Yesterday, the U.S. Central Command issued a celebratory statement stating that it had killed an “ISIS-K mastermind” more than 30 miles from the Hamid Karzai International Airport (HKIA) in Kabul, and on Thursday The scene of a suicide bomb attack by US troops stationed at an airport checkpoint. “Monastery Gate.” That attack killed 13 members of the U.S. Armed Forces; another 20 received medical attention.
The drone attack should be some kind of response to a suicide bombing attack.At the time, I expressed disdain for the strike and its possible results; see Joe Biden’s Afghan drone attack on ISIS-K is a joke, and we are the focus.
Earlier today, the Central Command issued another statement:
The US military today carried out a self-defense unmanned over-the-horizon air strike on a car in Kabul, eliminating the imminent threat of ISIS-K to Hamad Karzai International Airport.
We are confident that we will achieve our goals successfully. The major secondary explosion of the vehicle indicated the presence of a large amount of explosive material.
We are assessing the possibility of civilian casualties, although we currently have no signs. We remain vigilant against potential future threats.
Although Biden cheered everywhere about the scale of the second explosion and how bad their person Joe was, news began to leak and the attack did not go as smoothly as they did. Want us to believe.
According to a relative of the victim, a U.S. drone attacked a car in a residential area of Kabul, killing 9 members of a family.
The brother of one of the victims told a local reporter working with CNN that the victims included 6 children, the youngest being a 2-year-old girl.
He said that the victims were his brothers Zamare (40 years old), Nasser (30 years old), Zamir (20 years old), Faisal (10 years old), Falzad (9 years old), Amin ( 4 years old), Benjamin (3 years old), Ayat (2 years old) and Sumayya (2).
The younger brother cried and told reporters that they were “an ordinary family.”
“We are not the Islamic State or Da’esh, this is a family home-my brother and their family live there,” he said.
Oops.
US Central Command spokesperson Captain Bill Urban said in a statement: “We are aware of reports of civilian casualties following the attack on a car in Kabul today.” “We are deeply saddened by any potential loss of innocent lives. .”
The Pentagon: We saw ISIS terrorists loaded a car full of explosives. The second explosion proved that we were right.
And the Pentagon: How do we know that firing on a car full of explosives will cause civilian casualties?— Greg Bolowitz (@GPollowitz) August 30, 2021
This also makes me feel strange, because it provides more details than the US military announced.
Suddenly: A Taliban spokesperson stated that the target of the US airstrike was a suicide bomber in a vehicle that wanted to attack Kabul Airport. https://t.co/lQ43llXfLF
-Associated Press (@AP) August 29, 2021
Is the spokesperson rebutting what someone from the U.S. contingent in Kabul told him? Or does he acquiesce that the United States is taking action on targeted information provided by the Taliban?
It is difficult to emphasize what kind of huge f***-up this is. The last thing we need to do is to close our secure border at Hong Kong International Airport and suddenly let armed Afghan civilians decide to enter.
