months ago. but according to dod officials jessica had some kind of pre-existing medical condition that was worsening and had become life-threatening actually so that the fbi called the military and essentially said, hey, we need to do something and we need to do it fast. so president obama on monday gave the order to carry out this mission, this rescue mission. the military decided to do it yesterday, and they or tuesday, and they scheduled it for wednesday for whatever circumstances. and it s unclear whether there were actually any shots fired by the kidnappers because the navy s.e.a.l.s and apparently u.s. army rangers, all special operations forces, descended on that encampment late at night. many of them were apparently sleeping. in the end all nine of them were shot dead. the two hostages were rescued. they have been taken to an off-site at a u.s. military facility, medical facility, in
mr. melaku firing a weapon outside of from inside of a vehicle. what appears to be at the marine corps museum. and making a number of statements that he has done this before. that military installations are his explicit target. and that his goal is to shut them down. this gentleman was not on our radar screen prior to friday s events. and while the fbi on the east coast was announcing that news, a separate plot involving another u.s. military facility. this time on the west coast. the fbi in seattle announcing the arrest of two men facing multiple charges of terrorism and firearms violations for reportedly planning a machine gun and grenade attack on a u.s. military recruiting station. the two men were apprehended after a source who says that he or she was recruited to help with the attack. instead became an informant for the fbi. according to the criminal complaint in this case, one of
now released contains video of mr. melaku fires a weapon outside of from inside of a vehicle. what appears to be at the marine corps museum. and making a number of statements that he has done this before. that military installations are his explicit target. and that his goal is to shut them down. this gentleman was not on our radar screen prior to friday s events. and while the fbi on the east coast was announcing that news, a separate plot involving another u.s. military facility. this time on the west coast. the fbi in seattle announcing the arrest of two men facing multiple charges of terrorism and firearms violations for reportedly planning a machine gun and grenade attack on a u.s. military recruiting station. the two men were apprehended after a source who says that he or she was recruited to help with the attack. instead became an informant for the fbi. according to the criminal complaint in this case, one of the men arrested, quote, told the source that the attack would
the complaint which we have now released contains video of mr. melaku fires a weapon outside of from inside of a vehicle. what appears to be at the marine corps museum. and making a number of statements that he has done this before. that military installations are his explicit target. and that his goal is to shut them down. this gentleman was not on our radar screen prior to friday s events. and while the fbi on the east coast was announcing that news, a separate plot involving another u.s. military facility. this time on the west coast. the fbi in seattle announcing the arrest of two men facing multiple charges of terrorism and firearms violations for reportedly planning a machine gun and grenade attack on a u.s. military recruiting station. the two men were apprehended after a source who says that he or she was recruited to help with the attack. instead became an informant for the fbi.
he was a military target. as a military target, you know, you are going to get killed in an armed conflict. the only question in my mind it seems to me is whether or not did he try to surrender? if he tries to surrender, you have an obligation not to execute him, but, again, in the circumstances as i understand it and let s be very clear here, you know, i don t know what i don t know about what really happened. we re still unraveling, and the facts seem to change daily, but based on what i have observed and based on what i know, this seems to be a totally justified killing. if we had been able to take him alive say they go up the stairs, and he is standing there waving a white flag, hands in the air, where would we have taken him? i assume he would have been taken to some kind of u.s. military facility, and then we would get into the discussion about, okay, what do we do with him? do we bring him to justice immediately? do we simply detain him as an enemy combatant, that we re