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U.S. military officials knew that an August 2021 drone strike in Kabul likely killed Afghan civilians including children but lied about it, a report published Friday revealed. <\/p>
New York Times<\/em> investigative reporter Azmat Khan analyzed<\/a> a 66-page redacted U.S. Central Command report<\/a> on the August 29, 2021 drone strike that killed 10 members of the Ahmadi family, including seven children, outside their home in the Afghan capital. The strike took place during the chaotic final days of the U.S. ground war in Afghanistan, just three days after a bombing that killed<\/a> at least 182 people, including 13 American troops, at Kabul's international airport. <\/p> \"When confirmation bias was so deadly in this case, you have to ask how many other people targeted by the military over the years were also unjustly killed.\"<\/p> Zamarai Ahmadi, a 43-year-old aid worker for California-based nonprofit Nutrition and Education International, was carrying water containers that were mistaken for explosives when his Toyota Corolla was bombed by a Lockheed-Martin Hellfire missile fired from a General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper drone. <\/p> As reports of civilian casualties began circulating hours after the strike, U.S. military officials claimed there were \"no indications\" that noncombatants were harmed in the attack, while stating that they would investigate whether a secondary explosion may have killed or wounded people nearby.<\/p>\n