leading to killing himself with a suicide vest during a special forces raid is a important step forward insecuring some measure of peace. there are, as you just referenced, isis cells in countries around the world. in is southwest asia, africa, who continue to carry out deadly attacks and i think was important this strike was successful. while we regret the loss of civilian lives, the briefing we received is hath was most likely a result of the suicide vest. let me ask you of course about russia, vladimir putin. according to the briefings you ve had and your own knowledge of this, is there any sign at all that the build up of forces now lead to deployment of 3,000 american troops unilaterally to the region in eastern europe; that that is
obviously because of the success of the operation, the intelligence was a mosaic that allowed us the level of awareness and fidelity of information to be able to conduct this in the way we did. [ inaudible ] bombing? i don t have a direct connection to speak to in terms of that. however, he s the he was the leader of isis. and it was an isis k attack. what we do know is it was a hands-on kind of leader. we know that that he certainly had knowledge of and was at least maintaining a level of situational awareness during the prison breaks last week. we know he was directly involved in the massacre and rape of
operations because isis continues to be a threat. there s going to be information you ll want to know that we re simply not going to be able to provide so we can preserve our flexibility to conduct these types of operations going forward. thank you. a couple questions on the civilians. did i hear you correctly that you said you verified three civilians were killed and also could you elaborate on perhaps explain a little further what secretary austin meant in his written statement about looking into the possibility that u.s. action may have resulted in harms to civilians. what exactly is he referring to? we know that when he detonated an explosive device that killed him, we know there were three people on the third floor with him that were also killed. his wife and two children.
was a raid against abu and he decided to kill himself and others before coming into direct contact with the assault force. he did not fight back. fight ba. the objective was to finish his leadership of isis, and that was achieved. finally, the question i m sure all of us are wondering, was there a dog involved, what was its name, and do you have a photo? i do not know, i do not know, and i do not know. i ll take all three. you re welcome. louie? john, why did the mission take two hours? what was the process? was there a calculated process to get civilians out this building? yes. was that a part of the delay? it sounds like two hours on the ground is quite a lot of time for one of these kinds of
i have three questions. if those who were saved with not in u.s. custody, where are they? were they left at the scene? clarification number two, please, when you said the hostiles that were coming at the end, is it safe to assume that these hostile actors had weapons and they were engaged as you were kind of referring to with courtney, engaged with an air strike? and then number three, the ua has spoke on the sdf and the sdf says the u.s. launched the operation from sdf territory. can you confirm that and that they were helping with the intelligence and the tracking of the isis leader? thanks. there s nobody in custody, karla. so there s nobody to tell you that they re in custody, and certainly no u.s. there s nobody in u.s. custody for sure.