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Was apprehended by israeli police and brutal by beaten. the whole incident caught on tape. after international outcry and intervention by the state department, he was released from police custody and held under house arrest on the west bank for nine days. no charges were filed, and on wednesday, tarek khdeir returned back to the united states, and he and his mother join me now. thank you for coming. thank you for heaving us. tariq, let me start with you. you went to east jerusalem for a family vacation. what was it like before this happened? it was actually really fun. i had made a lot of friends and the first day i win there, there was like a party, and i met mohammed at that party and he was like my first friend. so, we hung out a lot from that point. you were hanging out in east jerusalem, couple of 15-year-olds, hanging out in the summer. yeah. you guys were going there ....
It had been a while since the family had been there. yes, it had been 11 years. i was going to change my mind just because financially right now, you know, everybody is in kind of a you know, but tariq wanted to visit his family over there, and so we kind of you hadn t spent much time over there, since you were four? yeah. the last time i have gone there is when i was four years old and i missed everybody. mohammed, you obviously probably following the news about what is going on in israel. widespread outrage before the kidnapping and death of three israeli students. what happened when how do you know when mohammed has gone missing? well, that night, we were all together, me, mohammed and all my other cousins, we were playing games, until video games. no, games like we were ....
Like playing board games. so, after i left him, to come back, because usually in ramadan you have to eat late at night and fast at the day. so there s a big meal to break the fast. yes. so i went out to the bakery and i walked by mohammad and he was sitting by himself, and i asked him if he wanted anything from the bakery and he said, yeah, sure, and i went to the bakery, and i came back five minutes later and i found a cop car there. what happened was i walked towards the cop car and they didn t let me get any closer until i knew there was a problem, and i did not see mohammed there and that s how it started. so i called my family, and everybody came. so, he had disappeared, had been taken. abducted. ....