Remember how the administration and especially CNN have bragged for weeks about Biden taking out an ISIS terrorist planning another suicide bombing shortly after the bombing at the Kabul airport which killed American servicemembers whose flag draped coffins were interfering with Biden’s busy schedule of talking about his own son so much he had to keep checking his watch?
Well it didn’t happen. They didn’t take out an ISIS bomber or any other kind of bomber. Instead, they took out a guy who has spent ten years working for an American aid organization. This report is from the New York Times, but was the investigation was conducted on the ground in Kabul. Seems like reporters who are overseas are somehow freed of leftist information suppression, even if only temporarily (see also Ward, Clarissa.)
The evidence is damning, regardless of the source.
The Biden Administration claimed to have taken out an ISIS suicide bomber in a drone strike that killed ten people.
It didn't. It killed an American-allied humanitarian worker. https://t.co/7WXZn3sytz
— Sunny McSunnyface (@sunnyright) September 10, 2021
The final act of the U.S. war in Afghanistan was a drone strike in Kabul that killed 10 people. Our latest investigation shows how a man the military saw as an "imminent threat" and "ISIS facilitator" was actually an aid worker returning to his family: https://t.co/eUX5WSImrD
— Evan Hill (@evanhill) September 10, 2021
Ahmadi was a 14-year employee of Nutrition & Education International, a U.S. NGO that fights malnutrition. He helped start up soy factories, repair machinery, transport his colleagues and distribute food from his Corolla to displaced Afghans. pic.twitter.com/S7r1TyHBs0
— Evan Hill (@evanhill) September 10, 2021
His vehicle was loaded with water bottles.
The military said it believed Zemari Ahmadi’s white Toyota Corolla, which it tracked by drone for eight hours that day, was packed with explosives. Security camera video we obtained showed him loading it with water containers for his home. I'll detail our findings in this thread. pic.twitter.com/1hEaFBmcDo
— Evan Hill (@evanhill) September 10, 2021
The Twitter thread lays it all out in sequence. The article is here. Seven children were killed in the drone strike.
To add much insult to much injury, the man had applied for refugee status and evacuation for himself and his family. He was afraid that the Taliban or ISIS would see him as a collaborator with the Americans because of the help he’d provided us over the years we were there.
The long war ended not by withdrawal, but by attempted retreat that became a nightmarish disaster.
Build Back Ignominiously. Biden 2021.