Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government have approved a deal for the release of some of the hostages held by Hamas. Dan O’Shea, retired Navy SEAL commander and former coordinator of the State Department’s Hostage Working Group, joins CBS News to discuss what the deal could mean for both Israel and Hamas. Source
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in the video looks like sheer chaos. hard to tell what is happening sometimes to a seasoned proit looks different. glad to be joined by former fbi assistant director and former navy seal, former coordinator for the hostage working group at the u.s. embassy in baghdad and vice president of grom technologies. you spent years working on drug cartel cases. when you see this raid, what do you make of it and the importance he is back in custody and facing extradition? well, yeah, sure, one thing is for clear, they were trained by u.s. special forces. they were moving well. they were very sound tactically. you know, what we re looking at here is a mass murderer and i think a lot of people that gets lost when you see actors like sean penn sort of becoming cartel groupies. he killed thousands of people. we re not looking at a lovable
he went down there. the marines found it. that tunnel led to a sewer system. they chased him through the sewer system but he was able to get out, get to a vehicle and drive off. he was captured a short time later so in the end, that mission was successful. as we said, he s awaiting extradition. thanks very much. raids like the one we just saw in the video looks like sheer chaos. hard to tell what is happening sometimes. to a seasoned pro, it looks different. glad to be joined by former fbi assistant director and former navy seal, former coordinator for the hostage working group at the u.s. embassy in baghdad and vice president of grom technologies. you spent years working on drug cartel cases. when you see this raid, what do you make of it and the importance he is back in custody and facing extradition? well, yeah, sure, one thing is for clear, they were trained by u.s. special forces. they were moving well. they were very sound tactically. you know, what we re looking at here is a
weinstein weinstein. his family paid a 200,000 ransom to get him freed. should families be negotiating with terrorists at all? here to debate that is former bush senior advisor on hostage rescue policy and former coordinator for the hostage working group at the u.s. embassy in iraq. what about this should we be allowing rich people to negotiate to get their loved ones back? well in reality of th of kidnapping ransom payments is generally how you get your people back. but, again, the u.s. policy in my humble opinion, needs to stay out of the private sector side. when you establish a policy it becomes perception that the u.s. will pay for hostages or allow families to do so, it sets a dangerous precedent. you can understand families are doing everything they can to get their loved ones back.