A U.S. photojournalist and a South African aid worker died in Yemen after al-Qaeda militants,
tipped off by a barking dog to an approaching U.S.-led rescue mission, shot their captives
before being killed themselves.

The military operation to extract American hostage Luke Somers, the second rescue attempt in two weeks,
came after U.S. officials became convinced that extremists from al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula would
execute him today, U.S. officials said.

The second hostage, Pierre Korkie, a 54-year-old former track coach who was working in Yemen as a teacher,
was due to be freed by the kidnappers tomorrow after 11 months of preparations, according to Imtiaz Sooliman,
founder of the South African charity Gift of the Givers which was working with local tribes to negotiate his release.

President Barack Obama denounced Somers’s death as a “barbaric murder.”

“Luke’s life was in imminent danger,” Obama said in an e-mailed statement. “Based on this assessment, and
as soon as there was reliable intelligence and an operational plan, I authorized a rescue attempt yesterday.”

This one was purely OBAMA's fault. Poor intelligence.