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That related to the august 29th air strike in kabul. he will stick around for questions. i ll moderate the questions as we have done before. since we got a full house here and he s had limited time, i d ask you to keep your follows to a absolute minimum so that we can be as fair as we can to everybody. when the general is done, i ll come back and brief on some other topics as well. with that, general mckenzie, can you hear and see me? i ll see you fine. thanks. i ll turn the floor over to you. good afternoon. i m here to brief the results of the investigation i directed following the report of civilian casualties from the strike of kabul 29 august. having reviewed the findings of the investigation and the supporting of analysis, i m now convinced that as many as ten civilians including up to seven children were tragically killed ....
Had over 60 very, very high caliber reports of imminent threat to our forces in an around kabul. those are signals based. but they re also some human intelligence as well. we have a variety of sources for that intelligence. we believe that the strike we took a couple days prior in nangarhar had an effect on quietening down. we got a key attack planner that strike. we believe that disrespected their plans. additionally, we did things that made it harder to get to us. for example, we closed the gates. the gates as we know are a particular point where we re vulnerablech we decided not to provide people and hunkered down while the threat was there. so there were over 60 clear threat vectors that were dealing with during this period of time. including rocket attacks that occurred after this from locations that are displayed on the graphic that you have. ....
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 ....
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They may not do that, but they re under huge international pressure. there are a lot of incentives. apparently a huge amount of money in new york city that belongs to the afghan government, whatever that. and they have to if they re going to step up and fill that role and access that money, they have to act like a governing power. and so, i m i don t know on the ground exactly how they ll do that around kabul. they may get help from other nations, such as turkey. i heard turkey might step in. but i m confident that the u.s. military has the technical expertise, the strategic thinking that can get everyone off the ground on one last flight. i m just assuming they can do that. obviously the taliban is under pressure from the u.s. to try to clamp down on terrorism and make sure that afghanistan doesn t become a terrorist safe haven again, but at the same time, look, they re facing pressure as well from terrorist groups who would like to fill that vacuum. do you worry that this could ....