Alex Horton

And then minutes later, when it was clear there were survivors, ordered the second strike to comply with that intent to kill everyone on board.

Yes.

We don't know his exact verbiage, but that was his statement.

his message to folks like Admiral Bradley.

He is right that he has a busy job and there's a lot to do.

What he's talking about is what we reported, too, that everyone believed that the strike was a lethal success and they did the original intent, which was to kill them.

Since the boat was on fire and obscured what was happening there, that I think, based on folks I've spoken to, that people just assumed that the mission was over.

There was nothing else to do.

So what it sounds like is he watched it, he saw it, it was on fire, he believed it was mission accomplished, and he went on with his day.

I mean, it really depends on how this was packaged for everyone.

You know, when a mission like this happens, there's the after action review.

And a lot of times it's a very short and succinct summary of what happened.

And it could be that when this was rolled up for Hegseth's review or for Trump's review, if it even went to the White House, would say something to the effect of,

You know, on September 2nd, the task force carried out a mission targeting one vessel with 11 crew, 11 crew KIA with four weapons released.

It might say something to that effect.

Does it go into a complete narrative of the decision making?

Maybe and maybe not.

So it could be that they didn't understand, you know, the finer details of the events, just that the overall situation.

ending was the same of 11 people were killed.

And that's what Trump put on True Social later that day, was 11 people killed.