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Focused on that and we aren't thinking for a minute that what happened yesterday gets us in the clear. not a minute. but do we believe that we hit valid targets, bad guys who can do bad things and can plan bad missions? absolutely. and do we think that will have some impact on their ability going forward? absolutely. what and how much, we're just going to have to keep watching the intelligence going forward. >> i don't know if you can answer, but does the united states have a sense, even if you can't say names, do you have any sense of who was in command of isis-k right now? >> i'm not going t...

Affiliation with al qaeda and about terrorism -- terrorist groups operating from afghanistan. they've said that publicly, they've said that as part of the doha agreement. >> do you have any indication of the level or types of foreign fighters that may have flowed into afghanistan in recent days and weeks? >> i do not. >> okay. i think we're going to call it a day. we're going to call it a day, lucas. i appreciate it very much. >> how many prisoners were released in jail -- >> thank you. i appreciate it. >> you were just watching pentagon press secretary john kirby and army major general willia...

>> i don't have anything to adjourned, so we'll go right to questions. >> thank you. a couple questions on the strike last night in afghanistan. general taylor just said that two high-profile targets were killed and one wounded. the initial announcements, i think, said one. this was all the same strike? was it a single strike? and can you explain any more about whether these individuals were directly involved in the thursday bombing at kabul airport? >> so it was -- wel without getting into too much tactical detail, i will tell you it was a single mission to get these targets, and as the asses...

Was it a predator drone? can you give us any information? >> that's over-the-horizon. >> so no specific information? and then were there reports that the targets were in a vehicle? is that accurate? or was there any other damage to isis infrastructure? >> as i think the general said right at the top, we're going to be loathe to release a lot of tactical level bda detail here. we want to preserve as much flexibility as we can. so i think you can understand, or at least i hope you can understand that we're just not going to be able to answer a lot of that detailed stuff right now. >> what do you...

>> were you aware of them before? >> we're not going to discuss the intelligence that led up to, the intelligence that we had allowed us to conduct that strike. >> you can't say if they were individuals who were already on the u.s. radar as high profile people? >> we had intelligence on the targets that led us as we continued to work up, conduct that strike. >> can i ask one more on the over-the-horizon efforts. the last time the u.s. announced a counterterrorist strike in afghanistan was february of 2020. are you aware of any other particular specific -- not against taliban, but specific ct s...