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A U.S. drone strike in Syria last year killed a 56-year-old shepherd after confusing him for a terrorist leader, an internal investigation concluded, underscoring the Pentagon’s persistent struggle to avoid unintentional casualties despite the Biden administration’s pledge to curb such incidents.

The new assessment by U.S. Central Command, which oversees American military activity throughout the Middle East, affirms a Washington Post investigation published a year ago that cast doubt on officials’ initial public claim to have slain a senior al-Qaeda figure. A summary of the investigation’s findings was provided to The Post ahead of an anticipated release later Thursday.

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[-] krolden@lemmy.ml 37 points 6 months ago

He would have grown up to be a terrorist though!

[-] regul@hexbear.net 36 points 6 months ago

I often find people are most ripe for radicalization in their mid-50s.

[-] Rx_Hawk@hexbear.net 26 points 6 months ago

And you know they only admitted it because it was about to be exposed anyway

[-] freagle@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 6 months ago

No no, it's clearly a PR move to show they care

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 22 points 6 months ago

surely this is the only time this has happened, glad we're still the good guys

[-] itappearsthat@hexbear.net 15 points 6 months ago

Imagine living that life, damn. Growing up to become a shepherd in Syria, with all the associated struggles and moments of peace, then one day you're sitting out in a field and a drone from a country it would take your lifetime earnings to buy a ticket to obliterates you out of nowhere.

[-] panned_cakes@hexbear.net 12 points 6 months ago

I bet they ran face ID on a grainy distant image

[-] Rx_Hawk@hexbear.net 16 points 6 months ago

Beard? Check.

Brown? Check.

Taqiyah? Check.

We got him boys!

[-] TomBombadil@hexbear.net 11 points 6 months ago

Doing anything to "make this right"? not that there is such a thing obviously. But if the idea was oh were so sorry it was a rare accident... Wouldn't you like idk offer a large sum to the victims family. Ya know the usual American way of making victims go away. But obviously nobody even pretends to care even that much.

[-] Aria@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 6 months ago

Man who's job is getting protestors brutalised accidentally got hit by his friend and they were able to claw 23 million USD from tax money. You'd think a drone strike victim would deserve at least 1000 times that much. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/17/undercover-st-louis-police-23m

[-] TomBombadil@hexbear.net 3 points 6 months ago

Drone victims family is given $23 billion dollars. The best thing the US ever did. Just a third the cost of that latest warfare and death bill to Taiwan, Ukraine, and Israel.

[-] charly4994@hexbear.net 6 points 6 months ago

A year later quietly admitted in a way nobody will really notice and the next time you try to tell people that the US kills innocent people they'll just pretend this never happened or it's just a rare event rather than the norm.

[-] ButtKiss@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 months ago

Vegans man /s

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