Transcript for Taliban claims it targeted US defense chief's plane in attack on Kabul airport

Overnight a brazen attack on the airport in Kabul Afghanistan sharpening the debate over America's longest war in an attack on an international airport anywhere in the world. There's a criminal act. By terrorists ices and the Taliban are both claiming to have been targeting Defense Secretary James Mattis is plain. Terrorists firing forty rounds of munitions mostly in the form of rocket propelled grenades but that is safe and the Presidential Palace to terrorism is or splurge for everyone in this world. The stunning assault an apparent response to the addition of 3000 US troops in Afghanistan. This is about making sure that Afghanistan doesn't once again become a safe haven. For international terrorist. That it's accompanied by the Secretary General of NATO. During his first visit to the region since that announcement. Through our partnership we will suffocate any hope that al-Qaeda. Or ice fish dash. The Connie or the Taliban have of winning by killing. The Defense Secretary undeterred and doubling down on US strategy it is what it is but it's also the reason why we band together. And we don't we don't question what we're doing here. And those 3000 additional US troops are already on their way to the region. Once they arrived there will be 141000. American boots on the ground in Afghanistan. That's more than when the US invaded seventeen years ago. Aerial rash FA BC news New York.

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