the time. >> narrator: bakos began by piecing together zarqawi's life. >> zarqawi grew up in zarqa, jordan, which was also near a palestinian refugee camp. he was a tough kid in a tough neighborhood. >> narrator: poor and angry, it didn't take long for zarqawi to get into trouble. >> he was a thug. he was in and out of prison. he was a petty criminal. it was rumored that he had worked as a pimp. >> he was into drugs. he was into tattoos. you know, his friends in zarqa used to call him the "green man" because of all the tattoos that he had on his body. >> narrator: behind bars, zarqawi would undergo a transformation. >> in this prison, al-jafr prison, they allowed him to share cell block with other radical fighters or people who wanted to launch jihad. >> in prison, he really came into his own, because he managed to dominate the other prisoners. he managed to establish himself as a leader. he took his religion more and more seriously. >> zarqawi at the time was the muscle of the movement in jail, and he roughed a lot of people up during his time in jail. >> narrator: as the "green man" beca

we needed to get zarqawi. but he was good at evading capture. >> he could essentially remain invisible. >> zarqawi made it clear we could lose in iraq. ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> my fellow citizens, at this hour american and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger. >> every politician wants us to go crush an army. they give us their flag, and we can all go home and everybody is wonderful, like a world war ii victory. that shit ain't going to happen. ♪ >> in the battle of iraq the united states and our allies have prevailed. [ cheers and applause ] >> the united states and allies invaded iraq in the spring of 2003 and there was a set of assumptions that proved to be wrong. one, that we would be accepted as liberators, and two, that there would be the ability to turn the keys over to a follow-on government after saddam hussein was thrown out of office. >> we got him. [ cheers and applause ] >> saddam being captured, all of a sudd

zarqawi named it.we still will be dealing with years from now, he created i it. >> the terrorist group known as isil must be degraded and december ployed. >> he convinced people it was achievable. >> it's an ideology and belief system until we change the behavior of this radical form of islam, we're never going to defeat this crowd. ♪ ♪ >>> as a former fbi agent and chairman of the house committee, i had all 16 of of our agencies. i had access to classified information gathered by our operatives. people who risked everything for the united states and our families. we don't know their names or the real stories from the people who lived the pressure and the fear until now. >> every military force on the

. >> zarqawi was kind of hitler-like. i mean, he was an individual who was incredibly brutal. he was a dictator with a plan. and his plan was to kill as many people that did not see life the way he saw it and to try to change the face and the nature of the middle east. and, frankly, the islamic world. >> zarqawi was taking advantage of tensions on the ground between the sunni and shia for hundreds if not thousands of years. essentially taking a candle to that pocket of gas. >> horrific violence that was occurring across the country. there were people being killed every day in baghdad by the score. there were these big suicide bombings, car bombings, 14 a day in some periods during iraq. >> it was a chaotic scene, a dangerous place to be both for uniformed military and for the

. >> zarqawi was hitler-like.to kill as many people that did not see life the way he saw it. >> zarqawi was taking advantage of tensions on the ground and taking thedl

you take us behind the scenes of the hunt for al zarqawi.. >> the timing of this couldn't be better. if you see what's happening in syria and western iraq, zarqawi was the godfather of isis. his big mentor was al baghdadi, who's now head of isis, operating in eastern syria. zar c zarqawi brought all the brutality to the battlefield. he slaughtered anybody he could find. this is the story of the intelligence and special operators trying to put together a plan to find somebody who didn't want to be found and a lot of people didn't want him found. it is all of the intrigues of a great spy novel, only it's told through the stories of the people who really lived it. as i said, couldn't be more timely given all the efforts that are happening in eastern syria and iraq. i think people are going to love it and should tune in this sunday at 10:00. >> mike rodgers, will do. thank you for that preview. be sure to watch mike's show this sunday night at 10:00 p.m. here on cnn. thanks, mike. let's get to jim. >>> another great story coming up. the man feat

>> zarqawi was hitler-like.

and then you've gottal zarqawi and his henchmen trying to strangle you and intimidate you behind closed doors. that was his world. untouchable for a while but, unfortunately, not untouchable forever be. and the reasons that i think his story are especially tragic is that what we did -- and i include myself in that category, but also a delta force team. i love our special operations forces. they have a narrow, important mission, but sometimes they screw up too, and my book gets into that, i hope in a fair and honest way. we made life a heck of a lot dangerous for the grand mufti of fallujah to the point when the ambassador and the mc asked me who killed sheikh hamza, i said we did. there are faces and stories that motivated the whole book. and i have to say while i love our military and i love general nicholson who's a partner with me through many of the pages, the stories that really demanded, i think, a 608-page book from an incredible publisher is the iraq and the afghan stories. so thank you, carter, for giving me five more minutes on that. but i'll now open it up to all of us, and a

zarqawi, the father of isis. see how the u.s. took down one of the world's most dangerous terrorists at 10:00 p.m. eastern here on cnn. i'm brianna keeler in washington. poppy harlow will be back next weekend. have a great week. >>> back in 1981, i had the american dream, the beautiful wife, the house in the suburbs, and a beautiful 6-year-old son. and one day i went to work, kissed my son good-bye and never saw him again. in two weeks, i became the parent of a murdered child, and i'll always be the parent of a murdered child. i still have the heartache, i still have the rage. i waited years for justice, i know what it's like to be there waiting for answers. and over those years i learned how to do one thing really well, and that's how to catch these bastards and bring them back to justice. i've become a manhunter. i'm out there looking for bad guys. ♪ ♪ >> i love my wife. i love her. oh, baby. i'm so sorry. so long. i love you. oh, baby. i love you, honey. oh, baby. i miss you, baby. god help me, please. ♪ ♪ >>> tammy was a very

he was revered by osama bin laden and the current head of al qae qaeda, al zarqawi.m explodes in 1979. in iran there was revolution. enraged by the rule of the american-backed shaw, popular protests drove him out. angry mobs seized the american embassy. for 444 days, the united states watched helplessly as americans were held hostage. >> there are indication that is a large number of muslims -- >> at the same time november 1979, cataclism in saudi arabia. the take over of the grand mosque in mecca, islam's holiest site. it was stormed by insurgeents demanding the overthrow of the american-backed saudi king. these effects were like rocket fuel for islamic radicals. they had taken control of iran. and in saudi arabia the monarchy makes a fateful decision. it decides to appease the ultra conservative clergy who preach a puritan cal and intolerant interpretation of islam giving them free to spread their poisonous world view to other countries. >> it's hard to imagine a muslim community anywhere on the planet that hasn't been touched by the ideology. >> remember saudi ara

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i just said a name a lot of people would know which is al-zarqawi.his is name a lot of you may not know. i don't even have it on instant recall. i had to regoogle it this morning. the name is mohamed basisi. a tunisia street vendor who set himself on fire in 2010. many poem say that was the trigger for the arab spring, his protest, his suicidal protest was a trigger for the arab spring. he didn't set himself on fire because of george w. bush. he set himself on fire protesting autocratic tunisian regime, which then ignited this arab spring which spread to syria. when it spread to syria, jihadists began to seize an opportunity they had there, to reform, to rebuild and to strike once again. because you see the jihadists had been largely chased out of iraq by that time. so what is the overall less on here? the lesson here is twofold. one, if you're going to intervene militarily into the middle east, you had better be prepared for worst-case scenarios. you can not intervene in the middle east against a backdrop of idealism. the middle east is the place wh

zarqawi, the father of isis. see how the u.s.ne of the world's most dangerous terrorists at 10:00 p.m. eastern here on cnn. i'm brianna keeler in washington. poppy harlow will be back next weekend. have a great week. >>> back in 1981, i had the american dream, the beautiful wife, the house in the suburbs, and a beautiful 6-year-old son. and one day i went to work, kissed my son good-bye and never saw him again. in two weeks, i became the parent of a murdered child, and i'll always be the parent of a murdered child. i still have the heartache, i still have the rage. i waited years for justice, i know what it's like to be there waiting for answers. and over those years i learned how to do one thing really well, and that's how to catch these

they morphed into al qaeda in iraq under zarqawi and territory was taken back. they were almost decimated. they reconstituted in syria, in the levant and they seem to be losing that and they're spreading out again. the circle everwidens, but it's the same formula. >> jim, thank you very much. joining nee now by phone, eric who was having dinner nearby when tonight's attack happened. eric, can you tell me what you saw? >> yeah, sure. we had been on the beach at a restaurant, enjoying the dinner and the bastille day fireworks, and about 10:30 when the fireworks had ended, we were just settling our bill. all of a sudden we heard screams and pop, pop, pop, pop sounds. and my wife, she's deaf, recognized the sounds as gunfire, and we immediately got up from our table and ran. the restaurant we were at, it was about three meters below the promenade des anglais. and there's an area underneath -- it's a shelter. we went back with about a hundred or so people, sheltered under there. but as we were running into the shelter area, people were diving off the promenade onto t

the car bomb was the work of zarqawi, made a name for himself as the chief of the slaughtere slaughtererseventually killed by u.s. forces. this so-called martyr families honored this act by holding a festive ceremony known as the wedding of the martyr. in arabic, to symbolize his wedding in paradise with 72 virgins. on these occasions i guess congratulate the family for the sons of martyrdom. these kind of weddings are performed often. thank you. [applause] >> , i appreciate the opportunity to show some perspectives, also honored to be on the panel, these distinguished individuals. in light of the background that was set out by my colleagues, i thought it might be helpful to focus on a few different issues, what a particular trying to find these lone wolves. in particular islamic state inspired individuals in the u.s. but some of the same lessons can be utilized with transnational jihadists or same thing with lone wolves here, either with traditional crime or other political extremism. so with the type of topics i'm going to be covering our manyfold initially the with a few cases of isis

the car bomb was the work of zarqawi, made a name for himself as the chief of the slaughterers slaughterers. eventually killed by u.s. forces. this so-called martyr families honored this act by holding a festive ceremony known as the wedding of the martyr. in arabic, to symbolize his wedding in paradise with 72 virgins. on these occasions i guess congratulate the family for the sons of martyrdom. these kind of weddings are performed often. thank you. [applause] >> i appreciate the opportunity to show some perspectives, also honored to be on the panel, these distinguished individuals. in light of the background that was set out by my colleagues, i thought it might be helpful to focus on a few different issues, what a particular trying to find these lone wolves. in particular islamic state inspired individuals in the u.s. but some of the same lessons can be utilized with transnational jihadists or same thing with lone wolves here, either with traditional crime or other political extremism. so with the type of topics i'm going to be covering our manyfold initially the with a few cases of isis