Timeline based on Evan Hill’s reporting. Some facts and videos are the NYTimes article. NYT: The drone strike that the military said took out a potential ISIS car bomber right before we departed Afghanistan likely hit a longtime worker for a U.S. aid group who was bringing people to and from work. We literally used Taliban-provided Intel to target a USAID worker and his family in retaliation for the suicide bombing at the airport. Now we know why Milley refused to name the “ISIS facilitators”–it was a US Ally.
The final act of the U.S. war in Afghanistan was a drone strike in Kabul that killed 10 people. The man the military saw as an “imminent threat” and “ISIS facilitator” was actually an aid worker returning to his family.
The military said it believed Zemari Ahmadi’s white Toyota Corolla, which it tracked by drone for eight hours that day, was packed with explosives. Security camera video we obtained showed him loading it with water containers for his home. I’ll detail our findings in this thread.
Ahmadi was a 14-year employee of Nutrition & Education International, a U.S. NGO that fights malnutrition. He helped start up soy factories, repair machinery, transport his colleagues and distribute food from his Corolla to displaced Afghans.
Aug. 29, according to his family and colleagues, was a normal day for Ahmadi. He left home around 9am, picked up 2 colleagues and his boss’s laptop, stopped for breakfast, and headed to the office in the Karte Seh neighborhood.
At around the time, Ahmadi was picking up his colleagues, the U.S. military said it observed a white sedan emerge from an Islamic State safe house near Ahmadi’s home, 5km northwest of the airport. Intercepted communications from the safehouse gave the sedan instructions, they said.
At 3:38 pm, a colleague drives Ahmadi’s car farther into the office driveway. At roughly the same time, the military said, the drone team saw Ahmadi’s car pull into an “unknown compound” 8 to 12 kilometers southwest of the airport.
The location of the “unknown compound” overlaps with the location of the NGO’s office, and the military told us that they only saw the white sedan at one location that afternoon. We believe that what the military called an unknown compound was in fact the NGO’s office.
With the workday ending, an employee switches off the office generator, and the camera goes dark. The military said it now saw four men load wrapped packages into the car. Ahmadi’s colleagues said they were stowing laptop bags, which the footage shows earlier in the day.
Ahmadi drops his colleagues off and turns onto his street. His and his brothers’ children surround the car, his relatives said. The family has a habit of letting kids steer the car into the courtyard of their home. Somehow, the military said, the drone team sees none of this.
The drone team hasn’t been watching Ahmadi’s home at all. They quickly scan the courtyard, an official told us, and see only an adult male talking to the driver. Fearing the car, which they believe has explosives, will soon head to the airport, they fire.
The decision to strike does not flow down the typical chain of command. Because of the chaos of the Kabul airport evacuation, an official told us, President Biden and the military have delegated the authority to approve airstrikes to lower-level commanders. An MQ-9 Reaper drone fires one 20lb Hellfire missile at the car. The military says that the strike sets off large secondary explosions, suggesting the presence of a significant amount of explosives.
There is one other detail visible in the wreckage: destroyed plastic containers, identical to the ones that we saw Ahmadi and his colleague fill with water and load into his trunk before heading home. The military told us they never saw them being loaded.
While the U.S. military has so far acknowledged only three civilian casualties, Mr. Ahmadi’s relatives said that 10 members of their family, including seven children, were killed in the strike: Mr. Ahmadi and three of his children, Zamir, 20, Faisal, 16, and Farzad, 10; Mr. Ahmadi’s cousin Naser, 30; three of Romal’s children, Arwin, 7, Benyamin, 6, and Hayat, 2; and two 3-year-old girls, Malika and Somaya.
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Hey, c’mon, man, it wasn’t necessary that they knew who they killed!
It was only necessary that they kill somebody, anybody, really, like in VVET NAM, to show all the world just how tough Joe Biden really is, and if you know better, then you won’t **** with Joe Biden!
Shoot first, ask questions later!
That’s the way you do, because it is the right thing to do!
FOX NEWS
“Blinken admits US doesn’t know who was killed in Kabul airstrike, review ongoing”
By Ronn Blitzer | Fox News
14 SEPTEMBER 2021
Secretary of State Antony Blinken admitted Tuesday that he does not know whether a person killed in a U.S. drone strike in Kabul was a member of ISIS-K or an aid worker, and that the Biden administration is still looking into the matter.
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., grilled Blinken on the matter during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the Afghanistan withdrawal.
“The guy the Biden administration droned, was he an aid worker or an ISIS-K operative?” Paul asked, referencing a New York Times report that found that the vehicle struck was driven by U.S. aid group worker Zemari Ahmadi, one of 10 people the Times said died in the attack.
“The administration is of course reviewing that strike and I’m sure that a full assessment will be forthcoming,” Blinken said, leading Paul to press the issue.
“So you don’t know if it was an aid worker or an ISIS-K operative?” the senator asked.
When Blinken said he could not speak to that in the setting they were in, Paul asked, “So you don’t know or won’t tell us?”
“I don’t know because we’re reviewing it,” Blinken admitted.
Paul slammed the administration’s failure to be aware of who they had targeted.
“You’d think you’d kind of know before you off somebody with a Predator drone whether he’s an aid worker or an ISIS-K,” he said, before accusing past administrations of exhibiting similar behavior.
I just heard some Biden-ista general on the news giving his profound apologies to all the INNOCENT people Joe Biden murdered in Kabul with his drone strike.
What horse****!
Joe Biden murdered an INNOCENT little girl in cold blood!
He is a monster.
He does not belong in OUR white house!
Resign Joe!
Get out of town!
You stink of death!
We don’t want your kind around us!
An dkeeping the record straight here:
Associated Press
“US airstrike targets Islamic State member in Afghanistan”
By LOLITA C. BALDOR and ROBERT BURNS
August 28, 2021
WASHINGTON (AP) — Acting swiftly on President Joe Biden’s promise to retaliate for the deadly suicide bombing at Kabul airport, the U.S. military said it used a drone strike to kill a member of the Islamic State group’s Afghanistan affiliate Saturday.
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There I think they are making reference to the two-year old little girl Joe Biden blew into small pieces along with her family with a HELLFIRE ANTI-TANK MISSILE designed to blow up tanks, which guarantees it will make hamburger out of two-year old girls who are ISIS Tay-Rists.
Getting back to this story of the courage and heroism of the best president America has ever had, somebody who loves us so much he is willing to blow away little girls in Afghanistan to keep the “HOMELAND” safe, and us with it, we have:
Biden authorized the drone strike and it was ordered by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, a defense official said, speaking on condition of anonymity to provide details not yet publicly announced.
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“Look Lloyd, I want somebody dead and pronto, do you hear me, I want blood and bodies on the street to teach these TAY-RISTS you don’t **** with this new sheriff in town, no way, no how, and don’t worry about who you kill, I’ll have Jen tell the media that whoever it was, they were tay-rists out to harm the United States and the media likes Jen, because she is nice, so they will never question her!”
That’s how I saw that all going down, anyway, which takes us back for more of real American tough guy Joe Biden, to wit:
The airstrike came after Biden declared Thursday that perpetrators of the attack would not be able to hide.
“We will hunt you down and make you pay,” he said.
Pentagon leaders told reporters Friday that they were prepared for whatever retaliatory action the president ordered.
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Even down to killing little girls for Joe, to show everybody just how tough a guy Joe really is, which takes us to the Hindustan Times, as follows:
“Hours before drone strike, US said Biden doesn’t want Kabul attackers to ‘live on earth anymore'” by hindustantimes.com | written by Kunal Gaurav on August 28, 2021, to wit:
Hours before the United States confirmed a counterterrorism operation against an ISIS-K planner, the White House said that President Joe Biden does not want the people behind the Kabul airport attack to “live on the earth anymore.”
Biden had earlier to vowed to hunt down the perpetrators of the suicide bombing outside Kabul airport that killed dozens of Afghans and 13 US Marines.
“To those who carried out this attack, as well as anyone who wishes America harm, know this – we will not forgive.”
“We will not forget.”
“We will hunt you down and make you pay.”
“I will defend our interests and our people with every measure at my command,” Biden had said.
A reporter asked White House press secretary Jen Psaki the next day what the president exactly meant when he said “we will hunt you down and make you pay.”
“I think he made clear yesterday that he does not want them to live on the earth anymore,” Psaki replied.
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Having made that clear back then, I wonder if Jen would like to come to the podium today to comment on those earlier comments of hers concerning that little girl old Joe, the real tough guy, blew into pieces with his drone attack because she clearly does not live on the earth anymore, nor does her family.
Why do we have a monster who kills little girls living in OUR white house?
How sick and perverted in their minds have the Democrats become that they want this monster who blows up little girls as their leader?
The Guardian
“US military admits Kabul strike killed 10 civilians and no Islamic State fighters – as it happened – Admission marks reversal for Pentagon, which initially defended strike”
Julia Carrie Wong and Joan E Greve
Fri 17 Sep 2021
Adam Schiff, the chairman of the House permanent select committee on intelligence, has released a statement on the US military’s admission that it killed 10 Afghan civilians and no Islamic State targets in its 29 August drone strike, including seven children.
Schiff, a California Democrat, appeared to suggest that the military had been dishonest in its public statements following the attack, and that there may be investigations to follow:
“In acknowledging that error, the Department of Defense has taken the first step towards transparency and accountability.”
“And after such a devastating failure – one that, by the Department’s estimate, killed 10 civilians, at least 7 of them children – it cannot be the last step.”
“We need to know what went wrong in the hours and minutes leading up to the strike to prevent similar tragedies in the future.”
“I am also concerned about the accuracy and completeness of public statements made in the immediate aftermath of the strike, and whether those accounted for all of the information possessed by the government at the time.”
“We must assure that the Department examines its actions carefully and objectively, even in the absence of press reports, such as here, which brought this critical mistake to light.”
“This is an area deserving of additional oversight, and along with my colleagues in Congress, the House Intelligence Committee will continue to press for answers.”
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And in the meantime, the smarmy, pencil-necked Democrat congressman from Disneyland and Hollywood and Pelosi-ite WITCH HUNTER is engaged in a FISHING EXPEDITION along with GRAND INQUISITOR and HEAD WITCH HUNTER Democrat Bennie Thompson and Virginia’s Elaine Luria with their “SECRET” subpoenas to all the social media companies and phone companies for the records of communications of any and every American whose life they feel like destroying.
If Adam Schiff had been doing his job as head of the mis-named house intelligence committee, mis-named because you won’t find any intelligence there while Adam is the chairman, maybe, just maybe, that Biden-esque FIASCO in Afghanistan would not have happened, which takes us to a Reuters article entitled “Blinken defends Afghan withdrawal at angry U.S. congressional hearing” by Patricia Zengerle and Humeyra Pamuk on September 13, 2021, on the pure moronic idiocy that passes for “intelligence” in the Joe Biden administration, to wit:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Secretary of State Antony Blinken beat back criticism of the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan on Monday, at a contentious congressional hearing where at least one Republican called on him to resign.
In testy exchanges with lawmakers, Blinken defended President Joe Biden’s decision to pull out and pushed back on accusations that the State Department might have done more to help Americans and at-risk Afghans to be evacuated, blaming the previous administration for lacking a plan.
He repeatedly noted that Republican former President Donald Trump had negotiated the withdrawal agreement with the Taliban, and said President Joe Biden’s administration did not consider renegotiating because of threats from the group to resume killing Americans.
“There’s no evidence that staying longer would have made the Afghan security forces or the Afghan government any more resilient or self-sustaining,” Blinken said.
“We inherited a deadline.”
“We did not inherit a plan,” Blinken said, referring to the Trump administration’s agreement to remove all U.S. forces from Afghanistan by May 1.
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Which has got to be the stupidest thing any of these Biden administration fools have spewed to date!
Apparently, Tony Blinken does not realize that our SACRED DEMOCRACY had a PEACEFUL TRANSFER OF POWER on 20 January 2021, two hundred twenty-three (223) days BEFORE Joe Biden ran out of Afghanistan like a chicken-killing dog with an angry farmer with a loaded 12-guage hot on his trail on August 31, 2021, where Trump peacefully relinquished the reins of power to Joe Biden, so how in the hell was Trump going to give Joe Biden a plan to get out of Afghanistan two hundred twenty-three (223) days in advance?
Tony Blinken sounds like a real moron there with that statement about Trump not leaving the incompetent Joe Biden with a plan to get out of Afghanistan, and I’m frankly surprised that that stupid response sailed right over the head of Adam Schiff without him making any kind of comment to Tony Blinken about how pitifully stupid Tony Blinken really is.