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US pledges to pay relatives of innocent Afghans killed in drone strike

by David Pierson and Marcus Yam
October 16, 2021
in US News, World News
US, Afghans, payment, drone strike,

Emal Ahmadi, left, looks off into the distance as relatives around him try to provide support after a U.S. drone strike killed members of his family in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Marcus Yam/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

SINGAPORE — The U.S. Defense Department said Friday that it was working to provide condolence payments to relatives of 10 innocent Afghans killed in a mistaken drone strike and to help relocate some of them to the United States.

The payments were discussed in a virtual meeting Thursday between Dr. Colin Kahl, undersecretary of defense for policy, and Steven Kwon, founder and president of the nonprofit group Nutrition & Education International. The Pasadena, California, charity had employed Zemari Ahmadi, who was mistaken for a terrorist and killed in the Aug. 29 strike on the family compound.

In an interview and video this week, Ahmadi’s brother Emal Ahmadi told the Los Angeles Times he was still awaiting an apology and compensation from the U.S. weeks after the Pentagon admitted the error and said it would explore ex gratia payment for the family. Saturday, Emal said he had still not heard from the U.S.

The military launched the strike believing Zemari Ahmadi posed an imminent threat to U.S. forces involved in evacuations at the airport in Kabul as the Taliban was taking control of the Afghan capital. He was believed to be a member of an offshoot group known as Islamic State in Khorasan, or ISIS-K. The attack came in the final days of the United States’ two-decade failed attempt to replace the Taliban with a stable Western-backed government.

In a statement, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said Khal reiterated with Kwon that the strike was a “tragic mistake” and that Zemari Ahmadi and the other victims, including seven children, “were innocent victims who bore no blame and were not affiliated with ISIS-K or threats to U.S. forces.”

Kirby said the Pentagon was working with the State Department to help relocate the family to the U.S. Emal Ahmadi said the family was under threat by the Taliban because of his brother’s work with an American nonprofit.
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(Times staff writers Pierson reported from Singapore and Yam from Paris. Staff writer Tracy Wilkinson in Washington contributed to this report.)

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