The Kabul drone strike was more disastrous than we thought, says the Pentagon

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A If for any reason you believe you received this email in error or if you no longer wish to receive these emails, click here to unsubscribe. Well, Good Morning!   Let's take a look at what the day has in store for us.   So, let's dig in, shall we? Here's What You Need To Know... Pentagon approves request for 100 National Guard troops for "Justice for J6" rally Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has approved a request from Capitol Police to provide 100 D.C. National Guard troops in case law enforcement requires additional support at Saturday's "Justice for J6" rally at the Capitol. Security preparations have ramped up ahead of the pro-Trump demonstration, where hundreds of protesters sympathetic to the Jan. 6 Capitol attack are expected to gather.   As the U.S. Capitol faces its first large-scale security test since the deadly attack, House and Senate offices are taking precautionary measures to protect staff as well as lawmakers. 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Over the last few days, several new details surrounding her mysterious disappearance have emerged, and her parents traveled to Grand Teton National Park, in Wyoming, which is where she'd been when they last contacted her, to search for her.   Laundrie, who hasn't spoken to police on the counsel of his attorney, has been named a "person of interest" in the case. And on Thursday, police officers in Utah released bodycam footage of their interaction with the couple after responding to a domestic incident. Officials spoke with Petito and Laundrie separately about a physical altercation between the two of them. Although no charges were filed, the two were told to spend the night away from the other. That was about a month before she was reported missing.    And yesterday morning, Laundrie's sister, Cassie, gave an interview, breaking her family's radio silence on the matter. She said that she wants Petito, who was "like a sister" to her, to be okay. Still, Petito's father, Joe, is imploring Brian Laundrie to be in communication with them. He said: "If you genuinely did nothing wrong, and I have no idea, I can't even ask what you know, I can only take this attitude as cruel and heartless." Pentagon rescinds previous statement, admits Kabul drone strike only killed innocents The "righteous" drone strike that Biden alluded to after ISIS-K suicide bombers killed 13 U.S. service members turned out to be not so righteous after all. At the time, U.S. Central Command said that officials "know" the drone strike "disrupted an imminent ISIS-K threat" to Kabul's airport, and that they were "confident we successfully hit the target."   Now, in an abrupt reversal, the Pentagon admits that isn't true. An investigation by U.S. Central Command found that the strike killed an aid worker along with nine members of his family. Zemari Ahmadi worked for an NGO in Kabul that helped distribute food to Afghans. The explosives that the military claimed were sitting in Ahmadi's car trunk were most likely water bottles.   "I offer my profound condolences to the family and friends of those who were killed," Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr., commander of U.S. Central Command, said at a briefing Friday. "This strike was taken in the earnest belief that it would prevent an imminent threat to our forces and the evacuees at the airport, but it was a mistake and I offer my sincere apology."   Anyone suspected of criminal responsibility should face prosecution, said Brian Castner, Amnesty International's senior crisis adviser. "It should be noted that the US military was only forced to admit to its failure in this strike because of the current global scrutiny on Afghanistan," said Castner, a former Air Force bomb technician, in a statement. 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