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US officials are in CYA mode.

NCD — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 04:13:02 +0000

In reply to three versions recounted in

US officials are in CYA mode. There was unquestionably no car bomb, which run 1000 lbs and up, of high explosive.

Ground floor green door in picture above was not blown off, not to mention walls damaged/blown to bits, and old stucco is undamaged, 2nd floor patio sunshade undisturbed, see WaPo article or my blog.

Drone missiles are specially made just to kill people in target vehicles, explosive amount is a tiny fractuon of a car bomb.

three versions recounted in

artappraiser — Mon, 30 Aug 2021 23:55:51 +0000

In reply to US ISIS-k Strike Killed 10 in Charity Worker Family

three versions recounted in this excerpt from The Guardian's most recent article

The Sunday drone strike on the car, parked outside their home, killed 10 members of one family including six children, relatives told the BBC, adding that some of the dead had worked for international organisations and held visas for entry to the US.

US officials said the explosives in the car had caused secondary blasts. “We are aware of reports of civilian casualties following our strike on a vehicle in Kabul,” said Capt Bill Urban, a US Central Command spokesman. “We would be deeply saddened by any potential loss of innocent life.”

The Washington Post said the dead were from a single extended family who had been getting out of a car when the strike hit a vehicle nearby. Relatives told the paper eight children or young adults were among those killed, all aged between two and 12.

A Taliban spokesman told Agence-France Presse the group expected IS’s attacks to end once foreign forces leave. “We hope that those Afghans who are influenced by IS will give up their operations on seeing the formation of an Islamic government in the absence of foreigners,” Zabihullah Mujahid said.

“If they create a situation for war and continue with their operations, the Islamic government … will deal with them.”

An unidentified Taliban source told Al Jazeera the group would take “full control” of Kabul airport immediately after the US withdrawal ends on Tuesday.

I trust the family more than

NCD — Mon, 30 Aug 2021 23:21:29 +0000

In reply to reporting on this story seems

I trust the family more than the Pentagon, some NGOs are investigating. One would hope this will kill Biden's "over the horizon terrorist control" nonsense. It's a helluva way to wind up this fiasco of a war and fiasco of an exit, which put huge sacrifice and risk on the troops, while our political and military leadership set us and Afghans up for failure.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/30/world/asia/afghanistan-drone-attack-I...

....the car with the charity worker and US translator, and kids, was the one hit. The only other car, an SUV, in the driveway was also the families car. The SUV had no one in it and although set on fire and windows blown out, it's metal roof and car body were intact with no sign of an internal bomb explosion.

No ISIS member or driver living or dead was identified. The car hit had just returned from the charity headquarters.

reporting on this story seems

artappraiser — Mon, 30 Aug 2021 22:49:24 +0000

In reply to US ISIS-k Strike Killed 10 in Charity Worker Family

reporting on this story seems very fleshed out, yet the NYTimes still felt this caveat emptor was necessary

Journalists on the scene for The New York Times were unable to independently verify the family’s account.

just pointing that out