![]() ![]() Officials said they couldn’t tell what was inside them. But it’s at this time, the military said that its drone feed showed four men gingerly loading wrapped packages into the car. We don’t have footage of the moments that followed. With the workday ending, an employee switched off the office generator and the feed from the camera ends. That overlaps with the location of the NGO’s office, which we believe is what the military called an unknown compound. official told us that at roughly the same time, the military saw Ahmadi’s car pull into an unknown compound 8 to 12 kilometers southwest of the airport. At around 3:38 p.m., a colleague moves Ahmadi’s car further into the driveway. There was a water shortage in his neighborhood, his family said, so he regularly brought water home from the office. Earlier that morning, we saw Ahmadi bring these same empty plastic containers to the office. A 2:35 p.m., Ahmadi pulls out a hose, and then he and a co-worker fill empty containers with water. We also matched an exact scene from the footage with a timestamp satellite image to confirm it was accurate. The camera’s timestamp is off, but we went to the office and verified the time. The security camera footage we obtained from the office is crucial to understanding what happens next. At around 2 p.m., Ahmadi and his colleagues returned to the office. Later that morning, Ahmadi drove some of his co-workers to a Taliban-occupied police station to get permission for future food distribution at a new displacement camp. After Ahmadi picked up another colleague, the three stopped to get breakfast, and at 9:35 a.m., they arrived at the N.G.O.’s office. But every colleague who rode with Ahmadi that day said what the military interpreted as a series of suspicious moves was just a typical day in his life. They also said they intercepted communications from the safehouse, instructing the car to make several stops. military said they tracked Ahmadi’s Corolla that day. military claimed it observed a white sedan leaving an alleged Islamic State safehouse, around five kilometers northwest of the airport. He then picked up a colleague and his boss’s laptop near his house. Ahmadi appears to have left his home around 9 a.m. 29, in the hours before he was killed, The Times pieced together the security camera footage from his office, with interviews with more than a dozen of Ahmadi’s colleagues and family members. To reconstruct Ahmadi’s movements on Aug. The military had given lower-level commanders the authority to order airstrikes earlier in the evacuation, and they were bracing for what they feared was another imminent attack. troops and more than 170 Afghan civilians died in an Islamic State suicide attack at the airport. Only three days before Ahmadi was killed, 13 U.S. On most days, he drove one of the company’s white Toyota corollas, taking his colleagues to and from work and distributing the NGO’s food to Afghans displaced by the war. “NEI established a total of 11 soybean processing plants in Afghanistan.” It’s a California based NGO that fights malnutrition. For 14 years, he had worked for the Kabul office of Nutrition and Education International. Zemari Ahmadi was an electrical engineer by training. Using never-before seen security camera footage of Ahmadi, interviews with his family, co-workers and witnesses, we will piece together for the first time his movements in the hours before he was killed. And it’s possible that what the military saw Ahmadi loading into his car were water canisters he was bringing home to his family - not explosives. What was interpreted as the suspicious moves of a terrorist may have just been an average day in his life. Soon after, his Toyota was hit with a 20-pound Hellfire missile. “The procedures were correctly followed, and it was a righteous strike.” What the military apparently didn’t know was that Ahmadi was a longtime aid worker, who colleagues and family members said spent the hours before he died running office errands, and ended his day by pulling up to his house. troops guarding the evacuation at the Kabul airport. The Pentagon claimed that Ahmadi was a facilitator for the Islamic State, and that his car was packed with explosives, posing an imminent threat to U.S. It was parked in the courtyard of a home, and the explosion killed 10 people, including 43-year-old Zemari Ahmadi and seven children, according to his family. In one of the final acts of its 20-year war in Afghanistan, the United States fired a missile from a drone at a car in Kabul. 29 drone strike in Kabul that killed 10 civilians, including an aid worker and seven children. military admitted to a tragic mistake in an Aug. ![]() Drone Strike Killed the Wrong Person A week after a New York Times visual investigation, the U.S. ![]()
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