Dirty Wars

00:32:21 [♪...] [Man sings in foreign language]

00:36:17 >> Woman: [ln foreign language]

00:39:32 intervening to keep a respected yemeni journalist in prison. It sounded far-fetched to me.

00:41:38 any comment on a report in the nation today? And my question is...

00:43:26 [Thunder crashes] I had met operators before in my research on Blackwater, but

00:45:16 Kinetic operations, whether it's capture or kill, in some cases to detain

00:47:30 leaders, shihri and wuhayshi, but the last name gave me a chill: Anwar Al-awlaki.

00:49:07 assassinated by his own government? >> Yeah, it almost sounds kind

00:51:10 cross such a dangerous line to have him killed? [Train rumbling]

00:53:20 planned assassination of a U.S. citizen, a watershed event.

00:55:29 [Coughs] Myself, with-- at this age in my life, I really cannot ever

00:57:37 >> Scahill: Al-awlaki seemed to have embraced the very identity he once opposed.

00:59:47 When he was finally released, Al-awlaki was a changed man, and after j-soc tried to kill

01:01:19 that the United States has conducted an operation that killed osama bin laden

01:02:54 It didn't feel like victory at all. >> John mccain: The leader

01:04:32 j-soc operators. >> I'm a firm believer in targeted assassination.

01:06:15 What we have essentially done is created one hell of a hammer. And for the rest

01:08:08 [♪...] Just as mcraven had testified, the war was erupting in

01:10:14 ...the men fired across the rooftops, but it didn't make sense to me what we were

01:12:26 but Washington insisted qanyare's services were vital to their kill campaign.

01:14:51 killed in a drone strike authorized by the president himself.

01:17:28 should cut it because I thought that he should do that. [♪...]

01:20:30 might one day become. A twisted logic, a logic without end.

02:00:00 so anwar really started to be more vocal in his