Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2017

The Daily

The New York Times

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🗓️ 29 November 2017

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

The United States government set aside $5 million for the families of civilian casualties from the war on the Islamic State. There have been thousands of civilian casualties. So why has the money gone untouched? Guest: Azmat Khan, an investigative reporter who spent the past year looking into civilian casualties in the war on the Islamic State. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

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0:26.0	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro.
0:32.8	This is the Daily.
0:36.0	Today, a five million dollar part of money that's gone untouched.
0:45.8	Why the US government hasn't paid a single one of the families, of the thousands of civilian
0:52.6	casualties from the war on ISIS?
0:59.4	It's Wednesday, November 29th.
1:06.6	Thank you for seeing us.
1:07.6	Thank you.
1:08.6	What's your name and who was injured?
1:13.8	And where was he when the air strike happened?
1:18.1	Asmr.com, you've been reporting in Iraq for the past year.
1:22.2	And a couple of weeks ago, you published a big investigation on civilian casualties in
1:27.8	the war on ISIS.
1:29.9	Remind us of your findings.
1:31.4	So the US-led coalition says that this is the most precise air campaign in the history of
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