# A US drone strike in Kabul kills civilians in an errant follow-on after Abbey Gate

Date: 2021

## The fact

On 29 August 2021 a US drone strike in Kabul, launched in the Abbey Gate aftermath, killed civilians including children. The Pentagon later called it a tragic mistake.

## Context

CENTCOM executed. Neighbouring Abbey Gate is 26 August. He did not sit as the targeting officer.

Abbey Gate 26 August is the parent week. 31 August withdrawal is neighbouring.

The President of the United States signs enrolled bills and is Commander in Chief. He does not write a Senate roll-call, a CBP sector tally, an IDF campaign, or a CBO score. A signature is not unique authorship of every title Congress enrolled. Drafting and floor votes remain with Congress. An archived [White House](/organizations/white-house) (https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/) is the official carrier for this term; current whitehouse.gov is not this administration. Office-holding is not authorship of every later CPI print, encounter table, or foreign campaign.

## Evidence and sources

U.S. Department of Defense carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [humanitarian access](/drivers/humanitarian-access): a completed errant strike killing civilians is a dated protection failure under CinC authority.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 29 August 2021 Kabul drone strike later acknowledged as a civilian-killing mistake, independently reported.

Not established: that he uniquely designated the vehicle, or a unique later targeting-coefficient from that Sunday.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

CENTCOM fired. Later reviews named a mistake. He did not sit as the sensor operator.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies A US drone strike in Kabul kills civilians in an errant follow-on after Abbey Gate, not a later speech about A US drone strike in Kabul kills civilians in an errant follow-on after Abbey Gate.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. A US drone strike in Kabul kills civilians in an errant follow-on after Abbey Gate on 2021-08-29 is not a licence to treat every later U.S. Department of Defense communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average A US drone strike in Kabul kills civilians in an errant follow-on after Abbey Gate into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He was CinC. CENTCOM fired. Later reviews named a mistake. He did not sit as the sensor operator. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Joe Biden: https://factrail.ai/people/joe-biden

## Drivers

- Humanitarian Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/humanitarian-access

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/us-drone-strike-kabul-civilians-2021-08-29/
- https://www.defense.gov/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/us-biden-kabul-drone-2021