A defense official has revealed the August 29 drone strike on an ISIS-K operative actually killed an aid worker and 9 members of his family, including 7 children, CBS reports. The defense official told CBS News that the movements of the aid worker, Zemari Ahmadi tracked with with intelligence about ISIS plans for an attack at Kabul airport. A drone had observed men loading what were thought to be explosives into Ahamdi's vehicled, but were actually jugs of water. The deadly drone strike set off a large secondary explosion, which officials originally claimed was evidence the car was indeed carrying explosives, but an investigation determined was likely a propane tank located in the driveway. Gen. McKenzie, head of U.S. Central Command, is set to announce that 10 civilians were killed, but no disciplinary action is expected, according to Fox News reporter Lucas Tomlinson. The New York Times first reported that the vehicle struck belonged to Ahmadi, a 43-year-old aid worker who worked with the US, and he and nine of his family members were blown to bits. Ahmadi had been loading the water jugs into his car to bring home to his family. As he pulled into the driveway of the home he shared with his family and three of his brothers' families, several of his children and his brothers' children ran out to greet him, according to family members, when a US commander launched a Hellfire missile onto the vehicle. A damaged vehicle is at the site of the U.S. airstrike in Kabul, capital of Afghanistan The Pentagon for weeks maintained that only three civilians had died. Days after the attack, President Joe Biden gave a speech in which he marked the withdrawal of American troops in Afghanistan by the August 31 deadline. He touted America's ability to strike terrorists and targets without boots on the ground. But he failed to mention the high civilian casualty rate from the August 29 drone strike, and he failed to mention that children had been killed. 'We struck ISIS-K remotely, days after they murdered 13 of our service members and dozen of innocent Afghans. And to ISIS-K, we are not done with you yet,' he said in his speech. 'All of them were innocent,' Ahmadi's brother Emal told the Times, noting that Ahmadi had sought refugee status with the US based on his international aid work. 'You say he was ISIS, but he worked for the Americans.' 'This was a righteous strike,' Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark A. Milley insisted week, claiming that Ahmadi was an 'ISIS facilitator.' In a statement to DailyMail.com last Friday, Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby stood by the intelligence assessment that led to the strike, but did not deny there were civilian casualties. 'U.S. Central Command continues to assess the results of the airstrike in Kabul on August 29. We won't get ahead of that assessment,' said Kirby. 'However, as we have said, no other military works harder than we do to prevent civilian casualties,' he added. 'Additionally, as Chairman Milley said, the strike was based on good intelligence, and we still believe that it prevented an imminent threat to the airport and to our men and women that were still serving at the airport,' the spokesman said. According to the Times, killed in the drone strike were Ahmadi and three of his children, Zamir, 20, Faisal, 16, and Farzad, 10; Ahmadi's cousin Naser, 30; three of Ahmadi's nephews, Arwin, seven, Benyamin, six, and Hayat, two; and two three-year-old girls, Malika and Somaya. The drone strike in Kabul came as US forces were on high alert following an ISIS-K suicide blast on August 26 that killed 13 US troops and scores of Afghans on August 26. A separate US drone strike in remote Nangarhar Province on August 27 killed two alleged ISIS-K planners and facilitators, according to the Pentagon, though their identities have not yet been publicly confirmed. On the morning of August 29, Ahmadi left his family home a few kilometers west of the Kabul airport at around 9am. It was around this time that US officials tell the Times that his car came under surveillance. An MQ-9 Reaper drone tracked Ahmadi's Corolla as he went about his day, picking up two passengers and the laptop from the home of N.E.I.'s country director on his way to work. The Pentagon claims that the vehicle was tracked after leaving a known ISIS-K safehouse, but it is unclear whether this refers to Ahmadi's home or one of his stops on the way to work. However, an improvised rocket attack on the Kabul airport was launched from a car near the home of the non-profit director the morning after the drone strike. The Times visited the director, who said he had nothing to do with ISIS and had his own refugee resettlement case pending in the US. All rights reserved for this news site (dailymail) and under his responsibility