important in the organization. they weren t just guards. they had more of a supervisory role and were tasked to make videos of them perhaps they were going to use these videos as proof of life. but one thing that s really interesting they learned from the hostages is there s all this debate about when this guy radicalized. but when he said he finished college he went to tanzania in 2009. and he denied wanting to go there to join al shabab in somalia. but yet when he was holding the hostages i reported this in the story, he was obsessed with al shabab. and he had them watch videos of al shabab when he was holding these hostages. so there are real indications by the time he leaves the country in 2009 to go to africa where he stopped, he s already radicalized. so you said he was obsessed with al shabab. why didn t he go join al shabab? why isis? is it because isis is just the name of the game at this hour?
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key link figure between various al qaeda affiliates in yemen, between al shabab in somalia. he is somebody who has deep connections to militants in the west because of the time he spent in the west in recent years. reporter: al qaeda in the arabian peninsula base in the yemen is now considered the most dangerous of the al qaeda affiliates. cnn has been shown encrypted videos. they show context between him and the american born cleric, anwar al alooki. when he starts to work closer with al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. reporter: kenyan officials are looking at a nor weekan krit. the citizen is believed to have
alert the target, in this case, libby. that he will alter his patterns. so what is also support, you don t want the alert one with word coming out in somalia of an effort taking place or to precede it with something taking place in libya. those would be aberrant behaviors. the news would get out very quickly. you want to keep those as closely coordinated as you can. i would suggest this speaks highly of our d.o.d. you have the african command that provides the outer ring in libya and you have the central command with the raid in somalia and certainly with the special operations forces working within both of those. this is highly, highly coordinated, exceptionally well tranld folks can pull this off. okay. gary, let s talk about this. you re a former cia officer. you heard what general marks said. do you think that is unusual that the military and not cia operatives perhaps were send in to get the suspects?
custody. in an exclusive interview with his wife, she told cnn that she saw the men snatch her husband were libyan. she said there were other men involved but she couldn t confirm if they were americans. libya s government publicly has deemed his camden you are a kidnapping. u.s. special forces conducted a special operation 3,000 miles away in somalia. the mission didn t go as planned. u.s. forces were forced to retreat. one suspect was killed. his identity, still unknown. these raids were launched back to back in countries that of become havens for terrorists. joining me, major general james marks, and cia officer gary burnson on the phone from jacksonville, florida. gentlemen, you know, we have our most elite forces, s.e.a.l. team 6 go into somalia. camden you are the leader of al
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