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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Croft and Namir Shabibi

AI, a dead student, and US airstrikes: How a civilian became caught up in a new age of warfare

Abdul-Rahman al-Rawi, a 20-year-old student working towards his diploma in construction, stepped out of his home in a quiet street in al-Qaim, northeast Iraq, having heard a volley of noise overhead.

Within seconds, he was killed by the impact of a US missile destroying a car he was standing next to.

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