(6. September 2009) Twenty minutes later, two F-15E Strike Eagles arrived. A video camera pod beamed live images to Klein‘s command center. He and his troops could see the trucks — and scores of people around them.

His intelligence chief had spoken to an Afghan source who insisted that everyone at the site was an insurgent. The description of the scene the source provided was similar to what Klein was seeing beamed from the F-15.

„The whole story matched 100 percent,“ Klein said.