The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden administration</a> admitted on Thursday that it killed a civilian shepherd in a drone strike in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/syria" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Syria</a> last year instead of a “senior Al Qaeda official,” as it had initially claimed. 
After a months-long investigation into a unilateral counterterrorism air strike in Northwest Syria on May 3, 2023, intended to take out a top Al Qaeda official, U.S. Central Command <a href="https://www.centcom.mil/MEDIA/PRESS-RELEASES/Press-Release-View/Article/3763291/may-3-2023-investigation-findings/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a summary of its findings that U.S. forces had mistakenly identified and taken out a civilian instead of a terrorist. 
“The investigation determined U.S. forces misidentified the intended Al Qaeda target and that a civilian, Mr. Lufti Hasan Masto (Masto), was struck and killed instead,” CENTCOM said. “Many of the facts and other findings of the investigation involve classified information and cannot be shared publicly.”
CENTCOM Commander General Michael Erik Kurilla ordered an investigation into the strike on June 6, 2023, after <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-walks-back-claim-that-it-killed-major-al-qaeda-figure-in-airstrike-killed-father-of-10-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a> that an Al Qaeda operative had not actually been killed in the strike. The investigation was conducted by U.S. Army Brigadier General John P. Cogbill and concluded on November 15, 2023.
The investigative team included ten senior service members and civilian employees not involved with the strike, but with knowledge of intelligence, armed conflicts, and targeting operations, according to CENTCOM. 
CENTCOM said the team interviewed over 40 witnesses and visited locations in the United States, Iraq, and Jordan. The investigation came weeks after a Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/05/02/syria-drone-strike-military-investigation/#:~:text=A%20U.S.%20drone%20strike%20in,pledge%20to%20curb%20such%20incidents.">report</a> raising questions about the strike. 
While the report said that the strike did kill a civilian, it said the strike was done in accordance with both international law and U.S. Military policies. 
“We are committed to learning from this incident and improving our targeting processes to mitigate potential civilian harm,” CENTCOM said. “U.S. Central Command acknowledges and regrets the civilian harm that resulted from the airstrike. We take all reports of civilian harm caused by U.S. military operations seriously and continue to employ thorough and deliberate targeting and strike processes to minimize civilian harm.”
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The incident is similar to a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-centcom-issues-new-statement-on-strike-against-isis-target-we-are-investigating-further" target="_blank" rel="noopener">drone strike</a> the Biden administration made in August 2021 during President Joe Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan where the administration claimed to have “conducted a self-defense unmanned over-the-horizon airstrike today on a vehicle in Kabul, eliminating an imminent ISIS-K threat to Hamid Karzai International airport.”
However, the administration <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-pentagon-confirms-children-killed-in-drone-strike-in-afghanistan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admitted</a> a couple of weeks later that the drone strike was a tragic mistake that killed 10 civilians, including seven children.

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