Since the US carried out a drone strike in Kabul on Sunday that witnesses say killed 10 civilians, the Pentagon and the White House have defended the bombing, claiming it targeted ISIS-K. But relatives of the victims strongly deny that any of them were affiliated with ISIS and want answers from Washington.
“They have to give us answers. Is our blood so worthless, we don’t even get an explanation?” Ramal Ahmadi, a brother of one of the dead, told The Associated Press. Ahmadi said a missile hit his brother’s car as he pulled up the family’s home and children ran out to greet him.
The US claims the car was laden with explosives and a secondary blast is why there is such a high civilian casualty rate. But Ahmadi and other witnesses dispute Washington’s claim.
Emal, another Ahmadi brother, told AP that if the car was full of explosives, the blast would have done much more damage and pointed to two undamaged gas cylinders. “If the car was filled with explosives like the Americans say, why didn’t these cylinders explode,” he said. “How could the wall still be standing if this car had been full of explosives?”
Every person killed by the strike was related to Ahmadi’s. Emal lost a three-year-old daughter to the US drone and asked how the Americans could not see they were bombing a yard full of children. “They have such high technology they can see an ant on the ground, but they couldn’t see a yard full of children?” he said.
Some of the Ahmadis have worked for the US-backed Afghan security forces and US-based NGOs in Afghanistan, including the oldest brother Zamarai and a nephew Nasir Haideri, who were killed in the strike. Nasir and Zamarai both applied for Special Immigration Visas to evacuate to the US.
The slaughter of the Ahmadi family is not an anomaly for US drone strikes. In 2015, documents leaked by Daniel Hale, who was recently sentenced to 45 months in prison, revealed that during a five-month period between 2012 and 2013, 90 percent of the people killed by US drones were civilians.
While Hale’s leaks were published over five years ago, US drone strikes still regularly kill civilians, and there is virtually no oversight. The slaughter of the Ahmadi’s has received wide media coverage because it happened in Kabul as the US was exiting Afghanistan. But US drone strikes are often carried out in remote villages, where there are no reporters.
After the suicide bombing at the Kabul airport, the US launched a drone strike in a remote area of the Nangarhar province. The Pentagon claims the strike killed two “ISIS-K planners,” but their names or any other details have not been released.
While the US has no more troops in Afghanistan, drone strikes could continue. During a speech after the withdrawal was completed, President Biden threatened more airstrikes against ISIS-K.
“We have what’s called over the horizon capabilities, which means we can strike terrorists and targets without American boots on the ground, or very few if needed. We’ve shown that capacity just in the last week. We struck ISIS-K remotely,” Biden said, describing the strike that killed the Ahmadis. “And to ISIS-K, we are not done with you yet.”
The Pentagon lies systematically. Accept that
“And to the civilians of Afghanistan, we are not done with you yet”.
I want answers too, but I think we already have them in the same article: “The slaughter of the Ahmadi family is not an anomaly for US drone strikes. In 2015, documents leaked by Daniel Hale, who was recently sentenced to 45 months in prison, revealed that during a five-month period between 2012 and 2013, 90 percent of the people killed by US drones were civilians.” It seems to me and I am no expert that every time someone gives us answers, we put them in prison. It seems we did that while labeling Russia and China as “oppressive regimes.”
Americans have never had a problem with killing civilians children old people ect they are a afront to Humanity , war crimnals and the devil incarnate , with countries like Britian , France and the rest of the NATO numpties turning a blind eye to all the deaths
The new style of US war seems to be drones and air strikes that are sold as “bloodless” because it is not any of our people dying.
Other women and children, even those foreigners who work for us, none of them count.
Even by that definition, it won’t remain bloodless. See the 9/11 attacks. They’ll find a way, if we just keep killing. That is what always happens. Look at the fire balloons of Hamas as examples, low tech, but a way was found.
NATO may have found a way to stay in Afghanistan after all.
The successful attack on Abby Gate was a pretext for staging a covert stay-behind unit of SAS troops, backed by American SF forces and U.S. logistics.
https://asiatimes.com/2021/08/sas-unit-vows-to-revenge-fallen-marine-comrades/
No word on whether the Taliban have officially given their permission for NATO to stay on to ‘hunt’ IS Khorisan, or if the Taliban formally or informally have allied with NATO forces.
This follows roughly the Zbigniew Brzezinsky plan for the original Afghan dirty war; fund ‘our’ bunch of radical Islamic terrorists (IS Khorisan) to overthrow a more moderate Afghan government (the New Inclusive Taliban) and toss the country into perpetual war.
Even though IS Khorisan is just another division of the globalist Deep State’s proxy terrorist army, a Taliban alliance with the U.S. and NATO is exactly the pretext IS Khorisan needs to undermine Taliban legitimacy.
IS Khorisan can claim the Taliban has allied with foreign invaders and betrayed Afghanistan, and now has a pretext for a new Jihad, a new Mujahideen warring against the survivors and heirs of the old Mujahideen.
Zbig strikes again, from the grave.
All in a days work for our brave men & women in uniform, protecting us and our freedoms from those 2 yr old terrorists.
If you add those killed (@ 160) by the Marine guards firing into the crowd after the suicide bombing at the Abbey Gate to the slaughter of the Ahmadi family it comes to a around 13 killed for every one of our 13; a ratio that impresses the generals by a logic that allows them to consider it a victory, and offer it up as moral consolation to their troops.
As in Nam, failing to secure their hearts & minds for the Empire, they have only contempt for the natives. It is abundantly demonstrated by the proverbial “army investigations” of the innumerable atrocities, they kill and lie with a light heart.
The generals and colonels all know very well that Colin Powell’s career was made as the cover-up officer for My Lai.
The “reasoning” behind these drone attacks was probably in the neighborhood of “we’ll take out some Afghans and call them “terrorists” to please the American public” that something WAS done to exact revenge for the suicide bombing. Pure politics!
Politics and morale, … better, morale and politics.
The DC GHOULS must be removed as they are truly tyrants.
The answers victims of the U.S. drones strikes should be asking, was this ‘sacrifice’ in blood a staged pretext for a U.S. – NATO ‘special forces’ military alliance with the Taliban?
Perhaps foreign devils, have not entirely left Afghan soil.
A ‘Devil’s Brigade’ styled SAS team has offered to stay behind in Afghanistan to avenge their fallen Marine comrades. They would be based at the Af-Pak border – on the Afghan side. Most who died were U.S. troops and Afghan civilians; the British lost only two Afghan civvie nationals.
Naturally, the SAS force would be joined by U.S. SF troops (Delta and SEALS) and so supported by U.S. logistics.
So, have the U.S. and NATO really entirely left Afghanistan soil, and how complicit are the Taliban with this poison pill?
https://asiatimes.com/2021/08/sas-unit-vows-to-revenge-fallen-marine-comrades/
The attack by IS Khoristan was successful because the U.S. and the U.K. made the ‘joint’ decision to delay closing Abby Gate at Afghan International Airport.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/31/uk-and-us-took-joint-decision-to-keep-kabul-airport-gate-open
This is despite the U.S. preparing for a mass casualty attack and planning to close Abby Gate, which was kept open to allow the U.K. to ‘expedite’ their evacuations. Some in the Pentagon leaked, they weren’t happy with the delay.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/30/pentagon-mass-casualty-attack-kabul-507481
Another case of the generous “foreign aid” from the Imperial “mission accomplished ” sent globally by Uncle Sam! And .I dress members of the House still tried to add ANOTHER $25 Billion to the already-bloated war budget! That’s a sure sign of a totally clueless “superpower”!