confirm the death purity details surrounding the death, including annual the u.s. may have played remained unclear president trump would not be drawn on the question today. do have any intelligence that bin laden s son has been killed? i don t want to comment on that. i don t want to comment on that. thank you very much, everybody. since september 11th 2001, hamza bin laden have been reported at various times to be in iran syria, and most commonly afghanistan-pakistan border region. long known to have been a hideout for al qaeda members. after the death of his father in a 2011 u.s. rate in pakistan, hamza bin laden was being prepared for a top leadership role in al qaeda. no longer these reports are correct. bill: thank you. breaking news tonight from l.a., thank you, jonathan. in a moment here, welk joe biden ticket the gloves off in rounds to go? s spokesperson simone sanders on the plan for tonight.
have one message for voters and an entirely different message for their billionaire donors. all in starts now the. good evening, from new york i m chris hayes. an unprecedented moment in american history this morning. president obama appeared on camera in a surprise address to announce the stunning news that two al qaeda s hostages warren weinstein, an american and giovanni lo porto, an american were accidentally killed in a u.s. drone strike. based on information and intelligence we have obtained we believe that a u.s. counterterrorism operation targeting an al qaeda compound in the afghanistan-pakistan border region accidentally killed warren and giovanni this past january. as president and as commander in chief, i take full responsibility for all our counterterrorism operations, including the one that inadvertent live took the lives of warren and giovanni. i profoundly regret what happened. on behalf of the united states
went after very specific individuals who would have once you use a drone weapon system on them, would give you a very specific chain of events downstream from the death of that particular senior commander. now, as we degrade the organization, you still get very large numbers of people who would be coming together, training camps. we have a lot of criticism over the last few years that we weren t striking very large gatherings of al qaeda members in yemen and afghanistan. and so that seems to have usurped the going after very individual, specific targeted personnel. that s a key point, right, from what was called the kill list, which is a list of names, go after these people, to what are now called the signature strikes, which appears to be what happened here although we don t fully know. malcolm nance, thank you very much. really appreciate it. as of today at least seven
other leader ahmed farouq was killed. it was in the same region different counter-terrorism operations. was it thought to have been part of the same mission? they don t specify it was on the same day. it was in the same month. just adding some news as it s coming in jake we re hearing from pakistan a spokesperson from the ministry of foreign affairs, has no comment on this at this time. that would be the typical standing from the pakistan government. they do not like to comment on american operations on pakistani territory. again, to be clear we know this was on the afghan pakistan border. we re not sure on the pakistani side of the border. they tend not to comment because it is a very controversial issue, american strikes on pakistani territory. pakistan government allows them but they don t like to say in public they support them. because on the ground pakistanis hate them because of the possibility, there have been a number of cases of civilian casualties of these strikes. it s
in a strike that s to some degree explanatory apart from targeting an american citizen. ahmed farouq yes, as you say, al qaeda in the indian subcontinent not a particularly well-known offshoot not behind as far as ascertained operations that made headlines that much. said to be engaged in setting up islamic caliphate in india, bangladesh, that region and subservient. very little known about them. of course there will be a lot of scrutiny about ahmed farouq s level of seniority, what level of transparency there is about why he was chosen to be hidden in that particular compound. two, bear in mind administration quite clear they were not specifically targeting ahmed farouq when they hit the compound where these two aid workers tragically lost their lives. exactly who it was and what pattern of behavior they had seen there to make them think