Today marks nearly two years since the Pentagon promised condolence payments to an Afghan aid worker's family that it accidentally killed.
soon after that the strike did not kill a suspected terrorist, but rather, Ahmadi and nine members of his family in front of their home, prompting the Pentagon to admit it had made a mistake.
“I do not anticipate there being issues of personal accountability to be had with respect to the August 29th airstrike,” then-Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said at a December 2021 press conference.by the Intercept in May, the Pentagon has still not made those promised payments for Ahmadi’s surviving family members, who now live in California but are struggling to make ends meet.
Emal Ahmadi shows a photo of his family member who was killed during a U.S. drone strike on their home in Kabul, Afghanistan. Ahmadi said the U.S. drone strike killed 10 members of his family, six of them children. A relative of Ezmarai Ahmadi, is pictured through the wreckage of a vehicle that was damaged in a US drone strike in the Kwaja Burga neighborhood of Kabul on September 18, 2021. Committee Chairman Michael McCaul Two years ago, Kabul fell to the Taliban and Americans and Afghan allies were forced to flee for their lives.
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