multiple times even when i asked forjust a written comment to the victims whose lives were turned upside down. that did not exactly surprised me because going silent when faced with bad news is quite a typical strategy forjapanese typical strategy for japanese companies. they typical strategy forjapanese companies. they did send me a statement last week saying. basically the company has remained tightlipped about it. the other issue to remember, while it may be difficult to believe, hardly anyone injapan has heard of the horizon scandal until very recently. when we spoke to fujitsu s japan former president in 2022 his reaction was horizon? what horizon? because it was developed by a british company international computers limited which fujitsu bought decades ago. icl had strong ties to the british government so it did give fujitsu an outsize presence in the uk and japanese companies often let international subsidiaries do their own thing especially the board lacks internation
mistake, whatever you want to call it. a lot of questions moments away about what happened with what was said to be a great example of our over-the-horizon ability to take out targets in afghanistan despite the fact that we pulled out. so there s a lot to cover there as well as other big news reported on these back-channel calls with general mark milley and his chinese counterpart that president trump didn t know about. assuring the chinese that we wouldn t attack and promising that there would be a warning if we did, according to that reporting. congressman michael waltz is going to join us. he s watching this and he s calling for a briefing with regard to that specifically, to get to the bottom of what happened in those calls. i m going to ask you to stand by. we ll meet you on the other side as we wait for john kirby. let s listen in. opening comments for you,
the ground in kabul at a hamed karzai airport that resulted in the death of 13 sailors and marines and more than 100 civilians on august 26. also with a substantial body of intelligence indicating the immense of another attack, in the 48 hours prior to the strike, sensitive intelligence indicated that the compound at point number 1 on the map let s bring the map up, please. we re going to bring this up. hopefully you have an opportunity to see it. john, can you see the map there? john, can you hear me now? the press has hard copies.
roger. i m going to continue based on that then, john. in the 48 hours prior to the strike, sensitive intelligence indicated point number 1 was being used by isis-k planners used to facilitate future attacks. we also received a significant number of reports indicating multiple avenues of attack planned simultaneously in which isis-k would attempt to harm our forces including with rockets, suicide explosive vests and vehicle-borne ieuds. our leaders on the ground and in the strike cell received more than 60 different pieces of intelligence related to imminent threats were some corroborating and some conflicting. one of the most recurring aspects of the intelligence was that isis-k would utilize a
validity of the strike. i m here to acknowledge our mistakes. i will end my remarks with the same note of sincere and profound condolences the family and friends of those that died in this tragic strike. we re exploring the possibility of payments. i ll finish by saying while the team conducted the strike, they were trying to prevent an attack on our forces and innocent evacuees. we understand that to be incorrect. with that i m ready to take your questions. thank you, general. tom? general, this is a complete and utter failure. can you explain how this possibly could have happened? well, this particular strike was a terrible mistake. we certainly regret that. i ve been very clear that we take full responsibility for it. at the same time, we were carrying on a number of complex operations designed to defend ourselves. we conducted a strike a couple days before that was very