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Hello, thanks for joining me. I m alex marquardt part in this weekend for fredricka whitfield, we begin with breaking news. President biden has been briefed on the raid which injured seven u. S. Troops and killed 15 members of the radical group isis. The raid happened thursday in iraq two of the seven u. S. Troops were evacuated from the area for further treatment, u. S. Central command manages operations in the middle east. They said that the operation targeted i. S. I. S. Leaders in order to disrupt the group s ability to plan further attacks from where we have cnn s chief international purity correspondent, nick paton walsh, joining us from london. Nick, what do we know about this american operation yeah, alex more details from the iraqi military he referred to the two months that was spent gathering intelligence ahead of this operation. And the four hideouts were targeted that appeared to be consumed camouflage of some description which would suggest yes a sort of camp of some desc