THE father of a three-year-old girl killed in a US drone strike on Kabul has condemned the Pentagon’s decision not to discipline any soldiers over the massacre.

Aimal Ahmadi, who lost his daughter, his brother and six nephews and nieces in the August 29 strike, said today that “God will take revenge … what if the US had lost a child? What would the reaction have been?”

The Pentagon said on Monday that Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin has approved its internal review of the bombing, which found “breakdowns in communications” and in the process by which the drone’s target was identified but did not recommend any consequences for the perpetrators, despite the incident killing a total of 10 civilians, seven of them children.

Air Force Lieutenant General Sami Said, who led the report, concluded that the drone attack was a “tragic mistake” rather than the result of misconduct or negligence. 

It followed the August 26 terror attack on Kabul airport by Islamic State, which killed 170 Afghan civilians and 13 US soldiers.

The US initially claimed its target was a car laden with munitions preparing for another terror attack, but it soon emerged they had killed a Zemerai Ahmadi, a man who worked for a US aid agency, and most of his family.

The founder of the aid agency in question, Nutrition and Education International, said the decision not to discipline anyone was “shocking.

“How can our military wrongly take the lives of 10 precious Afghan people and hold no-one accountable in any way?” he asked.

And US peace campaign Code Pink contrasted the lack of accountability with the persecution of whistleblower Daniel Hale who revealed information about how the US picks its drone strike victims and the heavy civilian death toll from its drone assassination programme. Mr Hale was jailed for three years and nine months in July.

“Ten people were murdered by the US drone strike on Afghanistan that the Pentagon has exonerated itself for committing. Meanwhile, drone whistleblower Daniel Hale is imprisoned for exposing the heinous reality of US war crimes,” it tweeted. 

Today the Taliban also called on the US to reverse its decision, saying it should “punish the culprits and compensate the victims.”