they were domestic terrorists from the fln which is a border rican terrorist group that wants brega to become an independent country. then they had engaged in over 130 bombings in the united states in new york, chicago, other cities, armed robbery, and had killed and murdered a number of people doing that. the 16 individuals were bound, prosecuted, and convicted. at the sentencing of these individuals, they threatened the federal judge from a threat to kill him and to make sure he was killed. in fact, the federal judge said that if the death penalty had been an option he would have imposed it. however, at the end of the clinton administration consultants for hillary clinton were all saying that the border region wrote was important to new york. pardoning these 16 terrorists might help her with the vote. so they went to their go to the guy in the justice department who was eric holder. they did not trust the attorney general to do the political thing that they thought was correct. and eric holder recommended that these individuals be part. al, what you should know about this is that the

photographer for many years in johannesburg and he wanted to do a two-week story on the battle of bregaeporter: foley and several others were kidnapped by gadhafi loyalists held in a cell and interrogated repeatedly for weeks. after 44 days foley and the others were finally released. later in an interview with cnn, foley says he left libya with the larger perspective on life. >> i have to understand the grace that has happened and, you know, there's a reason for me to be here, you know, there's a reason all these people reached out and what can i give? you know, what can i do from here on out? >> foley continued to cover conflict in the middle east. in 2012 he went to syria and spent weeks filming the flight of doctors in aleppo. >> what does she say. >> reporter: he helped raise money for an ambulance for their hospital. friends and colleagues say that kind of generosity was typical. >> he was more than just a journalist, you know, he really cared about his subjects and the stories he reported on. >> reporter: even in his death foley showed humanity amid the horror of war. emeril walke