Chairman of the house intelligence committee, had i oversight of all 16 of our nations intelligence agencies. My name is mike rodgers. I had access to classified information gathered by our operatives, people who risked everything for the United States and our families. You dont know their faces or their names. You dont know the real stories from the people who live the fear and the pressure until now. Todays attack comes after several months of growing violence in the middle east. Its the sort of incident that became familiar in the mid1970s when palestinian terrorism was at its height. Terrorist groups in the 80s were more active and more effective than they are today. At that time, you had terrorist groups throughout the world operating virtually unchallenged. You had hezbollah, you had ha maz, you had the abu na dal organization. Abu nadal was viewed as the most heathal as all of the Palestinian Terrorist groups. December 27th, terrors as we know attacked rome and Vietnam Internati
hysterical. rezaq picked her up, pulled her by the hair, shot her and she fell. tamar artzi saw her friend laying there. her body was moving. i thought she was as injured as me. i didn t think she was injured so badly. and i kept telling myself, go away from here. it is dangerous from here. but where should i go? at the same time, the three americans are seated in the front row. their hands are tied behind their backs with neckties. rogenkamp, baker and pflug. in time, patrick baker, come forward. patrick was the first american. tall, 6 5 . patrick was thinking, there must be something i can do. perhaps i can kick him or
jackie pflug is called forward. jackie is brought to the front of the aircraft. the gun is placed to her head and she is shot. she tumbles down. she tumbled down the stairs and lay on the tarmac for hours. i can t even begin to imagine what that feels like. it made me mad, what he did to those people. eventually, a maltese truck approached the aircraft to collect the body of jackie pflug. and found out she was alive. the american ambassador made
going. there was two cars standing there. i was so cold. i said, i m getting into the cars to get warm. when i got close to them, the doors were open. somebody came out. they were police. they put me to the ambulance. i m laying down, and they covered me. i keep thinking, unbelievable. the song that went on in my head was the one thing that kept telling me, keep hoping. don t lose hope. you know, that s what saved me. there s no more shooting during the night. so a maltese van with two police officers pick up the bodies of mendelson and rogenkamp. at some point the next day, rezaq comes out of the cockpit. jackie pflug is called forward.
rogenkamp. at some point the next day, rezaq comes out of the cockpit. jackie pflug is called forward. placed a gun to her head, and she s shot. she tumbles down. she tumbled down the stairs and lay on the tarmac for hours. i can t even begin to imagine what that feels like. it made me mad, what he did to those people. eventually, a maltese truck approached the aircraft to collect the body of jackie pflug and found out she was alive. the american ambassador made