The ultimate goal of any kidnapping or hostage taking investigation is recovery of your victims.

Number one, everything else is secondary.

The Kenyan kidnapping hostage taking was a career case, and it was just an extraordinary experience

that really set the foundation for me wanting to work overseas.

Welcome to episode 381 of FBI Case File Review with Jerry Williams.

I'm a retired agent on a mission to show you who the FBI is and what the FBI does

through my books, my blog, and my podcast case reviews with former colleagues. Today we get to speak to

retired agent William Peterson, who served in the FBI for 23 years. In this episode, he reviews his

kidnapping investigation where two American businessmen were held for ransom in Nairobi, Kenya.

And he reviews his involvement in the capture and identification of terrorist Sajibir,

a senior member of a Pakistan-based foreign terrorist organization,

wanted for his leading role in the planning,

preparation, and execution of the November 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India.

Williams' first assignment was to the FBI's violent crime and major offenders' task force

in the San Diego Division. Following the 9-11 terrorist attacks

here in the United States, he transitioned to the counterterrorism squad. He next worked in Baghdad

on the FBI task force addressing regime crimes and terrorism. Later, he served as a supervisory special agent at FBI headquarters

in the Counterterrorism Division, extraterritorial investigations unit, where he worked with

European authorities to track and dismantle terrorist networks and plots. He deployed to Afghanistan

as deputy on scene commander for

international terrorism, working on a task force integrating intelligence collection efforts with

the U.S. military and joint forces command for Afghanistan theater operations. He then accepted

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