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For relatives who for days on end were unsure whether they would ever see their loved ones again, it was a time for joy and jubilation. >> what made you think that israel could pull off an operation like this? >> the alternative. >> the entebbe rescue was one of the few bits of good news we had regarding counterterrorism. it was followed a year later by the daring rescue of german passengers that had been aboard a hijacked lufthansa aircraft. >> it was over in minutes. a blinding flash, a deafening explosion and gunfire. >> the plane's passengers and crew were freed in a lightning predawn resc...

Jubilation. >> what made you think that israel could pull off an operation like this? >> the alternative. >> the entebbe rescue was one of the few bits of good news we had regarding counterterrorism. it was followed a year later by the daring rescue of german passengers that had been aboard a hijacked lufthansa aircraft. >> it was over in minutes. a blinding flash, a deafening explosion, and gunfire. >> the plane's passengers and crew were freed in a lightning predawn rescue raid by german commandos at somalia's mogadishu airport. >> there was a sense that the pendulum was swinging away from t...

What we can do is in addition to the training and advising we do, they're select situations in which there is an isil leadership camp or there is a particular isil leader that we can capture quickly. >> so boots on the ground, if you're talking literal, yes, there are american boots on the ground. he said there wouldn't be in the broader sense and this is not going to be an invasion that we saw in the last war in iraq. nothing on that -- >> seems like semantics in the military policy and what it means for the 50 men and women returning potentially to harm's way and what that means for not acti...

Knew the whole foley thing, when we launched a rescue raid into syria to try to break them free they knew down to i am told the very building where foley and the other hostages db eight hostages were leld and they held off for way too long to where the whole thing -- the intelligence went cold and by the time they went in there, the hold thing got messed up. so here's the deal. if you're going to allow a policy where families can individually try to do this back to your point about the weinstein family. holy cow -- they put $250,000 down. to who? who did they know who they were dealing with. >...

>> from abc news, this is "world news now." >> good morning, everybody. i'm rob nelson. >> and that light going off is the realization that christmas is two weeks from today. >> that's it. >> i'm paula faris. and i need to get shopping. in a moment, that member of the navy's elite s.e.a.l. team 6 that was killed in the afghanistan rescue raid. 28-year-old old, with so much experience in so many dangerous places. and also, a life sentence just handed out for the murder of a little girl back in 1957. how justice was finally served after 55 years. >> better late than never. also ahead, extrem...