It sounds like two hours on the ground is quite a long time for one of these missions. speak with the great question, louis, the plan was to have them there for two hours. from the get-go the plan was for two hours on site. it speaks to the level of care that u.s. special operations forces used in this mission. which was designed to preserve innocent life. to go to the site as they did, it was securing and isolating site and i was to get innocence and you encouraged mr. abdullah to leave the site. they made several callouts beseeching everyone in the building to leave.
Specifics of the orders, it was a raid against abdullah. he decided to kill himself and others before coming into direct comp tact with the assault force. they did not fight back. the objective was to finish his leadership of isis and that was achieved. finally the question i m sure they were wondering is there a dog involved? you know what his name was? i do not know, i do not now, and i do not know. why did the mission take two hours? was that a part of the delay?
Mr. abdullah and his lieutenant. you re confident it s only three? that s what we have right now but i m going to give you what i can right now. i think you know that information can change over time. that s what we have right now. yes, p.r.? he said the team that executed any additional information on the team that executed the operation? no i don t have any more information about the team that executed the operation. what kind of support or operation the fdf provided to the operation? the sdf or helpful in the enabling of our ability to conduct this operation but i m not gonna go on to more detail about what that assistance looked like. i will remind p.r. that this was a u.s. operation conducted by u.s. forces only. will anyone get a reward, or
So that s who i m talking about when i talk about the three. we also know as we were able to safely evacuate ten individuals. six from the first floor. an adult male, an adult female, and four children. and for children from the second floor, which our forces were able to safely get out of the building. on the second floor, where one of abdullah s at tenets engaged our forces, actually one of his lieutenants and the lieutenants wife firing back at our forces, they were killed. it appears as if a child was also killed on that second floor. that as for your second
Question, were always mindful of the potential for civilian harm, or harm to innocent life. while the strong indications are here that the lives taken in this operation were caused by abdullah and his decision to blow himself up and everybody else with them on that third floor, as well as the resistance of his lieutenant on the second floor. we are willing to take a look to examine and make sure that there wasn t any action we might have taken that could ve also caused harm to innocence. do you mean indirectly or directly? in any way. i think were just going to take a look and see. right now the strong indications are that to a degree there is a loss of innocent life. it s a loss called by