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U.s. strike despite their own history of killing civilians. heres what a spokesperson for the militants told cnn. >> it is great to see that they got the courage to confess the truth. but they didnt do so for the last 20 years. they targeted thousands of women, children, innocent civilians, and murdered them. we indeed condemn their last air strike, and it is deficit evidence that civilians got killed and got damaged. >> the u.s. military has said up to seven people killed in the air strike were...

Isis, it was a noble strike and there was a secondary blast and we know and we saved a lot of lives. and then there was some great reporting done from "the new york times" and others and now the family is speaking out saying what are you talking about? we were just in our houses and then suddenly out of no place, hellfire missile, boom. and it just is -- i think its a coda to what was a final tragic chapter to this war. >> something that you can speak from a position of incredible experience. yo...

Accurately targeted. just simply an entire family. this is from an administration promised to be the empathizer in chief but adult back in charge. they billed themselves in the room, serious individuals, in charge bringing competency to the american government. this is one example. only one. i would ask you as we talked about yesterday, look at every crisis facing the united states of america. are we competent? do we have adults in charge. you look at images on the screen, you will find the answ...

Innocent afghans. >> its very sad for me. when i saw -- im so confused, im so sad is. reporter: his daughter was killed last month in a drone strike. she was in the courtyard of this house near kabuls airport when a hellfire missile was fired at a car believed to be linked to isis-k. yesterday the u.s. military admitted they acted on wrong intelligence killing ten innocent civilians. her father is glad they were proven innocent but says no one from the united states even called to apologize. >> ...

>> the strike was intelligence on what was reported i was confident the strike averted an imminent threat to forces at the airport. based upon that assessment i repeated the validity of the strike. i acknowledge our mistakes. >> stlfs intelligence a white toyota corolla may be uses by isis-k for another attack on the airport in kabul. they believed that was the vehicle that could be used for this attack, followed it for eight hours with a number of u.s. military drones and took their strike. a h...

Into the picture right now, fredricka. >> and alex, tell us more about this cia issuing this warning, but it just simply came too late. are we talking about a minute of, an issue of minutes or seconds? >> reporter: it is seconds, fredricka. the picture nic was talking about, it adds to the confusion of what was going on in that moment and it really does raise more questions about the u.s.s ability to carry these out, over the horizon attacks against terrorist targets in afghanistan. more questio...

August 29th, the u.s. dispatched a armed drone into kabul. this was two days after isis swiss side bombers had attacked the capital airport and that was the one that killed u.s. service members and afghan women and children and when u.s. officials were watching the wipe our, they believed that it was part of the early stages on the follow-up of an isis attack. they thought that the car visited an isis safehouse, they thought they were exposed to the top of the car. so the u.s. military had that ...

Vehicle could move quickly and beat the airport boundary in moments. we observed the vehicle eight hours. while in the compound, the vehicle was observed being approached by a single adult male assessed to be a co conspirator. the strike was executed at this time because the vehicle was stationary and released the potential for civilian casualties. a single hellfire missile was fused inside the vehicle. it struck the vehicle at 4:53 p.m., which produced an explosive event and flames significantl...

Mistake that left seven innocent children and three innocent adults, including an aid worker for an american company, dead. >> i offer my profound condolences to the family and friends of those who were killed. our investigation now concludes that the strike was a tragic mistake. >> reporter: the deadly attack came just three days after a suicide bomber killed 13 american service members and some 170 afghans at the kabul airport. the pentagon said intelligence indicated another attack was immine...

Matter of moments. by this time, we observed the vehicle about 8 hours. while in the compound, the vehicle was observed being approached by a single adult male assessed at the time to be a co-conspirator. the strike was executed at this time because the vehicle was stationary and reduced potential for civilian casualties. single hellfire missile was fused to detonate inside the vehicle to further minimize chance for civilian casualties. it struck the vehicle at 4:53 p.m., produced an explosive e...