hurry. the tape cuts to another room, a massive black isis flag hangs on one wall and kurdish commando heads to a hallway that is lined with what could be prisoner cells. one of them still secured with a padlock. then another edit in the tape. an ar-15 rifle fire rings out again. finally to this scene, hostages being frisked. at this moment these troops don t know for sure if they are prisoners or isis fighters trying to conceal identity. they are searched for weapons, suicide vests and what the u.s. military would call pocket litter, phone numbers, information, any intelligence written down that could be passed to someone on the outside. then we see and hear americans for the first time. hold that guy there. we got four coming. the soldier on the right our analyst said has markings on his helmet and sleeve consays tant
this man appears to have blood on his clothes. as more and more hostages are rushed out, kurdish commandos yell at them in arabic to move, move very quick and none of the hostages have shoes. our analysts believes their isis captors wanted them barefoot to make escape even harder. about 30 seconds into the video what looks like controlled chaos turns into mayhem. mixed in with it is the sound after ak-47s most likely used by hostage fighters. they are told over and over to hurry. the tape cuts to another room, a massive black isis flag hangs on one wall and kurdish commando heads to a hallway that is lined with what could be prisoner cells. one of them still secured with a padlock. then another edit in the tape.