Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN)Every day for the past month, Emal Ahmadi's 7-year-old daughter Hada has asked him the same thing: "Where is my sister?"
She misses playing with her younger sister Malika, he says. She cries a lot, wondering when she is coming home.
The tragic answer is that she won't return.
Malika died in a US drone strike in the courtyard of their family home in Afghanistan's capital on August 29, along with nine other relatives, six of them children.
The US military has since conceded it made a "tragic mistake," admitting that all of the 10 people killed were civilians -- and none were associated with terror group ISIS-K, as they initially claimed.
In a hearing Wednesday on the Afghanistan withdrawal, Gen. Frank McKenzie, the Commander of the US Central Command (CENTCOM), said the military knew civilians had been hit within four or five hours of the strike -- and they knew they had hit the wrong target within days.
The testimony appears to contradict information supplied to CNN almost two weeks after the strike by a US military official who said the US had "reasonable certainty" that at least one ISIS-K facilitator had been killed.
Source: https://edition.cnn.com/2021/09/30/asia/afghanistan-kabul-drone-strike-family-intl-hnk-dst/index.html
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