The structures were located at the Abu Kamal Terrorist Entry Control Point, located near the Syria Iraq border.

On the Syrian side, this location is known to facilitate Iranian aligned militia group activity.

As we made clear last night and I think the president Biden's order, he made clear that the United States will act to protect American and coalition personnel and our security interests in the region.

POINT Did it become clear who was behind the rocket attack in Air Bill and And how long did it take you to sort of decide on the target and carry out the operation, and also with the other rocket attacks at Balad Air Base and the Green Zone afterward, with those also linked to those same groups?

Well, when we referred to when we refer to the justification for the strikes, we talked about recent attacks, so I'd leave it at that that certainly you can take away from that that this structure was hit because we know it was utilized by groups that were responsible for for, uh, these recent attacks?

Not just Uh huh.

Erbil.

I don't know.

I can't give you a date certain, Dan, When you know when all of a sudden the, You know, the light bulb went on and we knew, You know, this is this was the These were the groups, And this is what we were gonna, uh, what we're gonna do.

But I I can tell you that the president himself authorized this, uh, yesterday morning.