Washington: US Secretary Antony Blinken said Tuesday that he did not know whether the last strike in Afghanistan killed a assistance worker than an Islamic militant, by saying the investigation was underway.
In the last hit before US troops ended their 20-year war in Afghanistan, a Drone Reaper crashed into a car in Kabul when the Pentagon said it was disturbing a plot by the extremist movement of the Islamic State for a new attack at Kabul Airport.
But Brother Ezmarai Ahmadi, a worker for US-based assistance groups killed, said that 10 family members died.
Video investigations by the New York Times then found that Ahmadi has transferred cannisters of water, maybe causing unfounded suspicion.
Blinken, asked during the testimony at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee whether the strike killed a hand worker, “I don’t know because we dishemen.” “Administration, of course, review the attack,” Blinken said, promising “full judgment.” Pentagon also said it judged the civilian victims of the strike but insisted that it interfered with the plot of Islamic countries.
Blinken responded to Senator Rand Paul, a rare Republican that had long been pushed to end the war in Afghanistan and who demanded accountability to strike.
“I saw photos of these beautiful kids who were killed in the attack,” Paul said.
“If it’s true and not propaganda,” said Paul, “Guess what, maybe you have created hundreds or thousands of new potential terrorists from bombing wrong people.” The strike came a few days after the attack claimed by the Islamic State killed more than 100 Afghanistan and 13 US troops outside Kabul Airport, where a massive crowd tried to escape the winning Taliban.
More than 71,000 Afghan civilians and Pakistan have died directly from the war launched by the United States after the September 11, 2001 attacks, with victims increased dramatically after the President Donald Trump the involvement regulations in 2017, according to a Brown University study in April.
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