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Anti-americanism in that country. of course in this case you have americans who were killed american and italian who were the civilian casualties of this strike. >> all right, jim, stay with us. i want to bring in bob baer cnn security analyst, former officer who knows a great deal about these kinds of counter-terrorism operations. bob joins us on the phone, this obviously being a rush breaking news situation. bob, president obama is about to come to the white house brady press briefing room to talk about this counter-terrorism mission in january that failed. it was an attempt to rescue warren...

Decision a president has to make the decision to try to rescue hostages the decision to send troops into harm's way. right now what we know president obama is going to talk about is a counter-terrorism attempt, mission that went wrong. one that went wrong in january, an attempt to rescue the hostage, kenneth weinstein -- sorry, warren weinstein, an american contractor who has been held by al qaeda since august 2011. in december 2011 the al qaeda leader ayman al zawahiri claimed to hold him. last video in 2013 when warren weinstein asked president obama in his second term to do everything he co...

Welcome back to our coverage of the sad news delivered by president obama this morning that an american counter-terrorism operation in january accidentally or by some sort of faulty intelligence took the life of two innocent hostages including an american named warren weinstein who has been in the clutches of al qaeda being held hostage by al qaeda since august 2011. in addition an italian national named giovanni lo porto who had been held by al qaeda since 2012 were killed. there are also two americans killed in that strike and subsequent strike. americans who were members of al qaeda, one of...

>> we're just outside flint, michigan at sergeant amir hekmati's childhood home. but amir hasn't been home in three years. instead, he is held as a political prisoner iran. this is iran's notorious evan prison, one of the most brutal prifnts in the entire world. and for more than 1300 days a decorated american marine, amir hekmati has suffered, been tortured behind evan's walls. >> he is an american born here in arizona, served with honor and distinction in the marine corps. fought against the iraqis in iraq. >> the story begins in august 2011. hekmati, an iranian american travels to iran to v...

Suspected of being on a cia mission is totally missing. no word where he is. levinson's daughter going "on the record" with greta. >> that's why i'm here today to plead with the iranian government that, again, they do have the power to help and i just beg them the wedding is in nine days and i cannot bear to imagine that day without my father walking me down the aisle. >> but he didn't make the aisle. years later these photos released by captors showing him alive. his condition and his location still a mystery. and today more than 8 years later levinson is still missing. >> we have for eight y...