The August 29 US airstrike in Kabul did help avert the imminent threat of a second attack on the airport. This was reported by “RIA News“At the Pentagon on Saturday, September 11th. Thus, the US Department of Defense commented on publications that appeared in the media that an air strike could have killed, allegedly, not a terrorist, but a humanitarian worker working for America.
Earlier in New York Times it was reported that the target of the airstrike could be mistakenly an employee of the American non-profit organization Zemari Ahmadi, who was seeking asylum in the United States; he was traveling by car that day on business. Based on interviews with relatives and colleagues of the deceased, as well as video evidence, the publication questioned the official version of events.
“The strike was based on good intelligence, and we continue to believe that it prevented an imminent threat to the airport and our men and women who were still serving at the airport,” Pentagon spokesman John Kirby commented on the version of the publication.
He also stressed that the central command is still evaluating the results of the strike.
“We don’t want to get ahead of the assessment results,” Kirby said.
The spokesman noted that “no other military is making as much effort as the US to prevent civilian casualties.”
Gerve de Lys, a representative of UNICEF (UN Children’s Fund) in Kabul, said on August 30 that as a result of a missile strike by the American armed forces on the capital of Afghanistan, seven children had died a day earlier. On the same day, after the US strike, a strict curfew was imposed in Kabul. Later, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said that the US administration could not confirm this information.
On August 27, the central command of the US Armed Forces reported that the US military launched an air strike in the province of Nangarhar, the target of the attack was IS militants (the Islamic State terrorist organization, banned in the Russian Federation).
The US strikes were preceded by a series of explosions in Kabul on August 26, which killed almost 200 people. At the same time, among the victims there are American soldiers, two British citizens and a child of a subject of the kingdom. According to the Pentagon, ISIS terrorists may be involved in the attacks.
Then the American President Joe Biden made a speech, during which he made a promise to “trace” the perpetrators of the attack and “make them pay” for what they did. In addition, the head of the White House said that he blames the incident on himself.
source https://pledgetimes.com/the-pentagon-confirms-the-quality-of-intelligence-data-in-an-airstrike-in-kabul/
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