{"id":38622,"date":"2021-11-04T10:15:57","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T01:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/04\/us-afghanistan-strike-killed-civilians-legal-pentagon"},"modified":"2021-11-05T02:07:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T17:07:00","slug":"honest-mistake-us-strike-that-killed-10-afghan-civilians-was-legal-says-pentagon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38622","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Honest mistake\u2019: US strike that killed Afghan civilians was legal \u2013 Pentagon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Investigation finds civilian deaths did not violate law as strike attempted to target Islamic State<\/p>\n<p>A Pentagon investigation that found a drone strike in Kabul that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/sep\/17\/us-military-strike-afghanistan-civilians-islamic-state-pentagon\">killed 10 Afghan civilians<\/a> was an \u201chonest mistake\u201d and recommended no legal or disciplinary action has been met with widespread outrage from Congress and human rights groups.<\/p>\n<p>Critics said the report contributed to a culture of impunity and failed to address systemic problems in the US conduct of drone warfare, making future civilian casualties inevitable.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/04\/us-afghanistan-strike-killed-civilians-legal-pentagon\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investigation finds civilian deaths did not violate law as strike attempted to target Islamic StateA Pentagon investigation that found a drone strike in Kabul that killed 10 Afghan civilians was an \u201chonest mistake\u201d and recommended no legal or disciplin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[46,61,473,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","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\/38622","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38622"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38650,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38622\/revisions\/38650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}