Blinken Says US Doesn’t Know Who Was Killed in Kabul Drone Strike, Review Forthcoming

Blinken Says US Doesn’t Know Who Was Killed in Kabul Drone Strike, Review Forthcoming
Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks as he greets staff members of the U.S. Embassy in the Egyptian capital Cairo on May 26, 2021. Alex brandon/Pool/AFP via Getty Images
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Sept. 14 that he doesn’t know at this stage whether a U.S. drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan, in August killed a suspected member of the ISIS-K terrorist group or an Afghan aid worker and his family.

“The guy the Biden administration droned, was he an aid worker or an ISIS-K operative?” Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) asked Blinken during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the Afghanistan withdrawal.

Isabel van Brugen
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Isabel van Brugen is an award-winning journalist. She holds a master's in newspaper journalism from City, University of London.
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