Basically out central casts for security person. so nothing to, you know, wonder about. but i must say, you know, having gone into these scenes so many times as all of my ambassador colleagues have, you always kind of look and wonder a little gee i hope someone s checked who these people are. assassin after he murdered the ambassador, obviously said a la akbar, do not forget syria. he also said more than that and i just wanted to play a little bit for you. [speaking foreign language] so what he says is get back, get back. only death will remove from here. everyone who s taken part in this oppression will one by one
Pyrotechnics and the fireworks. by what people think, they cleared downtown dubai in a calm and sensible manner. we were told 10,000 residents here to carry on as we were and enjoy the night. and at the stroke of midnight, the fireworks lit the the sky o. the only thing it was just engulfed in a lot of smoke and still is. the best of your knowledgicalle ical best of your knowled john, here you are four miles away and you mention you are just now doing a great job of explaining the kind of reassurance that officials were giving you that the show was going to go on, that you were safe, et cetera. to what degree did they give you that kind of assurance? was there a loud speaker involved? was it just, you know, face-to-face interaction if you went to a security person? how did you receive that
Making that statement that we just received. i want to go to nick in a hotel close to bamako. are you, yourself, safe? if you can, set the scene, what you have heard, what you have seen. anderson, thank you. i am safe. we re all safe. our office is right next to the radisson, so i left this morning, got my son to day care and drove to the office as on a normal day when i was called by the security person who said there was an attack going on at the radisson and we should stay put, not move. so instead of going to the office, i drove to a different hotel about a half mile away from the radisson and picked up two colleagues there in from our headquarters in baltimore and sat down there and started making phone calls to all of my
Colleagues who said, do not come to the office, stay put where you are. if you are in the office, go to the top floor and hunker down. i myself decided not to go to the office. a security person went on foot to the office as security forces were gathering toward the radisson. my security person was able to reach the office and gather all the staff on the top floor and kind of hunkered down for about an hour and a half as they were listening to the gunfire and kind of the security forces in the parameter of the hotel. once we were told it was safe and we could evacuate, we managed to get the 25 people out. niek, what can you tell me about the security at the radisson. i assume you ve been there many times. how extensive is the security?