U.S. Drone Strike Kills Aid Worker
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
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4.4 • 13.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
A recent drone strike from the U.S. in Afghanistan kills an innocent aid worker, and Trevor examines the massive amount of civilian casualties caused by American air attacks in the country.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Comedy Central. |
| 0:02.8 | Now! |
| 0:05.0 | Afghanistan. |
| 0:06.5 | The only thing harder to get out of than a gym membership. |
| 0:09.7 | Just hours before America pulled out of the country last month, |
| 0:12.5 | it got in one final drone strike at a suspected terrorist, you know, |
| 0:17.7 | full-time seek. |
| 0:19.1 | Except now we're learning more about who was actually drone'd. |
| 0:23.5 | New questions tonight about a US drone strike that killed 10 people in Afghanistan. |
| 0:29.4 | The New York Times reports the strike mistakenly targeted an aid worker, |
| 0:33.9 | not someone connected to ISIS-K. |
| 0:36.4 | The man's vehicle was said to be carrying bombs, |
| 0:39.0 | but he was actually transporting water. |
| 0:41.1 | There's mounting evidence that that drone strike killed an Afghan working for a US aid group, |
| 0:47.7 | along with nine others, including seven children. |
| 0:50.8 | A US military investigation into the drone strike is underway. |
| 0:54.7 | We know from the variety of other means that at least one of those people that were killed |
| 0:58.9 | was the ISIS facilitator. |
| 1:01.5 | So were there others killed? |
| 1:03.2 | Yes. |
| 1:03.9 | There are others killed. |
| 1:04.7 | Who they are, we don't know. |
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