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The military keeps getting away with murder

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Jonathan M. Katz
Dec 17, 2021
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On Aug. 29, during the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, a Central Command strike team remotely piloted its Reaper drone through a densely populated neighborhood of Kabul. At 4:53 p.m. Kabul time, a car the drone was pursuing entered the courtyard of a house. The operators entered a command, and the drone launched a Hellfire missile. When the sm…

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