Washington:
The United States mentioned Friday it has supplied to spend unspecified compensation to relatives of 10 folks in Afghanistan such as seven children who have been killed by error in a US drone strike as American forces have been finishing their withdrawal.
In a statement the Pentagon also mentioned it was working with the State Department to relocate to the United States any of these relatives who want to leave Taliban-ruled Afghanistan.
The offer you to spend these folks was made Thursday in a meeting involving Colin Kahl, the beneath secretary of defense for policy, and Steven Kwon, the founder and president of an help group active in Afghanistan known as Nutrition and Education International, the Pentagon mentioned in a statement.
That organization employed Ezmarai Ahmadi, who was wrongly identified as an ISIS terrorist by US intelligence on August 29 in the course of the final days of the chaotic US evacuation from Kabul.
US intelligence tracked his white Toyota for eight hours ahead of targeting the car or truck with a missile, killing seven children and 3 adults, such as Ahmadi.
US Central Command commander General Kenneth McKenzie mentioned at the time that American intelligence had seen the car at a web page in Kabul that had been identified as a place from which IS operatives have been believed to be preparing attacks on the Kabul airport.
Three days earlier an ISIS-K suicide bomber had killed scores at the airport, such as 13 US service members.
But last month US officials conceded the drone attack was an error.
In the meeting Thursday “Dr. Kahl noted that the strike was a tragic mistake and that Mr. Ezmarai Ahmadi and others who were killed were innocent victims who bore no blame and were not affiliated with ISIS-K or threats to US forces,” mentioned a statement attributed to Defense Department spokesman John Kirby.
“Dr. Kahl reiterated Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s commitment to the families, including offering ex gratia condolence payments,” he added with out saying how considerably funds was supplied.
Last month relatives of the folks killed in the attack demanded compensation and a face to face apology.
Austin has apologized for the botched attack. However, Ahmadi’s 22-year-old nephew Farshad Haidari mentioned that was not sufficient.
“They must come here and apologize to us face-to-face,” he told AFP in a bombed-out, modest residence in Kwaja Burga, a densely populated neighborhood in Kabul.
Haidari, whose brother Naser and young cousins also died in the blast, mentioned on September 18 that the US had made no direct get in touch with with the family.
In the meeting Thursday NEI chief Kwon spoke of how Ahmadi worked with that help organization “over many years, providing care and lifesaving assistance for people facing high mortality rates in Afghanistan.”
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