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>> announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with robyn curnow. the pentagon says a deadly drone strike carried out during the final stages of the afghanistan evacuation was a tragic mistake. the u.s. now admitting the strike killed ten civilians including seven children. a reversal from weeks of maintaining it was an isis-k fighters threatening another attack on the kabul airport. top u.s. general says he takes full responsibility for getting things so wrong. and it was actually an aide worker whose car was filled with water containers and not explosives. the cnn investigation h...

Compound of this u.s.-based ngo where he worked at where they were filling up water containers. he had no running water at his home. he had been doing this for months. so what the u.s. military was seeing from the sky was men lifting heavy packages to the car. they thought they were explosives, but they were water containers. he drives into the family compound and a u.s. official with knowledge of the operation told us that they watched the compound for four to five minutes before they decided that this was the place to strike. they believed that he posed an imminent threat and that this was a...

Killed those u.s. service members, 13 of them, and more than 117 afghans. this drone strike was based on wrong intelliens, the wrong car, the wrong target. they got this operation wrong from the get-go. the military has told us that they were listening to intelligence on an isis safe house, what they believed was an isis safe house. it just so happened that 43-year-old aide worker and father of 7 amadi drove his white toyota corolla to pick up a laptop. he had a colleague in the car and they picked up the laptop and from that moment they started watching this car. they watched it for the next ...

They're controlling the area with vehicles and with helicopters in case they do come upon any emergencies. coming up, on alert. law enforcement officials in washington bracing for a far right rally in support of the january 6th rioters. we'll tell you how they're preparing. also, the u.s. military apologizes after a drone strike in kabul that went horribly wrong. ten civilians are dead including children and an aide worker. we're going to tell you what the pentagon is saying about how this happened. (sister) we can not be late. (brother) there's a road right there. (brother) that's a cat. ...

They struck what they thought was an isis k target but it was actually an aide worker and his family. >> this strike was taken in the earnest belief that it would prevent an imminent threat to our forces and evacuees at the air airport, but it was a mistake. i am sincerely responsible. while the team constructed the strike they did so in the honest belief that they were preventing an imminent attack. we understand that to be incorrect. >> cnn correspondent anna koran is live with us. anna, listen, you and your team we know have investigated this strike prior to the u.s. admitting that it was a...