“It’s not criminal conduct, random conduct, negligence,” he added.He said the US personnel who carried out the drone strike genuinely believed they were targeting “an imminent threat” from the Islamic State (IS) terror group to US forces and diplomatic staff at Kabul airport, the report added.It came days after IS-K, the group’s Afghanistan branch, said they were behind a a bomb attack outside Kabul airport, where thousands of Afghans had gathered to try to flee the country, killing at least 170 people including 13 US service personnel.
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