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[background sounds] rachel Air Raid Sirens ringing out over tel aviv earlier as the war in israel enters its eighth day. This as Tens Of Thousands of Israeli Soldiers are getting ready for a full scale invasion of gaza. Pete the idf issuing a statement saying forces are currently preparing to implement a wide range of operational offensive plans. Which include combined and coordinated strikes from the air, sea and land. Will hamas is responsible for killing at least 1300 now israelis, 29 of which, u. S. Citizens. Israeli Prime Minister benjamin net an a ya a hue assuring his troops that more f...

Lot of big news earlier this week. president obama making major changes to our nation's hostage policy. announcing that this week. the u.s. will no longer prosecute families who pay ransom to terrorist groups overseas. no actual prosecutions have ever come to pass. >> i want to point out that no family of an american hostage has ever been prosecuted for paying a ransom for the return of their loved ones. >> but we now know the government strongly discouraged the paying of ransoms. the new yorker reporting this week that the director of counterterrorism at the national security council repeated...

Released a reasonably lengthy eulogy in which they announced death of a senior al qaeda in the arabian peninsula commander. he's familiar to many of you, i think, because he's the man who gave the lengthy statement after the paris attacks in which al qaeda in the arabian peninsula claims that the kouachi brothers were working with them. they claimed responsibility for those attacks. he was also a man who was the spokesman over the kidnapping of journalist luke summers. so a familiar face kill by a drone strike. my colleague barbara starr says american officials confirm that's the case as well....

An al qaeda stronghold on the coast on the southeast there. it's not entirely clear whether this was one drone strike that particularly targeted him or it was one that was reported on about mid april that seemed to kill other media spokes people from that particular group. it's a staunch blow. the man who announced death of luke summers, the american journalist killed after a raid to rescue him went wrong. a significant blow for them at a time when they were trying to re-establish themselves given ascending of isis. >> give us an idea of where he was on the aqap hierarchy. was he a senior leve...

Rescues. you had that with a failed hostage rescue attempt in syria going after isis captives. they came to the right place, but it was too late. you had an operation in december the american luke summers killed not by the rescuers but by his hostage holders while that attack was underway. it's difficult to get these things right. there's the bigger question. you have enormous opposition to these striengkes from locals on the ground. the larger policy question raised do the costs out weight the benefits here. because it's not just local opposition which leads to anti-americanism. it's an extre...