The New York Times published yesterday the results of its investigation into the second drone attack carried out by the U.S. military following the ISIS suicide attack against the Kabul airport, this one against a “target” believed to be preparing another ISIS attack. Unlike most New York Times reporting, this one, backed up by video footage and photographs, is credible.
Zemari Ahmadi, the driver of the car bombed in a densely residential area in Kabul that day by a Reaper drone, was found to be an electrical engineer working for a U.S.-based aid group, Nutrition and Education International. He was involved in distributing aid to people in Kabul, and the “explosives” the drone operators believed he had loaded into his car that day were two laptops for his job and various large bottles of water, the latter needed because water deliveries to his neighborhood had been cut off.
