A cheap mortar shell can take out a $200 million C-17 Globemaster, or crater the one runway at Kabul Alamo Airport.
And our 5,800 remaining troops have zero overhead cover from mortars.
Posted on 08/29/2021 4:38:50 PM PDT by 11th_VA
A US drone strike in Afghanistan on Sunday killed nine members of one family, according to local reports.
The casualties of the strike in the capital city of Kabul included six children, a relative told a local journalist working with CNN.
The Pentagon said in a statement earlier that it was “assessing the possibilities of civilian casualties, though we have no indications at this time.”
The strike followed a huge amount of bloodshed over a three-day period as the American military finishes evacuating citizens and others with papers ahead of President Joe Biden’s 31 August deadline for troop withdrawal...
Verified information was not immediately available following the drone strike this weekend, but family members and witnesses told CNN about the juvenile casualties.
"All the neighbors tried to help and brought water to put out the fire and I saw that there were 5 or 6 people dead," a neighbor told CNN. "The father of the family and another young boy and there were two children. They were dead. They were in pieces. There were [also] two wounded."
Another man told CNN: "First we managed to remove a 3- to 4-year old child. The fire and smoke had engulfed the whole area.”
He said that "three people were inside the car" and three others were outside the car, and the injured were taken to a hospital...
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That’ll teach the Taliban.
A cheap mortar shell can take out a $200 million C-17 Globemaster, or crater the one runway at Kabul Alamo Airport.
And our 5,800 remaining troops have zero overhead cover from mortars.
CIA or military operation? Enquiring minds want to know.
Just when you think they can’t make it worse. Good Heavens.
What is going to happen to the guy controlling the drone?
He needs to be held accountable for his actions.
I can only imagine what the 20’th anniversary of 9/11 will bring
Stolen elections have consequences.
It is do much worse. If we didn’t bug out of Bagram, the Taliban could never have taken Kabul. In fact , most of Afganistan would be free of Taliban.
Possibly propaganda only worsens bumblin' biden's blood tarnished image.
Added fuel for the afghan terrorist(s) bunglin' biden's administration so hastily
admitted to the USA.
And how many multiple family member casualties amid the Kabul massacre?
and also killed a US Interpreter..gee Joe, can’t even aim right..just like his son Hunter, he can’t aim right either
Whoops … this would be the lead story if Trump were in Power
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TRUMP KILLS AFGHAN KIDS!
For following orders?
“What is going to happen to the guy controlling the drone?
He needs to be held accountable for his actions.”
The anti gun lobby is already filing a class action suit against the drone manufacturers. Kabul will soon be declared a drone free sanctuary and therefor safe for terrorists to roam free. Mayor Darkfoot is considering similar legislation for the windy city.
First thought is that Taliban gave us the ‘intelligence’ to after that family - and so now, they’re laughing themselves silly!
This was on GP
How would they know anything unless the U.S. had people on the ground
I supposed if they had planned the whole thing on there phones and they could track there phones..
Is it too late to send SECDEFComPoop Austin, “Fool of Kabul” Milley, Sneakin’ Blinken and Commie Harris over Kabul to check out the damage? They could be parachuted in, you know!
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Way to go, Joe, way to go.
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