No one in the U.S. military will face criminal charges in connection with an airstrike in Kabul that killed 10 civilians in the last days of the U.S. war in Afghanistan, the Pentagon said
WASHINGTON—No one in the U.S. military will face criminal charges in connection withthat killed 10 civilians in the last days of the U.S. war in Afghanistan, the Pentagon said Monday.
On Aug. 29, a U.S. drone killed Zemari Ahmadi, a 37-year-old technical engineer with a U.S. humanitarian organization, Nutrition & Education International, and nine other civilians including seven children. Two days earlier, suicide attackers linked to the local Islamic State affiliate Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has called a mistaken Aug. 29 U.S. drone strike one of his biggest regrets of the final days of the U.S. war in Afghanistan.Air Force Lt. Gen. Sami Said, the Air Force inspector general and the author of the November report, left it to the combatant commanders responsible for Afghanistan to decide whether to court-martial anyone involved.
Defense officials said the U.S. feared Mr. Ahmadi was loading explosive materials into his car to attack the troops at the airport. In fact, Mr. Ahmadi was transporting water and other supplies, defense officials learned afterward.
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