Piers nails it.
PUBLISHED: 08:32 EDT, 21 September 2021 | UPDATED: 08:32 EDT, 21 September 2021
Three weeks ago, a US drone strike was ordered on a white Toyota Carolla car in Kabul, Afghanistan, being driven by a suspected terrorist.
The single Hellfire missile was launched from an M-Q Reaper drone which had surveilled its target for eight hours, flying at a maximum altitude of 50,000 feet.
Hellfire missiles travel at speeds of up to Mach 1.3 or 997 miles per hour, so there would have been around half a minute between the missile being launched and detonating.
The drone did its job and killed the suspected terrorist, whom American intelligence had identified as working for ISIS-K – Islamic State Khorasan Province, the most extreme and violent jihadist militant group in Afghanistan.
It also killed nine other people including seven children.
Despite immediate reports of innocent civilian casualties, Gen. Mark A. Milley, the Chinese-friendly chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, gave a Pentagon news conference several days later in which he described the attack as a 'righteous strike.'
Righteous, according to the dictionary, means 'morally right or justifiable', 'free from guilt or sin' and 'very good, excellent.'
And General Milley certainly sounded very righteous as he defended the decision to 'neutralize' the suspected ISIS-K bomb maker who was supposedly preparing an imminent attack on Kabul airport.
But there was just one problem.
A rather massive problem, in fact.
The terror suspect, Zamarai Ahmadi, wasn't a terrorist.
He was an aid worker - a $500-a-month employee of the California-based charity Nutrition and Education International.
Three weeks ago, a US drone strike was ordered on a white Toyota Carolla car in Kabul, Afghanistan, being driven by a suspected terrorist. The terror suspect, Zamarai Ahmadi, wasn't a terrorist. He was an aid worker. The other victims were his family including his three sons, Zamir, 20, Faisal, 16, and Farzad, 11, three children of one of his brothers, Arwin, 7, Benyamin, 6 and Hayat, 2, Malika, the 3-year-old daughter of another brother, his nephew, Nasser, 30, and Somaya, a cousin's infant daughter
Virtually a whole family was therefore destroyed in a terrifying onslaught of hellfire and shrapnel that devastated their compound and the surrounding area
There was nothing 'righteous' about this horrifying incident. It was the pre-meditated slaughter of what turned out to be ten completely innocent people. The Pentagon's now admitted it was all a terrible mistake and apologised. But that's not good enough
None of the other victims were terrorists or connected to any terror group either.
They were though all from Ahmadi's family including his three sons, Zamir, 20, Faisal, 16, and Farzad, 11, three children of one of his brothers, Arwin, 7, Benyamin, 6 and Hayat, 2, Malika, the 3-year-old daughter of another brother, his nephew, Nasser, 30, and Somaya, a cousin's infant daughter.
Virtually a whole family was therefore destroyed in a terrifying onslaught of hellfire and shrapnel that devastated their compound and the surrounding area.
There was nothing 'righteous' about this horrifying incident.
It was the pre-meditated slaughter of what turned out to be ten completely innocent people.
The Pentagon's now admitted it was all a terrible mistake and apologized.
But that's not good enough.
This is a shocking, horrendous atrocity that should still be leading the news.
Instead, the liberal-dominated US mainstream media's done what it has done with horrible regularity throughout this Biden presidency when their guy Joe does something awful, and responded with a collective 'oh dear, what a shame' sigh and moved swiftly on.
Just as it did with the devastatingly disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan itself a few weeks ago.
To which I say: sorry, WHAT?!
How dare you all turn such a casual disinterested blind eye to this abomination?
President Biden should be vilified and harangued from every media rooftop until the American people, and more importantly, the remaining members of this poor Afghanistan family, are given proper answers to how the hell this happened and what the US intends to do with Zamarai Ahmadi's relatives, whose own lives are now in serious danger as a consequence of the Taliban discovering the family worked for America.
Astonishingly, the family haven't called for revenge, although the innocent deaths of their loved ones will soon be used as justification for revenge attacks by terror groups like ISIS-K.
Instead, they've asked for those throughout the US military command responsible for the strike to be held properly accountable.
President Biden should be vilified and harangued from every media rooftop until the American people, and more importantly, the remaining members of this poor Afghanistan family, are given proper answers to how the hell this happened and what the US intends to do with Zamarai Ahmadi's relatives, whose own lives are now in serious danger as a consequence of the Taliban discovering the family worked for America
And they've asked for an assurance that they will be helped to leave Afghanistan and be resettled in the United States or another safe country.
Neither of these requests is unreasonable.
Indeed, they seem at the very low end of what should be done by a US government that's done them so much harm.
This, after all, was a family that did so much to help 'righteous' America on both humanitarian and military fronts – and then got blown to smithereens as a thank you.
PIERS MORGAN: Where is 'righteous' President Biden's empathy towards the innocent Afghan family he slaughtered with a botched drone strike – and why is the tame liberal mainstream media turning such a blind eye to an atrocity that shames America?
By PIERS MORGAN FOR MAILONLINEPUBLISHED: 08:32 EDT, 21 September 2021 | UPDATED: 08:32 EDT, 21 September 2021
Three weeks ago, a US drone strike was ordered on a white Toyota Carolla car in Kabul, Afghanistan, being driven by a suspected terrorist.
The single Hellfire missile was launched from an M-Q Reaper drone which had surveilled its target for eight hours, flying at a maximum altitude of 50,000 feet.
Hellfire missiles travel at speeds of up to Mach 1.3 or 997 miles per hour, so there would have been around half a minute between the missile being launched and detonating.
The drone did its job and killed the suspected terrorist, whom American intelligence had identified as working for ISIS-K – Islamic State Khorasan Province, the most extreme and violent jihadist militant group in Afghanistan.
It also killed nine other people including seven children.
Despite immediate reports of innocent civilian casualties, Gen. Mark A. Milley, the Chinese-friendly chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, gave a Pentagon news conference several days later in which he described the attack as a 'righteous strike.'
Righteous, according to the dictionary, means 'morally right or justifiable', 'free from guilt or sin' and 'very good, excellent.'
And General Milley certainly sounded very righteous as he defended the decision to 'neutralize' the suspected ISIS-K bomb maker who was supposedly preparing an imminent attack on Kabul airport.
But there was just one problem.
A rather massive problem, in fact.
The terror suspect, Zamarai Ahmadi, wasn't a terrorist.
He was an aid worker - a $500-a-month employee of the California-based charity Nutrition and Education International.
Three weeks ago, a US drone strike was ordered on a white Toyota Carolla car in Kabul, Afghanistan, being driven by a suspected terrorist. The terror suspect, Zamarai Ahmadi, wasn't a terrorist. He was an aid worker. The other victims were his family including his three sons, Zamir, 20, Faisal, 16, and Farzad, 11, three children of one of his brothers, Arwin, 7, Benyamin, 6 and Hayat, 2, Malika, the 3-year-old daughter of another brother, his nephew, Nasser, 30, and Somaya, a cousin's infant daughter
Virtually a whole family was therefore destroyed in a terrifying onslaught of hellfire and shrapnel that devastated their compound and the surrounding area
There was nothing 'righteous' about this horrifying incident. It was the pre-meditated slaughter of what turned out to be ten completely innocent people. The Pentagon's now admitted it was all a terrible mistake and apologised. But that's not good enough
None of the other victims were terrorists or connected to any terror group either.
They were though all from Ahmadi's family including his three sons, Zamir, 20, Faisal, 16, and Farzad, 11, three children of one of his brothers, Arwin, 7, Benyamin, 6 and Hayat, 2, Malika, the 3-year-old daughter of another brother, his nephew, Nasser, 30, and Somaya, a cousin's infant daughter.
Virtually a whole family was therefore destroyed in a terrifying onslaught of hellfire and shrapnel that devastated their compound and the surrounding area.
There was nothing 'righteous' about this horrifying incident.
It was the pre-meditated slaughter of what turned out to be ten completely innocent people.
The Pentagon's now admitted it was all a terrible mistake and apologized.
But that's not good enough.
This is a shocking, horrendous atrocity that should still be leading the news.
Instead, the liberal-dominated US mainstream media's done what it has done with horrible regularity throughout this Biden presidency when their guy Joe does something awful, and responded with a collective 'oh dear, what a shame' sigh and moved swiftly on.
Just as it did with the devastatingly disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan itself a few weeks ago.
To which I say: sorry, WHAT?!
How dare you all turn such a casual disinterested blind eye to this abomination?
President Biden should be vilified and harangued from every media rooftop until the American people, and more importantly, the remaining members of this poor Afghanistan family, are given proper answers to how the hell this happened and what the US intends to do with Zamarai Ahmadi's relatives, whose own lives are now in serious danger as a consequence of the Taliban discovering the family worked for America.
Astonishingly, the family haven't called for revenge, although the innocent deaths of their loved ones will soon be used as justification for revenge attacks by terror groups like ISIS-K.
Instead, they've asked for those throughout the US military command responsible for the strike to be held properly accountable.
President Biden should be vilified and harangued from every media rooftop until the American people, and more importantly, the remaining members of this poor Afghanistan family, are given proper answers to how the hell this happened and what the US intends to do with Zamarai Ahmadi's relatives, whose own lives are now in serious danger as a consequence of the Taliban discovering the family worked for America
And they've asked for an assurance that they will be helped to leave Afghanistan and be resettled in the United States or another safe country.
Neither of these requests is unreasonable.
Indeed, they seem at the very low end of what should be done by a US government that's done them so much harm.
This, after all, was a family that did so much to help 'righteous' America on both humanitarian and military fronts – and then got blown to smithereens as a thank you.
