It's finally acknowledged: "A tragic mistake" VIDEO
That involved a catastrophic intelligence failure for the Biden administration, writes "Blic".
A detailed timeline released by the Pentagon on Friday, compared to previous reports of humanitarian worker Zemari Ahmadi spending a day in Kabul on August 29, reveals misconceptions and huge mistakes that led to the disaster.
Ahmadi, 43, worked for the U.S. aid group Nutrition and Education International (NEI), and U.S. officials now admit he had no connection to the ISIS-Khorasan terrorists (a branch of the Islamic State, also known as ISIS-K).
It seems that his fatal mistake was driving a white "Toyota Corolla" from 1996. After the suicide attack in which 13 American soldiers were killed at the airport in Kabul, American officials had information that such a vehicle was included in the planning of the second attack, said General Frank McKenzie, the head of the American Central Command, at the briefing on Friday afternoon.
The Daily Mail and the New York Times published a detailed movement of Ahmadi and the last hours of his life. On the morning of August 29, Ahmadi left a property near Kabul airport, where he lived with his children, two brothers and nephews and nieces. On the way to work, Ahmadi picked up a colleague in the shared vehicle fleet, before stopping at the house of the NEI director at 8:52 to pick up a laptop.
The director's house was under the intensive supervision of MK-9 Reaper drones, and General McKenzie still insists that a strong intelligence service connects the home with ISIS-K. A New York Times reporter visited the director of NEI at his house and met with members of his family, who said they had lived there for 40 years.
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