Drone Strike in Afghanistan, Kill the Wrong Person

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Matthew akins is a writer for the new york times based in cobble, afghanistan. You can watch the video investigation he made with his colleagues at n y times dot its title, did a us? Drone strike in afghanistan, kill the wrong person. I think some people, when they see this information, they do care. But i think a lot more people probably were excited about the start of the football season. It's an uphill battle, but we are killing so you need to know something about them.

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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