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on two of the soldiers' helmet cameras. >> is he going to be sold off to another group and be beheaded? is he just going to be killed because he is taking up too much effort? >> november 2004. roy helms is working for the saudi arabian trading and construction company negotiate the catering contracts for the iraqi military and police. >> our office -- it's outside the green zone in the embassy and u.s. army offices. we knew it was a dangerous place, but we never had any trouble with anybody. >> but on november 1st, that all changes. at the time special agent tom o'connor is with the fbi's joint terrorist task force. >> on november 1st of 2004 roy was working in his monseuir district office. >> i was working at my computer, and i saw motion to my left. when i looked up, there were
coalition forces call it the triangle of death. >> it's an area that had a lot of issues. there is a large insurgent population and al qaeda. >> roy's residence for the next ten months is this underground bunker, seen here in photos later taken by the fbi's evidence response team. the conditions inhumane. >> i was always tied up. always had a blind fold. when they shut the door, it would just be totally black. if you tried to stand up, you had to bend over because it was so short. i was like that 24 hours a day. >> i've been in law enforcement. i've never heard of such a horrendous environment for someone to be in. >> on close-up roy was snatched in baghdad nearly three months
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psychologically, what is that like? >> doesn't compare to years. but the one thing you do notice, they moved me around a lot. they moved us around a lot. four or five times in a day we'd be moved from house to houston. but others would come and go. as you try if build up a relationship, somebody else would walk in the room and completely change that dynamic and it would start all over again. that was exhausting over four days. i can't imagine what it was like after years. >> dan, for you in baghdad, you over saw and dealt with a lot of hostage situations. what have you learned about that process that shanpes the way yo look at the situation? >> as david just eluded to and steve about the propaganda value. in every instance, take for example roy helms, the videotapes he made, he was