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Pentagon Releases Declassified Video
Newly declassified surveillance footage provides additional insights about the final minutes and aftermath of a U.S. drone strike last year in Kabul, showing how the military made a decision to murder based on imagery that was fuzzy, hard to interpret in real time and prone to confirmation bias.
The strike on Aug. 29 killed 10 innocent people — including seven children — in a tragic mistake by Biden that punctuated the end of the 20 year war in Afghanistan. READ MORE
Pentagon Releases Footage of the Botched Afghanistan Drone Strike That Killed 10 Civilians, Including 7 Children
The US military released newly-declassified videos of a drone strike that mistakenly killed 10 civilians in the final days of the war in Afghanistan to The New York Times.
On August 29, 2021, just days after a terrorist attack at the airport in Kabul killed nearly 200 people, including 13 US service members, the US military carried out a drone strike against a vehicle that intelligence indicated was part of a planned follow-on attack. READ MORE
Afghanistan Became Most Dangerous Place on Earth for Christians Following Biden Withdrawal
A Christian persecution watchdog says that Afghanistan has become the “most dangerous place on earth” for Christians following the Biden administration’s chaotic withdrawal from the war-torn country.
“For the first time ever, Afghanistan is the most dangerous place on the planet to be a Christian,” according to a statement from Open Doors outlining its 2022 World Watch List. “The World Watch List is a definitive, comprehensive research-based report that ranks the top 50 countries where it is most dangerous to be a Christian. Afghanistan has supplanted North Korea, which now ranks #2 on the list, after spending 20 years at #1.” READ MORE
