PREVIEW: With James Hasson, co-author with Jerry Dunleavy of KABUL, regarding how Marine snipers identified the suicide bomber but were not permitted to engage. More later.
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 16 September 2024
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is a John Bachelor conversation with the authors Jerry Dunleavy and James Hasen, their new book |
| 0:07.1 | Cabell, The Untold Story of Biden's Viasco. |
| 0:10.0 | We look at the suicide bomber, ISIS, but this particular moment James describes |
| 0:18.4 | how the sniper team identified a potential bomber. |
| 0:24.0 | Looked like, acted like, they had the alert to look out for |
| 0:28.0 | and asked for senior positions to okay them to engage. |
| 0:36.0 | James Hasn tells a story about this tragedy. |
| 0:41.0 | More of this later. |
| 0:42.0 | Sergeant Vargas Andrews was never interviewed by the Pentagon for any of this. |
| 0:46.0 | And he ended up sustaining a loss of two limbs. |
| 0:50.0 | But as he testified to Congress and as backed up by interviews, |
| 0:56.7 | transcribed interviews given to Pentagon investigators, |
| 1:00.6 | he was given a the Army psychological operations team received a threat description, |
| 1:10.4 | basically a be on the lookout description for a be on the lookout |
| 1:17.5 | a potential ISIS suicide bomber directly from Scentcom from Central Command. |
| 1:20.3 | And the SIOs team, the Sciops are a member of the US Army Special Operations Command. |
| 1:31.2 | They took that directly to the Marines in the sniper tower. |
| 1:35.2 | They passed it along. |
| 1:36.8 | And around 11 a.m. |
| 1:40.6 | or around actually, around that time roughly the maybe a little after the |
| 1:48.8 | Marines the marine team in the sniper tower whose call sign was Reaper 2, identified a person who met this |
| 1:56.8 | description exactly and was acting in the way that you would expect a suicide bomber to act. |
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