Inside the Times investigation that forced the U.S. military to acknowledge that a drone attack in Afghanistan was a deadly error.
When he visited the site of an American drone strike in a densely packed neighborhood of Kabul, the Afghan capital, Matthieu Aikins, a Times journalist, knew something wasn’t adding up. The drone attack came soon after the ISIS-K bombing at the Kabul airport that killed almost 200 people. According to the United States military, it was a “righteous strike” against an ISIS facilitator who posed an imminent threat. But the story Matthieu uncovered at the family home of Zemari Ahmadi, the drone strike’s target, was quite different from the one offered up by the military.
