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CENTCOM commander apologizes for drone strike on wrong carload of kids

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Sep 24, 2021
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By Dick Scuttlebutt

WASHINGTON — Marine Gen. Frank McKenzie, the commanding general of U.S. Central Command, apologized last week for a drone strike that mistakenly killed the wrong vehicle full of children.

“I offer my sincere apology,” McKenzie said. “We thought the car we were striking contained a terrorist and his large family, but in fact contained a…

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