general what is the process for which strikes are approved. thank you. if you are tracking a target, you very track through communications intelligence, human intelligence or signals, you cast that to commanders on the ground, those guiding the drone going forward. when you look at a drone strike, those drones could read a license plate on a car, that is how good the optics are. my concern that just a couple days av isis-k strike, that killed 13 great americans in wounded over 20, i think there was a big push to try to get the planners. we were told they were isis-k planners. they were not, they were tracking a white van for approximately 8 hours, then said there would be a righteous kill, they were dead wrong about it. i am sure they had good
said this strike killed what they said were two high-profile isis-k planners, terrorists. now they admit ten civilians including seven children. how could the u.s. military and intelligence community for that matter have gotten this so wrong? well, they did get it wrong. how they got it wrong is yet to be determined. i just want to pause long enough to say how this affected me, to see these this family wiped out. i remember that donald rumsfeld, former secretary of defense said he worried we were creating more terrorists than we were killing in iran. seems to me when something like this happens, you can expect the reaction will be very negative. if i were that family that had just been wiped out, i wouldn t be looking for any kind of compensation, any kind of reparation. i would be looking for revenge. and i think that s the thing that we have to worry about when we launch these strikes, to be
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
in 48 hours prior to the strike, sensitive intelligence indicated that the compound at point number one on the map being used by isis-k planners used to facilitate future attacks. we were also receiving a significant number of reports indicating multiple avenues of attack planned simultaneously to which isis-k wanted to harm our forces, including rockets, suicide deaths, and vehicles with ieds. in 36 hours preceding the strike, leaders on the ground, at the airport, in the strike cell received more than 60 different pieces of intelligence related to imminent threats with some intelligence corroborating, some conflicting, with events observed from uavs flying above kabul throughout the kay. one of the most recurring aspects of the intelligence was that isis-k would utilize a white toyota corolla as a key element in the next attack.
0 ahead of that messaging before the science had before that regulators were on the same page with them. john: , and on the immigration front, the mayor of del rio, texas, is on the extraordinary pictures. they declared a state of emergency in his town. thanks for being with us on this friday martha: thanks, john and jacqui. a lot of breaking news. i m martha maccallum in new york. any moment now, there you can see the podium is set up at the pentagon. a huge development breaking right now as we are told that officials are about to announce that no isis-k fighters were killed in the august 29th u.s. drone strike in kabul that killed ten civilians in fact. there s no disciplinary action we re told expected as a result of that obvious misstep, 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