back on earth. the crew members of inspiration 4 are home after their historic three-day mission. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with robyn curnow. a chilling warning from the cia came too late to stop a u.s. air strike that killed ten afghan civilians last month. according to three sources, the intelligence agency warned there were likely civilians in the area, possibly children, just seconds before this missile found its target. this is what they were looking at. the military hit the toyota following a suicide bombing that killed 13 u.s. troops and scores of afghans racing to evacuate at the kabul airport. but the pentagon now admits that no one in this car was linked to isis-k. the taliban are condemning the
action taken to the military. jacqui: griff, hoping to get help from the state department. trey has been in kabul with the story and efforts to get them out. what are you hearing, trey? well, jacqui, today we have an update on civilians who were killed in the drone strike last month. the united states admitted they killed 10 civilians in afghanistan and this is the story of the innocent afghans. this is where he sat with me and when i saw it, i m so confused and so sad. his daughter malika was killed last month in a drone strike. in the courtyard of this house near kabul s aircraft when a hell fire missile was at a car they believed was isis-k. the u.s. military admitted it
as we withdrew u.s. forces from afghanistan last month and started to evacuate american and afghan civilians, there was a terrible attack on the kabul airport by a branch of isis called isis-k. you will remember 13 american service members lost their lives in that attack alongside more than 170 afghans according to the washington post. it was brutal. it happened right by the airport amidst this crowd. just days later the u.s. conducted a drone strike on a man the military believed was a, quote, isis facilitator. days after the attack the nation s top military officer, general mark milley, defended the strike amid reports of civilian deaths saying, quote, at this point we think the procedures were correctly followed and that this was a righteous strike. well, today the pentagon admitted it was not an attack on an isis facilitator, it was, instead, an attack on ten afghan civilians including seven
jon? jon: trey from kabul, afghanistan, thank you. let s bring in republican senator bill haggerty, a member of the foreign relations committee and a former u.s. ambassador to japan. this revelation that it was not isis-k fighters but basically a van load of children mostly killed be i that drone strike, what does that say to you, senator? jon, it is heart breaking to hear this. it is yet another failure of intelligence, on our part. we re seeing mistake after mistake in execution and a massive lack of accountability on our side. jon: is it possible that the taliban were in some way involved in the targeting of this strike? i mean, we have been leaning on the taliban for information supposedly they are the mortal enemies of isis-k, is it possible that the taliban in some way provided the information that led to the strike? i m aware of that possibility. i think it is a sad state of affairs if we indeed are relying
u.s. central command admitting yesterday the august 29th drone strike intended for isis k members in afghanistan was quote a tragic mistake that killed civilians, not terrorists. we will get reaction from tennessee republican senator who is a member of the foreign relations committee. we go to the reporter on the ground. the u.s. military admits they killed civilians. this is the story of those. i m so confused. i m so sad. a daughter was killed last month in a u.s. drone strike, in a courtyard near this house near kabul s airport when a missile was fired at a car, believed to be linked to isis k. yesterday the u.s. military admitted they acted on wrong intelligence killing ten