No violations were detected during the drone strike on Kabul in August, the Inspector General of the US Air Force, General Sami Said, said at a briefing at the Pentagon on November 3.
The investigation found no violations of the law, including the law of warfare, said. However, he admitted that there were mistakes in the execution of the combat mission, communication failures, and all this led to civilian casualties.
"I had a lot of time to study the data for several weeks, the soldiers did not have it. They had the same data, but they had to assimilate it, process it and make a decision within a few hours," the general said about the difficulties of conducting military operations.
He also explained that the secrecy affected the duration of the publication of the results of the investigation. It is impossible to provide a full report to the public, since the methods, sources, tactics and procedures used in carrying out such drone strikes are classified.
General Said presented a report on the investigation of a drone strike on a Toyota Corolla in Kabul on August 29. As a result, three Afghan adults and seven children were killed.
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 were American servicemen, two British citizens and a child of a citizen of the kingdom. According to the Pentagon, the terrorists of the "Islamic State" (a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation) could have been involved in the attacks.
In September, The New York Times reported that the military could have made a mistake and hit a civilian's car with a drone. On September 17, the head of the Central Command of the US Armed Forces, General Kenneth Mackenzie, confirmed that the US drone strike on Kabul was erroneous and apologized.
