>> reporter: of course baghdad these days isn't all bombs and bullets.or a little outdoor sport. in the evening, people do find the time and place to unwind. here sunnis gathered in the mosque to celebrate their prophets birthday, but overall the city is shabby and bleak. seeing it like this after two years was a shock. i covered iraq for over a decade during the u.s. occupation, through some of the very grimmest chapters. but by 2011, as the last of the american troops pulled out, i thought things had turned around after a successful election and oil money starting to flow. so did seyed abdul khader gilani. he heads one of the main sunni mosques in baghdad, but instead, he says, iraqis have had nothing but corrupt politics and empty promises. >> reporter: saddest of all, baghdad's not safe. after improving steadily over several years, terrorist attacks shot up again last summer. in spite of hundreds of checkpoints that cause epic traffic jams, somehow the bombers still slip past and wreak havoc. this week alone, there were 22 attempts. khadamiya hospita

and to baghdad and and and have a new stadium to peaceful protest. so on some level of mistrust growing up this monday to stoke of inoffensive him through just some claimant because the government was un able to do so others and the prime minister himself nor iam of the moon the key to him saying he wants to avoid a bloodbath he directly addressed local militias who also been pushing out of those forces. calling on those who are deluding themselves to reconsider. i have been involved with out knowing and supporting al qaeda projects and protecting it in several ways including giving media and political support. minneapolis just yet now they are responsible for the consequences of our forces face as they fight criminals and killers who know little of the water. i was with me. do not say and do you agree with iraq's prime minister events of the local tribes and militias have responsibility to bear more of this incursion by edgy harvests. i disagree i think the kids on the seat and i directly and at me and the situation in iraq and fight and die estates

but i argued maybe i would've made the same argument that i did in 1991 about going to baghdad. i also might have been far more skeptical because of my intelligence back then and the intelligence case that he had weapons of mass destruction and others were around the on the table this because i have a pretty good view and intelligence capability. and so to be honest i think it is hard for me to say what i would've advocated in 2003 with 10 years of hindsight. >> can you talk about your effort to get these vehicles for the troops in iraq? you are surprised to learn that there were these vehicles and developments in these mine resistant ambush and so how did you get that? a noted that senator biden was a target of much of your criticism. >> yes, and i give him credit for it. and actually it is a lesson that i tried to hammer home to the military leaders with when they read criticism in newspapers want to go into eight defensive mode but to find out whether the newspaper series in "the washington post" had put me on to the problem of wounded warriors and let me to fire the secretar

this applies to baghdad as well. it is very diverse. , each province would take five dollars from each barrel of oil reduced in the province. also when it comes to refining the oil in the province -- a budget was submitted. it only gave one dollar to each province on one barrel and cap four remaining dollars. when asked why, we got no answer. will of some others to not implement the law. legal do not give us our rights according to the law, we will stop producing oil. we will start a rebellion. the governor of baghdad said. why do we push the iraqis and to such difficult decisions? have to be committed to implementing the laws in the country. >> this is a very important discussion. one of the great questions that many americans have about what is going on in iraq today is a question of where do average iraqis stand? how did they see their situation? there is the status of one of the principal leaders of the iraq sunni community. you will pardon me for using that moniker, but i think that is a fair way to put it. i th

the government in baghdad has a light footprint. it's been turned over to tribal leaders, and the various - i don't want to use the term militias, but the sons of iraq, the satwa movement where the people maintain security, but with the uptick in sort of extremist or islamist sunni violence, there's a nasty struggle going on between those tribal leaders and the al qaeda affiliated elements, and it's not a pretty picture, but from the point of view of the tribal leaders, they can not be turning to the government in baghdad because that would be - that would worsen their condition. so it's a tough sunni on sunni problem. let alone the problem with the government. >> how do you see this developing. do you think the iraqi government is capable of regaining control of fallujah and ramadi, or might it grow there. >> the government in baghdad has to gain control. they have to do it through a mechanism that involves the tribal leaders. that means they'll have to let the tribal leaders be in the lead and there'll be negotiation. but i think

secretary of state john kerry has promised support for the baghdad government that he has ruled out the possibility of boots on the ground he has said that the u.s. would not send troops back to that country to quote kerry he says that this fight is the fight of the baghdad government iran has also said that it is prepared to me and military support to the baghdad government and saying troops to help fight al qaeda there while in neighboring syria the al qaida fighters who are embattled with the syrian president bashar assad in recent months have been gaining ground and gaining strength was not the first time the center of the violent battles during the war in iraq it became a stronghold of sunni anti-american resistance adam kokesh was one of those who fought of at the time and he thinks what we are seeing now are the political mistakes of the past. i've come a long way since my time in illusion two thousand and four and been able to step back and you know i've been involved you know in a lot of various efforts here in the united states to help fellow veterans out with p.t.s.d. and thi

but as cctv natalie comedy reports the deal has upset people in baghdad and renewed the kurdish question. they're in turkey. in what was seen as a breakthrough moments you deal was reached during a visit to turkey by innocent eyes on president of the kurdistan regional government last november well tricky depends heavily on energy imports. it can also help direct some two million barrels a day of kurdistan soil to the world markets but it needs baghdad's consent to do so without the two hundred people in this hall of crude oil from iraq has become its biggest gold will not be exported to consent of the rocky coast month. this oil is not being shipped to europe a modest yet. well constitutionally kurdistan is entitled to seventeen percent of iraq's oil and gas revenue there are disagreements about the regulating of the resources coming from the northern region therefore i couldn't purchase of energy directly from apple the kurdish capital and its cost of building a second pipeline has placed a lot of pressure on its relationship with baghdad. yet analysts say the deal is making perfect se

west of baghdad, iraq's army is in a standoff with militants linked to al qaeda.'s territory that was hard won by u.s. forces over ten years. elizabeth palmer is one of the few western journalists inside iraq and today she tried to visit front line. >> reporter: the battleground in anbar is less than 40 miles from the capital so we decided to drive out and take a look. we did make it beyond the western suburbs of baghdad on the road to ramadi and fallujah and made it through several checkpoints but now we've been stopped. this is as far as the security forces will allow us to go. at least 60,000 security forces have sealed off the area. but, under pressure from the united states and its allies, prime minister nouri al-maliki has decided not to order a full- scale assault against the al qaeda-linked fighters. "because" he said "he wants to avoid bloodshed." instead he's offering local tribesmen just over $400 a month to drive the militants out themselves. it's much the same strategy the u.s. military used to defeat militants in the same area in 2005. and it worked.

the central government in baghdad needs to be sensitive to local concerns. and make sure they're working on the real-life problems of the sunnis who live in places like anbar and north and west of baghdad, which is, of course, a critical region. and he needs to -- he needs to make the decision that he's going to be a national leader. and is he's going to work with the kurdish and sunni communities. this is -- most of the violence can be attributed to the new al qaeda threat. but there is a way to fight it, and i think the way to fight it is to look back at what happened successfully when iraq and the united states work so closely together in -- from baghdad to put down the sunni rebellion of 2007 and 2008. there is that historical precedent at work. >> yeah. and i guess the problem is whether or not the united states really has the kind of influence in determining what nouri al maliki does, if he's an effective leader or not. ambassador burns, thank you very much. nick, as always. and my colleague and friend, michael holmes, please be safe. >>> we have learn

secretary of state john kerry has promised support for the baghdad government that he has ruled out the possibility of boots on the ground he has said that the u.s. would not send troops back to that country to quote kerry he says that this fight is the fight of the baghdad government. cheese polls we're reporting live on the latest developments coming out of iraq violence going on across the country thanks paula well i'm cookouts fought in flu shot during the u.s. led campaign he thinks that the dire security the dire security situation was the inevitable result. i've come a long way since my time an illusion in two thousand and four and been able to step back and you know i've been involved in a lot of various efforts here in the united states to help fellow veterans out with p.t.s.d. and things like that so i think it's it's is it is incredible to see. you know a lot of the predictions that those of us who understood what the war was about at least figured out and we've got home coming true now because when you understand the nature of war as a racket you want to stand the true motiv

in baghdad, just 70 kilometers away, life is a lottery. of live or die every time you leave the house, despite the city being awash in security. >> translator: you depend on god when you leave your house, because you don't know what fate holds for you. >> reporter: it is a terrible fact that it is difficult to meet anyone who hasn't lost someone, friend or family, to the violence these past years. >> translator: i've lost many people close to me over the years. all those who die are iraqis. it's not each person's grief. it's joint grief. >> reporter: with national elections in april, many see nouri al maliki unlikely to offer major concessions to sunnis any time soon. and many sunni leaders in anbar province maintain their own hard line. meanwhile, those al qaeda-linked fighters feed on the dissent. but for ordinary citizens, politics and power plays mean little. just getting home alive at the end of the day is all that counts. >>> and you know, that's the thing, suzanne. the vast majority of those victims are just people trying to live th

baghdad how strong is support among the people for that well certainly but that the group of the glow that he has over the security in baghdad is very tight on the people nevertheless he hasn't been able to stop the terrorist acts which has been taking the lives of the civilians in baghdad he is now accusing the tide there which is somewhere else that being the one who is causing it he is the government is totally incapable of controlling even by that itself except that the people there are being put and very tight slot because the government is allowing people to go out and beating anybody who comes out in the street or even raising their voices this is really a tragedy but the problem is not there the problem is that the governments of the world and the international media seems to swallow this idea that somehow what is happening is that this is a fight against al qaeda when in fact it isn't this is a dictatorship of maliki he hasn't even got a government there the parliaments have resigned ministers have resigned until now he doesn't even have their. cabinet he doesn't have a minis

but i say in the book toward the end that i had argued strongly against going to baghdad in 1991 in the first gulf war because that would have meant to try to overthrow the regime, to get saddam hussein would have meant occupying two thirds of iraq and then it would be our problem so we were unanimous in the first bush administration in opposing the idea of going to baghdad and we took a lot of grief for it for not completing the job. we tended not to get that criticism after march of 2003 any more but i argued maybe i would have made the same argument that did in 1991 about going to baghdad. i also might have been far more skeptical because of my intelligence background i might have been far more skeptical of the intelligence case that he had weapons of mass destruction than others were around the table just because i have a pretty good view of the strengths and weaknesses of our intelligence capabilities. to be honest i think it is hard for me to say what i would have advocated in 2003 with ten years of hindsight. >> talk a little bit about your efforts about getting these war hardene

iran has also said that it is prepared to me and military support to the baghdad government and save troops to help fight al qaeda there while enabling syria the al qaida fighters who are embattled with the syrian president bashar assad in recent months have been gaining ground and gaining strength. during the u.s. led campaign and he thinks that dire security was the inevitable result. i've come a long way since my time an illusion two thousand and four there's been a four step back and you know i've been involved in a lot of various efforts here in the united states to help veterans out with p.t.s.d. and things like bass so i guess it's as if it's incredible to see that you know a lot of the rejections that those of us who understood what the war was about at least figured out and we got home coming true now because when you understand the nature of war as a racket you want to stand the true motivations behind the united states invasion occupation when you want to stand what kind of puppet government was installed in iraq your stand it was really only a matter of time before this h

in recent days the menace has received a boost as they were joined in a fine it's a case the baghdad government by sunni tribesmen and what is interesting is that it marks a change from the us clients to us that all three major accident i turned eight games al qaeda was witnessing not that they joining forces with the soft light that i hate the shiite led government now the american administration has incentive for creating the situation around me who predicted that one of the u s forces withdrew from iraq would be a vacuum that would be great to connect this with the fold with extremist elements the second mistake john kerry has promised support for the baghdad government that he has will top the possibility of goods from the ground. he has it that the us would not say troops back to back country. to quote him he says that this finds you the finest of the baghdad government sources say that it is for peyton didn't need the support to the baghdad government and state troops to help fight al qaeda there while a teenager in sydney at the kind of finds his lot in battles with the syrian

in baghdad this weekend, at least 14 people were killed and another 55 wounded in a series of car bomb explosions and during an attack on a juvenile prison. we will have more from iraq in the broadcast. 20 government troops were killed and 20 wounded. the bomb went off as the troops were boarding a transport vehicle. >> and today, the president said he has no intention of giving up power. asad said if we wanted to give up, we would have done so in the beginning. in ukraine today, there were new clashes between thousands of anti-government protesters and riot police who used water cannons and tear gas against the demonstrators. the protests erupted following the approval of legislation restricting pro tests and limiting critical press reports. >> two days after major changes are announced, senate intelligence chair warned today that the nation remains under threat. >> i think a lot of the privacy people perhaps don't understand that we still occupy the the nation. >> russian security agents were behind edward snowden that ultimately led to the decision. >> there is a reason that he ende

government sources say that it dissipates when admitted to support to the baghdad government and state routes to haul flights of my head there. while a teenager and seventy s the kind of finds his lot in battles with the syrian president that's not us that in recent months have been gaining ground and gave me strength. he saw the first confirmation of the center for its likely during the war in iraq to become a stronghold of sunni anti american resistance adam koch and his will is due for completion in time the thick smoke was seen out with the echoes of political mistakes man. a long way since my retirement solutions developed for and been able to step back into it i've been involved in a lot of various efforts in the united states to help the veterans if you see and things like that. it is isn't it incredible to see that in all one of the predictions that those of us who understood with the war was about at least figured out when we got home. coming through now is great when you understand the nature of war or as a racket you understand the true motivations behind the united states i

the doctors now that -- the disaster that is baghdad. they're trying to take it down. iraqi militants, thigh have enough fire power to overrun the iraqi capital? you'll hear about the warning from one senior minister inside iraq and what it means to members of our military, who made so many sacrifices there. that's coming up on this monday edition of shepard smith reporting. [ children shouting indistinctly ] [ male announcer ] there simply aren't enough hours in the day. yet somehow, they still find time to dream. [ timer beeping ] ♪ now 's our time to show our support. ♪ [ chainsaw whirring ] humans -- sometimes liferips us up. sometimes we trip ourselveup. and although the mistakes may seem to just keep coming at you, so do the solutions. like multi-policy discounts from liberty mutual insurance. save up to 10% just for combining your auto and home insurance. call liberty mutual insurance at... [ thump ] to speak with an insurance expert and ask about all the personalized savings available for when you get married, move into a new house, or add a car to your policy.

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throughout 2006, the commander in the field, until the fall of 2006, our commander in baghdad was still planning to draw down from 15 to 10 brigades by the end of 2006, and only realized toward the end of 2006 that wouldn't be possible. actually, the first person, i think, seriously to conclude that the strategy wasn't working was president bush. and i think that happened probably in the late spring or summer of 2006. there were several different reviews launched another our strategy, including the most important one was probably led by the national security council staff, which then led to the president's decision to surge troops to get control of the security situation, particularly in baghdad. this is a case -- and i point it out -- it's been presented mostly in a negative light, but i don't think it's a negative consideration, that beth bush and obama -- both bush and obama pushed back against the generals. in the case of iraq in 2006, it was the civilian leadership that decided the strategy wasn't working, not the military, and when bush decided to support the iraq surge, he was op

. >> reporter: when the sun goes down in baghdad, this is what happens. the american military moves in. abc news obtained these images. a massive american cargo jet delivering weapons to iraqi military partners. 2,400 rockets to arm iraqi attack helicopters, in an all-out war against al qaeda. a war al qaeda is winning. the battlegrounds familiar. fallujah, where so many americans fought, and died. face after face, giving their lives. now, with u.s. forces gone, america's ambassador tells us fallujah has fallen to an al qaeda that is now rising across this country. >> we're in a very precarious situation. they're capable of serious assaults. >> reporter: do you know approximately how many number of al qaeda are there in ramadi? >> a lot of people are saying these days you've got around 2,000 in the country. hardcore. >> reporter: an astonishing number. fallujah is really not really far from baghdad. we wanted to see how close we could get. it would not be far. iraqi forces are ringing the city with checkpoints and armored vehicles. about five miles out of

if you had improvement in iraq, and by that i mean the tribal leaders supporting the baghdad governmentmalik he doing some things with them, and then a unified force towards the al qaeda elements, i do not think that is necessarily the situation in syria, driving them back into syria, maybe even increasing the fighting in syria, so i think murat -- perhaps the strategy is needed in both places. it used to be that you had egypt stepping in, trying to work with these issues, but egypt is so crappy pot with its own issues thet now, so you do not get overall air of supervision that we used to have with egypt. >> thanks very much. >> thank you. syria,on another note in chemical weapons shipped out of the country after the deadline. there was an agreement to destroy the syrian chemical arsenal. a small number of containers now aboard a danish cargo vessel. of weapons and precursors, which are to be transferred to an american ship and destroyed at sea. j.p. morganbank chase agreed to pay $1.7 billion ,o the ends of bernie madoff and the bank was accused of failing to carry out its legal obliga

a stripping of car bombings killed 18 in baghdad. the iraqi government and sunni tribes have been trying to slow the influence of the al qaeda fighters. we have the latest on the fight to gain control >> after a standoff the iraqi army is ready to go into fallujah and fight the group i.s.i.l. the agreement to do so was heartfelt. local sunni tribes insisted they be part of the decision, and others disagreed saying i.s.i.l. was protecting fallujah. it's an example of the fighting between sunni and shiite factions. >> translation: there's increased coordination between the army and tribesman. the army provides the tribes with weapons and everything they need in the battle against the terrorists. it may be resolved in one or two days. >> that may be optimistic. the iraqi army sent out video. they are limited to the cities. others are in the desert on the border of syria, and getting rid of insurgents there are worrying. adding to the worry are the critics. prime minister. >> translation: we call on the people to meet the demands of the

but i argued maybe i would've made the same argument that i did in 1991 about going to baghdad. i also might have been far more skeptical because of my intelligence back then and the intelligence case that he had weapons of mass destruction and others were around the on the table this because i have a pretty good view and intelligence capability. and so to be honest i think it is hard for me to say what i would've advocated in 2003 with 10 years of hindsight. >> can you talk about your effort to get these vehicles for the troops in iraq? you are surprised to learn that there were these vehicles and developments in these mine resistant ambush and so how did you get that? a noted that senator biden was a target of much of your criticism. >> yes, and i give him credit for it. and actually it is a lesson that i tried to hammer home to the military leaders with when they read criticism in newspapers want to go into eight defensive mode but to find out whether the newspaper series in "the washington post" had put me on to the problem of wounded warriors and let me to fire the secretar

elizabeth palmer is in baghdad for us tonight. liz, who asked for the weapons? >> reporter: the iraqi government asked for the weapons to help the fight in fallujah and ramadi. they want automatic weapons in particular because they can -- they're sent without congressional approval so they can get here very quickly. furthermore, the united states knows that the iraqi government is going to funnel these weapons or at least some of them, into the hands of the tribesmen out there who are fighting al qaeda. but there are sympathizers among the tribesmen, al qaeda sympathizers, so there's a risk some of these guns will end up in the wrong hands but it's a risk that the u.s. is willing to take. >> pelley: by why take that risk? why the urgency now? >> all western diplomats agree situation in anbar is a powder keg. one misstep on either side could be a botched military assault, maybe a high-profile assassination and a widespread sectarian and ethnic civil war could be ignited in a moment, scott. >> reporter: liz palmer in baghdad for us. liz, thank you. the same battle

elizabeth palmer has just arrived in baghdad for us. liz, what have you seen so far? hotel and you could be stepping back in time. things look pretty much as they did just over two years ago when the last of the u.s. forces pulled out. we arrived at night and noticed right away the city is very dimly lit. there's still not enough power. some families only getting eight hours a day. concrete blast barriers everywhere and heavy security presence of uniformed iraqi security forces. people are very much afraid. they know that almost 8,000 civilians have died in iraq in the last 12 months, most of them in religiously motivated bombings here in baghdad. and they think that this mixture of religious tension and toxic corrupt politics is going to explode. i spoke with an iraqi politician on the way in here and i asked him, what's your biggest fear right now? he said very bluntly "civil war." >> pelley: elizabeth palmer in baghdad. thanks, liz. today we're finding out what happens when a state legalizes marijuana. lines are long and prices get high in colorado. and thousands a

today a suicide bomber attacked army recruits in baghdad. at least 21 iraqis were killed. iraq's military is also fighting al qaeda extremists in the city of fallujah. today a human rights group accused those iraqi forces of firing mortars into civilian areas. elizabeth palmer is in baghdad tonight following all of this. liz? >> reporter: good evening. well, fallujah is sealed off but people can talk to us by telephone and they say things have been pretty calm today and the al qaeda-linked extremists have melted away either into the outskirts or maybe into the country side. anyway, say local people, the threat they posed was always very much exaggerated. al qaeda was an excuse, say the locals, for prime minister maliki's shi'a this controlled army to attack sunni tribes in anbar province. these the two main branches of islam in iraq and they're engaged in a major power struggle. sunni tribal leaders who say they're persecuted by the shi'a- led government are fighting back. take a look at these men, they may look like islamic extremist but they're actually sunni tribesmen f

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weighs in by sending drones then missiles to baghdad. has to be a mosque you're watching r t with me marina joshie welcome to the program ready steady and only a month to go sochi is taking the final boxes and it's winter olympics preparations are scott is there. this is all confident that everything is on track. all the eleven venues have been completed built and tested to international standards on more than one occasion and all the transport networks including the high speed rail service between the coastal cluster and the mounting cluster are also up and running now there is still some work to be done but it's mainly superficial in terms of sprucing the city up so it looks nice come the opening ceremony on february the seventh what you can see behind me is the coastal cluster or the olympic village where six of the venues are housed where six of the venues are based including the fish stadium which is going to host the opening ceremony on february the seventh forty thousand lucky ticket holders will be crammed inside the stadium that

groups in iraq step up to drive out radical islamist militants while the inbounds hold government in baghdad is offered help by balls america and iran. iraq and to me to look at british brokers that know how or why. i made public anger over franking in the us a new world paul signs there are many more complaints of contamination that authorities and drilling companies are willing to admit. and as e.u. nations deal with dad by joining the great european fire sale a look at whether it's truly helping patch up national projects. international news and comment live from moscow you want to national with me. thanks for joining us. and iraq local tribes have stepped in to liberate their homes from al qaeda linked to militants sunni elders have asked government troops to pull back from province as local militias retake key positions from islamist forces meanwhile foreign powers have also weighed in driblets call rivals iran and america have united in opposition to the islamists has always been a trick and now reports. because of politics of the last few decades you think about the u.s. and iran as e

groups in iraq step up to drive out radical islamist militants while the embattled government in baghdad is helped by both america and iraq. you're going to be the great agent record companies that you know who are. made public anger over fronting in the wires and you will pull says there are many more complaints of contamination that our sources and drilling companies are willing to add meds. does the united nations deal with dad by joining the great european forest sale look at what it's actually helping patch up national budget. this is on c international coming to life from moscow and a very warm welcome to the program in iraq local tribes have stepped in to liberate their homes from al qaeda linked militants sunni elders have asked the government troops to pull back from the province as local militias retake key positions from is the most forces meanwhile foreign powers have also weighed in driblets call rivals iran and america have united in opposition to the islamists as a guy not stricken now reports. because of politics of the last few decades you think about the u.s. and iran a

at least eighteen people have been killed in separate bombings in iraqi capital baghdad. the deadliest attack came in a bus station in the center the city for new recruits for the army worked out that it's the second time recruits are being targeted by bombers in the past four days. iraqi forces are currently preparing for an offensive against al qaeda linked militants who have seized control in two cities west of baghdad. well no progress is being reported in efforts to broker a ceasefire for the conflict in south sudan. mediators from neighboring countries in the us have been meeting this weekend with representatives of cell sudanese rebels have been battling government troops since december. more than a thousand civilians have reportedly been killed since the conflict began and tens of thousands have been made homeless. many of the refugees are living in dire conditions. the best place he said they could find for stanley was next to this day in st. when fighting in the south sudanese capital to the principal and teacher decided to leave. you win under the scheme was of

. >> another deadly day in the capital, baghdad. >> 12 killed this a house in eastern baghdad. we don't know the reasons. it could be local mafia, or a religious group going against the target, where they thought it was un-islamic. 12 killed in one night is not extraordinary for baghdad. the car becomes are happening, security is dangerous there, and this is making people of baghdad nervous, people across iraq nervous, because a common thing you hear from the iraqi people is if the security service, if the police check post and army cannot protect themselves, what hope do they have of protecting us. an attack like this, may not be to do with the sectarian violence, it is unnerving of the iraqi people, because they don't have the security they need, and elections are coming up >> elections due to be had in april. how much of what is happening is do with politics? >> politics is key. nouri al-maliki has been speaking in the last hour, saying the elections will happen on time. you spoke to so many politicians and hear the public estimates. you realised they are saying an operation

searched baghdad for weapons of mass destruction. they didn't find any. in a flooded basement of the former spy headquarters, soldiers did find thousands of materials connected to iraq's once thriving jewish community. religious artifacts, business and government records, photos, letters and other personal effects. later that year, the coalition authority and the interim iraqi government agreed to let the national archives in washington clean and restore the materials, a project that took a decade to complete. >> this belonged today my grandfather. and this -- we use it in certain holidays. it's handwritten, and the piece is a skin of a dear. >> the descend ent of a chief rabbi was born and raised in baghdad. he was shocked to learn the government had spied on him and other children. iraqi jews suffered harassment and persecution in the late 1960s. shohek said that drove his family to pay smugglers to get them out in 1980. >> we might not make it and be killed on the way, on the roadwaves or might be kidnapped. we don't have a future in the country. and t

, so it had to be addressed at this point in time. >> tall ja was close enough to affect baghdad on a daily basis and to put it in perspective it is about the same says as jacksonville florida with the same modern infrastructure, communication systems, so this isn't a small little town, this is a large place where an organized insurgency, enemy forces al way could operate at the time, and so it was very easy for them to go into baghdad and attacks or ramadi and this surrounding area and then go back, plan, have plenty of communications all the resources they needed, and it was very easy to defend, so as went fallujah so went the rest of southern iraq. >> somewhere ryan and zach my battalion was operating outside of fallujah prior to the battle, after the first battle of fallujah in april of 2004 and we encountered a lot of problems, with ied attacks indirect fire we knew was kind of stemming from the basis in fallujah, but the main problem we had we knew ever since the first battle of fallujah it was just festering that sooner or later fallujah was the elephant in the room, sooner or

apache helicopter, the video first shows an attack on a group of men in baghdad. trying to aid the wounded. the video continues with another engagement, about 20 minutes later. >> to me, the most shocking part of the video comes at the end. >> i'm going to come around, get some more distance. >> roger that. you're clear. >> there's some confusion, maybe shots from nearby. all of a sudden, they zero in on a group of guys entering a building. >> there's at least six individuals in that building with weapons. >> we can put a missile in it. >> they say, let's hit it with a hellfire missile. they're getting ready to fire that missile. and at the woman left corner of the screen, you see a guy just randomly walk into the scene. and they don't say, no, no, no, don't stop, don't fire, they shoot off the missile anyway. >> an iraqi citizen looks to be just walking down the road, just minding his own business and then one second he's there, one second he's not. as far as i can tell, he was vaporized. i don't think his family ever knew what happened to him because there was n

that is exactly what happened in baghdad today, yet another suicide bombing. you talk about the situation there and particularly in falluja. >> yes. take you for inviting me. i just talked today to many friends in falluja. their situation today was not like yesterday. it is moving. the center in falluja has reopened. people are used to being ostracized since 2004, so it is usual for them to leave -- live under the violence. fled to otheries provinces. the situation is very tense. people of falluja don't know what is going on and what has happened. >> can you describe falluja for us right now and exactly what is the dynamic that is happening when news reports around the world say al qaeda-linked forces have taken over? >> yes, i would like to be precise and clear about it. when you talk to people, they reject the idea al qaeda is taking control of falluja. they say it is false. tribes. members of we have to remind that one year ago, demonstration started in the square showing anger against the policy of the government, of the iraqi government. malikihe prime mi