bud and budweiser, bud light and budweiser are 3 and 4. when it comes to usa soccer, big congrats to the winging team. u.s. beating ghana. and the parties just beginning. too bad it's only monday night, guys. anderson starts now. good evening, welcome to ac 360, thanks very much for joining us. we're live tonight from baghdad, it is 3:00 in the morning, tuesday morning here in baghdad. curfew is underway here, curfew started at midnight. the city is largely quiet at this hour. the streets manned by iraqi government forces as well as militias. as well as volunteers who tried to fight isis. the group still some 45 minute drive outside of the city of baghdad. defenses have been strengthened,

we are also just getting word that hundreds of u.s. troops, u.s. forces are going to be deployed to this city, to iraq. president obama has notified congress that up to 275 u.s. armed forces personnel, will be sent here to provide support and security for the u.s. embassy in baghdad and americans in iraq in the event of an evacuation. that force will be equipped for combat and stay in place until the security situation improves. it's been a day of dramatic developments to tell you about this evening. the united states is also considering everything from unarmed surveillance flights to air strikes to help hold this country together and stop the violent offense of being carried out by militants from the islamic state in iraq and syria. a lot to talk about. joining me now is jim acosta. let me start with jim shudo. >> this is what we know, over the weekend, teams totaling a

number of 170 began arriving in baghdad. their role, one of the largest in the world, another 100 still outside of baghdad ready to go in if needed. their specialty is an air field security. why is that important? if a full organization is 23450eded, these are not combat troops, they're not there to fight the battles, they're there to provide security for many of the thousands of americans who are in baghdad. >> and jim, i understand that president obama is meeting with his national security team at the white house tonight? >> that's right, anderson, it's possible that that meeting has just wrapped up, in just the last several minutes, we have seen john kerry, secretary of defense chuck hagel, martin dempsey and the attorney general all leaving the west wing, within the last several minutes from what i snrs from talking to a white house official, the president is now down to what they're calling a fundamental set of options, air strikes are

still on the table, but no combat troops on the ground, anderson? >> do we know whether those air strikes would consist of -- are you talking about manned aircraft or drones? or do we not know? >> at this point they're still debating whether to go with warplanes or drone strikes. if they do decide to do a strike at all, anderson. one thing we should point out, another option they're looking at. they're looking at expanding the existing security, training that is underway in iraq right now by u.s. military forces for iraqi security forces, that may get ramped up, that's one of the options on the table. >> that would obviously be more of a long term fix. what are you hearing in terms of possible u.s. options, jim? >> one option we know of is the idea of bolstering the advisory force that is already in iraq. have you about 200 people in the u.s. embassy compound here who advise and train the iraqi

military, an idea on the table would be to send more advisers in there, not to be in the field, say, with iraqi combat units, fighting these ice is militants, but to be at home base in effect in the embassy and helping the eye crack can is coordinate the military response. that is one of many options on the table, it's the kind of decision the president has to make tonight. >> jim, what are you hearing about -- there's been a lot of talk today about u.s. possibly working or consulting with iran, what do you know about that? >> this is what we learned. the deputy for the state department confirmed this on air a short time ago. these are talks between the u.s. and iran, and our european partners. those talks on the sidelines, u.s. officials met with iranian officials to discuss the situation in iraq. they were very belief, they did not discuss any military

coordination, the idea of air strikes to help defend iranian forces on the ground. the shared goal that neither iran or the u.s. wants iraq to descend into the civil war. the u.s. made it clear that they don't want iran taking sides in the sectarian conflict. the government of al malaki, shiite, those forces on the ground helping shiite malaysia yaz, they don't want iran to get involved. they want something that's more broader based and helps keep the country together. >> numerous reports saying that a top iranian paramilitary commander has been in baghdad with a number of his officers to help to try to coordinate the iraqi response. the white house is going out of their way to say that there would not be any military cooperation between iran and the united states. correct? >> the incoming press secretary

has made that clear on air force one. there will be no military coordination. they're having enough trouble dealing with this nuclear issue. this is no sort of new military cooperative chapter between the united states and iran. that's not going to happen, anderson? >> i want to bring in retired general, commanding general intelligence center. in terms of air strikes, if that is an option the white house chooses, talk about the options between manned aircraft and drones, can you do that without having u.s. personnel on the ground in forward operating positions, citing targets, gathering intelligence? >> anderson, can you. you can execute that type of a role without u.s. forces, u.s. personnel or army ground or marine ground personnel up close to where you expect the impact area to be.

you can do that from a distance. those would probably be either highly defined mobile targets or fixed targets. clearly the advantage of unmanned aerial vehicles is you don't have a pilot at risk, and you don't have to have the additional capability of the search and rescue capability that has to be robust and has to be present in case there's either a maintenance or a downed aircraft problem, and you have to go rescue that pilot. so clearly it can be done, and it can be done without forces on the ground but it's not like close air support we would see where forces are in close combat and you're trying to achieve some distance between those two through close air support. >> a couple of the problems -- a lot of people here have talked about, is that in a number of these cities, particularly cities they have already taken over, they're enmeshed with the civilian population, striking targets in those cities, a city they took over today, that would be difficult, are there clear

training grounds, areas that they could target? >> well, you clearly have what's called a collateral damage problem, when you're going after targets where military and civilian targets are interwoven, which we would see in places like tikrit and mosul, yes, there are isolated targets along those lines of communications, realize, isis has displayed itself as a conventional force as a result of that, you have to have mostockpiles. you have to go after targets that won't have a collateral damage estimate. but would be very low. and would strike those targets. that would stop the momentum of isis. >> i appreciate you being on tonight, jim acosta, again, no decisions yet made by the white house in terms of ratcheting up any kind of u.s. involvement

other than those 275 u.s. forces we talked about. i want to bring you up to date on the latest in the violence here in country and in iraq, state television is reporting that the iraqi air force killed more than 200 militants today in its own air raids, northwest of falluj fallujah. also, they said they destroyed a convoy of vehicles carrying isis fighters, new images are also coming to light from isis reporting to show the executions of iraqi security forces. we'll have more on that later in this hour, incredibly disturbing videos. isis gained control of another city today, two more villages northeast of baghdad over the weekend and has threatened to march on baghdad in its bid to stretch an islamic state from iraq do syria. our senior international correspondents have spent the last few days here in iraq. nic robertson is here with me in baghdad. also joining me is arwa damon,

50 miles east of mosul. in terms of -- let's talk about these videos that have been released. disturbing videos, purporting mass executions. it's impossible to verify numbers. they're saying 1700 people that they've killed, lining them up, shooting them in ditches. but clearly that is designed to exacerbate the sectarian tensions in this country? >> absolutely. i mean, this is designed so that any shiite persons in this country that sees it, sees a sunni man with a gun, killing a shiite man, that's going to enrage those sectarian tensions that exist. baghd baghdadi wants to attack the sunnis, that will then further radicalize the sunnis and all those sort of sunnis in this country who are relatively moderate, sitting on the fence, that will drive them toward isis, baghdad and the commander. >> he wants to grow his organization out of it, he

doesn't want stability in the capital here, the tribesmen fighting with them do, but he doesn't. he wants them to come over to him, not to any other group. >> he wants sunni triebes man to feel that they're going to be attacked by shiite followers here, and that they have no other choice than joining isis? >> that's right. the more that he can enrage the population here, the shiite population with these videos, that some of these videos are so horrific in detail, that really they're documents war crimes here, the u.n. is calling these war crimes, potential war crimes. you have -- for everyone to see, this is intentional, baghdadi has had a strategy all along, a quick move toward baghdad, everything they do is with a reason. this is with a reason. enrage all those men we saw on the streets here on the weekend. who are lining up to join the fight for the government, to go to the front lines, this will make them act more angry than they are already.

they will potentially perpetrate atrocities themselves, everyone's calling for them not to, but to potentially do that themselves on the other population for sunnis. it's just pouring oil on fire. >> which is why they called up for volunteers to defend this country. we've seen huge numbers of volunteers. he wants everyone to exercise self-restraint. clearly he's aware of what the strategy of isis is. where you are, i'm wondering what the response you've been hearing, you've been talking to kurdish fighters who have been able to take over the city of kirkuk. what is their response to these videos? >> they're absolutely horrified,en anderson. iraq has been through an incredible amount of violence ever since saddam hussein was ousted from power. many will tell you this level of

brutality is something that is novel even for this country. the kurds have managed to hold isis at bay, especially critical is their ability to have kept isis fighters out of the oil rich city of kirkuk. that does not mean isis is not continually launching investigations. at the same time, the kurds are also urging a lot of caution moving forward, because of those escalating sectarian tensions that you've been speaking about right there. because it's not just isis that is in this battle again at the end of the day, they do have the support of the sunni tribes, the support of insurgent groups that are quite active under the u.s. occupation of this country. those are at the end of the day, groups that do not have the same ideology of isis. they are going to have to somehow at some point in time, whenever this country does reach that point be brought back into the political fold, anderson.

>> we're going to continue to check in with arwa damon and nic robertson throughout the night. a quick reminder, make sure you set your dvrs, so you can watch 360s. how isis is getting its message out. the videos we've been talking about, it's a planned fought out effort by them. we'll take you behind the scenes, where they're getting their money and how much money they have. they may be the richest, most wealthiest terror organization in the world right now, talking about hundreds of millions of dollars. two tornados touching down in nebraska. the latest on damage and the severe weather forecast for that part of the country. we'll be right back.

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large numbers of people fleeing the fighting, the rule of isis as we said, earlier in

the broadcast, a city some 200,000 people in the northwest of iraq fell today raising even more questions about the capabilities of the iraqi military to stand up and fight we have seen in mosul and other towns and cities throughout iraq. them running in the face of the well organized forces of isis. we're live from baghdad tonight. i want to give you an update on severe weather back inned states. >> at least one person is dead after two tornados touched down in nebraska. severe weather pounds the northern plains, a spokesman says -- the governor's office says there is damage in at least four towns. our meteorologist chad myers is live in the cnn weather center, he has the latest, also joining us on the phone, from nebraska, storm chaser ben mcmillan, you

took amazing live pictures, video of what was going on. dual double tornados tearing through parts of the united states along these lines, explain what you saw. >> hi, wolf, we started out today north of columbus, and the storms went very violent rather quickly. almost the fastest i've ever seen. then what happened next is truly historic. we saw a violent tornado translate into two and three tornados at once on the ground. >> how -- what did it feel like to be that close to these double tornados. >> well, again, i do this professionally, we're always putting ourselves in the safe part of the storm. if you watch them, we're on the western side of the tornados. they were moving east-northeast. it's almost impossible for a tornado to move backwards, a storm system that's moving east, and yes it was very close, but

again, we've been trained how to do this, it wasn't that close for us. >> the governor of nebraska has issued a state of emergency for the entire state right now. have you seen the devastation? have you seen up close the destruction? >> we're on our way. we're going to assist with any kind of search and rescue we can. assess the damage and we'll go from there. >> let me bring chad into this conversation, two tornados, side by side. you've been a meteorologist for a while, have you ever seen anything like that in. >> not this size. i've seen two tornados on the ground but f1s, 100 mile per hour storms. that picture is an ef 4, that's a 200 mile per hour tornado. weather service will go out there and look at that later on today and into tomorrow. >> that's what the storm is right there. >> moving on up, and it's dying now, there are more storms that could do the same type of thing

in the overnight hours, this is what one of the schools looks like right now, there should be another floor here, it's gone. we know that the children were not in the school at the time. wolf? >> basically, the forecast is for what, more of the same over the next several hours, 24 hours? what are you hearing? >> absolutely. all the way to maybe 2:00 or 3:00, typically as soon as the sun sets, storms are over, we just had a tornado, a large dangerous tornado on the ground near burr well. the storm missed that town by a half a mile, but still it did, and now there will be more tornados on the ground tonight all the way through dark. those ones after dark are very dangerous. >> i want all of our viewers to be very, very careful and heed the warnings that you get, chad. thanks for all that you do as well. let's go back to anderson, he's live in baghdad. anderson? >> wolf, thanks very much. remarkable pictures there. we're going to have the

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welcome back, we're live in baghdad, the campaign that's being carried out is being advertised online by this group, isis on jihadi internet forums, on facebook and twitter. some purporting to show the executions of iraqi security forces and others. others mass executions, i'm going to speak with peter bergen about what they're trying to accomplish with these videos. the images are coming out too graphic for some young viewers. arwa damon reports. >> reporter: two of the captives have iraqi border guard patches on their sleeves. islamic state here to stay. the first two comply, fear on their faces. moments later, this he appears to be dehydrated, barely reacting to what's happening.

in the next video, he is dead. his jaw blown off. at the end of the clip, the isis gunman proudly declares we killed a shiite. this facebook page matches the bearded man on video. we access the facebook account before it was taken down. posted on it, these stills of the same execution. and another photograph that shows the other four men dead. they're accused of being maliki's dogs. he boasts about how he blew the infidels heads to hell. >> in another post, he says, send these videos to the shiite. it's become a ruthless battlefield. many of the images posted online are too horrific to show a shallow ditch filled with bodies. all accused of being members of

the iraqi security forces. often we don't know who the victims are, but in this case, we manage to identify the man who could not speak. his name izeki. 35 years old. a father of two. arwa damon, cnn, iraq. >> there's a look of fear in so many of these people's eyes. joining me now -- it bears drilling down on, focusing on -- isis is releasing these videos in order to not only show fear among the military of iraq, whose moral may be weakened, but also to try to increase the sectarian divide. how effective is that strategy. >> i think it's been incredibly effective. what you're seeing, i think is,

isis has in a way obviated the 1960 agreement. isis is in control of both sides, syria and iraq. every part of that country. they have a state that runs 400 miles from aleppo and the west. the largest amount of military in the arab world. it's arguably the biggest achievement since 9/11 and yet, as you wrote about, this is a group, isis itself has distanced itself from -- because of the most gruesome of their tactics. >> when al qaeda is rejecting you because they're too violent clearly you're very violent. but at the end of the day, i mean, these -- yes, they -- al

qaeda has rejected this group, i think it's a distinction without a difference, if you're a shiite living in iraq, whether it's the al qaeda certified group or isis which is not being certified by al qaeda central, they operate in varyi ining degrees of viole anderson. >> phillip, we were talking on friday, on the program, and you said you were reserving judgment to see how effective isis fighters were in taking some of these towns. three days later, i wonder how you see things now on the ground. >> i think we're looking at a limited set of characteristics, modest geographic gains by isis. the key questions i have, are going back to the u.s. surge. what are the tribal counsels doing, the awakening groups doing. what do people think? i think isis could continue to take territory. i would be looking a month or

two or three down the road saying, if they can't govern, if they treat people poorly, if they behead people, can they hold it? and that's not an answer i can give you in three days. >> the tribal counsel that you're talking about are sunni groups. they really helped turn the tide here in 2006 to 2007. as you well know, the prime minister, who's a shiite has alienated a lot of those groups, stopped paying those tribal councils. even if some of those sunni groups, don't like the methods, the kind of videos we're seeing from isis. do they, unless nuri al maliki reaches out to these groups, are they really going to come around and turn against isis? do you think? >> i think they may do that. we've seen that in other situations, in places like somalia, for example, i think

you've put your finger on the critical problem that's not understood in the united states. this is not in some sense a fight against extremist,s a fight against isis. this is shiite against sunni. saddam was a sunni who oppressed the shiite. this is them saying, we own the turf now, and we're going to crush the sunnis, if we choose to intervene in the united states, it won't necessarily be perceived as intervention against extremists, it will be perceived as intervention in favor of a shiite dictator. >> in fact some people will say, well, you guys didn't intervene in syria in support of sunni insurgents fighting against assad, and here now is intervening against other sunnis again in iraq to kind of bolster the argument you made. i appreciate you being on, peter bergen as well. isis is not only known as ruthless, it may be the richest terrorist group on the planet right now.

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as we reported earlier, president obama's notified congress that as many as 275 armed personnel will be sent here for the u.s. embassy and americans in iraq. it's the largest diplomatic post in the world, more than 5,000 people work and live at the compound. tom foreman takes a look. tom? you can see that baghdad is more or less in the middle of the country. and if you move into a map of baghdad, you look at the very heavily fortified green zone in the middle there, that's where you will find the u.s. on the

southern edge by the tigris river. it's about the size of an amusement park or 60 football fields all put together. or also way around plus, this giant blast wall, so that even if someone got close, any bomb would be deflected or thwarted. steven beecroft lives within the compound. scores of offices handling everything from visas to trade, to security to agriculture they work in buildings that are hardened against attack. there are troops there to protect the 5600 workers inside this compound.

many of the people can't leave often without a heavily armed escort. so inside they have cafeterias, workout rooms, swimming pool, they have tennis courts, they even have a movie theater and the ability to generate their own electricity and water, all part of the cost anderson? >> it is a city within a city. i want to bring in james jeffrey. he joins me from london. also with us peter binehart. ambassador, let me start out with you, you work with nuri al maliki up close for a long time. do you think he really is capable in this hour of need, in reaching out to sunni groups who many people in the united states say that he must reach out to, in order to try to bolster his government? >> i would have to say i'm quite

skeptic skeptical. >> what does that telling you about the potential for real change here, positive change here? >> he's never faced the situation like this before, he's not the only stubborn sectarian person in iraq. a high percent of those we had to deal with had views similar to his. nonetheless, we have to move quickly, the scenario about baghdad being surrounded by these isis people is going to materialize. >> yeah, i -- >> you think that's very possible? do you think it's possible baghdad could fall? >> no, it can't fall, but it can be cut off. we almost faced that in 2004 with 100,000 u.s. troops. it could create chaos and place all of our interests in

jeopardy. it's going to require a government that can do reconciliation. and maliki is an object like no other. >> you have to try to get nuri al maliki to speak out? >> it's probably the biggest mistake i've ever made in my journalistic career. i think before we go, blowing a lot of things up, we need to figure out whether in fact there's an iraqi government that is capable of creating a government that can win back some sunni allegiance. isis is in the lead, the reality that they have the support right now, in a lot of other sunni groups as well.

this is not only a fight against an extremist group. most sunnis have been deeply alienated from this government, unless we can find a way. pushing this government toward being much more inclusive, i'm not sure military action will do much good. >> do you believe that some form of u.s. military action is necessary? >> exactly. that's why i disagree with peter. he's trying to do stabilization. we shouldn't be bombing sunni areas, what we have is these columns of isis fighters, heavily equip ped, moving aroun to the north and south of baghdad. that's a military move, it's in shiite areas in many cases and we have to stop that, before we can stabilize a situation. keep the iranians out, and ensure that baghdad is not cut off. >> how are we going to keep the

iranians out, maliki is much closer to the iranians than he is to us. i'm not against military action in any circumstance, it seems to me, we have a certain leverage right now with maliki wanting us to take military action. we slu use that to get him to make political decisions. >> that's all well and good, but for the moment, we -- for the moment -- that's all well and good, and it actually is a good idea, but for the moment, we have a military problem. the iranians have advisers and such, what we don't want is hundreds of -- large columns of iranian troops streaming in, because baghdad is cut off. that's the horror scenario that's going to turn the whole region into a shiite sunni civil war. >> i appreciate your time tonight, just ahead tonight, how did isis gain so much power so quickly, where did the money come from?

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when isis took over the second largest city in iraq,

they took an awful lot of money. that's one of the ways they've been funding themselves. >> in mosul iraq's second largest city, isis struck gold. literally. they took a large amount of gold and an estimated $430 million. a smash and grab like that could make them the richest terror organization in the world. the council on foreign relations reports most of isis' financing comes from smuggling, extortion and other crimes. isis is even cashing in on oil, selling crude from oilfields they took control of in northern syria, right back to the syrian government. the new york times reports isis is also selling electricity from captured power plants back to the government too. >> they also do a lot of the

typical terrorist activities. they have money laundering schemes. >> josh rogan reports that isis has been funded for years by wealthy private donors living in countries the u.s. considers allies, countries like kuwait qatar and saudi arabia. and those governments, says rogan, know it's happening but choose to look away. >> the governments would have some plausible deniability and fund them directly. at the least, they were looking the other way. >> if you do the math, isis may be worth at least $500 million, after that last attack on that bank in mosul, in 2011 the taliban was said to be worth an estimated $70 million to $400 million. even al qaeda can't compete. al qaeda had an operating budget of $30 million a year, before the 9/11 attacks. >> and all of this cash on hand

only allows isis to attract more extremist fighters who are drawn to higher salaries, big money helps isis finance large scale prison raids, liberating hundreds of fighters who join their ranks. >> they're a group that can't be negotiated with. the more resources they have, 9 more aggressive and violent they'll be. >> elevating the risk in the middle east and potentially around the globe. randi kaye, cnn, new york. >> professor filkins has done an extraordinary job covering this story from the beginning. he joins me tonight. >> you wrote recently that more bad news is yet to come, can you explain that? what do you mean. >> it's hard to forecast the future, but you have the makings there for a wider -- a much wider war, i mean, already you

have isis which is not just an iraqi organization, but a syrian one, they're fighting in both places. isis is already done bombings in leban lebanon, against hezbollah. you have the iranians, who are the head of the revolutionary guards force is apparently in baghdad preparing to mobilize the iraqi shiite militias, possibly. there's been reports there's revolutionary guard already in iraq. the saudis are already in, the turks are already in, i mean, you've really got the possibility for a much wider conflict here. >> there's a lot of talk, especially when u.s. politicians that the u.s. has got to somehow get the prime minister here, to reach out to sunni groups or kurdish groups, but particularly, to sunni groups. do you -- i mean, given his actions since the u.s. has left here, do you see any sign he's willing to do that? >> well, no, i don't. i mean, i think -- luke, the

hard part now is that, you know, sort of now is the wrong time to ask him to do that. because now, you know, there's -- he's got guerrilla fighters on the outskirts of sunni, fighters on the outskirts of baghdad, now it's difficult to talk and to try to make deals and to reach out. it was easy to do that, two and a half years ago, when the american -- when the last american troops left, but what he did, in fact, was totally the opposite. maliki has basically driven us to -- or driven iraq to the place where it is. he has been utterly sectarian for the past two and a half years. and one of the crucial roles that the americans played when they were there, was essentially in restraining him. and in sort of brokering deals between all the various factions. without them there there's no break on him. >> there have been some who have suggested that the government that was created here largely at the instigation of the united

states really required the united states as sort of a central part of its dna, do you agree with that? >> i do, actually. that's the evidence. you know, ryan crocker, ambassador for several years. american ambassador said to me, that the irony is, that we built ourselves into the hard drive, and i think that's right. you've basically got these three groups, the shiites, the sunnis and the kurds, they've never really learned how to live with each other. they don't trust each other. the united states, we came in in 2003, we destroyed the iraqi state, spent eight and a half years trying to build another one. but we built a system that doesn't work very well, it worked okay, as long as we were there. >> the iraqi defense force would have some 250,000 troops out numbering isis forces, i don't know, 50-1, 100-1, perhaps.

how they're not able to stand up to them and defeat them on the field of bat snell. >> it's incredible. look, it comes down to moral, i think it's four divisions of the iraqi army disappeared up there, when confronted by, you know, a bunch of guys in pickup trucks. it's pretty pathetic. >> it is. don't even think about it. thanks very much. the u.s. army announces a crucial step as it seeks answers to the capture of bo bergdahl, we'll be right back. [person]...sharon got rid of her tempur-pedic ?!?! [person]...relax, she said... it's a brand new tempur-pedic... ...and then she unzipped the cover and showed how you can wash it anytime you like... [announcer] and, with the cool-to-the-touch smart climate system, now, there truly is... nothing like the feel of a real tempur-pedic. [person]it's definitely changed my life [person]thank you sharon [announcer]learn more at tempurpedic.com

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