{"id":436939,"date":"2021-09-20T09:25:54","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T03:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=436939"},"modified":"2021-09-20T10:46:26","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T05:16:26","slug":"drone-attack-in-kabul-killed-civilians-confesses-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/drone-attack-in-kabul-killed-civilians-confesses-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Drone attack in Kabul killed civilians, confesses America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US military on Friday admitted that the drone strike it had carried out in Kabul on August 29 was a \u201ctragic mistake\u201d, and all 10 persons killed were civilians &#8211; including seven children &#8211; and not one of them had anything to do with the terror group Islamic State-Khorasan (IS-K) as had been claimed earlier. <\/p>\n<p>The admission was a glaring reversal of the Pentagon\u2019s earlier description of the drone attack, which was touted as a successful operation that presaged the \u201cover-the-horizon\u201d counterterrorism capability that US President Joe Biden said America will have in Afghanistan after the troop pull-out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US military on Friday admitted that the drone strike it had carried out in Kabul on August 29 was a \u201ctragic mistake\u201d, and all 10 persons killed were civilians &#8211; including seven children &#8211; and not one of them had anything to do with the terror group Islamic State-Khorasan (IS-K) as had been claimed earlier. The admission was a glaring reversal of the Pentagon\u2019s earlier description of the drone attack, which was touted as a successful operation that presaged the \u201cover-the-horizon\u201d counterterrorism capability that US President Joe Biden said America will have in Afghanistan after the troop pull-out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}