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>> maliki will meet with president obama and asking for help from a wave of terrorism sweeping across his country and 7,000 iraqi citizens killed so far this year. he wants apache helicopters and better access to u.s. intelligence warning if terrorists succeed in destabilizing iraq, it will be a disaster, he says for the world. cnn has learned cia security officers will now testify behind closed doors. at a house hearing on benghazi, they are expected to provide greater details about the terror attack that killed ambassador chris stevens and others last year. they have been trying to get acc...

After a bit of backtracking the military aid to egypt will be cut. halting delivery of f-16s, apache helicopters, harpoon missiles and tank parts. it all adds up to about $500 million which is nearly half of the $1.3 billion in annual military aid the united states gives egypt. a lot of people have been asking why the united states hasn't cut off aid to egypt as hundreds if not thousands have been killed in violent clashes with the interim government which forcibly removed the interim president from power. according that's a lot of money. it dwarfs the u.s. military aid. that might then govern...

Today we will get the details. apache helicopters sent to the egyptian military. f-16 fighter jets and m 1 a 1 abrams tanks it will not be a complete diminution of all the aid, some will continue to be sent to the military there. that aid to be used in counter terrorism projects which are in the sinai peninsula and border project on the gaza strip. no coincidence that both of those border israelened at u.s. and of course the israelis, shep, both have a vested interest in the egyptian military remaining very strong in those two areas in particular. >> shepard: the egyptian president deposed, no...

Moment, because what it meant was that the operation that we thought we were going to do suddenly turned into this very dire situation. >> i remember as soon as we heard that bang, we knew something was wrong. and then we heard the most disturbing thing. we could hear the soldiers crying out for help, crying out in pain. and it was a horrible thing. >> there was nothing we could do other than watch and film. >> the mission changes to a rescue, as apache helicopters are called in to retrieve the wounded. >> everything was incredibly dangerous at that stage because you're trying to extract wound...

And kind of flush people out. >> two apache helicopters are providing air support and cameras mounted on their gun sights are recording the mission. wikileaks added the subtitles on the video, but the audio you hear is the pilot's actual radio chatter. >> we got a target coming at you. >> the pilots spot a group of men they suspect are insurgents carrying weapons. >> have individuals with weapons. >> he's got a weapon, too. >> there's at least 20 of them. >> oh, yeah. >> because the men are all dressed similarly, the pilots don't realize that two of them are journalists. photographer amir nour...