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Hunting Bin Laden

Just days after the September 11th terrorist attacks, retired CIA station chief, Gary Schroen, led a covert team into Afghanistan. His mission was simple: find and kill Osama bin Laden. Schroen sits down with NBC chief foreign correspondent, Richard Engel, to talk about how a small, intelligence-led operation turned into a 20-year war.

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Transcripts for MSNBC On Assignment With Richard Engel 20210920 03:26:00

because we were constantly rotating troops out. and in the end, the united states didn t have the enthusiasm to continue this conflict. we tried things, but it was never with the resolve that we re really going to end this. for gary schroen who let in the first cia operatives, afghanistan was a case of mission creep. honestly, i don t think that the u.s. government writ large actually ever had a real plan for what to do with afghanistan. we knew how to break it. we just didn t know how to fix it. the last american soldier to leave afghanistan was major general chris donahue, commander of the 82nd airborne. sergeant lewis loftus old division. loftus left behind two sons, mason and nolan. hello. hello, hello, hello. this is a very cool room. thank you.

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[ cheering ] before long the u.s. ended up in afghanistan, for the next 20 years. this is the first anniversary where there are no american troops in that country, but we have new reporting tonight about a recent u.s. drone strike that may have killed afghan civilians. richard engel reports from the region. reporter: for most americans 9/11 seemed to come out of nowhere. from a man they had never heard of, hiding out in one of the most inaccessible countries on the planet. but just days after the attacks, the cia and special forces organized a counterstrike. bin laden he s done it reporter: former cia operative gary schroen led the first team in. it was very clear, we re going in we re going to find bin laden and kill him. reporter: the taliban, who had taken control of afghanistan in a civil war, were protecting bin laden so the united states took action. it does now appear that united states

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