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CIA issued warning that children may be at scene of Kabul drone strike BEFORE missile hit car: Family of dead three-year-old demands person responsible is 'punished' and says he will accept compensation from US militaryBy RACHEL SHARP FOR DAILYMAIL.COM and ASSOCIATED PRESS
- Three sources said the urgent warning came just moments too late - after the military launched the Hellfire missile and just seconds before it struck
- The precise time lapse between the missile being launched and the intel warning is not clear but it may have cost the lives of the 10 innocent civilians
- Based on the maximum drone altitude and maximum missile speed there would have been a roughly 34 second lapse between launch and it hitting its target
- Emal Ahmadi, whose three-year-old daughter Malika was killed in the August 29 Hellfire missile attack, said an apology from the US is 'not enough'
- The grieving father demanded America 'finds the person who did this' saying 'I want him punished'
- The Pentagon admitted Friday the man targeted in the attack was not an ISIS-K operative, as previously thought, but an aid worker
- Head of US Central Command Gen. Frank McKenzie said the US made a 'tragic mistake' and he offered his 'sincere apology' to the victims
- The strike targeted Zemari Ahmadi, a longtime worker for a US aid group
- He was killed along with seven children and two adult family members
PUBLISHED: 10:11 EDT, 18 September 2021 | UPDATED: 17:01 EDT, 18 September 2021
The CIA issued a warning that children may be at the scene of the botched US drone strike in Kabul seconds before the missile hit the car killing 10 innocent civilians, according to a bombshell report.
Three sources told CNN an urgent warning that civilians were likely in the area and that children could be inside the target vehicle came just moments too late - moments after the military launched the Hellfire missile toward the target and just seconds before it struck.
The precise time lapse between the missile being launched and the intel warning of civilians in the area is not clear.