the car drove up and mubashir got out.here was shouts, mubashir demanding to know what's going on and then he exerted authority over this individual and very quickly it became apparent that the beheading was off. it was a tremendous sense of disbelief and then we started to realize that we dodged literally that bullet. that night, mubashir himself sat with us. >> tomorrow we go to mosul. >> he's just taking us to the new emir. so he's just going to confirm the decision of the previous emir. >> and then, god willing, you are free. >> we got into mosul. then whatever plan they had seemed to go awry. >> the emir doesn't want to see you. >> the emir was angry that we'd been brought to his domain. it was obvious that mubashir was quite shook up. we were taken to a succession of different houses. finally we were told to get out of the car and we were taken in through that house to a room in the back. >> mubashir came back but he was looking like he was ashamed that he was abandoning us. >> i have to leave. and he just said in ar