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Was that a car bomb or also a suicide bomber? finally, there are state department employees side by side with u.s. military at that gate. were there any other killed in one strike? >> we think one suicide bomb at abbey gate. dont know if its male or female. just dont have that information. dont know much about the second bomb except one went off in the vicinity of the baron hotel, which you are aware is a deeply bunkered structure. as far as i know, there were no u.k. military casualties as a re...

Theres another interesting thing that stood out to me there about how this attack unfolded we have this blast. it seems like it may have been the first blast. it occurred at the search gate. then a second blast occurred at the baron hotel complex. its clear, according to general mckenzie, there were isis gunmen who then opened fire on civilians. that in itself suggests more possibly than just one attacker. it suggests maybe a coordinated team here. then how many of these individuals managed to g...

Over watch that we have in place. we have our unmanned aircraft, our mq-9s and other unmanned drone systems that have very good optical and other means of looking down. we look at whats happening around the gate, we try to identify patterns. we have mhighly trained people looking at that. we also have aircraft we fly locally as well as other aircraft that come off the air y carrier we have off the coast, everything ranging from f 15s to ac-130 gunships. the gunship has a very capable targeting s...

>> reporter: i have to say hearing how proceedings were going today, it seemed like most of the gates were pretty closed. the idea that an individual came through abbey gate is something we should talk about in a moment, but i dont really see how they can open the gates up and encourage more siv applicants onto the base. theyre going to be dealing with u.s. citizens and priority afghans in buses. that may reduce the number of people to put on aircraft. he did talk about a possible timeline when ...

Could blast through a gate and pass through a vehicle afterwards with a complex attack, but you dont go after the suicide bomber. you go after the suicide bomb-making cell before it has the potential of sending out the bombers as nick was just talking about. i think thats the major threat. thats a threat from the isis-k network and they have put up a film claiming responsibility for this attack. all of those things are critically important, but they are -- its the toughest thing to defend agains...

Ourselves. were there to defend ourselves while we process american citizens first but also the other categories of people that i mentioned, get them to a place where we can fly them out to a safer, better future. >> just to be clear, this suicide bomber was going through the gate, being searched, checked by u.s. service members when he detonated his vest? >> that would be my working assumption. he did not get onto the installation. it was at the interface point where this attack occurred. were ...

Left to the august 31st deadline and fine it goes beyond that and as general mckenzie said he has the forces he need. hell readjust based on the number and hell do different things but what i would point out is general mckenzie also talked about the threats in the remaining days. he looks to continue with the kneel operation and also look to get final aircraft out of there. you know, the big bullets, the man pad, the shoulder-fired anti-air weapons, those are relatively easy things to take care ...

>> so long since anyone has lost their life in afghanistan, but even deeper than that for the u.s. military, it has now been several years sense they had what they call a mass casualty incident like this where so many service members have died at once. we have seen it in helicopter accidents, shootdowns, fire fights, but nothing like this in recent years. general mckenzie took a fair amount of time trying to lay the picture out for everyone of what transpired at the airport. so lets just review ...

We believe some attacks have been thwarted by them. weve been doing this since the 14th. this is an attack thats been carried out. we believe its possible others have been thwarted. we cut down the information we give the taliban. they dont get the full range of information we have, but we give them enough to try to prevent these attacks. we try to push out the boundary even further so we dont get large crowds massing at the gate. clearly at abbey gate we had a larger crowd than we would like. i...

General mckenzie offered some new detail. he said theyve been having the taliban try and screen people. its not a perfect process. some of the taliban are very thorough, some are not. nobody believes the taliban let the suicide bomber through on purpose. they dont obviously know for sure, but theres no reason to think it. somehow the suicide bomber passes through the initial taliban checkpoint. they are screened. he also noted that the u.s. has been offering the taliban some limited intelligence...