On the recordApril 22, 2015
We believed this was an Al-Qaeda compound, that no civilians were present and that capturing these terrorists was not possible.
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transcripts.cnn.com“We believed this was an Al-Qaeda compound, that no civilians were present and that capturing these terrorists was not possible.”
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