9/13/21 Mathieu Aikins on the Recent US Drone Strike in Kabul and Life in Afghanistan Post-Withdrawal

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Scott Horton

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4.8 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Scott interviews journalist Mathieu Aikins who has remained in Kabul to report for the New York Times. Aikins and his team recently investigated the drone strike the U.S. carried out on August 29th that officials claimed had targeted a car carrying explosives believed to be driven by a member of ISIS. However, the team from NYT found a devastating scene with the bodies of children and a distraught family claiming to have just lost ten family members. Aikins and his colleagues were able to identify the man as Zemari Ahmadi. Ahmadi worked for a California-based aid organization and was trying to get his family on a plane out of Afghanistan when he and many of his children were killed. Discussed on the show: “Times Investigation: In U.S. Drone Strike, Evidence Suggests No ISIS Bomb” (New York Times) “Examining a ‘righteous’ strike” (Washington Post) “The Taliban’s Fight for Hearts and Minds” (Foreign Policy) Mathieu Aikins is an international freelance journalist currently reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan. His upcoming book is The Naked Don’t Fear the Water: A Journey Through the Refugee Underground. Follow him on Twitter @mattaikins. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: The War State and Why The Vietnam War?, by Mike Swanson; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; EasyShip; Thc Hemp Spot; Green Mill Supercritical; Bug-A-Salt; Lorenzotti Coffee and Listen and Think Audio. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjYu5tZiG. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpSfw21sP5U Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, y'all welcome to the Scott Horton Show. I'm the Director of the Libertarian Institute,
0:14.9	editorial director of anti-war.com. Author of the book, Pools Arren, Time to End the War in Afghanistan,
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0:45.0	All right to you guys, introducing Matthew Aikens.
0:49.0	You longtime listeners will remember his reporting with a non-Gopol and my interview of him from
0:56.2	I'm gonna say I'm almost certain 2014 about the bad election in Afghanistan that year
1:02.0	and then in 2000 I'm gonna say 16 about the bad election in Afghanistan that year.
1:02.5	And then in 2000, I'm going to say 16,
1:05.1	he did that great report for Rolling Stone
1:08.3	from Northern Yemen, from the Saada province
1:11.5	there on the terrible air war going on against civilian targets there and all of that and
1:17.4	He has remained in Kabul
1:20.0	Reporting from Kabul and live tweeting from there and writing now for the New York Times.
1:26.0	And before we get to that, I almost forgot to mention.
1:30.0	He's got a new book coming out this coming February his first book the
1:34.8	naked don't fear the water a journey through the refugee underground which is endorsed by a non-Gopel which is endorsed by Anon Gopal, which is great.
1:45.6	All right, and then his newest piece,
1:48.6	and there's a couple, his latest for the New York Times, is investigation in U.S. drone strike. Evidence
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