kidnapping find a pattern of betrayal by fbi agent who handled his case. you re saying the fbi sacrificed your safety in order to track al-qaeda? yes. reporter: former intelligence officials told fox the theory is more than plausible. it s a big allegation. i can prove it. sandra: he wrote the dawn prayer set to hit the shelves tuesday. matt schrier joins us live in studio now. you investigated your own kidnapping and what did you find? some disturbing fact s. at first i thought it was incompetence but the more i dug the larger the pattern became until it wasn t just coincidence and found e-mails from the fbi writing my mother saying i m okay and they froze my bank accounts and one agent left them
i memorized serial numbers on brand new windows in the cells. so that they can hack into the company s account and figured out who paid for them and funding them. where they were delivered. who they were delivered to. i kept track of the date, every date every significant event that happened when i met bin laden s commander, the top guy, i know what day it was. i gave them everything. they didn t even know that the rebel groups were fighting each other. for months it was going on and they were like they are fighting? i m like yeah, right outside my window. right outside the car when we were being transferred. they thought it was like one big happy family out there and they were shocked when they heard the truth. and now, excuse me, it s protocol. it s like everyone knows that isis fights al qaeda. martha: the information you gave them. exactly. martha: fascinating story and called the dawn prayer that was the time of day you determined after they went to prayer in the morning
martha: last night on the story we brought you the exclusive story of matthew schrier an american held hostage by al qaeda affiliate for seven months before he made an incredible escape. he came home to little fanfare. in fact, he alleges that the treatment he got from his own government was dreadful, suggesting that the fbi not only lied to his family but essentially used him as a pawn in a sick terrorist game of chess. you are saying the fbi sacrificed your safety in order to track al qaeda? yes. former intelligence officials told fox schrier s theory is more than plausible. a big allegation to make. can i prove it it. martha: red to tell his story in a new book called the dawn prayer what he learned. matthew schrier thank you for joining us tonight. thank you. martha: there are so many angles to the this story. phil, can you explain to everybody how you got out? you are locked in a cell with walls as high as you