from the compound they were about to assault, where they believe the hostages were being held. they were discovered. a firefight broke out. and it became clear that the hostages were very quickly killed, shot at by one of the terrorists. the navy seals who were able to kill all the terrorists there, all the members of the al qaeda group and take these two hostages out and try and medically stablize them, keep them alive enough to get them medical treatment but what unfortunately happened, one of the hostages died on the aircraft going back to the navy ship and one of the hostages died then back aboard the navy ship while they were rendered medical care. it was an extraordinary effort by the navy seals. they are deep inside yemen, deep inside hostile territory and they spent a total of 30 minutes on the ground. they had to hike 6 miles to view
deadly twin u.s. bombing attacks in africa back in 1998. al-libi was snapped after returning to morning prayers in tripoli. meanwhile 3,000 miles away, s.e.a.l. team 6, the same unit that killed osama bin laden went after another high valued target. commanders storm a home in somalia, thought to belong to the leader of al shabab. that is the terrorist group blamed for the attack in kenya. but it didn t go as planned. a firefight broke out. u.s. forces were forced to retreat. one suspect was killed but it is unclear had a that is. we re hearing incredible details of what went down during the u.s. forces raid in libya straight from the way of. she spoke exclusive on cnn about what unfolded. what she says is raising a lot of eyebrows. translator: what i saw were libyans. mabd they had americans with
what we heard from a nato spokesman today is that the site where this crash took place is secure. it s been sealed off. that the recovery and cleanup operation is still under way. but that not all of the remains have yet to be identified. the u.s. military has not put out a specific sequence of events, how this actually took place, but speaking to witnesses to members of the taliban, we ve been able to put together a picture of what happened when this helicopter went down. it began just in the very early hours on saturday. and u.s. army rangers were carrying out this raid on taliban compound according to the taliban there were 12 militants in this compound about 60 miles southwest of kabul. a firefight broke out. it lasted 30 to 40 minutes. at that stage navy s.e.a.l.s primarily were called in as a rescue element and that rescue operation was going fairly well. they managed to secure the location, stop or at least slow
confronted with overwhelming opposition from either inside the compound or pakistani forces responding to the mini american invasion. cnn has learned during the 38 minute raid, some commandos positioned themselves outside the compound walls, to keep pakistanis away. administration sources say the s.e.a.l.s were prepared to defend themselves and their mission. that could have meant shooting pakistani forces, if necessary. top u.s. officials gathered at the white house, were prepared to call their pakistani counterparts to intercede if a firefight broke out. it never came to that. this was a complete surprise to them. and in circumstances of surprise, people take a little while to get themselves organized. there may be more to it. pentagon and cia officials will not comment on any effort to monitor and disrupt pakistani military communications and radar, rendering this ally blind. i would have to just guess
come in and be of any help if, in fact, a firefight broke out. and so he pressed for adjustments to the plan and that ultimately led to the decision to bring in the four helicopters, one of which you may recall was used because one of the attack helicopters, of course, had that hard landing and had to be destroyed ultimately. they didn t get into a firefight, but i think the importance of the story is that it indicates that president obama was willing to risk what would have been a pretty huge blowup with the pakistanis, even larger than what you have seen now, in order to get those troops out of the country. tell me about what you know from reporting about how justified that decision was. well, i think it was a precaution that was built into an assumption that if they had called the pakistanis to say, after the attack began, don t worry, these helicopters are american, the u.s. is going