Inside a fatal Ranger raid that killed an ISIS-K emir in Afghanistan
Kyle Rempfer
August 13 at 4:24 PM
Infrared lasers swept over the contingent of U.S. Army Rangers as they traversed eight-foot-high stepped terraces within eastern Afghanistan’s Mohmand Valley on the night of April 27, 2017.
From the moment those Rangers fast-roped into the valley until they departed, they were under a constant hail of gunfire from barricaded Islamic State-Khorasan positions. But the rounds accompanying those lasers, which mortally wounded two Americans, weren’t shot by ISIS militants guarding the emir for whom U.S. and Afghan forces came that night.
Instead, the fatal shots originated from an already besieged foothold occupied by other U.S. troops, dubbed Battle Position-South, according to an investigation into the incident obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by Army Times.
https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2020/08/13/inside-a-fatal-ranger-raid-that-killed-an-isis-k-emir-in-afghanistan/
