operation in the biden administration so far. but this is months in the making. up to and including the creation of a table top model of the isis leader s house that they apparently used to game out possible scenarios for the raid including the one he reportedly effectuated when he blew himself up rather than be captured. that was the very dramatic news to start the day today. but just in terms of u.s. military and intelligence news, today we also got literally cinematic news from the administration. that doubled as a sort of counterintelligence operation that the administration carried out live and on the news today in public. that very, very unusual story straight ahead, stay with us. unusual s in a row. in fact, subaru has won most trusted brand straight ahead, stay with us for more consecutive years than any other brand. as their best overall brand.
a suicide bomb on the third floor, that is what u.s. officials attribute civilian casualties in this raid to. no u.s. forces were reportedly injured or killed, but the worst civilian casualties. they said this was caused by the suicide bomb the set off by the isis leader himself. the news of that raid and of the guy s death was announced early today. president biden made an address to the country midmorning to describe the raid. this is obviously the highest profile counter-terrorism operation in the biden administration so far. but this is months in the making. up to and including the creation of a table top model of the isis leader s house that they apparently used to game out possible scenarios for the raid including the one he reportedly effectuated when he blew himself up rather than be captured. that was the very dramatic news to start the day today. but just in terms of u.s. military and intelligence news, today we also got literally cinematic news from the administration.
instructing people what to do and left the building himself. not like an opportunity to target him out of the building, officials said. president biden himself first briefed on the details of the potential options here about a month ago and brought in a table top model of where haji abdullah was going over this with the president himself and officials said the president to make sure to minimize civilian casualties. there were casualties, that the president confirmed none of those are the u.s. side and so that is something that was of concern to the president. we are told that he got that in-depth briefing about a month ago and then on tuesday in the situation room where we had noticed he was meeting with the defense secretary at the white house for about three hours, that s when president biden gave the final go-ahead to conduct this mission. he watched last night. you see this picture released by the white house where president biden, the vice president, the deputy national security a