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acknowledgement of their family s innocence, their only solace. nic robertson, cnn, kabul, afghanistan. heart breaking. sources tell cnn that moments before the u.s. drone strike hit killing the civilians in kabul the cia issued an urgent warning that children might be in the target vehicle. i want to bring in cnn s katie beau willis she covers intelligence and national security issues. how did this happen, katie. what we learned, pam, just after the military fires this hell fire missile at a white toyota corolla believed at the time carrying of an isis ukt but now we know carrying innocent civilians. just after the missile is release the, the cia issues this urgent warning to the military and says we believe there is civilians in the area to include possibly even children in the car. boy that point it was too late. the warning arrived just seconds before the missile impacts in the car. and you know, there is a couple of reasons that this is
the approach that we used when it came to drone strikes was not only to have surveillance in the air but also to have intelligence on the ground, to make sure that we have the right target. and also to make sure that children, innocent children and women, are not in the shot. obviously, that was not done here. and i understand they were worried about some kind of car bomb occurring soon after 35 marines had been killed, but that s no excuse for not exercising care when it comes to pulling the trigger. right. and how is it that one agency sees civilians and possibly kids at the target vehicle, but the other people carrying out the strike apparently didn t see them? how is that possible? well, it is possible depending on the shot that you d have from surveillance and what it s following. if the surveillance target is
new cnn reporting tonight, sources telling us moments before a u.s. drone strike killed ten civilians in kabul, the cia issued an urgent warning that children might be in the target vehicle. but it was too late. i want to point out dod has addressed this. but the white house is still silent since this news came out. cnn s katie bolt-lillis covers national security issues. katie, this is just awful. as a pentagon official said, a horrible mistake. how did this happen? you know, pam, i think one of the things that this sort of tragic missed message really underscores is the sense of urgency that the military felt that it was operating under when it carried out this strike.
in march of 1966 neil armstrong and david scott took off on a mission that was marked by both success and failure the astronauts plan to dock their gemini caps in with an unmanned target vehicle. their 1st task was to rendezvous with the vehicle. after the astronauts carried out the docking procedure successfully they noticed that one of the capsules thrusters had become stuck in the on position which was causing the spacecraft to rotate at high speed armstrong managed to study the spacecraft and then decided to abort the mission immediately the capsule landed safely in the pacific ocean southeast of japan.