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Good evening. Im dan harris. The special Operations Forces were on a dangerous mission, facing an urgent deadline. Al qaeda threatening to kill luke somers, a freelance photographer, by today, if their demands were not met. An overnight raid was launched to rescue somers but it went bad. He was executed by his captors. Today president obama called it a barbaric murder. Abcs chief investigative correspondent brian ross is here with the details of this hair rowing operation. Reporter good evening, dan. It was a high risk operation. Under full moon and little element of strategic surprise because...

Charlie dagata more on this atrocity. Good morning, bob. The video surfaced this morning it appears to show that same English Speaking isis militant seen in previous videos claiming to beheaded peter kassig. Unlike previous videos this did not show kassig alive before the alleged beheading. 26yearold aid worker was captured in syria just over a year ago while trying to deliver food. Hes a former army ranger served in iraq, set up his own agency. His family from indiana they released statement saying theyre aware of the reports. Death of their treasured son, but theyre awaiting confirmation fro...

Veteran iraq correspondent Charlie Dagata more on this atrocity. Good morning, bob. The video surfaced this morning it appears to show that same English Speaking isis militant seen in previous videos claiming to beheaded peter kassig. Unlike previous videos this did not show kassig alive before the alleged beheading. 26yearold aid worker was captured in syria just over a year ago while trying to deliver food. Hes a former army ranger served in iraq, set up his own agency. His family from indiana they released statement saying theyre aware of the reports. Death of their treasured son but theyre...

Conditioned on this question the incoming secretary needs to have the courage to speak truth to power to congress, yes but also to his commander in chief. Half. Mr. Durbin mr. President . Speaking in morning business, i rise to express my support for the president s nominee dr. Ashton carter to serve as our nations 25th secretary of defense. A few words of thanks first for chuck hagel our former colleague in the senate who served as secretary of defense. Hes a friend. Hes had a long career in public service. Hes a veteran from vietnam and the people of nebraska rewarded him by asking him to re...

It was either with you are chairman smith asking about working with faithbased organizations. We do work with that. In fact, we visited with the archbishop in kurdistan when we were there to talk about the work they are doing. I know the king and jordan has been very open in meeting with different religious leaders both sort of from an islamic perspective to reduce the lore of isil, but also how do we work with the various religious groups. Syria was one of the most tolerant countries in the entire middle east before all this took place. It is important but there are many groups we work with t...