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our report tonight from chief foreign correspondent richard engel. >> reporter: emirate police dubbed her the ghost, but today they said they caught her. releasing dramatic police video and laying out their evidence she murdered an american teacher and tried to kill more u.s. citizens. key to their case, surveillance video. here, the suspect is seen monday heading to a shopping mall bathroom. inside american teacher ibolya ryan who moved to abu dhabi with her twin sons. friend nora field talked with her there. >> she was so positive all the time and helpful and a great friend. we did feel safe there. i think there's some fear now. >> reporter: witnesses at the mall say they heard screams as ryan was stabbed to death. then the ghost fled, but she wasn't finished. in her bag police say is a bomb. she wheeled it into a nearby apartment building, placed a homemade explosive in front of an american doctor's apartment and then left the building, suitcase empty. the police strung all the video together even adding dramatic music to what came next, the takedown. emirate police raiding a home,

richard engel starting us off here in new york tonight. richard, thanks. >>> the electronic attack on sony pictures took a potentially violent turn late today that's being described in terms of terrorism. the group that has infiltrated the company's computers today made a threat of a 9/11 type attack on movie theaters that choose to show the new movie from sony, a comedy that depicts the assassination of north korean leader kim jong-un. no one is laughing at this. and tonight the u.s. department of homeland security was compelled to say they're aware of the threat but unaware of any credible intelligence to indicate an active plot against movie theaters. nbc's joe fryer has the latest from los angeles. >> reporter: the hackers started releasing their so-called christmas gift today, another huge batch of data stolen from sony pictures. but with this delivery, the hackers sent an ominous message that goes beyond hollywood. a threat to movie theaters that show the upcoming sony film "the interview." the message says, the world will be full of

. >> reporter: this is richard engel. we've heard the term before, a lone wolf, a terrorist who strikes out on his own. in sydney it was a muslim extremist with a loose grip on reality and a long rap sheet. a self-promoter who craved media attention. it's people like him, loners, outcasts with delusions of glory and revenge who are most susceptible to the propaganda posted by groups like isis. >> they're saying you don't need to travel to syria to be effective, to be a warrior for us. you can take the fight to the citizens in your own country. >> reporter: in the west, deadly incidents are happening with alarming regularity. in canada in october a gunman who shot soldiers in parliament was inspired by isis. days later in new york, a man whose social media profile was full of isis propaganda, attacked police with a hatchet. and the tsarnaev brothers in boston, inspired to kill americans by a radical islamic ideology. >> people are worried we're going to see these kind of lone wolf attacks in the united states. but we alrea

we get our report tonight from nbc's richard engel. >> reporter: american journalist luke somers had been missing for 13 months, kidnapped by al qaeda in yemen until last month just before thanksgiving, military sources say there was a break. u.s. special operations forces tracked him to a cave in hadhramaut in central yemen. a first rescue mission was launched on november 25th. u.s. commandos killed three to five guards, rescued several arab hostages, but somers was gone. and now al qaeda was angry. on december 3rd they released a new video of somers. >> it's now been well over a year since i was kidnapped. >> reporter: and threatened to kill him within 72 hours. u.s. military sources tell nbc news, american special operations forces tracked him down again. he'd been moved to shabwah, but not to a cave this time but an al qaeda compound. eight buildings surrounded by a berm. 100 to 200 militants inside. on saturday in a highly risky mission, several dozen navy s.e.a.l.s. landed seven miles away from the compound and walked to the target. >> rescue operations like this succeed far le

we get our report tonight from our chief foreign correspondent richard engel. >> reporter: this was a well-planned massacre, a bloody eight-hour rampage executed without mercy. as the wounded arrived at a nearby hospital, they describe the horror. >> translator: we locked our classroom door from the inside, says amir, but three attackers shot their way in and then shot at us. shah was hiding under a desk and watched in horror as his teacher was killed. she tried to stand up to the gunman. they shot our teacher, he says, then burned their body. this reporter was at the scene of today's massacre. >> the assailants look advantage of the broken barbed wire, infiltrated the school, then went on to kill over 130 students. >> reporter: survivors say there were at least seven militants. once inside, they entered an auditorium packed with high school-aged students. one detonated a suicide belt. the others opened fire indiscriminately then fanned out through the classrooms, firing as they went. pakistani commandos arrived within an hour, but the militants had booby-trapped the school compound.

here's our chief foreign corresponde correspondent, richard engel. >> reporter: it's become the weapon of choice in the war against islamic terrorists. a u.s. drone flies over a target thousands of miles away. the cia tracks the location, receives authorization, pushes a button, and a small missile is fired. but some are asking whether years from now we'll debate drones the way we're debating torture. >> the use of these unmanned aerial vehicles that you refer to as drones in the counterterrorism effort has done tremendous work to keep this country safe. >> reporter: the cia's clandestine fleet of armed drones has become central to its counterterrorism mission. the secretive nature of the program means no one can tell for sure how many of the estimated 3500 people killed mostly in pakistan and yemen were insurgents and how many were innocent civilians. >> in u.s. public opinion, there is greater support for killing people than torturing them. >> reporter: why? >> it's hard to know why. i think we believe that individuals we can see with this high technology precise discriminate weapons

nbc's chief foreign correspondent richard engel is here with more. richard, good morning. >> good morning. there is always a terrible that the president faces that the u.s. military faces in a hostage situation, do you attempt to rescue the hostage, knowing the risks. in this case, the president, the military decided to make the risky operation, to make an attempt, but it didn't work out. a desperate attempt to save an american hostage in yemen that ended in tragedy. luke somers, an american photo journalist was abducted more than a year ago in yemen's capital sana'a. held by al qaeda's branch in the arabian peninsula. u.s. special operation forces tried to rescue him on friday, but according to defense secretary chuck hagel, al qaeda terrorists murdered him during the operation. somers' sister lucy told the associated press today, we ask that all of luke's family members be allowed to mourn in peace. in a video released this week, somers had pleaded for help. >> my name is luke somers, i'm 33 years old. i was born in england, but i carry american cit

chief foreign correspondent richard engel. as luke just referenced, john mccain gave a very powerful, historic speech on the floor today. let's roll a bit of that. john mccain talking about why torture is ineffective. >> i know from personal experience that the abuse of prisoners will produce more bad than good intelligence. i know that victims of torture will offer intentionally misleading information if they think their captors will believe it. i know they will say whatever they think their torturers want them to say if they believe it will stop their suffering. most of all, i know the use of torture compromises that which most distinguishes us from our enemies. our belief that all people, even captured enemies, possess basic human rights which are protected by international conventions the united states not only joined, but for the most part, authored. >> to mccain's point, the report finds that torture did not produce useful intelligence. do you think that's accurate? >> well, the cia says that it's not accurate. i would n

. >>> joining me now is nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel. thank you for being here, richard. >> my pleasure. how are you? >> good. richard, did the cia go rogue, or was there more to it? >> well, i think in one element, i think the country went rogue after 9/11. not just the cia. you saw military abuses. you saw intelligence abuses. you saw overreach for surveillance systems that we're still seeing right now. and there were elements in the cia that were desperate, that acted, i think, inappropriately, stupidly. they contracted out, spending millions of dollars to inexperienced people and ran a torture program. that was a -- >> they ran a torture program? >> absolutely. >> that went on for years and with support from very high levels of government. >> there's a real debate on whether these techniques got useful intelligence. give me your take on that? >> probably not as useful as has been described. it's hard to know, however, unless you were in the room and reading the raw data. intelligence say fis a funny th. you have to take a small piece

richard engel, nbc news, istanbul. >>> and new york police are searching for a robbery suspect caughton tape tackling a young mother and her baby. this is the surveillance video released by police. it shows a woman walking with her 3-month-old baby strap to her chest. she passes the man on the street who then turns, runs from behind her, knocking the mother to the ground. the thief then snatched her cell phone and took off. mom and baby were taken to the hospital. they were not seriously hurt. >>> in a shocking scene for guests at a beverly hills hotel, police open fire on a suspected robbie at the luxe hotel right on rodeo drive. evidence markers and catch were scattered around the lobby. it is feet from the famous street featuring the most expensive stores in the world. listen as a witness describes what happened. >> i just saw the guy. i pointed toward 360, within a couple seconds they all ran, not even 20 seconds from there there were gunshots. >> kind of shocking, beverly hill, you don't really see et. >> a tracking device on the stolen money led police to rodeo drive where a wit

joining me here in the studio, richard engel. i am happy to have you here. in as many weeks essentially. talk about that. was he in a dire situation? >> he was in a very dire situation. he had been held for just about a year in yemen. he went to yemen like a lot of young people do these days, they want to go abroad and experience a new career and he started out with teaching, and when political troubles started in yemen he began as a photo journalists and he was picked up, and an easy target a. lot of bad characters operating in the yemen capital. he had been held for about a year. then, there was a rescue operation. it turned out to be a failed and tragic mission took place. a desperate attempt to save an american hostage in yemen that ended in tragedy. luke somers was abducted more than a year ago in sama. and al qaeda terrorists murdered him during the operation. his sister told the associated press today, we ask that all of luke's family members be allowed to mourn in peace. summe somers pleaded for help earlier this week. >> i was born in england but i

richard engel thank you very much. still ahead, we will hear exclusively from the department official who reviewed the legality of enhancement techniques. also, former cia director, michael i had isn't our guest on the cia interrogations report. also with us, senator scott and joy behar. plus the finalists range from the ferguson protesters to taylor swift. later this morning, we will bring you "time" magazine's person of the year. you with watching "morning joe." we'll be right back. no. portfolio. and if doesn't perform well for two consecutive gold. quarters. quarters...yup. then amerivest gives me back their advisory... stocks. fees. fees. fees for those quarters. yeah. so, i'm confident i'm in good hands. for all the confidence you need. td ameritrade. you got this. . >> it's time now to take a look at the morning paper. we will start with the los angeles times. it's authorities have indicted an person citizen for allegedly planning attacks against holly sites in jerusalem. the suspect, ieflded as 30-year-old adam

a bit later on, richard engel will reflect on his own hostage ordeal. he'll talk about whether a rescue attempt is always worth the risk. that's coming your way at the bottom of the hour. >>> other breaking news to share right now, a short time ago, an extremely large typhoon made its first landfall in the philippines. the wind gusts of the typhoon are estimated to be about 130 miles an hour right now. more than 650,000 evacuated their homes headed to shelters. jim maceda is tracking the typhoon for us and joins us by phone. jim, what are the conditions like where you are? >> reporter: well, conditions aren't so bad for us here, alex, because we're due north in a separate -- in a different province. that's the good news. the bad news is we are in the province that is going to take the brunt of the storm tomorrow. it is on that path between samar and where it landfalled a few hours ago and manila where it's going to probably end up or close to manila by sunday. you mentioned up to 130-mile-an-hour winds, that wasn't as strong as a super typhoon strength

>> chief foreign correspondent richard engel, thank you. about this over the next couple of days. >> good to see you state side. good to see you. >>> more on the report that is again, coming out in a few moments. also happening right now down on capitol hill a senate hearing on sexual assault on college campuses. lawmakers addressing why just a fraction of victims go to the police. this hearing is happening right now. senators say one in five women are assaulted in college. one in five. that's a staggering statistic, but that the vast majority of those cases are not reported. the picking up steam after the rolling stone article describing an alleged gang rape at the fraternity house at university of virginia. the editors at the magazine since acknowledged mistakes in the reporting. in a letter to parents last night, the university's president said a ban on greek activity, greek life activity that ban will remain in place through at least january. msnbc continues to follow the story for us. she's here in new york. let's start with that one i

we will talk to nbc's richard engel about that in a moment.air base, the last area under assad's control in the region. want to bring in florida congresswoman, thanks for being with me. >> thank you, jose. a pleasure. >> secretary kerry said yesterday the u.s. is making significant progress. >> i don't agree we made significant progress in the fight against isis. it is an important fight, that we must be victorious in. i don't see that we're bringing in the coalition the way we should. i don't think we have trained or armed the rebels that are going to fight isis as we said we would. they put out a press release, it is not enough against the growing men as. more important fighters are getting in there. we had a subcommittee hearing about the amount of foreign fighters coming from the middle east and west to join the fight alongside isis. it is incredible. we are not winning this yet. >> how are they getting in and able to do this? >> we need to talk to our supposed allies and get them to at least make sure they're taking some action against th

managing editor of nbcnews.com asia american and richard engel. richard, first to you. this, the horrific attack really culminates years of fighting against the taliban in the territories and a recent initiative by the military. >> it certainly does. you have to understand this attack in that context, that this is just the latest in a series of violence. first, we have some new numbers according to military sources in pakistan. seven militants were killed. 132 children, students at the school, and ten staff members. so, the overwhelming majority, 132 kids killed in this school. we also have some more details about how it happened. it began in the morning hours, the militants at least seven climbed into the school through, over a fence. went into the back door and entered an assembly and some of the students were in this assembly for a career day getting advice on how to plan for their future and what kind of jobs they're going to have. and the militants started opening fire in the assembly. and then went classroom to classroom occasionally taking students hostage, killi

richard engel, evan coleman and david ignatius join us. what do you make of this whole report?t do you make of this report today? is it good for america to have this out there? >> i have mixed feelings about it, frankly. i've been reading the report over the last several hours, disgusted by many of the details in it. the torture, and i think you can only describe some of these techniques as torture. people leaving people in ice baths, dragging them outside of cells, cutting their clothes off, beating them up, putting them back into their cells, leaving them standing for days at a time. sometimes on broken legs. and then continuing to do it for months and months and months. well after the period where they would probably have any kind of valid intelligence. so in a certain sense, i think it's good that it's out there, that people don't -- they appreciate and are disgusted by what happened in this country after 9/11. and hopefully never do it again. but on the other side, this is why i say i have mixed feelings, the cia felt it had authorize to do this. it felt it was asked to do

richard engel has lived in the region for nearly two decades. he's our chief foreign correspondent. katy, let's start with you. can you give us the latest details on the attack? >> well here's what we know as of now. the attack on pakistani officials is what they're saying now six terrorists are dead. that could be all of them. but they are going room to room to clear the situation. it's a slow and meticulous operation. there are reports that the rooms have been booby trapped. as for the dead it's a staggering number. 135. most of them are children. another 150 injured. but again this is a fluid situation. the numbers have been changing all day. the gunman went in wearing suicide vests and went classroom to classroom, shooting some students one by one. in one case setting a teacher on fire with gasoline. witnesses report hearing five strong explosions. it's not clear if they detonated their own bombs or were killed. now this is a school in the border town of peshawar pakistan just a few miles from pakistan. many were evacuated and many were still inside for quite some time. the tali

dozens more are arrested, tortured or kidnapped including nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engelo in december, 2012, is taken hostage with his crew. five days later, they escape to safety. engel and his colleagues are part of a small group of courageous journalists risking their lives to report from syria. some of the most extraordinary images are being captured by manny, an independent french photographer and filmmaker. manny uses a fake name in order to protect his identity. >> before becoming a journalist, i used to teach kids in middle schools in paris. >> as a young man, manny also teaches in syria where he travels to study arabic. >> i started going syria quite early in my life. >> when he decides to switch careers and become a journalist, the syrian conflict beckons. >> when these movements happened in the arab world, i thought, okay, this is something that is really important that is happening. i lived there and i know those people. >> using his teaching credentials as cover, manny sneaks into the country. >> i had to go through the border illegally. the biggest danger yo

. >>> joining me from nbc news richard engel and center for constitutional rights, attorney bahair. thank you for being here. richard, let me start with this point on what was said, whether it was true and how that led to the authorization. reading from this senate report, they say prior to september 2006, the cia provided inaccurate information to the committee and they say later briefings after there was public disclosure also contained numerous inaccuracieinaccuracieg how the techniques were applied. finally, most importantly, the report notes doj didn't do independent analysis of the information they received from the cia and warned if the facts provided by cia were to change its legal conclusion, its supposed authorization for some of these activities might not apply. >> i think you're addressing one of the key parts here, is what did the senate committee know and when? we've spoken to many people, both bob and i, who were involved in this program, who were senior officials at the cia. some of them who are listed in this report. and they say that time and time again the senate c

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. >> joining me in studio richard engel. also joining us by phone at the scene of the attack in peshawar producer waj. let me start with you. it's a kay otchaotic scene. last word is all nine of the individuals believed to have stormed the school have been killed. what can you tell us? >> reporter: that's right. all the attackers have been killed. some by direct action from special forces who were in pakistan:this is one of the most tragic incidents in the 12-year-old war on terror. the military has been criticized. it hasn't done enough to slam down against these forces. safe havens not too far from peshawar. this summer when the political momentum and the military momentum converged. started an air campaign. they have struck back. you are looking at a situation now where families, army brats really, are in the school targeted. >> that is the context here, richard, that makes it, if possible, even more terrifying. >> these are army brats. these are, many of them anyway, the kids of military officers, the very same who are i

but i was stuck nbc's richard engel who is a correspondent, not a commentator, calling this a despicablee he said it's hard to fault the cia because it was doing what the bush white house wanted. >> there's a lot of hypocrisy going around obviously and it starts at the white house, which has been critical. at the same time they're droning people. it was interesting to watch our own ed henry press josh earnest on this, reporter going head-to-head with josh earnest saying how do you claim moral authority when you guys are droning people and yet you're so critical of torture program. there was no out for josh earnest there, howie. what did you think of that exchange? >> i think it was a very important question ed henry raised. and it seems to me that there is a lot of monday morning quarterbacking some years later whether it's obama administration people or other critics. look, john mccain is also supportive of this report who say we should not have done this, this is not who we are, this is not about our values. i think that does regardless of where you stand on these techniques, i think t

in turkey he was far more political. >> that was nbc's richard engel. joe." on set, mark halperin, donny deutsch and in baltimore, wes moore. >> it has been extraordinarily irresponsible over the past several months. and what the media has let pass as narrative we saw play out yesterday on an nfl football field. >> i'm puzzled. i missed something. the guys coming out like this. >> guys came out hands up don't shoot for the st. louis rams. what is so remarkable is they might as well have come out with a flying saucer attached to all of their heads in solidarity of michael brown being transported to venus on a flying saucer. because that happened as much as that happened. and that's according to grand jury testimony. that's according to witnesses. they are using his accomplice in the robbery that was with him at the time. who also claim that michael brown was shot in the back. and for some reason, the media attaches to these narratives that will stir up further protests. i got to say, i just got to a tipping point this weekend. there's another story in cl

richard engel is nbc's chief foreign correspondent. good morning to you. we're used to hearing and have become accustomed to hearing about attacks in pakistan. this is across the border. it appears to be for revenge. what can you tell us? >> the afghan/pakistan border taliban operates on both sides. and for years the taliban have been crossing over the border and fighting in pakistan. the pakistani government is fighting the taliban on its side of the border. and the problem is there has never been a really effective coordinated strategy between pakistan and the united states to try and push them from both sides of the border. and as the u.s. troops draw down, taliban have been getting stronger in afghanistan, which is causing problems on the other side of the border in pakistan. and then in june, to get to this specific attack, in june the pakistani military launched a major offensive in the tribal area that is katy mentioned where the taliban is strongest in pakistan and that is the reason that the group says it carried out this revenge attack against a

i later found out richard engel was doing the same thing and a few other people.ou have all these crazy bargains with yourself because you just need a few hours sleep. i learned to basically handle it for three to four weeks until all my symptoms of hypervigilance so intensely interfered with my ability to work that i wasn't functional anymore. i could barely do a live shot because i couldn't straighten my thoughts together. i hadn't had enough sleep. i was freaked out all the time so that's how i developed over that three-year period that i was there before i left rather unwillingly. i would be in for 46 weeks before the symptoms would get so bad that i was not functioning. i would also start snapping at everyone and i noticed all of our staff would do the same thing could i go out it would take me two weeks to down regulate is the phrase that i've heard used in clinical settings. it basically means to me that i got my adrenaline back in order. so 2006, my team was out with the fourth infantry division patrol and they got hit by a car bomb. we got ambushed and he

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as richard engel said, everybody knew. so, don't lie to us now.ay, maybe you screwed up back then. >> put it all on the table. still ahead -- oh, dan, do we have the casey question in this tease ahead? just the question? good. all right. >> did she -- >> she's at it again. >> she was mean. >> she was so mean. >> who was she mean to this time? >> rick perry. what? you don't have the question. >> stop. i like rick a lot. back off. >> what's not to like? >> he's great. >> he is, yes. >> do you think it's okay to ask someone if they're smart enough to be president? >> no, it's not. >> is that mean? >> that is not. >> why not? >> i remember scarborough country had an infamous third one time, asking a question about -- >> maybe she's emulating it from the best. >> and in britain, we would ask, are you too stupid to be prime minister? >> oh, god, i hope she didn't say are you too stupid. >>> coming up, republican elijah cummings and representative john conyers join us for the latest from capitol hill. and joanna coles will be here along with dvs, hello.

nbc's chief foreign correspondent richard engel is in istanbul with the details. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. lebanese security officials tell nbc news that a woman and a young child were detained in lebanon nine days ago. they were picked up while trying to enter lebanon, having false identification records. they were arrested with an unspecified foreign national agency. there is some speculation that the leeb knees hads held frp the iraqi government. it's unclear how much intelligence she might have. she's one of three of his known wives. she's still in custody and has the potential to have a great deal of information about the inner circle of the isis leadership. she could also be potentially used as a bargaining chip to swap for hostages. >> thank you, richard. >>> a man who shot and killed four people monday has been found dead in west virginia after an hours' long manhunt. pete williams is in washington with the details. >> reporter: good morning. a statewide man hut in west virginia is over now that the man accuse of carrying out the killing spr