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Fbi for 31 years. ive met a lot of very, very bad people. but never in my life have i felt i was in the presence of evil. >> thats a powerful statement. going back to the hijacking itself, did this case provide any lessons when it comes to dealing with hijackers who are holding hostages? >> it does. several lessons were learned from this very, very tragic hijacking. after the pastors were shot, egyptair commandos launched a rescue attempt. they placed a explosive device, a small breaching charge...

The egyptian commando teams. it was a chaotic situation. >> rezaq starts to runoff into the darkness. he is shot through the chest by commandos. >> once this scene has been secured, the extent of the damage and death becomes apparent. >> at least eight passengers were killed by gunfire. the other 51 were killed by the fire and the smoke. >> the families, the children who were killed, theyre egyptian. theyre palestinian. lebanese. it makes no sense. >> it was a catastrophe. plain and simple. thos...

I thought, boy, that seems like an awful lot. i knew the explosive was simtex. it was written on the side of the box. and its very, very powerful stuff. >> the egyptian commandos come up with their game plan. they send a small force to assault the front door. and they send a small force to the back of the aircraft, where they place some explosives on the cargo hold. theyre trying to create a diversion at the back of the aircraft. unfortunately, they seem to have miscalculated the amount of explo...

And the offer was politely rebuffed. its an egyptian aircraft. the egyptian government belonged with the maltese. they are the two responsible government parties in this case. its not the united states. then i was notified by the ambassador that the egyptian offer of sending in their hostage rescue force had been accepted by the maltese. that, to me, signalled that at least this thing was going to come to an end one way or the other. so the egyptian team landed. and i watched the plane get off l...

Challenges the iraqi soldiers are facing, telling good guys from bad on the battlefield. >> isis has had a very deliberate campaign to put humans as obstacles between the advancing security forces just by creating uncertainty amongst the army, amongst the police, amongst the commandos that these civilians were attempt itting to rescue may present a threat to use because youve embedded a bomber in them. that creates some advantages for isis. >> what possible benefit, military benefit could isis g...

>> what are you going to do? are you going to go harder, faster? what happens now? >> really its what they choose to do. its all their for them. >> what did they choose to do? >> its all there for them. >> as we climbed into his cramped armored vehicle, i asked colonel work about the challenges the iraqi soldiers are facing, telling good guys from bad on the battlefield. >> isis has had a very deliberate campaign to put humans as obstacles between the advancing security forces just by creating u...

Drama play out in front of them. >> the israeli hostages and the arab commandos who have held them hostage for this entire day has now left to a makeshift helicopter pad at the back of the olympic village. >> the israelis wanted to come in and try and rescue them, and the germans said no. you know, when a bad number comes up, it comes up very bad. >> we find that this drama has not ended. >> the german police were sent up at the nearby air base to neutralize the terrorists and thereby rescue the...

Confirmed, though anything confirmed today is difficult, that these guerillas are from the very extreme left-wing group called black september. >> the communique ended with the appeal revolutionaries of the world unite. >> black september actually came out of fattah. fattah was yasser arafat. he had been involved in the palestinian cause since the 1960s. >> arafat thought he was the leader of the palestinians, and he was, in effect. i mean, he couldnt control all i mean, he couldnt control all o...

Confirmed today is difficult, that these guerillas are from the very extreme left-wing group called black september. >> the communique ended with the appeal revolutionaries of the world unite. >> black september actually came out of fattah. fattah was yasser arafat. he had been involved in the palestinian cause since the 1960s. >> arafat thought he was the leader of the palestinians, and he was, in effect. i mean, he couldnt control all i mean, he couldnt control all of them, but ina much as the...

A little bit longer. >> julie: so you think they should taper it and move on? >> think about this. when can we get it right, not fast, but right, the move on to tax reform. everyone across the board, whether you are a democrat, independent, republican, you want sort of tax reform. it is better for the economy. get those under your belt and then tackle health care later. it took obama years to do it. the g.o.p. is trying to do it in five years. >> julie: this could bite them where it hurts if the...