the three are identified as sean maxwell and shairn bower and shara short and a fourth friend stayed behind at the hotel and didn't accompany them and the tourists, will they be put on trial and what is iraq up to and former u.s. ambassador the to the united nations and fox news contributor john bolten joins us now. ambassador, good morning. >> good morning. >> eric: how could this play righted into iran's hands. >> you know, the border area where they were captured by the iranians, is a long time route for smugglers, and, also, an area where kurdish guerrillas against the regime in tehran sometimes operate and i have to worry that these americans could become pawns in the larger struggle as the regime in tehran tries to paint the opposition forces there as tools of foreign governments, and here you have a case of americans slipping across the border, quote-unquote, so as i say, as part of the larger issue, that we can see in the trial, going on in tehran, now, i think we need to be very worried about these three americans. >> eric: that is troubling, and, certainly, americans should

iraqi officials identify them as sean maxwell, shane bower, and sarah short. >> they have been detained for illegal entry into iran from iraq's border. >> reporter: they arrived from turkey on tuesday. on thursday the three took a cab to a result in the self- ruled kurd issue region. police warned the trio to be care cfl and not mistakenly cross the border. >> a kurd issue official had warned the americans not to cross the border. the u. embassy is looking into the case. >> reporter: the state department is working with the swiss, who represent u.s. interest in iran to confirm their capture. in new york, laura engles, fox news. >>> also in iran, more than 100 iranian activists are on trial for protesting the presidential election in june. the defendants include several prominent politicians, even a former vice president. they're accused of plotting against the group after president ahmadinejad's landslide victor he victory. >>> d.c. is not the only area dealing with weather. a similar scene in tennessee where at least two tornadoes touched down on friday night. gwen tolbart says we may

iraqi officials identify them as sean maxwell, shane bower, and sara short. iranian security forces have arrested three americans in the west of the country. they've been detained for illegal entry from the kurdistan region. officials say the case is under investigation. >> reporter: an anonymous iraqi security official says the trio and a fourth traveler arrived in iraq from turkey on tuesday. on thursday, the three took a cab to the resort, and the self- ruled kurdish region, a popular hiking destination for tourist. they went on their hike friday. iranian tv says police warned the trio to be careful and not mistakenly cross the border. >> a security official said police had warned the americans not to cross the border. a senior american official says the u.s. embassy in baghdad is looking into the case. >> reporter: the state department is working with the swiss who represent u.s. interests in iran to confirm their capture. in new york, laura ingals, fox news. >> that area in northern iraq's kurdish region has been free of the violence that plagues the res

but they were surrounded by the military and arrested and the three are identified as sean gabriel maxwell, shane bower and sarah shore. a fourth friend stayed behind in the hotel there. were four in all but one stayed behind after he fell ill. the department of state is now asking swissland to try to intervene on behalf of the captured tourists. the swiss represented u.s. interest in iran for the past 30 years. >> jamie: right now, there is a close to the mystery surrounding a missing gulf war pilot. the u.s. navy identified the remains of captain scott spiker. we know that captain spiker's plane was shot down by enemy fire on january 17, 1991. this is confirmed. his mission was part of the first man strike of operation desert storm. the pentagon believes he was the first combat casualty of the war. joining me is jennifer griffin. jennifer, you broke the story this morning. how did you first hear that captain speichter had been found? >> i got a call at 6:00 a.m. this morning from a contact and that's when i heard that they had been spending the last week in anbar province unearthing the

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