Misto's brother told the Associated Press at the time that the U.S. military was "aware of the allegations of a civilian casualty" and determining whether "further investigation is necessary and how it should proceed." Nearly a week after the strike, a CENTCOM spokesperson said the U.S. "Most stare in shock," the Post observed. Video footage given to the Post shows "a dozen people standing nearby" as aid workers arrived at the scene of the drone strike earlier this month, the newspaper reported. drone strike on the outskirts of Qurqaniya," immediately disputing the Pentagon narrative.Īirwars pointed to a tweet from a Syrian journalist who said that contrary to CENTCOM's statement, the man killed was a civilian with "no connection with any organization, neither now nor previously." On the day of the deadly strike, the watchdog Airwars published an initial assessment noting that a "60-year-old male civilian was killed by a declared U.S. The aftermath of the May 3 drone strike in northwest Syria appears to be following a similar trajectory. Central Command report on the strike indicated that military officials knew the attack likely killed civilians but initially lied about it in public. has yet to uphold its pledge to compensate the survivors. The Biden administration did apologize after killing 10 members of an Afghan family-including seven children-in a 2021 drone strike in Kabul, but the U.S. officials typically refuse to even acknowledge, let alone apologize for. drone strikes have killed thousands of civilians in recent years-deaths that U.S. Often described by the Pentagon as " precision" attacks, U.S.
drone program, including the process by which officials choose their assassination targets, is shrouded in secrecy, and activists argue the program should be shuttered in its entirety. Another official said that "though we believe the strike did not kill the original target, we believe the person to be al-Qaeda." military official told the newspaper that the Pentagon is "no longer confident" that the strike killed an al-Qaeda leader. Central Command, which claimed hours after the strike, without citing evidence or naming a suspect, that the Predator drone strike had targeted a 'senior al-Qaeda leader.' But now there is doubt inside the Pentagon about who was killed." The operation that killed Misto, the Post reported, "was overseen by U.S. "They described a kind, hard-working man whose 'whole life was spent poor,'" the Post noted. Lotfi Hassan Misto, a 56-year-old former bricklayer, has been identified by his family as the victim of the drone strike, The Washington Post reported Thursday, citing interviews with the man's brother, son, and several people who knew him. military officials are now beginning to walk back the claim as the victim's family insists the father of 10 had no connections to terrorist organizations and was herding his sheep when he was slain by a Hellfire missile on the morning of May 3.
drone strike in northwest Syria killed a "senior al-Qaeda leader."īut U.S.
The Pentagon said earlier this month, without providing evidence, that a U.S.
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