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I began to take on the life of being an interviewer even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. [david reading onscreen text] while you were in afghanistan, the effort to capture Osama Bin Laden was going forward. Capture or kill. Capture or kill. How were you alerted to that . Because you werent directly in the chain of command for that decision. Yup. That night no one else in our headquarters knew at all. And i got up myself, no aides, no anything else, went into the we had a joint special Operations Command post at the nato headquarters in kabul where i was located. I went in there, sort of surprised them at about 11 or so at night, said, what are you doing in here . And i asked everybody to leave except for one officer who i knew very, very well. And we then dialed up so that we could monitor the operation. We had a lot of contingency plans. And the forces that conducted it, some of those at least, the headquarters element at least, was working for me in normal t
I began to take on the life of being an interviewer even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. [david reading onscreen text] while you were in afghanistan, the effort to capture Osama Bin Laden was going forward. Capture or kill. Capture or kill. How were you alerted to that . Because you werent directly in the chain of command for that decision. Yup. That night no one else in our headquarters knew at all. And i got up myself, no aides, no anything else, went into the we had a joint special Operations Command post at the nato headquarters in kabul where i was located. I went in there, sort of surprised them at about 11 or so at night, said, what are you doing in here . And i asked everybody to leave except for one officer who i knew very, very well. And we then dialed up so that we could monitor the operation. We had a lot of contingency plans. And the forces that conducted it, some of those at least, the headquarters element at least, was working for me in normal t
Glass has this update from couple. Afghan special forces have been clearing the hotel floor by floor trying to find the gunman and get and evacuate staff and guests from the Intercontinental Hotel the siege started about nine oclock on saturday night when at least four gunmen attacked the hotel its unclear how they got into the hotel that is something thats going to come under investigation the hotel was very busy on a saturday night a Wedding Party was ongoing we also know that a number of guests were in the hotel delegates for a conference to be held on sunday so a very busy time its unclear exactly how many people were in the hotel we know that several people were trapped at the time of the attack special forces entered the hotel to go after the attackers they turned off the electricity at the Intercontinental Hotel is a heavily guarded hotel one of the two five star hotels here in the Afghan Capital and its considered a rather safe place for foreigners and prominent afghans to gath
A lot worse from all. The work. Today would be a good. U. S. Senators prepared to vote on a bill to end the Government Shutdown. Turkeys president promises to crush kurdish fighters as his military continues its air and ground operation in Northern Syria. At least six people die in antigovernment protests in democratic republic of congo. And tensions rise as tens of thousands of refugees are set to be repatriated to me im from bangladesh. Oh two hundred g. M. T. And the clock is ticking for senators in the us is the struggle to end the Funding Crisis thats kept the Government Shutdown for two days in the coming hours the Republican Controlled Senate is expected to hold a vote to try to break the deadlock money for federal agencies has been cut off since saturday after the senate failed to pass a funding bill and thats affecting a range of departments including passports and Visas Services immigration is the heart of the dispute democrats won funding tied to protection for undocumented