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‘Imminent Threat’ or Aid Worker: Did a U.S. Drone Strike in Afghanistan Kill the Wrong Person?
New York Times ^ | Sep 10 | NYT

Posted on 09/12/2021 4:03:21 AM PDT by RandFan

The New York Times obtained exclusive security camera footage and witness accounts to show how the military launched a drone strike that killed 10 people in Kabul on Aug. 29 without knowing whom it was hitting.

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Somehow I missed this?

Turns out Joe killed an aid worker who was running office errands and 10 other civilians in his retaliatory drone strike....

Quite a big story if the media cared...

1 posted on 09/12/2021 4:03:21 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

Two days after this event, WH was all hyped up but wouldn’t provide a name for the bad-guy killed. Even five days after the event...still wouldn’t do it. This is kinda odd compared against all past drone attacks.

So now we kinda know the end-result of the drone-attack. Makes one wonder who ordered the ‘hit’? Pentagon, or WH?


2 posted on 09/12/2021 4:11:09 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: pepsionice

The Taliban.


3 posted on 09/12/2021 4:26:19 AM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: RandFan

Turns out Joe killed an aid worker who was running office errands and 10 other civilians in his retaliatory drone strike....

Show the level of incompetence of our intel agencies. Add it to the heap of corrupt and or incompetent Federal agencies.


4 posted on 09/12/2021 4:42:12 AM PDT by Flick Lives (We may or may not have reached herd immunity, but we've definitely achieved herd stupidity.)
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To: RandFan

Question is why did the rag publish this?


5 posted on 09/12/2021 4:45:47 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: RandFan

Someone didn’t want him talking.


6 posted on 09/12/2021 5:15:38 AM PDT by bgill (.Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
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I submit that since the CIA were early out of Kabul,and since the State Department had the Taliban as their such good friends they could turn over to them the names and contact names of all Americans in Kabul, and since the President had promised quick retaliation for fatal bombing at the airport, that our new “friends” provided the target for the WH to kill in response to the loss of 13 marine/soldiers.

And then laughed after the mistake was made public. They screwed the US again.


7 posted on 09/12/2021 5:24:53 AM PDT by elpadre ( )
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To: RandFan

BOMBING BROWN PEOPLE
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CTvAs-Us7gA (George Carlin, 7 min video, language alert)


8 posted on 09/12/2021 5:38:49 AM PDT by ReaganGeneration2 (Widespread belief in asymptomatic spread of a low-risk virus hastened the end of the West by 100 yrs)
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To: ReaganGeneration2

Timeless and funny.


9 posted on 09/12/2021 5:43:33 AM PDT by RandFan (h)
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To: RandFan

I remember a story where Taliban provided the intel for the drone air strike. Looking for the story on Taliban working with the US to provide terror intel.

If the victim were an Aid worker, he would have been a target for the Taliban. Taliban using the US to kill the people on the US provided kill list.


10 posted on 09/12/2021 5:47:30 AM PDT by DEPcom (Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules)
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The rumor is that the tallyban gave the co-ordinates and info to the US. Taking out one of their enemies?


11 posted on 09/12/2021 5:56:36 AM PDT by dynachrome ("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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