Three days earlier, a suicide bombing at the airport had killed at least 182 people, including 13 American troops.

It has said it believed it was tracking an ISIS-K terrorist who might imminently detonate a bomb near the Kabul airport. The military had been working that day under extreme pressure to head off another attack on troops and civilians in the middle of the chaotic withdrawal.

The at-times blurry footage that operators were watching will continue to be scrutinized for new details about how the episode unfolded, while demonstrating the heightened risk of error that accompanies any decision to fire a missile in a densely populated neighborhood. The videos encompass about 25 minutes of silent footage from two drones - a military official said both were MQ-9 Reapers - showing the minutes before, during and after the strike. military in any case of an airstrike that caused civilian casualties, and is the first time any footage from the Kabul strike has been seen publicly. The disclosure of the videos was a rare step by the U.S. 29 killed 10 innocent people - including seven children - in a tragic blunder that punctuated the end of the 20-year war in Afghanistan. drone strike last year in Kabul, Afghanistan, showing how the military made a life-or-death decision based on imagery that was fuzzy, hard to interpret in real time and prone to confirmation bias. WASHINGTON - Newly declassified surveillance footage provides additional insights about the final minutes and aftermath of a botched U.S.

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