The United States said Friday it came forward to pay an unspecified refund to the relatives of 10 other people in Afghanistan, adding seven children, who were mistakenly killed in a U. S. drone strike as U. S. forces finalized their withdrawal.
In a statement, the Pentagon also said it is working with the State Department to relocate all members of the Taliban-led circle of relatives who wish to leave Afghanistan to the United States.
The offer to pay those other people was made Thursday at a meeting between Colin Kahl, the undersecretary of defense for policy, and Steven Kwon, the founder and president of an active aid organization in Afghanistan called Nutrition and Education International, the Pentagon said in a statement. declaration of declaration.
This organization hired Ezmarai Ahmadi, who was mistakenly known as an ISIS terrorist through the U. S. secret service on August 29, the final days of the chaotic U. S. evacuation from Kabul.
U. S. intelligence followed his white Toyota for 8 hours before targeting the car with a missile, killing seven youths and 3 adults, Ahmadi added.
U. S. Central Command Commander General Kenneth McKenzie said at the time that U. S. intelligence was not being used to do so. USA He had noticed the vehicle at a site in Kabul that was known as a position from which the ISIS workers’ corps was preparing attacks on Kabul’s airport.
Three days earlier, an ISIS-Khorasan suicide bomber had killed tens of thousands of people at the airport, adding thirteen U. S. serviceman.
But last month, U. S. officials declared the drone strike a mistake.
At Thursday’s meeting, “Dr. Kahl noted that the attack was a tragic mistake and that Mr. Kahl. Ezmarai Ahmadi and others who were killed were innocent victims who were not to blame and were not affiliated with ISIS-K or threatening American forces. “said one attributed to Defense Department spokesman John Kirby.
“Dr. Kahl reiterated Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s commitment to the families, adding that he would provide condolence bills free of charge,” he added without saying how much cash was offered.
Last month, relatives of those killed in the attack demanded a refund and a face-to-face apology.
Austin apologized for the failed attack. However, Ahmadi’s nephew, Farshad Haidari, 22, said it was not enough.
“They have to come here and us face to face,” he told AFP in a modest bombed space in Kwaja Burga, a densely populated community in Kabul.
Haidari, whose brother Naser and his younger cousins were killed in the blast, said Sept. 18 that the United States had had no direct contact with the family.
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At Thursday’s meeting, NEI leader Kwon explained how Ahmadi has worked with the humanitarian organization “for many years, offering vital care and assistance to others facing the highest death rates in Afghanistan. “
(With the exception of the title, this story was not edited through NDTV staff and was published from a syndicated channel. )
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