WASHINGTON: No military personnel involved in a failed drone attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, which killed 10 civilians will face all types of punishment, said Pentagon Monday.
The Pentagon admitted in September that the last US drone attack before US forces withdrew from Afghanistan a month earlier was a tragic error that killed civilians, including seven children, after initially said that it was needed to prevent an attack on the group of Islamic countries.
The next high level investigation into the episode did not find violations of law but stopped completely freeing them involved, said the decision had to be abandoned on the commander.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, who has left the last word about any administrative action, such as reprimand or demotion, up to two senior commanders, agreed to their recommendations not to punish anyone.
Two officers, General Kenneth F.
McKenzie Jr., Head of the Military Central Command, and General Richard D.
Clarke, Head of Special Operations Command, did not find a reason to punish one of the military personnel involved in the strike, said John F.
Kirby Talk to the Pentagon.
“What we see here is the details in the process and execution in procedural events, not the result of negligence, not the result of violations, not the result of poor leadership,” Kirby told reporters.
In two decades of war against the enemy of shadows such as Al-Qaeda and Islamic State, the US military has killed hundreds, if not thousands, civilians accidentally in war zones such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and Somalia.
And while the military from time to time accepts responsibility for incorrect air strikes or soil attacks that endanger civilians, rarely do it responsibly to certain people.
The most prominent exception for this trend was in 2016, when the Pentagon catoplined at least a dozen military personnel for their role in an air strike in October 2015 to a doctor without a Hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, which killed 42 people.
But there is no criminal charges.
“This decision is surprising,” said Steven Kwon, Founder and President of Nutrition & International Education, a California-based assistance organization who employed Ahmadi’s zemari, a white Toyota sedan driver who was beaten by US drone.
“How could our military wrong bring the life of 10 valuable and irresponsible people in any way?”