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In a brazen attack on a civilian facility on Wednesday, terrorists in Afghanistan launched an unsuccessful rocket attack on the international airport in Kabul. The apparent target of the attack was Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and the airplane he arrived on, but he was far from there at the time. Despite this heinous assault on civilians in the hopes of killing a U.S. official, and the network previously mentioning it, CBS Evening News failed to report an update on the situation.
In a news brief during NBC Nightly News, Anchor Lester Holt noted that “both ISIS and the Taliban claim they targeted Defense Secretary James Mattis in a rocket attack on Afghanistan's main airport today. But Mattis had actually left the airport hours before, according to the Afghan President.”
ABC’s World News Tonight ran a much longer report where Chief Global Affairs Correspondent Martha Raddatz went into greater detail:
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