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Under cover of darkness. administration officials believed that al qaeda militants would carry out their threat and kill somers on saturday if rescuers didn t get to him in time, but a walled compound, armed militants and even a barking dog stood between the rescuers and somers. all this was happening as a south african relief group gift of the givers says it was negotiating for fellow hostage pierre korkie to be freed today. a senior state department official tells cnn the obama administration did not know that. cnn s sunlin serbati has more details about the failed raid. reporter: the mission extremely risky and made urgent when u.s. intelligence shows american luke somers would be murdered by saturday morning. by midmorning friday, the president authorizes the rescue, giving no hint of the drama about to play out. just a few hours later, according to u.s. officials, two b-22 ospreys under cover of darkness touched down in a remote area of yemen, some six ....
Tried to rescue american photo journalist luke somers and south african hostage pierre korkie. they were being held by the al qaeda group in the arabian peninsula. they say the navy seals team hiked six miles from their drop zone and were spotted just 100 yard away from the militant s compound. that s when a feergs firefight broke out. u.s. officials say one terrorist immediately ran inside the compound and then shot the hostages. the navy seals were able to evacuate somers and korkie and a u.s. medical team spent a half an hour on the ground in yemen trying to save them. one guide on the way to a monita u.s. ship. the other died on the ship. no special forces were killed in the operation. cnn joins us now from the white house with more on this. len, what more are u.s. officials saying about the timing of this rescue mission and why they had to take action when they did? ....