US defence department officials say they do not know what Trump was talking about, CNN reports
Officials of the US Defence Department have contradicted President Donald Trump, saying that there is no clear indication that the massive explosion in Beirut attack“. The three officials of the US Defence Department said that they do not know what Trump was actually talking about, CNN reported.
As per CNN, one official said that if there were indications of anyone in the region pulling something off of this scale, it would have triggered an automatic increase in force protection for US troops and assets in the region. Earlier, while speaking to reporters at the White House on Tuesday, Trump had offered sympathy to the people of Lebanon after the explosion took place and he labelled the incident as “terrible attack”.
“Looks like a terrible attack. It would seem like it based on the explosion. I’ve met with some of our great generals and they just seem to feel that it was not a — some kind of manufacturing explosion type of event. This was a — seems to be according to them, they would know better than I would, but they seem to think it was an attack. It was a bomb of some kind,” CNN quoted Trump as saying.
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