they were smuggled out of timbuktu in the cover of night. he is the man behind the dangerous rescue mission. he spent two years and travel thousands of kilometers to save the scripts. >> we brought the documents here on boats. we picked the building with two upper floors and restore the manuscripts on the middle floor. that way we can better shield them from the high humidity. >> the fragile manuscripts may be safer now but the conditions here are far from ideal. the climate threatens to ruin the centuries-old documents. to save the scripts for posterity, they are being transferred to this building where a special team was carefully restoring, cataloging, and digitalizing the collection. some of the scripts are thousands of years old. the documents will be stored in handmade boxes to keep them safe from outside influences like humidity. the german africa prize is proof that the cultural heritage matters beyond its borders. though it might cost him his life, he said he had no choice but to save the document. >> the many scripts are part of wh

and mean, we have literally had drones over timbuktu. you know, the -- in foreign services committee, senate foreign services committee hearing a year-and-a-half ago an administration official to my think it was lindsay grams questioning, he said, do

and mean, we have literally had drones over timbuktu. you know, the -- in foreign services committee, senate foreign services committee hearing a year-and-a-half ago an administration official to my think it was lindsay grams questioning, he said, do you have the authority under the a in you have to put boots on the ground and the condo to mcentee said yes. i think there is a way in which when you have this open-ended authority that nobody has been challenging, it becomes like a self licking an ice-cream cone. it perpetuates itself, and it exists in order to exist. and that is why there are a number of proposals out there. i think the best proposals involve getting rid of the a.m. you have after 15 years. that does not mean that the president is to wait until something explodes before. but the war on terrorism, wisely going to be a law enforcement and intelligence operation. the military force where appropriate, and if it is appropriate in the case of isis, i am not convinced will but this is the kind of thing that, you know, we have a d

i mean, we literally had drones over timbuktu. you know, the -- in the foreign services committee, senate foreign services committee hearing a year and a half ago, an administration official in response to i think it was lindsey graham's questioning said do you have the authority under the aumf to put boots on the ground in the congo in and he said, yes. and i think there's a way in which when you have this open-ended authority that nobody has been challenging, it becomes like a self-licking ice cream cone. it perpetuates itself, and it exists in order to exist. and that's why there are a number of proposals out there. i think the best proposals involve getting rid of the aumf after 13 years. getting rid of the aumf doesn't mean that, you know, as i said, that the president has to sit back and wait til something explodes before any action could be taken. but the war on terrorism is largely, if it's done in a smart fashion, is largely going to be a law enforcement and intelligence operation, and military force where it's appropriat