(faint banging) >> allahu akbar, allahu akbar. (cannonfire) allahu akbar! (cannonfire) (gunfire) ♪ (rumbling) (sirens blaring) (crying) (crying continues) (coughing) (crying) >> narrator: in the space of a year, life in aleppo has grown increasingly desperate. islamic extremists have taken over parts of the city. and before christmas, in the middle of the night, the family says isis fighters kidnapped abu ali. they haven't seen him since. >> narrator: hala has heard that she might be able to get asylum in germany, which has announced it will take 20,000 syrian refugees. >> narrator: tomorrow, the family will leave aleppo. abu ali's mother is too old to make the dangerous trip. she is staying behind with other relatives. >> narrator: hala has hired a driver to take her and the children to the turkish border. the only way out of the city is a treacherous road through areas controlled by isis or the regime. >> (humming a tune) >> (man shouting) >> narrator: after a three-hour drive, the family arrives at a refugee camp on the border. by january 2015, more than

military, stood up on a table, shouted allahu akbar" and then began to fire.killed 13 and wounded many other. it was a shocking event. >> staff sergeant alonzo lunsford, one of the 32 american soldiers hassan wounded that day. >> i blinked. he discharged the weapon. the first round went in right here. above my left eye and spun me around. and i hit the floor. he came up on me and shot me again. >> as the sergeant lay still in a pool of his own blood, he watched major hassan train the weapon on 21-year-old army private francesca valence. >> he was gearing to shoot her. she said "i'm pregnant, i'm pregnant." he fired anyway and her last words was "oh moorks my baby, my baby, my baby." >> private valez and her baby died that day. a horrific event and some believe a preventable one. >> hassan, the ft. hood terrorist killer, was communicating aanwr awlaki, the radical cleric that was in yemen. >> in one of the 18 e-mails exchanged, hassan told him, i can't wait to join you in the afterlife. lieberman, who led the senate investigation into the ft. hood massacre, sus

military, stood up on a table, shouted allahu akbar" and then began to fire.ed 13 and wounded many other. it was a shocking event. >> staff sergeant alonzo lunsford, one of the 32 american soldiers hassan wounded that day. >> i blinked. he discharged the weapon. the first round went in right here. above my left eye and spun me around. and i hit the floor. he came up on me and shot me again. >> as the sergeant lay still in a pool of his own blood, he watched major hassan train the weapon on 21-year-old army private francesca valence. >> he was gearing to shoot her. she said "i'm pregnant, i'm pregnant." he fired anyway and her last words was "oh moorks my baby, my baby, my baby." >> private valez and her baby died that day. a horrific event and some believe a preventable one. >> hassan, the ft. hood terrorist killer, was communicating aanwr awlaki, the radical cleric that was in yemen. >> in one of the 18 e-mails exchanged, hassan told him, i can't wait to join you in the afterlife. lieberman, who led the senate investigation into the ft. hood massacre, suspect

military stood up on a table, shouted allahu akbar and then began to fire.killed 13 and wounded many others. it was a shocking event. bret: staff sergeant alonso lonsford was one of the 32 soldiers hasan wounded that day. >> he blinked. the first round went in over my left eye and spun me around and i hit the floor. he came up on me and shot me again. bret: as sergeant lunsford lay still in a pool of his own blood. he watched hasan train his weapon on 21-year-old army private francesca velez. >> when he was getting ready to shoot her, she said i'm pregnant, i'm pregnant, he fired anyway and said his last words were my baby, my baby, my baby. bret: private velez and her baby died that day. a horrific event and some believe a preventable one. >> hasan, the fort hood terrorist killer was communicating with anwar al-awlaki in yemen. bret: in one of the e-mails hasan told him i can't wait to join you in the afterlife. lieberman, who led the senate investigation into the fort hood massacre suspects the blame may reside in the environment prevailing in obama's mili

mail tear stood on a table and shout ed allahu akbar, and t was stunning. >> and theis man was woundedday. >> the first round went in right here on the left eye. it spun me around, and i hit the floor. he came up on me and shot me aga again. >> as sergeant lunsford lay still if in a pool of his own blood, he e watched major hassan train his weapon on 21-year-old private francesca va lez. >> and when he was ready to soot her she said, i'm pregnant, i'm pregnant. and her last words were" my baby, my baby, my baby." she and her baby died later that day. >> he was corresponding with alaki one of the leaders. >> and some believe that the blame may lie in the environment of the military. >> a politically correct environment cannot lead you out of danger for yourself and your colleagues in the u.s. army. >> and that air thickened as the obama administration insisted that what happened at fort hood was not an act of islamic terrorism, but workplace violence. >> how could you say that a terrorist murdering 13 americans was workplace violence? that is ridiculous. >> and as for sergeant lunsford,

witnesses heard attackers shout allahu akbar as they fled. samad appears to be the latest in a series of assassinations targeting secularist writers. bangladesh is a majority muslim country with a hindu religious minority. but some writers who describe themselves as free thinkers have challenged religion's role in society, criticizing extremism and militance it is. the country's constitution promises to uphold the principle of secularism, but authorities there suggest some murdered critics crossed the line with their writing. >> bloggers immediate to speak up. >> even with student, if he does not report to the police, we could it is difficult for police to provide. >> a friend of samad said the writer went into hiding last year for several month, fearing for his life. but samad later wrote it's better to die rather than living by keeping my head down. samad is the sixth secularist writer or publisher to have been murdered in dhaka in 14 months. others include nelloy, and roy, whose widow birly survived the machete attack that killed her husba