The Pentagon stands by its investigation into the suicide bombing that killed 13 US service members and scores of Afghans last summer after a CNN investigation raised questions about whether some may have been hit by gunfire.
The Pentagon's investigation, released last week, said everyone died as a result of the attack on August 26, but a four-month-long CNN investigation -- which included an interview with a doctor who said he removed bullets from the bodies of several people -- raises serious questions about whether the attack was fully investigated.
The US said no one was shot. A CNN investigation raises questions 10:05"There was no way that we could speak to doctors in the hospitals or those who were treated in those hospitals. Again, the focus of the investigation was to focus on what happened at that blast site and how that occurred," Kirby replied."There was lots of interviews, of people that were on scene, both in the military as well as medical personnel on Kabul at the airport. But there was no -- this all happened.
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