I'm John Batchford. I welcome my good colleague of many years, Bill Rajio, the senior

fellow for the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy, keeping the Long War journal.

A story that is moving, fog of war, we have what detail exists right now.

But tomorrow and next week and beyond that, it's the strike on a school where there was class in session.

We're told now, according to the information I have from Reuters,

175 dead, 100 wounded, identified it as a girl's school

as part of a complex of buildings that are associated with

or at one time we're associated with a naval headquarters.

Bill, a very good evening to you.

I have this generally because it's a moving story.

There are politics here, but I want to get the details.

What is it that we now acknowledge, or the U.S. appears to acknowledge, happened on the first hours of the war. Good evening to you. Good evening, John.

Yeah, and this certainly is a tragedy. You know, there's a difficult events that happen.

You know, no war is bloodless. It's impossible to have a war without civilian casualties.

My experience in embedding with U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and observing other

operations that the military tries, it's hardest, but it's inevitable that they will fail.

In this case, and this is all based on reporting from anonymous sources involved with the

Defense Intelligence, I'm sorry, the defense intelligence

agency investigation, which is still ongoing. So the report hasn't even been released yet.

This school apparently was part of a naval base that was operated by the Islamic Revolutionary

Guard Corps. That's the,

basically the Preatorian Guard for the Iranian regime. Yes, they operated Navy as well as an

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