President Biden’s Pre-Emptive Airstrike on ISIS-K ‘Terrorists’ Actually Killed a Lot of Kids

[mystery-ak]

President Biden’s Pre-Emptive Airstrike on ISIS-K ‘Terrorists’ Actually Killed a Lot of Kids

by Kyle Becker
about 16 hours ago

The pre-emptive airstrike on Sunday that reportedly disrupted an ISIS-K attack on Kabul airport has reportedly killed Afghan civilians, in addition to purported “terrorists.” The terrible possibility was acknowledged by CENTCOM in a press release on late Sunday night issued by U.S. Central Command Spokesman Capt. Bill Urban, USN.

“We are aware of reports of civilian casualties following our strike on a vehicle in Kabul today,” CENTCOM said. “We are still assessing the results of this strike, which we know disrupted an imminent ISIS-K threat to the airport. We know that there were substantial and powerful subsequent explosions resulting from the destruction of the vehicle, indicating a large amount of explosive material inside that may have caused additional casualties. It is unclear what may have happened, and we are investigating further.”

“We would be deeply saddened by any potential loss of innocent life,” the CENTCOM spokesperson added.

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[PeteS in CA]

Taking out a would-be suicide bomber caused a predictable secondary explosion, which is what killed members of that family. Once the context conducive to such bombings came into being, avoiding innocent casualties while taking out would-be suicide bombers may not have been possible. IOW, LIEden's failure was in not securing access to Kabul airport along with shutting down Bagram, making Kabul airport the sole means of exit.

LIEden painted himself into a corner, leaving no good choice within his range of choices.

[Kamaji]

They killed more kids?

[catfish1957]

They killed more kids?

No..  according to Psaki, Height challenged humans. /s

[dfwgator]

No..  according to Psaki, Height challenged humans. /s

Short people got no reason to live.

[Free Vulcan]

Yes yes yes people, but what about White Rage?

[PeteS in CA]

Looks like this drone strike may have been a very deadly F-up:

ABOUT THAT DRONE STRIKE

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/09/about-that-drone-strike.php

The New York Times has just posted this intensely interesting investigative scoop by Matthieu Aikins based on reporting by him as well as Christoph Koettl, Evan Hill, and Eric Schmitt: ” In U.S. Drone Strike, Evidence Suggests No ISIS Bomb.” Subhead: “U.S. officials said a Reaper drone followed a car for hours and then fired based on evidence it was carrying explosives. But in-depth video analysis and interviews at the site cast doubt on that account.”

Datelined Kabul, the story opens as follows:

It was the last known missile fired by the United States in its 20-year war in Afghanistan, and the military called it a “righteous strike” — a drone attack after hours of surveillance on Aug. 29 against a vehicle that American officials thought contained an ISIS bomb and posed an imminent threat to troops at Kabul’s airport.

But a New York Times investigation of video evidence, along with interviews with more than a dozen of the driver’s co-workers and family members in Kabul, raises doubts about the U.S. version of events, including whether explosives were present in the vehicle, whether the driver had a connection to ISIS, and whether there was a second explosion after the missile struck the car.

Military officials said they did not know the identity of the car’s driver when the drone fired, but deemed him suspicious because of how they interpreted his activities that day, saying that he possibly visited an ISIS safe house and, at one point, loaded what they thought could be explosives into the car.
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But an examination of the scene of the strike, conducted by the Times visual investigations team and a Times reporter the morning afterward, and followed up with a second visit four days later, found no evidence of a second, more powerful explosion.

Experts who examined photos and videos pointed out that, although there was clear evidence of a missile strike and subsequent vehicle fire, there were no collapsed or blown-out walls, no destroyed vegetation, and only one dent in the entrance gate, indicating a single shock wave.

[Hoodat]

NY Times . . .

Military officials said they did not know the identity of the car’s driver when the drone fired, but deemed him suspicious because of how they interpreted his activities that day, saying that he possibly visited an ISIS safe house and, at one point, loaded what they thought could be explosives into the car.

So they were basically rushing to find a target to hit for political cover of their previous mistake.  They ordered the attack with zero intel in order to gain cover on the Sunday news shows.

[cato potatoe]

Is it possible for this administration to do anything right?  You would expect the law of averages to kick in at some point.

[catfish1957]

Is it possible for this administration to do anything right?  You would expect the law of averages to kick in at some point.

Borrowing a baseball term...   Biden has become the Mendoza president.

[Hoodat]

President Biden’s Pre-Emptive Airstrike on ISIS-K ‘Terrorists’ Kids Actually Killed a Lot of Kids

There, that's more accurate.  There was no pre-emptive strike since there was no attack to pre-empt.