general, what you look at this video, what stands out for you first of all. reporter: first of all, it is a train and assist mission. it is a gopro video on one of the helmets of a peshmerga soldier likely. you can hear american soldiers in the background continuing to train. they are not participating in the operation as much as they are giving direction to the peshmerga. you are hearing them say stop that good night there. you got to keep them flowing. those are the kind of directions they are making. the other thing you notice is it is a well-trained force. they are going in in what is called either a stack four or sfak six. we are conducting a clearing operation of that facility, and that is difficult to do when there are multiple rooms and they are moving fast because they have so many prisoners. the checking that nick paton walsh mentioned they are looking for suicide vests or suicide bombs but looking for pocket literature, kind of information that might be on the individually
future of the muslim brotherhood. mohammed morsi is less the issue than the muslim brotherhood. they say don t become part of a democrat democraticic / party. the message was, hey, we have a democratically elected president and look what happened. that s what the united states has to manage, israel has to manage and other countries in the region. was the administration taken completely by surprise if you look over the course of a few days going into this there certainly wasn t any indication there would be anything from the military except a muted response, these plans that were leaked that suggest there would be a clearing operation that would go on over the course of days, certainly nothing about killing women and children. well, right. again, i don t necessarily know what the strategy is.
yes, their fighting will continue, even if they breach the outer walls. then they have to go and try to clear room to room. but then you are not dealing with a heavy weapon or tanks and artillery firing on the city, then it is more of a clearing operation like soldiers do when they move through a compound. yes, that could cause a lot of casualties, but it is not going to cause a lot of damage throughout the city. all righty. celebratory gunfire, but we don t know exactly what s happened inside the compound except that reporter: it could be a little premature. but it seems like the beginning of the end, yes? reporter: the beginning of the end, perhaps. once you breach the wall and they are fighting inside, it is a big compound, but you can t fight inside a walled compound forever. richard engel, thank you so much for your extraordinary reporting. the celebratory gunfire makes me more nervous here than it does with richard s experience there.
u.s. warship some 600 yards away and just about simultaneously there were gunshots heard from below deck aboard the yacht. u.s. special operations forces immediately jumped into boats and headed toward the yacht. interestingly enough, as they approached the yacht, many of the pirates who were on board came out on deck with their hands raised. but it was when those special operations forces got below deck, they found the four hostages who had been mortally wounded. lifesaving efforts were attempted but they died of their wounds. they also found two dead pirates and in the ensuing clearing operation, special operations forces had to shoot and kill another pirate and then in a hand-to-hand battle, a u.s. special operations force actually stabbed to death one of the other pirates. what the big question is what is it that triggered the shooting of those hostages today? and that is what u.s. military
the borders for support. but there has been a long history of taliban receiving support from outside the afghanistan-pakistan region. it s not clear if this is something new, sign of desperation, or another recruiting and financial plea video. now over the past few months, though, u.s. commanders have been talking about the success they ve had in clearing places like kandahar and helmand. they say it s further evidence of the continued success of the surge. now there are questions about how serious and how successful this clearing operation has been here recently. some commanders on the ground will tell you they won t know if the surge and the clearing operations are successful until the summertime. they re not sure if the taliban have been cleared out or simply left as the winter weather started to move in to here and afghanistan. as there is, if there wasn t enough confusion today, afghan president hamid karzai told the washington post in an interview that he believes the u.s. shou