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Not as initially described, multiple bombers and multiple gunman, instead it was one single suicide bomber. a 20 pound bomb filled with five millimeter ball bearings that tore through the area around the abby gate leading to 13 kills u.s. service members and 170 afghans. here cents commander of u.s. central command. >> at the time, the best information that we had in the immediate aftermath of the attack indicated that it was a complex attack by both a suicide bomber and isis-k gunman. we now know that the explosively fired ball bearings caused wounds that looked like gunshots and we combine w...

He said he found gunshot wounds on many other dead bodies he examined suggesting the number of people shot may be much higher. he asked we hide his identity for his safety. >> there was two kinds of injuries. people burned from the blast with lots of holes in their bodies. but with a gunshot you can see just one or two holes in the mouth and the head and the eye and the chest. i removed bullets from four or five injured. >> u.s. military investigators insist that was not the case. >> there were absolutely no gunshot wounds. we found no evidence that post blast u.s. service members killed other...

Afghans assert there was deadly gunfire after the bomb hit here at abby gate. we built a 3d model of the scene. here's the command outside the gate 45 minutes before the blast. and then just before the device detonated it packed and the marines are bunched up. the u.s. military said the device was sophisticated and sent ball bearings flying into a dense crowd surrounding the bomber at the time of ignition and could be reasonably expected to have killed more people. here's one of those ball bearings removed from a victim's shoulder. the u.s. military told cnn that doctors might have mistaken wo...

0 the control of central command. tony. >> two quick questions. what happened to his body? was it carried away like with bin laden's body or too badly damaged? and two, administration officials told reporters today this had been planned for a long, long time, the president was presented in december with a tabletop model of the compound or the building. why was the raid now versus two or three weeks ago or a month ago? can you shed any light on that? >> yeah. his body was left at the site. as for the time being, it is correct, this was a mission long planned, months in planning as i mentioned t...

Up this clip over the weekend. i'll play it for you. bret was talking to lloyd austan. do you have any regrets about afghanistan is the question. here is the give and take on that, general. >> do you have any regrets about the afghan withdrawal? >> i regret the fact that we lost 13 of our finest at abby gate. i regret that we lost 10 civilians in an errant strike. >> bill: went on from there. talked about the evacuation of 120 or 130,000, whatever the number was. what did you think of that response, general? >> well, i certainly agree with those regrets but actually the obvious regret, the ele...