The airstrike carried out by the US military forces on August 29 in Kabul really helped to prevent the imminent threat of a second attack on the airport. This was reported to RIA Novosti in the Pentagon on Saturday, September 11. Thus, the US Defense Ministry commented on the publications that appeared in the media that an airstrike could have killed, allegedly, not a terrorist, but a humanitarian worker working for America.
Earlier, the New York Times reported that the target of the airstrike could have mistakenly turned out to be an employee of an American non-profit organization Zemari Ahmadi, who was traveling by car on business that day. Based on interviews with relatives and colleagues of the deceased, as well as video evidence, the publication questioned the official version of events.
"The strike was based on good intelligence information, and we continue to believe that it prevented an imminent threat to the airport and to our men and women who were still serving at the airport," Pentagon spokesman John Kirby commented on the publication's version.
He also stressed that the central command is still evaluating the results of the strike.
"We don't want to get ahead of the evaluation results," Kirby said.
The spokesman noted that " no other military makes as much effort as the American ones to prevent civilian casualties."
As the representative of UNICEF (UN Children's Fund) in Kabul, Gervais de Lis, reported on August 30, seven children were killed as a result of a missile strike by the US armed forces on the capital of Afghanistan a day earlier. On the same day after the US strike, a strict curfew was imposed in Kabul. Later, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said that the US administration could not confirm this information.
On August 27, the central command of the US Armed Forces reported that the US military launched an air strike in the province of Nangarhar, the target of the attack was IS militants (the terrorist organization "Islamic State", banned in the Russian Federation).
The US strikes were preceded by a series of explosions that occurred in Kabul on August 26, which killed almost 200 people. At the same time, among the victims there are American servicemen, two British citizens and a child of a citizen of the kingdom. According to the Pentagon, ISIS terrorists may be involved in the attacks.
Then American President Joe Biden made a speech, during which he promised to "track down" the perpetrators of the attack and "make them pay" for what they had done. In addition, the head of the White House said that he blames himself for the incident.
