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Is this the only option that you will use. Did they stop that ball. I will ask The General to provide context. But used the Word Dynamic a lot. Dynamic, moving, fluz, quick, that is how Isis K operates. When you have what we believe to be an imminent threat, we took the action that we believe is the most necessary At The best opportunity to thwart that attack. Commanders always minimize collateral damage. In this case like mr. Kirby said, this strike so as we looked At The information that we had At The time of the strike, we took all of those measures in place, and we decided to thwart that. So the u. S. Protection measures engaged those rockets and apparently it hit one of them or you didnt engage the other ones. One did land in an area that was not effective. You didnt intercept . Yeah, we intercepted one and it was effective. I just want to clarify the numbers you stated earlier. About 122,000, is 5400 part of that number or is that a separate number . 122,000 plus evacuated over t
Tuesdays withdrawal deadline. Marines, army and others looming over the race against the clock, trying to get out as many as they can. The deaths of 13 u. S. Service members, of course, yesterday, a tragic toll. A short time ago we learned the losses are even greater than feared among afghans. 170 afghans killed. 200 or so wounded. According to afghans health ministry, and were learning from u. S. Authorities there was just one suicide bomber, not two as it was first believed yesterday. The pentagon also warns of more what they call specific credible threats from sais isisk, claiming responsibility for the massacre. A short time ago we learned all wounded u. S. Personnel are Receiving Care in germany. More than 5000 are still awaiting evacuation at the airport right now in kabul. This morning afghan and Security Forces deployed nonlethal stun grenades. We have Cnn Correspondents in place for you. All the latest Develop Thes as we await the briefing. I want to bring in Kaitlyn Collins a
I will moderate the questions as we have done before. I will call on you. Please you ask your question, identify yourselves and your your let so The General has an idea who hes talking to. We have a hard stop at 3 30. General mackenzie, over to you. John, thanks. This is a hard day today. As you know, two Suicide Bombers detonated in the vicinity of the Abbey Gate at hamed karzai airport. The attack on the gate was followed by a number of Isis Gunman that opened fire on civilian forces. We know 12 u. S. Service members have been killed in the attack and 15 more Service Members have been injured. A number of afghan civilians were killed and injured in the attack. Were treating some of them aboard hkia. Many others have been taken to hospitals in town. Were working to calculate the total losses. We dont know what that is right now. Their loss weighs heavily on us all. Ill talk about that as i go through my prepared remarks. We continue to focus on the protection of our forces and the eva