after they said the 18-year-old ranted about jihad on the internet. he allegedly tried to set off an inert bomb given to him by another undercover agent. the libyan president says the embassy attacked and killed our ambassador and several others was planned and that foreigners were involved. now back to lockup. israel s rimonim prison strives to rehabilitate some of the nation s most violent criminals. but their efforts must overcome the influences of a wide range of cultures. abu amar is serving a 27-year sentence for murder. a family honor killing which until now he has not publicly
spoken about. translator: i am serving time for the murder of my sister. it s something that s hard for me to talk about. it s something very sensitive for me. abu amar says he shared a close bond with his sister, who at 22 was only a year older than he was when he killed her. when we asked him to speak about his crime, he grew very serious. his whole demeanor changed. he asked to clear the room. he has to shut the door closed. he told us, this is the first time that he s going to speak about his crime in such details. translator: she met someone through the internet. and i didn t like that. i said if the man has good intentions and all that, let him come to our house. everything will be fine. she continued with it.
and i opposed that until one day i raised my hand on her. she went to the police and made a complaint. they took me, questioned me. and since then she didn t return home. they took her to a shelter for battered women. three years passed like that. but abu amar says his extended family felt his sister s actions shamed them and that she deserved to die. translator: my uncles and all that, they put pressure on me. they decided that because of me this problem happened and to do it, only me. i come from a bedouin family. for the bedouin, it its not allowed to disrespect the family honor. she disrespected the family honor. in order to return the honor of the family, it was necessary to kill her.
did she dishonor the family because she talked with a guy or because she ran away? translator: because she talked a guy and because she also ran away from home. it took months but he eventually located the shelter where his sister was staying. and lured her to him. translator: i tried to set up the meeting with her in a quiet place with no people. and that s where i kidnapped her. and i killed her. and i killed her. abu amar says his actions still haunt him. translator: i miss her a lot. a lot. there isn t a night that i don t think about her. i have other sisters, charming, most of them married. they come with their children to our house, sit, happy.
i m cutting with a piece of metal because we don t have knives here. knives are forbidden. so we improvise. i don t want the deputy to see me. seeing him and his friends cooking in prison made it seem like we were in a fraternity house rather than a maximum security prison. he was always laughing and playing around with his friends in the cell. but when we asked him to speak about his crime, that brought us back to the reality that we are in a maximum security prison and we are dealing with a different set of cultural issues. abu amar is serving 27 years for murder. the victim was his sister. and the crime was considered a family honor killing. he grew very serious. he told us it was the first time he has ever spoken about his crime. [ male announcer ] its lightweight construction makes it nimble.