Thread by @jseldin

Happening NOW: @CENTCOM Cmdr Gen. Kenneth "Frank" McKenzie briefs on the investigation into the August 26, 2021 #ISIS-#Khorasan bombing at Abbey Gate, Hamid Karzai International Airport that killed 13 US servicemembers & at least 170 Afghans

"The investigation found that a single, explosive device killed at least 170 Afghan civilians & 13 U.S. servicemembers by explosively directing ball bearings through a packed crowd and into our men & women at Abbey gate" per @CENTCOM's McKenzie

"The investigation found no definitive proof that anyone was ever hit or killed by gunfire, either U.S. or Afghan" per @CENTCOM's McKenzie, citing more than 100 sworn witnesses

"This conclusion was also confirmed by the findings & analysis by medical examiners & explosive experts, a review of all available physical evidence, & a review of all available video evidence including an MQ9 unmanned aerial vehicle" per @CENTCOM's McKenzie

"The investigation differs from what we initially believed on the day of the attack" per @CENTCOM's McKenzie

"At the time, the best information we had in the immediate aftermath of the attack indicated that it was a complex attack by both a suicide bomber & #ISIS-K gunmen" per @CENTCOM's McKenzie

"We now know that the explosively-fired ball bearings caused wounds that looked like gunshots, and when combined with a small number of warning shots that led many to assume that a complex attack had occurred" per @CENTCOM's McKenzie

More now from Army LtGen Ronald Clark and Army BrigGen Lance Curtis

"This was not a complex attack" by a single #ISIS-K attacker, per BrigGen Curtis "There were no gunshot wounds"

"We found no evidence that post past US servicemembers killed other US servicemembers or Afghans" per Curtis

Correction: "We found no evidence that post blast US servicemembers killed other US servicemembers or Afghans" per BrigGen Curtis

MORE: US military officials say the bomb used by the lone #ISIS #Khorasan attacker was directional, detonated on command, & used 20 lbs of military grade explosives to propel the ball bearings

#HKIA #AbbeyGate

MORE: US military investigators says while US troops did fire some warning shots following the blast at #HKIA's #AbbeyGate there is "no proof" those shots hit or wounded anyone

"The blast created instant chaos and sensory overload" per one of the US military investigators

#HKIA's #AbbeyGate

Look at where US, #Britain troops fired shots following the #ISIS #Khorsasan bombing at #HKIA

Some of the warning shots echoed, making it sound like there may have been a firefight but there was none, per investigators

"We don't have any evidence thru the course of our investigation that leads us to believe the #Taliban knew about the attack" per BrigGen Lance Curtis

#HKIA #AbbeyGate

"There were multiple threat streams during the course of operations at #HKIA" per BrigGen Lance Curtis

"They were very non-specific..." he says, saying nothing that would have given troops reason to believe the bombing was imminent

Aug26 Bombing at #HKIA #AbbeyGate - "Based upon our investigation, at the tactical level, this was not preventable" says Army BrigGen Lance Curtis

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