For the United States, Friday's apology for a drone strike that killed 10 innocent civilians in Afghanistan last month was a rare admission of a deadly and damaging mistake.
family still reeling from their loss"No one with us to apologize," Emal Ahmadi, whose toddler Malika was among seven children killed in the August 29 blast, told NBC News Saturday.
He also said his family fears it could be targeted by the Taliban after speaking out about their situation, fueling their desperation to get out of Kabul. On the day of the deadly event, Ahmadi's cousin, Zemari Ahmadi, an aid worker employed by a U.S.-based nonprofit working to address malnutrition in the country, had just pulled up at home from work as his youngest son Farzad, 13, raced out to greet him.
Ahmadi said his daughter Malika and two other toddlers were the youngest family members killed, along with his nephews Arwin, 7, and Benyamin, 6, and Zemari's two other sons, Zamir, 20, and Faisal, 16. Naser had been just days away from marrying Zemari's daughter, according to Yousuf. He said the family had planned to hold a small wedding that week, with Naser also hopeful that he would be able to get some of the family onto one of the last evacuation flights out of Kabul to the U.S.
However, he added, "as you will understand, it's very difficult to reach out on the ground in Afghanistan, to actually reach people."
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