[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] - Shocking report reveals apparent botched drone strike killed Afghan aid worker
- The August 29 strike at a home near the Kabul airport killed 10, including 7 kids
- Pentagon claimed the vehicle was 'known to be an imminent ISIS-K threat'
- But driver Zemari Ahmadi, 43, was an aid worker seeking asylum in the US
- Surveillance video shows him loading the trunk with water jugs, not explosives
- Witnesses say he spent the day running normal errands for a US-based aid group
- Pentagon claimed his movements were suspicious and tied him to ISIS-K
- DoD tells DailyMail.com: 'We still believe that it prevented an imminent threat'
The New York Times says that after reviewing video evidence and interviewing more than a dozen of the driver’s friends and family members in Kabul, it has doubts about the U.S. version of events.
"Times reporting has identified the driver as Zemari Ahmadi, a longtime worker for a U.S. aid group," the report states. "The evidence suggests that his travels that day actually involved transporting colleagues to and from work. And an analysis of video feeds showed that what the military may have seen was Mr. Ahmadi and a colleague loading canisters of water into his trunk to bring home to his family."
The U.S. previously admitted that there were three civilian casualties in the strike, but the Times report says the actual number is 10. Seven of those individuals were children, including young family members of Ahmadi who relatives say had run to the car to greet him when he got home moments before the strike.
Two well-placed U.S. military sources tell Fox News that the U.S. Central Command remains confident that the strike was based on accurate intelligence that showed the person in the car had bad intent, and that an investigation is underway into how many civilians were killed.
Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark A. Milley said that a secondary explosion confirms that the Ahmadi’s car was filled with explosives. The Times report also disputes that claim.
"But an examination of the scene of the strike, conducted by the Times visual investigations team and a Times reporter the morning afterward, and followed up with a second visit four days later, found no evidence of a second, more powerful explosion," the report states.
| How does the New York Times, an American news paper, have reporters on the ground, far from the relative civilization of Kabul? |