This strike, who had killed ten Afghan civilians, had been conducted the day before Afghanistan withdrawal, which took place on August 30, after twenty years of presence in the country.
Le Monde with AFP
They thought to hit members of the Islamic State Organization in Khorassan (Ei-k) and “remove an imminent threat” attack three days after the Kamikaze attack at Kabul airport, hence from Thousands of people were trying to flee Afghanistan since taking power by the Taliban. The American military involved in the drone strike that had killed ten civilians, of whom seven children, on August 29 will not be sanctioned, announced the Pentagon, Monday, December 13th.
“There were no sufficiently solid items to hold personal responsibilities,” said Pentagon spokesman John Kirby. The decision on this typing occurring in the last days of the US presence in Afghanistan was taken by the Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, after a report made by two senior grades, General Kenneth McKenzie and General Richard Clarke.
The first is the head of Centcom, the US Central Command charged, among others, the Middle East. The second is the chief of special operations. None of these two officers issued a recommendation for individual sanctions, “said Kirby.
compensate the families of victims
The United States proposed financially compensating the relatives of Afghan civilians killed by “error” by this American shot, had announced the Pentagon spokesman on October 15. On November 3rd, the Pentagon had asserted that this strike in Kabul was a tragic mistake but that she did not break the laws of the war. “The investigation has not identified any violation of the law, including the law of war,” said Lieutenant General Sami Said in a report, a manager of the Ministry of Defense.
This typing had been conducted the day before Afghanistan withdrawal, who had intervened on August 30, after twenty years of presence in the country. It was the longest war in the history of the United States.