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Barking dog and that appears to be what alerted the hostages captors to what was going on. During the firefight that then followed, u. S. Forpdss saw a militant go into the shack where the hostages were being held. It is believed that is when he shot both of the hostages, both of them died as a result of those injuries, as u. S. Forces were transporting them away. U. S. Intelligence did not know the identity of the other hostage being held with somers. He has since been identified as South African teacher pierre korkie. A char that worked with korkie says he was due to be released today. To di...

To be happening there. >> the u.s. doesn't want to do these negotiations in public, as they say, and they're extremely wary of setting any kind of precedent where this all just becomes a horse trading game. you know, when you do deals like this, you essentially create an incentive for bad actors to grab americans and demand prices for them. there was a similar dynamic, you may recall, with al qaeda and a lot of terrorist kidnappings we had sort of in the mid 2010s, and there was a big fight where the europeans were paying lots of ransoms. there was a big argument about whether this was incenti...

Being with us. so i mean, listening to what kristen just outlined there, it certainly seems, you know, seems like there was no choice but to take a shot at this, the alternative, they were gonna kill him anyway. the same time, you hear about how this went down, basically, the minute that al qaeda realized that there was a rescue attempt being made, they went in and killed him. and it just raises the question, how can you get these hostages out alive if that's what you're facing? >> sometimes you can get in there with good ingems and you can surprise the enemy and you can get the hostage, somet...