Pentagon Admits That Drone Strike Which Supposedly Killed an ISIS-K Planner, Actually Killed an Aid Worker and 9 Family Members, Including 7 Children

Drone Strike

FoxNews.com reports that

Head of the United States Central Command Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr. announced Friday that it is unlikely any ISIS-K members were killed in a Kabul drone strike on August 29, which led to multiple civilian casualties.

“We now assess that it is unlikely that the vehicle and those who died were associated with ISIS-K or a direct threat to US forces,” McKenzie said of the airstrike at a briefing, following an investigation by the Military.

“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, adding that he is “fully responsible for this strike and this tragic outcome.”

The drone strike, which was intended to target ISIS-K operatives, resulted in the deaths of an aid worker and up to nine of his family members, including seven children. According to U.S. officials, the strike on the vehicle, formerly believed to have been a threat that included bombs and that was operated by ISIS-K militants, took place after a suicide bombing at Kabul airport in Afghanistan killed 13 U.S. service members and civilians.

“On behalf of the men and women of the Department of Defense, I offer my deepest condolences to surviving family members of those who were killed, including Mr. Ahmadi, and to the staff of Nutrition and Education International, Mr. Ahmadi’s employer,” Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III said in a lengthy statement on the investigation’s findings. “We now know that there was no connection between Mr. Ahmadi and ISIS-Khorasan, that his activities on that day were completely harmless and not at all related to the imminent threat we believed we faced, and that Mr. Ahmadi was just as innocent a victim as were the others tragically killed.

“We apologize, and we will endeavor to learn from this horrible mistake,” Austin added, saying that officials “will scrutinize not only what we decided to do — and not do — on the 29th of August, but also how we investigated those outcomes.”

“We owe that to the victims and their loved ones, to the American people and to ourselves,” Austin said.

The drone strike, as classified by Mckenzie as a “tragic mistake,” was previously hailed as a “righteous strike” by Gen. Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

“In a dynamic high threat environment, the commanders on the ground had appropriate authority and had reasonable certainty that the target was valid but after deeper post strike analysis our conclusion is that innocent civilians were killed,” Milley said Friday. “This is a horrible tragedy of war and it’s heart-wrenching and we are committed to being fully transparent about this incident.”

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki also described the strike as a success of new “over the horizon” capabilities in late August.

“What we’ve seen over the past week is that our over the horizon capacity can work and has worked in going after ISIS targets and killing people who went after our troops,” Psaki said at the time. “So that’s where our resources and our focus is going to be on at this point in time.”

Let me get this straight.

They killed someone whom they believed was an “ISIS-K Planner who MAY have been carrying out future attacks against Americans and Afghanis and the Biden Administration at the time was not even sure that they killed the barbarian responsible for killing 13 of America’s Best and Brightest and 90 Afghanis.

Well, they were right for once.

Horribly, violently right.

Why did they not get the appropriate information together before beginning the operation?

This is the same half-a@@ military intelligence shown in Biden’s botched pullout of our troops from Afghanis which resulted in an Islamic Terrorist Attack at Kabul Airport and the stranding of hundreds of Americans and our allies in an Islamic Terrorist Nation.

Since this WASN’T the mastermind of that attack, we will probably be hit with an even bigger attack in the near future.

Don’t forget, we left billions upon billions work of American military weapons, including helicopters behind., which Russia and China are, even now, reverse engineering so that they can have their own Apache Helicopters.

Who are the members our Military Intelligence Brain Trust?

Dru’s Minions?

I was going to say that this is unbelievable…except for what we as a country have witnessed so far in this deadly fiasco that is Biden’s tenure as President…so far.

 With all of the blowback that Biden has received already on the Afghanistan pull-out, his Handlers probably told his Woke Military Leaders that some sort of retaliation had to be put together FAST before the movement in the House to impeach him gathered stream and Americans started protesting for his ouster in front of the White House.

So, evidently they decided that a Drone Strike was in order, in keeping with Biden’s bragging about “Over the Horizon” military Operations.

The only problem with remote control war is the fact that it only works if you hit the right target.

Until He Comes,

KJ

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The Fall of Afghanistan: Saigon Déjà Vu

This morning, as I watched events unfold in Kabul, Afghanistan, I recalled the end of the Vietnam War and the fall of Saigon, as chaos ensued and Army Helicopters got the last American Citizens and Soldiers out of that war-torn city, as it fell to the Communists.

I watched in a feeling of disgust and déjà vu as Afghanis clung to the fuselage of American Planes in a desperate bid to secure their own freedom and safety from the Taliban…because if they did not they would most certainly meet their end aflame or beheaded.

Meanwhile, as the citizens of Afghanistan were in the fight of their lives, the so-called Leader of the Free World safety sat at a table in Camp David having his morning bowl of Oatmeal not knowing what to do…or even where he was..

Immediately, as things started to fall apart, Liberal Pundits and Trolls like Jennifer Ruben from the Washington Post, started to try to blame Trump for the situation, even though the entire world knows that this is Biden’s mistake…one which has led to a Foreign Policy Disaster.

However, as I sit here thinking about this whole terrible moment in our country’s history, this is not just the fault of Biden. This is the fault of everyone who voted for the demented old idiot.

And, as I sit here writing this, Fox News has just reported that Biden is going to speak at 2:45 Central Time this afternoon. What is he going to say? Oops?

I’m betting that they, like the majority of average Americans, could go for a Mean Tweet, a growing economy, a stable Middle East, and a strong American President right about now.

Lord knows, I could.

Until He Comes,

KJ