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Prosecutor here in st. louis county has been inteararinteararear gated and he said he was involved in an alteration when the shooting took place. he is saying he wasn t trying to shoot at the police officers and that s why he wasn t charged with other charges more directly associated with the wounding of those officers. the good news is here hearing the officers have been released from the hospital and republicanare making a good recovery. what about this accusation that the suspects supposedly was mistreated while in police custody? reporter: this came from a bishop highly involved in the protest movement here over the last few months. excuse the ambulance. bishop told cnn who met with williams yesterday that he was severely beaten by police after ....
And explains why people haven t been talking. they were told by isis if they talked about their captivity, all of the remaining captives would be punished. there is essentially only one captive left and that s why javier wrote this piece and talked about it. reporter: espinosa was held with more than 20 other western hostages in syria, including americans james foley, steven sotloff and kayla mueller who are all now dead. espinosa says kassig told him of his own torture saying when they realized i was american and that i had been a soldier in iraq they went crazy. they hung me from the roof and started beating me. i thought they were going to execute me. sometime later, he was beheaded. the gruesome video posted on the internet. an isis defector who witnessed some of the beheadings also said during a separate interview with sky news that isis reveres jihadi john as the quote, big boss who is the only one in the group allowed to kill foreigners. wolf? pamela brown, thanks very much. ....
As one cnn senior counter terrorism official told me it s difficult to distinguish who is going to turkey for a beach vacation and who is going there to wage jihad in syria. let me ask phil to weigh in on that. explain what goes into identifying potentially stopping these young people from going into turkey and then sneaking cross the border into syria. well i agree with paul. this has gotten a lot more difficult. simple reason. back ten years ago, for example, you could look at a central node of recruitment, focus your sxwrenls intelligence on that recruitment, relatively small number of people. now when you talk about thousands in iraq and syria you don t have a central node so you have to look at the central media sites. that s a huge effort imperfect and increasingly really interesting, you are seeing security services, police services in places like australia, establish dedicated units in airports saying where s the 15 or 16-year-old with the one way cash ticket. let s talk to ....
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Watson cnn, in vanuatu. our thanks to ivan watson. make sure to follow me on twitter, also have a facebook page. that s it for the lead today. i m jake tapper. turning you over right now to one mr. wolf blitzer who is right next door in the situation room. happening now, combat alert after a ten-day absence, russia s president putin reappears once again rattling his saber with more games like this. how close did he come to ordering a nuclear alert over ukraine? nuclear showdown. deadline is looming. urgent talks are under way. have senate republicans ruined the possibility of a deal with iran? why is the u.s. reportedly built a replica of an iranian nuclear site? i will ask senator angus king. tortured by jihadi john. a former hostage lived to tell the world all about it and is now giving the inside story of his nightmare at the hands of the notorious isis killer. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. ....