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Please join me, Susan Knowles, as I welcome a special guest for a special show. With everything that is currently happening in the news with beheadings of Christians in Iraq and elsewhere, I wanted to bring you someone who is making a difference right now. He is an amazing young man with an incredible story to share. Please invite ALL of your friends to this show.

MATTHEW VANDYKE is an international security analyst, media commentator, public speaker, and founder of Sons of Liberty International, a security firm that provides free military advising and training to communities threatened by terrorism.

VanDyke graduated summa cum laude from UMBC with a degree in Political Science, and later received his master's degree in Security Studies from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. He worked in North Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia for years as a documentary filmmaker (mostly traveling by motorcycle) and filmed the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

In 2011, Matthew VanDyke fought against the regime of Muammar Gaddafi in the Libyan Revolution as an American freedom fighter and soldier in the National Liberation Army.

He was wounded and captured by Gaddafi's forces and spent nearly 6 months as a prisoner of war in two of Libya's most notorious prisons, before escaping from prison and returning to combat until the end of the war. His experiences are the subject of the documentary film Point and Shoot, which won the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival Best Documentary Award.

VanDyke founded the security firm Sons of Liberty International (SOLI) in 2014 after two of his friends, journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, were beheaded by ISIS.