Two minutes before the airstrike, a military video feed showed a child was near the target, a Pentagon investigator revealed.
A U.S. airstrike in Afghanistan that misidentified a terrorist threat and killed 10 civilians was an “honest mistake,” but it didn’t involve legal violations or criminal negligence, a Department of Defense investigation has concluded, which also revealed Wednesday that a military video feed showed a child near the target before the botched operation....
However, Said concluded the strike didn’t violate any laws or involve criminally negligent acts, and argued no single person was responsible for the mistakes.
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