Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support is provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios in Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening, and thanks for joining us. An american hostage has been killed in a failed rescue attempt in yemen. 33yearold photojournalist luke somers had been held by al qaeda militants for nearly a year. The group recently issued a videotape, threatening his life. Somers was fatally shot by his captors last night when u. S. Special forces launched the raid on a village in the Southern Province of shabwa. He died from those wounds. One local tribal leader said commandos landed in helicopters, deployed concussion grenades and stormed four different houses. A South African captive was also ki
Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support is provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios in Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening, and thanks for joining us. An american hostage has been killed in a failed rescue attempt in yemen. 33yearold photojournalist luke somers had been held by al qaeda militants for nearly a year. The group recently issued a videotape, threatening his life. Somers was fatally shot by his captors last night when u. S. Special forces launched the raid on a village in the Southern Province of shabwa. He died from those wounds. One local tribal leader said commandos landed in helicopters, deployed concussion grenades and stormed four different houses. A South African captive was also ki
Good evening. Im dan harris. The special Operations Forces were on a dangerous mission, facing an urgent deadline. Al qaeda threatening to kill this american hostage, luke somers, a freelance photographer, by today, if their demands were not met. The commandos launched an overnight raid into yemen to rescue somers but it went bad. He was executed by his captors. Today president obama called it a barbaric murder. Abcs chief investigative correspondent brian ross is here with the details of this harrowing operation. Reporter good evening, dan. It was a high risk operation. Under full moon and little element of strategic surprise because of an earlier failed rescue attempt ten days ago. U. S. Officials decided there was no choice but to try it given the imminent threat. U. S. Officials believe that al qaeda had planned to execute 33yearold luke somers some time after sunup today. It was a very dangerous and complicated mission. But like always in these efforts, theres risk. Reporter the r
Hostage were evacuated alive but they died of their wounds en route to a u. S. Navy ship. Defense secretary chuck hagel in afghanistan today addressed the rescue missions difficulties. This mission, which there will be more detail forthcoming, was extremely wellexecuted. It was a very dangerous and complicated mission. But like always in these efforts, there is risk. Somers, a photojournalist, was abducted in yemens capital back in 2013. South african teacher who was also killed was seized in may of 2013. Nbcs Kristen Welker is at the white house for us with the very latest on this. What are you hearing from there at 1600 pennsylvania . Reporter alex, ive been talking to Senior Administration officials and they tell me once that video of luke somers was released on thursday in which aqap terrorists threatened to kill him, officials determined based on that and other intelligence, that he would be killed on saturday. So that set off a chain of highlevel meetings at the department of def
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