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Four years ago, Azmat Khan, an investigative reporter for The Times Magazine, told us the story of Basim Razzo, an Iraqi civilian whose home was targeted by a U.S. airstrike that killed his entire family.
His story helped reveal how American air wars — described by Washington as the most precise in history — were resulting in a staggering number of civilian deaths.
By obtaining and assessing thousands of U.S. military reports, and with the help of on-the-ground reporting in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, Azmat was able to gain a better understanding of why this was happening.
On today’s episode
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Azmat Khan, an investigative reporter for The Times Magazine.
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The promise was a war waged by all-seeing drones and precision bombs. But Pentagon documents show flawed intelligence, faulty targeting, years of civilian deaths — and scant accountability.
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A trove of internal documents, combined with extensive reporting across the Middle East, reveals the tragic, disastrous failures of the U.S. military’s long-distance approach to warfare.
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Azmat Khan contributed reporting.
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