Erik Prince

Because I was trying to get them.

There's one thing I understand is military bureaucracies.

And the IDF has a lot of brave but stubborn people.

And I knew they'd have a problem with the tunnels.

And I didn't think they'd have a pretty good idea of the technology that's grown in directional horizontal drilling.

And so I brought them a solution.

Because I think the reason they're having so much problems is they literally walked into the fight that Hamas wanted to have.

Hamas wants to maximize civilian casualties and to draw them into urban combat.

And so the amount of bombing that the Israelis have done in and around civilians, whatever the number is, Hamas says it's this number, IDF says it's this number, it's really, really giving them a black eye in the international media.

Yeah.

And I was trying to prevent that and prevent civilians from getting killed in the crossfire of all this bombing by bringing the best of Texas in horizontal drilling to flood the tunnels and had, I mean, even 12,000 horsepower turbine engines, driving pumps moving 60,000 gallons a minute.

So you're filling an Olympic swimming pool in a few seconds.

To be able to drill horizontally,

And once you hit tunnels, to just flood it.

So it would have done three things.

Flooded all their underground arms caches.

It would have prevented them using tunnels for maneuver.

And three, some say, well, it would have drowned the hostages.

No, it would have forced them to move the hostages because they don't want dead hostages.

Dead hostages are worth nothing to Hamas.