u2019<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FILE \u2013 In this Sunday, Aug. 29, 2021 file photo, Afghans inspect damage of Ahmadi family house after U.S. drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan. 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