{"id":39785,"date":"2021-12-14T08:25:41","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T23:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/13\/kabul-airstrike-pentagon-drone-no-disciplinary-action"},"modified":"2021-12-14T10:35:30","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T01:35:30","slug":"no-disciplinary-action-for-kabul-airstrike-by-us-drone-pentagon-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39785","title":{"rendered":"No disciplinary action for US troops over Kabul drone airstrike, Pentagon says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Strike that killed 10 civilians represented \u2018a breakdown in process\u2019, not negligence or misconduct, spokesperson says<\/p>\n<p>No US troops or officials will face disciplinary action for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/sep\/17\/us-military-strike-afghanistan-civilians-islamic-state-pentagon\">a drone strike in Kabul in August that killed 10 Afghan civilians, including seven children<\/a>, the Pentagon said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Spokesman John Kirby said Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin had received a high-level review of the strike which made no recommendation of accountability.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/13\/kabul-airstrike-pentagon-drone-no-disciplinary-action\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strike that killed 10 civilians represented \u2018a breakdown in process\u2019, not negligence or misconduct, spokesperson saysNo US troops or officials will face disciplinary action for a drone strike in Kabul in August that killed 10 Afghan civilians, includin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1256,"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":[46,982,473,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-drones-military","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\/39785","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\/1256"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39785"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39794,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39785\/revisions\/39794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}