I wanted to understand who the target was, so I asked who the car belonged to. They started showing me pictures of these children on their phones, being like does this look like ISIS to you? Holding up a picture of a kid. And there’s a couple dozen people gathered there, crowded in the street and into the yard, and they were very distraught.Īnd so I asked who had been killed in this raid, and they said 10 civilians had died in this explosion, including seven children. And in the courtyard is the twisted wreckage of a white Toyota Corolla. Īnd introduce ourselves as journalists, and they usher us into this courtyard that this little house is built around. And it’s a really crowded densely packed neighborhood. Turn a corner, and then down this narrow lane we can see a group of people gathered in front of this house. And they give us directions, and we start going through these increasingly narrow alleyways. So we get to the neighborhood and we ask some local residents where the bombing was. Is this going to be some kind of terrorist safe house? And we drive out to the neighborhood and as I’m driving I wonder what we’re going to find. It’s me and Jim Huylebroek, who’s a photographer for The Times and my housemate. So the next morning, August 30th, we wake up early to go find the site of the strike. claimed was a targeted strike against an ISIS facilitator who posed an imminent threat to U.S. promised retaliation, and an August 29 there’s this blast near the airport, which the U.S. So it all starts after ISIS suicide bombers killed almost 200 people at the airport in Kabul. Matt, where did this investigation begin? matthieu aikins Today, I spoke with my colleague, Matthieu Aikins, about The Times investigation that helped force the military to acknowledge its deadly error. military now says that a drone strike launched in the final hours of the American withdrawal from Afghanistan was a quote, “tragic mistake” that killed 10 innocent civilians.
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Tuesday, September 21st, 2021 michael barbaroįrom The New York Times I’m Michael Barbaro.
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military to acknowledge that a drone attack in Afghanistan was a deadly error.
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Transcript A ‘Righteous Strike’ Inside the Times investigation that forced the U.S.