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Founder and executive director of Bellingcat. Author of We Are Bellingcat https://t.co/g36bDvla9O?amp=1

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    Sep 9

    Google Translate does a really good job translating this piece, and it's really well worth a read. Hopefully will apologise for their role in a smear campaign targeting a dead man and his widow:

    The amount of disinformation & politics involved in taking down Mayday Rescue & the life of its founder James Le Mesurier was a disgrace - I'm just glad the truth is starting to come out. Far too many in Dutch media made shameful headlines off fake news.
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    Genuinely interested to see how many TV news programs cover this news from the New York Times, which goes a long way to proving that the last U.S. strike in Afghanistan, billed as a blow against ISIS, actually killed an aide worker & a bunch of kids

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    In case you were wondering the Kabul drone strike is the only time the Pentagon’s story didn’t add up:

    In 2019, a woman and 11 children were killed in an airstrike in Wardak province. US claimed it wasn't them, but our visual investigation showed it *was* them — and eventually they admitted. That's an example of a single airstrike out of tens of thousands.
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    2 hours ago

    Should not be the case that only in the most high-profile incidents the US military tells us what they thought they were doing, and why. Think of excellent investigations by , in Yemen, Syria, Iraq, ect What if we had this info for each?

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    5 hours ago

    UPDATE: Labour say they have *rescinded* the complaint against which it says was issued in error. Party spox: “we apologise unreservedly to Jess for the hurt and upset this has caused”.

    This is not a joke, but deadly serious. The Labour Party have officially placed chair under investigation - for opposing transphobia. Here is her letter sent to NEC members - passed to me - and here are the tweets she’s being investigated for.
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    2 hours ago

    Our team:

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    Especially the transcript of the Pentagon's press brief where they admitted the strike team didn't realize they were bombing a mosque is revealing (but said they would have bombed it anyway without even saying who they thought they killed):

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    2 hours ago

    Most US strikes are not in Kabul, or other cities, with deeply experienced conflict reporters a short drive away, likely more consistent sat imagery, the possibility of return visits to sites, and the ability to retrace someone's full day from start to finish

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    3 hours ago

    Our thanks to and for lending us their invaluable expertise, and to Nutrition & Education International and Ahmadi's colleagues, who asked for anonymity, fearing they could be targeted by both the Taliban and the United States.

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    3 hours ago

    This story began with the core and essential work of our team, a quick and accurate geolocation from : . We followed that up with thorough reporting, expert consultation, and tireless on-the-ground work by .

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    Video from the Khaje Bughra neighborhood of Kabul as the U.S. claims to have carried out a drone strike in the city. Smoke rising from 34.57454, 69.16211.
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    3 hours ago

    The contrast between military narrative--observations from the air, pieced together, vs the story gained through on-the-ground reporting, records, interviews, and site visits is all too familiar to human rights investigators & journos who document US strikes

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  13. 3 hours ago

    It's particularly valuable this investigation containing so much key information about the strike comes out less than two weeks after the strike, rather than months after as is often the case in incidents like these.

    An extraordinarily thorough & excellent investigation of Aug 29 drone strike in Kabul. Unusually, the military gives info on what they thought happened, knew & didn't know--details they typically refuse to provide.
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    3 hours ago

    Four days before Ahmadi was killed, his employer had applied for his family to receive refugee resettlement in the U.S. At the time of the strike, they were still awaiting approval. Looking to the U.S. for protection, they became some of the last victims in America’s longest war.

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    3 hours ago

    Our reporting concludes that the U.S. military struck a car parked inside a multi-family home in Kabul without knowing who the driver was, what he did for a living or where he lived. Fearing an attack, they interpreted an average day in his life as the behavior of a terrorist.

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  16. 3 hours ago

    Great investigation, highly recommend you take 10 minutes to watch this video.

    We obtained exclusive footage to identify the last movements of Zemari Ahmadi, who was killed in a U.S. drone strike in . Running office errands & loading canisters of water into his car, the military might have misinterpreted his actions. ​
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    3 hours ago

    There is one other detail visible in the wreckage: destroyed plastic containers, identical to the ones that we saw Ahmadi and his colleague fill with water and load into his trunk before heading home. The military told us they never saw them being loaded.

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    3 hours ago

    We gathered photos and videos of the scene taken by journalists, and visited the courtyard multiple times. We shared that evidence with three experts. All three agreed that the damage was consistent with a single Hellfire strike, and not large secondary explosions.

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    3 hours ago

    The office security camera we obtained is crucial to understand what happens next. Though the camera settings are off, verified its time by visiting the office, and matched what we see on camera with timestamped satellite imagery.

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    3 hours ago

    But interviewed all 5 men who were in the car with Ahmadi that day. They said that what the military interpreted as a series of suspicious moves represented a typical day in his life. He drove his colleagues around town, where they made plans for food distributions.

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    3 hours ago

    Ahmadi was a 14-year employee of Nutrition & Education International, a U.S. NGO that fights malnutrition. He helped start up soy factories, repair machinery, transport his colleagues and distribute food from his Corolla to displaced Afghans.

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