{"id":36753,"date":"2021-09-12T00:18:15","date_gmt":"2021-09-11T15:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/sep\/11\/us-drone-strike-mistakenly-targeted-afghan-aid-worker-investigation-finds"},"modified":"2021-09-12T00:18:15","modified_gmt":"2021-09-11T15:18:15","slug":"us-drone-strike-mistakenly-targeted-afghan-aid-worker-investigation-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36753","title":{"rendered":"US drone strike mistakenly targeted Afghan aid worker, investigation finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zemari Ahmadi, who died alongside nine others had no connection to terrorism, a New York Times investigation suggested<\/p>\n<p>The US mistakenly targeted and killed an innocent aid worker for an American company in a drone strike in Afghanistan, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/09\/10\/world\/asia\/us-air-strike-drone-kabul-afghanistan-isis.html\">New York Times suggested<\/a> in an investigation into the country\u2019s final military action of the recently concluded 20-year war.<\/p>\n<p>The victim, the newspaper said, was 43-year-old Zemari Ahmadi, who died with nine members of his family, including seven children, when a missile from a US air force Reaper drone struck his car as he arrived home from work in a residential neighborhood of Kabul.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/sep\/11\/us-drone-strike-mistakenly-targeted-afghan-aid-worker-investigation-finds\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zemari Ahmadi, who died alongside nine others had no connection to terrorism, a New York Times investigation suggestedThe US mistakenly targeted and killed an innocent aid worker for an American company in a drone strike in Afghanistan, the New York Ti&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2221,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,982,61,473,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-drones-military","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-military","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36754,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36753\/revisions\/36754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}