wanted terror list with the word deceased. good evening, gentlemen. appreciate you joining us. alex, what are you learning about this mission and how it went down? this was a remarkable and complex mission. we got a lot of details from a senior administration official who spoke with reporters before president biden spoke with the nation. april president biden was briefed on the fact al-zawahiri was believed to be in the afghan capital of kabul living in that city and living there he was told with family members, his wife, his daughter, his grandchildren. now the intelligence community believed he never left the house, it was only his family members who went out and his wife and daughter used what this administration official called a terrorism trade craft to make sure they weren t tracked or detected. they failed on that front because patterns were detected and, in fact, al-zawahiri went on to be seen on the balcony of this safe house. a priority of president biden we are t
there don t appear to be any casualties as a result of this attack there is a statement which is claiming to be put out by the iraqi police which we have not yet been able to verify but this statement is suggesting that a single katyusha rocket has landed inside the base and as i say no casualties reported but that is then led to a search of the perimeter by security forces and they say that they have found a rocket launcher which contained 11 un fired missiles now the significance of this base as you as you mentioned is that this was the base back in december which was targeted by several rockets in which a u.s. contractor died which then led to the u.s. taking action against held by the. ball a group that then led to demonstrations around the perimeter of the u.s. embassy here in baghdad with some actually being able to break into parts of that program of terror and it was shortly after that that the u.s. then carried out drone strikes here at baghdad airport which killed i
a source called me to tell me that soldiers had beaten a man to death. he also told me it was too dangerous to go to charkh, so i drove as close as i could - to the provincial capital. this is the video i shot just days after the operation. at first it seemed like another footnote in the war. but after i returned home to copenhagen, more details began to emerge from my contacts in charkh. then six months later the un came out with its 2014 report citing civilian casualties. i found a short reference to the operation in it. the operation resulted in 28 civilian casualties (15 deaths and 13 injured). fifteen dead. how could fifteen civilian deaths from a joint us and afghan military operation go by almost unnoticed to the outside world? the report said that the international and afghan security forces denied civilian casualties. i knew i needed to go back to afghanistan if i d any chance of finding out the truth. in 2009, eight years into the war in afghanistan, the unite
a source called me to tell me that soldiers had beaten a man to death. he also told me it was too dangerous to go to charkh, so i drove as close as i could - to the provincial capital. this is the video i shot just days after the operation. at first it seemed like another footnote in the war. but after i returned home to copenhagen, more details began to emerge from my contacts in charkh. then six months later the un came out with its 2014 report citing civilian casualties. i found a short reference to the operation in it. the operation resulted in 28 civilian casualties (15 deaths and 13 injured). fifteen dead. how could fifteen civilian deaths from a joint us and afghan military operation go by almost unnoticed to the outside world? the report said that the international and afghan security forces denied civilian casualties. i knew i needed to go back to afghanistan if i d any chance of finding out the truth. in 2009, eight years into the war in afghanistan, the unite
i was in afghanistan at the time of the operation. a source called me to tell me that soldiers had beaten a man to death. he also told me it was too dangerous to go to charkh, so i drove as close as i could - to the provincial capital. this is the video i shot just days after the operation. at first it seemed like another footnote in the war. but after i returned home to copenhagen, more details began to emerge from my contacts in charkh. then six months later the un came out with its 2014 report citing civilian casualties. i found a short reference to the operation in it. the operation resulted in 28 civilian casualties (15 deaths and 13 injured). fifteen dead. how could fifteen civilian deaths from a joint us and afghan military operation go by almost unnoticed to the outside world? the report said that the international and afghan security forces denied civilian casualties. i knew i needed to go back to afghanistan if i d any chance of finding out the truth. in 2009,