After the attack on the Kabul airport that killed more than a dozen U.S. service members, President Biden authorized an air strike on suspected suicide bombers that posed an “imminent threat” to the airport.
Allegedly the strike targeted vehicle(s) inside of a residential building where the bombers hid out.
However, CNN claimed that the strike may have killed 10 civilians, most of whom (7) were children. The youngest was allegedly a two year old girl.
A relative to those killed claims that the effected building was a family home and that they were an ordinary family, with no connection to ISIS-K.
Witnesses regaled traumatic stories of neighbors running with buckets of water in an attempt to extinguish the flames. Later they found the horrific remains of children inside.
“They were in pieces.” One witness says.
These witnesses could be lying to CNN, but the Pentagon doesn’t seem to know exactly what they were targeting in the first place.
A Pentagon spokesperson told CNN that according to initial reports, the target may have been a vehicle containing multiple suicide bombers, being used for transport to the airport, or it may have been a car bomb. The answer is unclear.
Officials claim that when the target was hit there was a “significant secondary explosion” which to them seems indicative that explosive devices were present in the compound.
Or perhaps the missile strike hit some other flammable object like a propane tank.
CNN reported, The Taliban, which is now in control of Afghanistan, condemned the strike later Sunday, saying the US had violated the country’s sovereignty.
Bilal Kareemi, a Taliban spokesperson, told CNN that it was “not right to conduct operations on others’ soil” and that the US should have informed the Taliban. “Whenever the US conducts such operations, we condemn them,” he said.
If what the witnesses say turns out to be true, and no suicide bombers were killed in the explosion, but rather an innocent family… this is unacceptable.