The Cost of Nine 11: Drone Warfare

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Matthew Chance: Only a fraction of these incidents can really be investigated. The strikes have been going on now for almost two decades, and it's very rare that we can put the faces and names on any of the innocent victims. We would never intentionally target a protected medical facility," says General John campbell,. "We didn't mean to hit this hospital"

A US drone strike in Afghanistan was meant to take out an ISIS-K target. Reporting on the ground shows an aid worker and several children were killed. Matthieu Aikins, reporter at the New York Times, explains from Kabul.

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