scared the hell out of me. edmond safra had a crack security team. why not go to them? why not tell them the security of edmond safra is compromised and your family has been threatened? my primary motive for my silence was the safety of my family. and i wasn t going to put them at risk. ted went to work the next night. he says the window shutter he d been warned about was already open. he believes the men who stabbed him came in through that window and says all he s guilty of is trying to protect his family as well as his co-worker and boss. i believe that i stopped an assassination attempt on his life that night. but so many years after his arrest, after signing a confession, and after a trial that ended in conviction, would anyone believe ted s story now? i believe that what he s telling is the truth. attorney michael griffith of southampton, new york, reps americans imprisoned abroad.
a muddle of half truths and unproved accusations. everybody in the story ted maher believes he was witness to an assassination attempt gone awry. but we had some more questions about his version of events. can you help me understand a few more things if we can go back to the night in question. remember, ted says he was abducted two days before the attack. and told that a window shutter needed to be left open. what i don t understand about these guys is, why tell you that they re going to attack? i didn t there was no telling me they were going to attack. i was told one thing specific, i was told to make sure the valance was kept open. you re told that by guys wearing masks. if that s not an indication they were planning an attack, i don t know what it is. you re right. why tell a green beret? why warn you? you are the last person i would warn. you have an impeccable record.
scared the hell out of me. edmond safra had a crack security team. why not go to them? why not tell them the security of edmond safra is compromised and your family has been threatened? my primary motive for my silence was the safety of my family. and i wasn t going to put them at risk. ted went to work the next night. he says the window shutter he d been warned about was already open. he believes the men who stabbed him came in through that window and says all he s guilty of is trying to protect his family as well as his co-worker and boss. i believe that i stopped an assassination attempt on his life that night. but so many years after his arrest, after signing a confession, and after a trial that ended in conviction, would anyone believe ted s story now? i believe that what he s telling is the truth. attorney michael griffith of southampton, new york, reps
banker edmund safra and his nurse had to some, added up to a muddle of half-truths and unproven accusations. everybody in this story believes what suits him. ted maher believes that he was witness to an assassination attempt gone awry. but we had some more questions about his version of events. can you help me understand a few more things. if we can go back to the night in question. remember, ted says he was abducted two days before the attack. and told that a window shutter needed to be left open. what i don t understand about these guys is why tell you that they re going to attack. i didn t, there was no telling me they were going to attack. i was told one thing specific. i was told to make sure that the valance was kept open. you re told that by guys wearing masks. if that s not an indication they re planning an attack, i don t know what is. you re right. so why tell a green beret?
them. i was pushed into the van. by the man that was on the sidewalk. they abducted you. correct. threw you in the van? correct. ted says his abductors wore masks, had a gun and spoke in thick mediterranean accents. i was told some very specific things. and i said, i don t know what this all is about, but i m not going to do anything to hurt anyone. and i was told that i only had to do one thing. that one thing? ensure that a window shutter or steel valance was left open near the nursing station. i said i m not doing anything to endanger anyone. at that point i was shown pictures of my family. and i couldn t believe what i was shown. you re telling me somebody has pictures of your family back in new york that they re showing you in the back of a van in the south of france? yes. these were surveillance photos? yes, they were. yes, they were.