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in baghdad.m and saddam hussein. they call about 1:00 and say we're bringing in the mohammad hadir prisoner. they drive in, drop him off, i bring in the first prisoner, the one they said owned the house. i said what's your name? mohammad, mohammad what? mohammad hadir. okay. quickly, quickly, quickly. two hours to get this guy to go. i'm the deputy to muhammed ibrahim. i'm like, good, where is he? he said he was at the house last night. and i'm thinking, son of a bitch. it's a ghost. ivy -- i've missed him again, i'm like, where is he, where is he? he was at the house. and the ling west, my interpreter's going mr. -- he's saying he was at the house when the soldiers came. and i'm like, they don't miss anybody. i'm like, did they get him? and i went to the guards, i'm like, who do we have? who was brought in on this raid? i'm looking at three guys sitting on the ground. hoods on, hands behind their back. and i'm like, is muhammed ibrahim one of these guys? and i knew exactly what he was supposed t
in baghdad.m and saddam hussein. they call about 1:00 and say we're bringing in the mohammad hadir prisoner. they drive in, drop him off, i bring in the first prisoner, the one they said owned the house. i said what's your name? mohammad, mohammad what? mohammad hadir. okay. quickly, quickly, quickly. two hours to get this guy to go. i'm the deputy to muhammed ibrahim. i'm like, good, where is he? he said he was at the house last night. and i'm thinking, son of a bitch. it's a ghost. ivy --...
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christine. >> ben wedeman for us in baghdad. thank you for that. >>> democrats united behind hillary clinton. president obama giving an impassioned endorsement as other party leaders go on the attack against donald trump. that's next. parts a and b and want more coverage, guess what? you could apply for a medicare supplement insurance plan whenever you want. no enrollment window. no waiting to apply. that means now may be a great time to shop for an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company. medicare doesn't cover everything. and like all standardized medicare supplement insurance plans, these help cover some of what medicare doesn't pay. so don't wait. call now to request your free decision guide. it could help you find the aarp medicare supplement plan that works for you. these types of plans have no networks, so you get to choose any doctor who accepts medicare patients. rates are competitive, and they're the only plans of their kind endorsed by aarp. remember - these plans let you
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i tell you it is baghdad. because today in baghdad they don't call them terrorists.are not terrorizing the nation. they are not terrorizing the people. it is like a car accident. even isis and al qaeda got tired. we do it and it's not in the news, it's not in the media. nobody pays attention. i salute baghdad as a city taking in 20,000 terrorist acts and now the people of baghdad have the resilience and the determination to continue the fight against isis and al qaeda. this city is teaching us a lot. today, we are at the moment we should terrorize this evil. i know there's a political differences. i know in this meeting i see hundreds of calls, what's going on? are you sure what you're doing? yes, we are sure. yes, we have a mission. our mission is to terminate isis and al qaeda from the face of the earth. but how are we going to terminate them without terminating their ideology? they are not islamic. when you call them islamic isis says thank you. thank you so much. that is why i give warning particularly to the republican party -- be careful when you use insist to
i tell you it is baghdad. because today in baghdad they don't call them terrorists.are not terrorizing the nation. they are not terrorizing the people. it is like a car accident. even isis and al qaeda got tired. we do it and it's not in the news, it's not in the media. nobody pays attention. i salute baghdad as a city taking in 20,000 terrorist acts and now the people of baghdad have the resilience and the determination to continue the fight against isis and al qaeda. this city is teaching us...
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to encourage the kurdish mps to baghdad. and we continue to emphasize to prime minister abadi this is not going to last unless he can properly bind in the tribes of anbar and unless he can provide the degree of reassurance to the sunni population that they're not going to be exposed again to any of the kind of malevolence they had under the previous regime. >> i'm sorry. is there a role for other agencies whether it's ngos or even the private sector that can deliver that degree of stabilization that we're going to need once the military phase is over? >> yes. in some cases it will be provided by ngos. clearly the politics has to be solved by the iraqis themselves and the iraqi government. the local security has to be provided by local security forces that people can buy into, but some of the services can be provided are externally and so we're putting money in ourselves to that and working very closely the stabilization unit that we have here in the uk, working closely on that. the difficulty is the pace because the military
to encourage the kurdish mps to baghdad. and we continue to emphasize to prime minister abadi this is not going to last unless he can properly bind in the tribes of anbar and unless he can provide the degree of reassurance to the sunni population that they're not going to be exposed again to any of the kind of malevolence they had under the previous regime. >> i'm sorry. is there a role for other agencies whether it's ngos or even the private sector that can deliver that degree of...
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i salute baghdad because today in baghdad they don't call them terrorists. they're not terrorizing the nation. they're not terrorizing the people. it's a car accident. we do it even not in the news or the media. nobody pays attention. i salute baghdad as a city taking in 20,000 terrorist acts. the people of baghdad have the resilience and the determination to continue the fight against isis and al qaeda. teaching us a lot. today we are at the moment we should terrorize this evil. i know there's a political differences. i know in this meeting i see hundreds of calls, what's going on? are you sure what you're doing? yes, we are sure. yes, we have a mission. our mission to terminate isis and al qaeda. i say thank you. thank you so much. that is why i give warning specifically to the republican party. be careful when you insist to use islamic terrorist and i do salute president obama when he insists on calling them thugs and thieves and terrorists and not islamists. victims of isis and al qaeda ready to fight. i am ready to volunteer and fight physically as al q
i salute baghdad because today in baghdad they don't call them terrorists. they're not terrorizing the nation. they're not terrorizing the people. it's a car accident. we do it even not in the news or the media. nobody pays attention. i salute baghdad as a city taking in 20,000 terrorist acts. the people of baghdad have the resilience and the determination to continue the fight against isis and al qaeda. teaching us a lot. today we are at the moment we should terrorize this evil. i know there's...
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. >>> in baghdad today, bombs go off on average every 12 hours. the awful routine that follows each bomb looks hauntingly familiar to americans who watch the iraq war play out on television. familiar except for this. after many bombings, he plays his cello. he's the conductor of the iraqi orchestra. sometimes he plays the iraqi national anthem. ♪ >> "my homeland," they sing. life and hope are in your air. >> i, george walker bush, do solemnly swear. >> george w. bush had a dream, a vision where saddam would fall, the people would rejoice, and iraq would become a stable democracy, a beacon of hope breaking the endless cycle of tyranny and extremism in the middle east. but if you think this is just history, it isn't. many politicians want to send more troops back into iraq and syria, as well. it's the only way to defeat isis, they say, but will another american intervention be more successful than the last one? this time it's crucial that we understand how the iraq war went so terribly wrong. go back to the beginning of the story. it's tempting to a
. >>> in baghdad today, bombs go off on average every 12 hours. the awful routine that follows each bomb looks hauntingly familiar to americans who watch the iraq war play out on television. familiar except for this. after many bombings, he plays his cello. he's the conductor of the iraqi orchestra. sometimes he plays the iraqi national anthem. ♪ >> "my homeland," they sing. life and hope are in your air. >> i, george walker bush, do solemnly swear. >>...
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to bring baghdad and opec closer together to encourage the return to baghdad. we continue to emphasis to the prime minister that this is not going to last until he can properly bind in the tribes of anbar and unless he can provide the degree of reasurance to the sunni population that they are not going to be exposed again to any of the mulevolence under the previous regime. is there a role for other agencies whether it is ngo's or the private sector that can deliver the degree of stability we are going to need once the military phase is over? >> yes, some services will be provided by ngos. we putting money ourselves and working closely with the security. but the military campaign is being successful but our giveaway, the politics is lagging behind. it has been suggested one of three things could happen. daesh become what the taliban in afghanistan. it could increase the number of terrorist activities. >> on the insurgency, as we are doing in afghanistan, and i imagine for a while, we will have to continue to support government of iraq and dealing with the count
to bring baghdad and opec closer together to encourage the return to baghdad. we continue to emphasis to the prime minister that this is not going to last until he can properly bind in the tribes of anbar and unless he can provide the degree of reasurance to the sunni population that they are not going to be exposed again to any of the mulevolence under the previous regime. is there a role for other agencies whether it is ngo's or the private sector that can deliver the degree of stability we...
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cnn's correspondent ben wedeman reporting live for us this morning from baghdad. give us the latest, ben. >> reporter: christine, at this point, around 30 villages and towns around fallujah have been retaken by pro government forces. it is coming at a high cost for civilians. we had a chance to go outside baghdad and speak to those who were able to escape. the tales they tell are chilling. one man said isis militants came to their house and said you are going to the center of fallujah where you will be human shields. he said anybody who said no was simply shot on the spot. he, however, with his family, mentioned to evade the militants. they hid in a swamp for three days subsifting on dirty water and dates before they got to safety. another man said he knew the militants were coming around. they left the door to their home off so they thought the house was abandoned. people next door discovered hiding in the house were also simply shot inside their homes. once they get to baghdad or camps for displaced people, the situation is difficult. short in supplies. short in
cnn's correspondent ben wedeman reporting live for us this morning from baghdad. give us the latest, ben. >> reporter: christine, at this point, around 30 villages and towns around fallujah have been retaken by pro government forces. it is coming at a high cost for civilians. we had a chance to go outside baghdad and speak to those who were able to escape. the tales they tell are chilling. one man said isis militants came to their house and said you are going to the center of fallujah...
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there's a highway from iman into baghd baghdad. iran a couple of weeks ago. there's about tens of millions through everyming single month. it's dried up since isis came in. forces with urity about 1,000 tribal fighters from area cleared out isis from rufa about two weeks ago, nd we're working to secure a local highway which is critical for our close partner jordan and also of course for iraq. the kind of pressure coming from all directions. it's not just iraq and syria but it's global and i think overall while this remains a tremendous, challenge, the strategy is kicking into gear and we're making progress and we'll talk to the president next we are and how we might further accelerate. >> thank you, brett. good detail laid down here. josh, do you want to start. you.ence: thank i wanted to ask about mozul and you talked about being led by local forces. you about somere of the shiite militias with on a n support are taking lot of the action and the -- how the risk of their bath of ectarian blood clash? hat could have a brett mcgurk: tikrit was a test for this.
there's a highway from iman into baghd baghdad. iran a couple of weeks ago. there's about tens of millions through everyming single month. it's dried up since isis came in. forces with urity about 1,000 tribal fighters from area cleared out isis from rufa about two weeks ago, nd we're working to secure a local highway which is critical for our close partner jordan and also of course for iraq. the kind of pressure coming from all directions. it's not just iraq and syria but it's global and i...
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it is a short drive from western baghdad. so, very important battle.t you have is a combination of all of the different elements of iraq. you have iraq he army elements. you have iraqi special operations forces, special operations forces, police. keep in mind it is a sunni arab city. we have some sunni tribal fighters as well. it is cut off. by the way you have perhaps as many as 45,000 iraqi civilians still in the city. in some cases being used as shields. this is already taking on barbaric aspects if you will. the use of civilian shields, executing civilians -- what is remarkable so far i think is the resilience of the islamic state fighters. charlie: 20,000 plus. mr. petraeus: they have to know there is no way out. charlie: in terms of iraqi soldiers. mr. petraeus: tens of thousands. and yet they have continued, continuing to fight for a number of reasons. one is just very harsh discipline. we shoot you if you try to surrender. they have done some of that. the extremism has motivated people to join the islamic state in the first place doesn't ring q
it is a short drive from western baghdad. so, very important battle.t you have is a combination of all of the different elements of iraq. you have iraq he army elements. you have iraqi special operations forces, special operations forces, police. keep in mind it is a sunni arab city. we have some sunni tribal fighters as well. it is cut off. by the way you have perhaps as many as 45,000 iraqi civilians still in the city. in some cases being used as shields. this is already taking on barbaric...
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-- isis launching bombings around baghdad. still two weeks into the operation to retake the stronghold iraqi special forces say they control a key area of the city. this area now provides iraqi forces a base to expend their assault. isis continues to put up stiff resistants using car bombs. militants are using some of the 50,000 civilians as human shield. those lucky enough to escape, living conditions are deteriorating with food in short supply. once iraqi security forces secure the city, the city still faces issues, including divisions which politicians have shown no willingness to address. fox news. >>> the aircraft carrier uss truman moved into the mediterranean sea launching bombing missions in syria and iraq. the commander says there has been no interference. >> russian surface ships, they have done their missions, we have done ours. no interference on either side. [ indiscernible ] >> it is all professional. >> the move to the mediterranean is seen as the journey back to the u.s. the ship will return in virginia next mo
-- isis launching bombings around baghdad. still two weeks into the operation to retake the stronghold iraqi special forces say they control a key area of the city. this area now provides iraqi forces a base to expend their assault. isis continues to put up stiff resistants using car bombs. militants are using some of the 50,000 civilians as human shield. those lucky enough to escape, living conditions are deteriorating with food in short supply. once iraqi security forces secure the city, the...
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baghdad will not let them in because it believes that many of them are i.s.i.s.porters and it isn't able to screen them. so the most poignant things is just across the bridge that leads from the outkids of baghdad to anbar province, waiting for people to cross, in temperatures that are more than 100° in the shade, scrambling for even a little bit of water, there are no toilets, there are no tents. it is a sign really that the international community as well as the iraqi government has failed them. everyone is scrambling to get aid in there, but there are people suffering and reports coming out that people might actually be dying. >> woodruff: it sounds just horrible, jane arraf reporting for us right now in baghdad, yesterday you were in fallujah. thank you. >> thank you, judy. >> ifill: stay with us, coming up on the newshour: hard times for the coal industry and its employees. cleveland celebrates its first big sports championship in decades, and an inside look at a major addition to the world's most popular museum of modern art. but first, we turn to today's c
baghdad will not let them in because it believes that many of them are i.s.i.s.porters and it isn't able to screen them. so the most poignant things is just across the bridge that leads from the outkids of baghdad to anbar province, waiting for people to cross, in temperatures that are more than 100° in the shade, scrambling for even a little bit of water, there are no toilets, there are no tents. it is a sign really that the international community as well as the iraqi government has failed...
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apache helicopter, the video first shows an attack on a group of men in baghdad. and then on a van 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, at the bottom left corner of the screen, you see a guy just randomly walk into the scene. they don't say, no, no, no, stop, stop, 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 bec
apache helicopter, the video first shows an attack on a group of men in baghdad. and then on a van 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. >>...
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for this morning's suicide bombing that killed 15 civilians in the mostly shiite neighborhood in baghdad60 others were hurt the attack coincides with another suicide car bombing at a check point north of baghdad that killed 12 people. >>> two israeli battalions are stationed on the west bank. the follow up is after four were gunned down at a mall. we have more on what happened and what authorities are doing about it. >> reporter: a security camera has the moment attackers pulled out guns and started shooting. people rang for cover as two men fired at point blank range killing four israelis this cell phone video shows an officer firing on one of the gunmen. police captured another a few blocks away. today the restaurant was back open. this woman says thank god we were alive. no one will eliminate us. this video shows the attackers arriving at the restaurant. the media says they disguised themselves as orthodox jews to carry out the killings. >> israeli authorities say the palestinian gunmen are cousins from the same village in west bank. last night was the deadliest attack in eight months
for this morning's suicide bombing that killed 15 civilians in the mostly shiite neighborhood in baghdad60 others were hurt the attack coincides with another suicide car bombing at a check point north of baghdad that killed 12 people. >>> two israeli battalions are stationed on the west bank. the follow up is after four were gunned down at a mall. we have more on what happened and what authorities are doing about it. >> reporter: a security camera has the moment attackers pulled...
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alison. >> ben wedeman live from baghdad. thank you. >>> 56 minutes past the hour.n of early start on your money. dow futures lower right now. investors pouring into the safety of treasury bonds. the ten-year yield down to 1.66%. stocks in europe and asia lower. uber is now letting riders book rides ahead of time. something the company says it would never do. this is only available on uber x business accounts starting in seattle. spreading to other cities. pricing will be about the same as opening the app and hailing a ride there. users can order from 30 minutes to 30 days in advance. lyft started a similar program in san francisco earlier this year. it allows you to book 30 minutes in advance. >>> hacker could have easily guessed popular passwords in a hack. 33 million twitter credentials stolen recently. the popular password is 123456. creating 120,000 people with that combination. easy passwords, 123456789. qwerty and password. security experts say the hacker may have gotten the credentials from malware. the hack could be the cause of big users of mark zuckerberg
alison. >> ben wedeman live from baghdad. thank you. >>> 56 minutes past the hour.n of early start on your money. dow futures lower right now. investors pouring into the safety of treasury bonds. the ten-year yield down to 1.66%. stocks in europe and asia lower. uber is now letting riders book rides ahead of time. something the company says it would never do. this is only available on uber x business accounts starting in seattle. spreading to other cities. pricing will be about...
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so all of baghdad is red. and i chose baghdad for two reasons. 20,000 suicides in one city, and the people are still alive, running, without being terrorized. i tell you again and again. to make baghdad symbolic for the city and the world for fighting isis and al qaeda. it has a lot of meaning in this picture. i'm going to talk more about it. there is also another picture i would like to get, but i couldn't at this time. isis burned a big family from 3 years old to 12 and 13 years old with the mother and father. they put them in the cage and they burned them alive. they burned them. when i saw that picture i couldn't bring it because i become very emotional. i cannot see it. i could not see it. but i have the passion since i was tortured in saddam's prison i feel the pain of the people. , i feel all the time the shoes of the child who is being burned by isis and al qaeda. that hurts me. and that is why i say i cannot deliver a more powerful message than the unity of the whole world. today it is a pleasure to h
so all of baghdad is red. and i chose baghdad for two reasons. 20,000 suicides in one city, and the people are still alive, running, without being terrorized. i tell you again and again. to make baghdad symbolic for the city and the world for fighting isis and al qaeda. it has a lot of meaning in this picture. i'm going to talk more about it. there is also another picture i would like to get, but i couldn't at this time. isis burned a big family from 3 years old to 12 and 13 years old with the...
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it's also, by the way, just a short drive from the outskirts of western baghdad. it's certainly less than an hour depending on how many checkpoints you run into. and so very important battle. and what you have is a combination of all of the different elements of iraq there right now. you have obviously iraqi army elements. you have iraqi special operations forces, military elements, special operations forces, police, federal police units. anian-supported shia militia. ep in mind that fallujah is a sunni arab city, predominantly. and you have now some sunni tribal fighters as well. all of this, the city has been encircled for some time. it's been cut off. and by the way you have perhaps as many as 45,000 iraqi civilians still in the city. in some cases being used as shields by the islamic state. this is all ready-- already taken on certain bar baric aspects, if you will, the use of civilians as shields, executing civilians that try to escape, executing islamic state fighters that try to defect, if you will. >> rose: or surrender. >> exactly. and you know what's rem
it's also, by the way, just a short drive from the outskirts of western baghdad. it's certainly less than an hour depending on how many checkpoints you run into. and so very important battle. and what you have is a combination of all of the different elements of iraq there right now. you have obviously iraqi army elements. you have iraqi special operations forces, military elements, special operations forces, police, federal police units. anian-supported shia militia. ep in mind that fallujah...
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i was born in baghdad. only baghdad i'm talking about. only one city they call baghdad.ince the liberation of baghdad, there's more than 20,000 terrorist acts. 20,000 terrorist acts for a city like maybe new york city or like chicago. imagine boston, one explosion, how we get panicy here. but imagine a city daily -- daily. i'm talking with you right now, an explosion might be happening on one of the streets in baghdad. even though they don't put them in the news. within half an hour they clean the streets. the traffic comes back again. as nothing happened, just a car accident. nothing. i tell you. because today in baghdad they don't call them terrorists. they are not terrorizing the nation. they are not terrorizing the people. it is like a car accident. even isis and al qaeda got tired. we do it and it's not in the news, it's not in the media. i salute baghdad as a city taking 20,000 terrorist acts and now the people of baghdad have the resilience and the determination to continue the fight against isis and al qaeda. this city is teaching us a lot. we , we are at the mom
i was born in baghdad. only baghdad i'm talking about. only one city they call baghdad.ince the liberation of baghdad, there's more than 20,000 terrorist acts. 20,000 terrorist acts for a city like maybe new york city or like chicago. imagine boston, one explosion, how we get panicy here. but imagine a city daily -- daily. i'm talking with you right now, an explosion might be happening on one of the streets in baghdad. even though they don't put them in the news. within half an hour they clean...
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there is a highway into baghdad. i was in oman a couple of weeks ago.at was about tens of millions of dollars of commerce coming through every month. it has been dried up entirely because of isil. withraqi security forces 1000 tribal fighters cleared out isil just about two weeks ago. we are now working to secure the highway which is critical for our close partner jordan and iraq. you can see the pressure coming from all directions. it is not just a rack in syria but global. while this remains a tremendous challenge overall, the strategy is kicking into gear and we are making progress. we will talk to the president next week about where we are and how to accelerate. mr. earnest: thank you. josh? yourter: wanted to ask about the importance to have this led by local courses. how concerned about you about that isthe shia militia taking on a lot of the action? how do you assess the risk of there being a sectarian bloodbath against sunnis that can have a backlash? mr. mcgurk: tekrit was kind of a test for this. it was a year ago and you had a lot of popular
there is a highway into baghdad. i was in oman a couple of weeks ago.at was about tens of millions of dollars of commerce coming through every month. it has been dried up entirely because of isil. withraqi security forces 1000 tribal fighters cleared out isil just about two weeks ago. we are now working to secure the highway which is critical for our close partner jordan and iraq. you can see the pressure coming from all directions. it is not just a rack in syria but global. while this remains...
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cnn's ben wedeman is tracking the latest live from baghdad. ben, we have been concerned about the civilians there. we have been concerned about isis using them as human shields. thousands of children there. these reports that isis is threatening to execute men who don't fight for them. >> reporter: we just got off the phone with an official from unicef. he says as many as the last five days, 900 people have been coming out of fallujah. civilians also from the center of the city. they say the conditions are terrible. exhausted, pale and dehydrated. many children suffering from malnutrition because of the lack of food within the city. of course, the situation all the more complicated as the iraqi army hasn't halted military operations, it seems to halted on the edges of town. they continue to bombard the city with artillery. there continue to be air strikes on isis targets within the city. at this point, it's not at all clear when they're going to go into fallujah itself. they've already run into a lot of resistance from isis. isis has been in c
cnn's ben wedeman is tracking the latest live from baghdad. ben, we have been concerned about the civilians there. we have been concerned about isis using them as human shields. thousands of children there. these reports that isis is threatening to execute men who don't fight for them. >> reporter: we just got off the phone with an official from unicef. he says as many as the last five days, 900 people have been coming out of fallujah. civilians also from the center of the city. they say...
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iraqi commanders number of civilians shot dead trying to escape. >> charlie d'agada, cbs news, baghdad. >> three meme are dead, nine others are hurt, after a train crash in belgium. officials say passenger train slammed into a freight train in the eastern part of the country today lightning strikes caused dis rip sean on the line. >> shark attack leaves 60 year old grandmother dead and her friends in shock. door even collier was mauled by a great white shark at popular dive spot that she frequently visited with her diving partner. her partner was in the water with her somewhat when she was attack, was able to be saved by three fishermen in nearby boat, he explained the terrifying scene to local police. >> he didn't see the shark, but he felt, he said, at the is surface, when he surfaced he saw commotion in the water. >> this comes less than a week after a surfer was fatally mauled, just south of that area. >> well, still ahead on "eyewitness news", unusual suspect. >> this monkey isn't just window shopping. i can't believe i just said that. you won't believe what he does when he gets i
iraqi commanders number of civilians shot dead trying to escape. >> charlie d'agada, cbs news, baghdad. >> three meme are dead, nine others are hurt, after a train crash in belgium. officials say passenger train slammed into a freight train in the eastern part of the country today lightning strikes caused dis rip sean on the line. >> shark attack leaves 60 year old grandmother dead and her friends in shock. door even collier was mauled by a great white shark at popular dive...
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that happened north of baghdad.'s the latest. >>> the sister of a teen killed in a car crash accepted his honorary diploma. >> you're hear to receive the honorary diploma for tommy. a certificate from the governor's office tommy as having pain in the top 5% of the senior class. >> the entire auditorium erupted into applause as helena buarque de macedo accepted the honor for her brother. thomas and their parents were all killed in a cash crash. that lee thhelena was the only . >>> a stafford county sheriff's deputy shot several times tuesday night is expected to make a full recovery. he had a successful surgery on wednesday. deputies say he was shot four times by joshua sumpter. sumpter now faces an attempted capital murder charge. >>> an investigation into two shootings in culpeper continues this morning. investigators say it started when willis walker jr. threatened his wife at gunpoint on tuesday night. she ran to a neighbor's home but walker followed and allegedly shot and killed the 74-year-old man who tried to
that happened north of baghdad.'s the latest. >>> the sister of a teen killed in a car crash accepted his honorary diploma. >> you're hear to receive the honorary diploma for tommy. a certificate from the governor's office tommy as having pain in the top 5% of the senior class. >> the entire auditorium erupted into applause as helena buarque de macedo accepted the honor for her brother. thomas and their parents were all killed in a cash crash. that lee thhelena was the only...
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to reach out to the christians, no, comes the retort out of baghdad. you have to go through the influence that the she is and especially iran has here. kurds and others are battling isis, instead you see a situation in which the shia ,ilitias come in from iran where the influence and decision-making is powering fighters from iran to go into falluja. can you imagine the situation where you bring shia into a , allowed the tribal -- dissolution should have been to assure that the christians, the kurds, the sunni tribes be given the directions directly to take their villages back. it is the movement of shia militia in those areas that is compounding all of these rob's. -- problems. we are working on a shows, and that makes it possible for us to have a grand strategy to eliminate isis. >> chairman, when we look at north africa and what the congressman referred to as the growth of the terror growth -- groups. how expensive can military be in this area? reconcile would some have called isolationist groups within the republican coalition, who want less engagem
to reach out to the christians, no, comes the retort out of baghdad. you have to go through the influence that the she is and especially iran has here. kurds and others are battling isis, instead you see a situation in which the shia ,ilitias come in from iran where the influence and decision-making is powering fighters from iran to go into falluja. can you imagine the situation where you bring shia into a , allowed the tribal -- dissolution should have been to assure that the christians, the...
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. >>> at least two dozen are dead and dozens more injured in a series of bombings around baghdad after iraqi forces began a major offensive to take back the city of fallujah from isis fighters. as connor powell reports, militants are now using civilians as human shields. >> reporter: as iraqi troops move deeper into fallujah, ice is launching a string of bombings around the alarm -- iraqi capital, baghdad. the attack killing at least 15 and wounded 40. in a clear attempt to shift iraqi security forces attention away from fallujah. still, two weeks into the operation to retake the stronghold, iraqi special forces say they now control a key area of the city. government troops secured the southern edge this weekend. this area now provides iraqi forces a space to expand their assault on's -- on fallujah particularly the city center but isis continues to put up stiff resistance using car bombs and booby-trapped to slow the iraqi advance. militants are also reportedly using some of the 50,000 civilians there as human shields. those lucky enough to escape fallujah say living conditions are ra
. >>> at least two dozen are dead and dozens more injured in a series of bombings around baghdad after iraqi forces began a major offensive to take back the city of fallujah from isis fighters. as connor powell reports, militants are now using civilians as human shields. >> reporter: as iraqi troops move deeper into fallujah, ice is launching a string of bombings around the alarm -- iraqi capital, baghdad. the attack killing at least 15 and wounded 40. in a clear attempt to shift...
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appomattox day. 2003, the followed baghdad. dayou heard announcers that as we watched the statue be pulled down in baghdad, we are told this is what would make april 9 an important day in american history which shows the attention span of most news acres in the united's -- news anchors in the united states. just after that, not too long landedrds, the president on an aircraft carrier with a big banner, mission accomplished . i don't think we view that mission as having been accomplished anymore. we don't view that war as having ended with a surrender of conventional forces on april 9. aprilserve that imagine 11. when abraham lincoln spoke to , 1865, several days heore his untimely passing, does not celebrate the mission was accomplished. he knew the mission had barely begun. that the conventional war may be drawing to a close but the struggle will continue and take forms people had not anticipated. lincoln would not be around to observe what would happen. he would be around to try to secure the peace that union soldiers had don
appomattox day. 2003, the followed baghdad. dayou heard announcers that as we watched the statue be pulled down in baghdad, we are told this is what would make april 9 an important day in american history which shows the attention span of most news acres in the united's -- news anchors in the united states. just after that, not too long landedrds, the president on an aircraft carrier with a big banner, mission accomplished . i don't think we view that mission as having been accomplished...
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forces control most of fallujah 45 miles west of baghdad.was captured by isis two years ago. iraqis troops supported by the u.s. and iran entered the city on friday. isis fighters retreated, but left behind mines and explosives. the relentless fighting in iraq, along with corruption and security failures, has had a devastating impact on the country's economy. here's charlie d'agata. >> reporter: leith al khadom hasn't sold a sliver of scrap metal for days. >> today nothing, yesterday nothing. >> reporter: yet he says this reclaimation yard used to be crammed with customers. how much did you make on one good day? >> one good day? about $5,000. >> reporter: deputy $5,000. >> yes. >> reporter: on a good day. >> yes. >> reporter: and now how much do you mach a day? >> $5. >> reporter: the father of four said he's barely making enough to feed his own family let alone pay the salaries of two dozen workers. note long ago, this business had 10 times that many. the big money maker used to be his cranes. he's got hundreds. but none have been working s
forces control most of fallujah 45 miles west of baghdad.was captured by isis two years ago. iraqis troops supported by the u.s. and iran entered the city on friday. isis fighters retreated, but left behind mines and explosives. the relentless fighting in iraq, along with corruption and security failures, has had a devastating impact on the country's economy. here's charlie d'agata. >> reporter: leith al khadom hasn't sold a sliver of scrap metal for days. >> today nothing,...
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cnn senior international correspondent ben wedeman is live in baghdad. have also witnessed the continued ground battle firsthand. explain everything that you have been assessing. >> reporter: well, we were able to get inside fallujah riding inside an iraqi humvee. and from there we saw blocks and blocks of homes utterly destroyed. this is a very long and intensive artillery barrage, as well as iraqi-led forces. what we saw was mostly liberated. but what we saw was pockets of resistance. in fact, we were on one of the main streets of fallujah, and what we saw just 250 yards ahead of us there was a massive gun battle going on between iraqi forces and isis fighters but we could not see them. a block over on our left, another street battle, another block over on our right, same thing was going on, so there was still a lot going on before this city could be declared totally isolated from isis. so it will be months possibly before residents can move back in. we just heard from the iraqi minister's office underscoring another problem. during isis's two and a ha
cnn senior international correspondent ben wedeman is live in baghdad. have also witnessed the continued ground battle firsthand. explain everything that you have been assessing. >> reporter: well, we were able to get inside fallujah riding inside an iraqi humvee. and from there we saw blocks and blocks of homes utterly destroyed. this is a very long and intensive artillery barrage, as well as iraqi-led forces. what we saw was mostly liberated. but what we saw was pockets of resistance....
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we have cnn's correspondent ben wedeman reporting live from baghdad. in the city. >> reporter: yeah, when you meet their children, they have the distant look of kids who have seen things that really kids should never see. they talk about isis going house to house looking for people basically rounding them up to go serve as human shields in the heart of fallujah. those who refused or even just questioned the orders. apparently shot on the spot. we spoke to people who did manage to leave there now in a displaced personal camp outside baghdad. they say for instance, four families of 32 people hid for three days in the marshes drinking dirty water and eating dates before they were finally able to get behind the frontlines of the iraqi army and to move on. even the ones who get to baghdad, they're living in the dusty, dirty and disorganized camps. they have no idea when they're going to go. many of them, the families have been separated because iraqi intelligence is holding many of the men and teenage boys because of fear they could be isis members or sympa
we have cnn's correspondent ben wedeman reporting live from baghdad. in the city. >> reporter: yeah, when you meet their children, they have the distant look of kids who have seen things that really kids should never see. they talk about isis going house to house looking for people basically rounding them up to go serve as human shields in the heart of fallujah. those who refused or even just questioned the orders. apparently shot on the spot. we spoke to people who did manage to leave...
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an operation to seize the key city west of baghdad began in may. iraq's prime minister said friday that the city was liberated. but a cnn crew saw firsthand that fighting continued through the weekend. and an ngo is warning that the battle has led to a humanitarian disaster. the norwegian refugee council says that in addition to the thousands who have already fled fallujah, some 30,000 people have been dollaisplaced in just last three days. our ben wedeman is now in baghdad after being in fallujah over the weekend. he spoke to us earlier about iraq's efforts to take fallujah back from isis. >> reporter: you have to just compare it with prior experience. for instance, the last iraqi city that the army and other iraqi forces were able to take back from isis was ramadi, also in anbar province. that offensive began on the 25th of november of last year, and it wasn't until basically early february of this year when it was completely pacified. so this has been a fairly rapid operation. it began with the encircling of the city and, of course, it's not jus
an operation to seize the key city west of baghdad began in may. iraq's prime minister said friday that the city was liberated. but a cnn crew saw firsthand that fighting continued through the weekend. and an ngo is warning that the battle has led to a humanitarian disaster. the norwegian refugee council says that in addition to the thousands who have already fled fallujah, some 30,000 people have been dollaisplaced in just last three days. our ben wedeman is now in baghdad after being in...
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cnn's senior international correspondent ben wedeman is live for us now in baghdad.he area are declaring victory, fighting is still raging in that city, isn't it? >> we just got back from there. we rode in an iraqi army humvee to the center of town, saw a lot of destruction along the way. when we got to the center of town, which we were told had been liberated, what we saw was that fighting was indeed ongoing. in fact on our left one block over, there was a gun battle raging. down the street we were on one of the main roads going through fallujah. about 300 yards away from us, there was fighting there. and on the street one block over to the right, we can also hear gun battle going on. now the iraqi troops we were with seemed fairly relaxed, fairly confident that it's only a matter of time that isis will be completely crushed in fallujah. but certainly what we saw is that it's still quite a ways to go. now we understand from iraqi officials that isis is still in control in the northern neighborhoods of fallujah. now fredricka, what's significant is we were in falluja
cnn's senior international correspondent ben wedeman is live for us now in baghdad.he area are declaring victory, fighting is still raging in that city, isn't it? >> we just got back from there. we rode in an iraqi army humvee to the center of town, saw a lot of destruction along the way. when we got to the center of town, which we were told had been liberated, what we saw was that fighting was indeed ongoing. in fact on our left one block over, there was a gun battle raging. down the...
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a capital call to baghdad with control over the borders and foreign policy.ut each of the regions, a sunni and thea kurdish region them should each of have the same kind of autonomy that california has. california has the state police patrol. it's not federal police. delaware has state police. the kurds ares never going to allow a shia national police force to occupied kurdistan. you could just go down the line. army madenational sense. but to allow more autonomy in the regions. it still makes sense. charlie rose: the prime minister mosul.to march towards ba it within the six months that this in administration has? joe biden: it depends on a number of things. i talked to the prime minister all the time. i am his phone pal. he is solid. he believes in a more federated system. he tried to set up national and elsewhere. he understands the need for autonomy. out. reaching he wants us to equip the sunni tribes to help. coming from the shia militia that i want any part of it. it would take two things to sul.ke mo we have to get our allies involved. we can't leave c
a capital call to baghdad with control over the borders and foreign policy.ut each of the regions, a sunni and thea kurdish region them should each of have the same kind of autonomy that california has. california has the state police patrol. it's not federal police. delaware has state police. the kurds ares never going to allow a shia national police force to occupied kurdistan. you could just go down the line. army madenational sense. but to allow more autonomy in the regions. it still makes...
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so i was the only reporter for much of the war in baghdad covering with a team -- a wonderful team of cnn personnel covering it live. the second gulf war in 2003, there were 40 other live television units. and the whole nature of international coverage changed because the communications are loud, the reports from ordinary people all across the globe. i think the effect of this, there was a negative effect on the u.s. military. because they -- they closed up the -- the access to their own people and because of this barrage of information, they wanted to control it. but by doing that, journalists in iraq who were unhappy with the embedding would go and were reluctant to do much coverage with the u.s. because they were rarely allowed near any kind of action. you couldn't take any pictures of wounded americans or any american casualties. but reports could go all over the countryside. i think most pulitzer prizes given for international coverage, including this year's of the new york times were from stories of about ordinary people living in victims of the war. and all of the stories added
so i was the only reporter for much of the war in baghdad covering with a team -- a wonderful team of cnn personnel covering it live. the second gulf war in 2003, there were 40 other live television units. and the whole nature of international coverage changed because the communications are loud, the reports from ordinary people all across the globe. i think the effect of this, there was a negative effect on the u.s. military. because they -- they closed up the -- the access to their own people...
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brasani, the president and baghdad. and that is being worked on. so that the look-- and so here's what has to happen. what has to happen is you can have the pmf which is the shia militia. they can be part of it as long as they don't go into the city. >> rose: and they are doing most of the fighting, aren't they. >> they are doing a lot of the fighting. >> rose: in the taking of fallujah. >> they are. but the real force is the iraqi special forces. they're the ones that are taking the brunt of it and doing most of it. >> rose: supported by american special forces. >> supported by american special forces as advisors and now the anbar tribesmen are engaged as well and the isf, the iraqi security forces. >> rose: with that convergeence it's possible you could get mosul. >> yes t is absolutely possible. but you need to have, and we have our generals working very closely now, with an agreement on the modus avendi, how to proceed. it's still possible. and part of it is the first thing we've got to get across the river and get to town, a town an area south
brasani, the president and baghdad. and that is being worked on. so that the look-- and so here's what has to happen. what has to happen is you can have the pmf which is the shia militia. they can be part of it as long as they don't go into the city. >> rose: and they are doing most of the fighting, aren't they. >> they are doing a lot of the fighting. >> rose: in the taking of fallujah. >> they are. but the real force is the iraqi special forces. they're the ones that...
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baghdad had half a million people during the time of the caliphate. london and paris had maybe a few thousand. this is the muslim world at the height of its power. what they're trying to show is that the caliphate had these ingenious qualities per there's no one caliphate. when it was led purely by worship of god or like any political structure it's much more complicated than that. there were caliphate who were spiritual and those who were warlike. you can find it justification for almost any kind of political audience. i think this is a necessary corrective to this kind of rhetoric. >> one more book you have coming up. >> there's an interesting book in political science called locked in who is written by a law professor and a statistician which is about why we struggle so much in america with mass incarceration and how everything you think you know about mass incarceration is wrong. it's not about the war on drugs or the size of our prisons but it's more about our prosecutors. i don't think a lot of people have acknowledged the problem in the united
baghdad had half a million people during the time of the caliphate. london and paris had maybe a few thousand. this is the muslim world at the height of its power. what they're trying to show is that the caliphate had these ingenious qualities per there's no one caliphate. when it was led purely by worship of god or like any political structure it's much more complicated than that. there were caliphate who were spiritual and those who were warlike. you can find it justification for almost any...
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davis and gentlemen, from the city in baghdad, only baghdad talking about. only one city they call it baghdad. there is more than 20,000 terrorists. 20,000 terrorists acts for a city like maybe new york city or chicago. imagine in boston a week at here. but imagine a city daily. i'm talking with you right now and an explosion might be happening. within half an hour, the traffic come back again. nothing happened. just car accident. today in bag that they don't call them terrorists. they are not terrorizing the nation. they are not terrorizing the people. even isis and al qaeda did tired. even in the news media and nobody pays attention. as the city taking in 20,000 terrorists acts and now people of bag that have the brazilian and the determination to continue the fight again isis and al qaeda. this is teaching us a lot. today we are a moment. we should terrorize this evil. i know there's political differences. i know in this meeting i say hundreds of calls. what's going on. are you sure what you're doing? yes, we are sure. just we have a mission to determine
davis and gentlemen, from the city in baghdad, only baghdad talking about. only one city they call it baghdad. there is more than 20,000 terrorists. 20,000 terrorists acts for a city like maybe new york city or chicago. imagine in boston a week at here. but imagine a city daily. i'm talking with you right now and an explosion might be happening. within half an hour, the traffic come back again. nothing happened. just car accident. today in bag that they don't call them terrorists. they are not...
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>> it is a tactical victory for baghdad, heather. fallujah was the last bastion of isis control in the anbar province and deadly attacks were launched in baghdad. it was very, very destructive suicide attacks. they had to eliminate the threat in fallujah and used most of the iraqi special forces. >> what role did the u.s. play in taking back fallujah? >> well, the u.s. role in this goes back to 2003 when we advised the iraqi special forces. they took the fight in fallujah and fighting throughout the country in the fight against isis. and the the partner advising made the iraqi special forces the best in the middle east. and our role in this is advisors and providing air support and providing intelligence support to the iraqis at command centers that allowed them to go in from of fallujah and take out the enemy. >> moving beyond the anbar province and cities and territories in the northern portion of iraq controlled by isis and specifically mosul. >> iraqi special forces and military will conduct after action reviews and go over the w
>> it is a tactical victory for baghdad, heather. fallujah was the last bastion of isis control in the anbar province and deadly attacks were launched in baghdad. it was very, very destructive suicide attacks. they had to eliminate the threat in fallujah and used most of the iraqi special forces. >> what role did the u.s. play in taking back fallujah? >> well, the u.s. role in this goes back to 2003 when we advised the iraqi special forces. they took the fight in fallujah and...
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fallujah is just 40 miles from baghdad. what's the importance of that? >> well, it was one of the biggest cities outside of baghdad and mosul. fallujah is really a big strategic stronghold of isis, but now the big push is going to be towards mosul, and the u.s. and iraqis have been talking about how iraqi forces could advance on mosul. certainly the u.s. would like to see that sooner rather than later. we're hearing maybe sometime in the fall. fallujah obviously a big gain for the iraqi forces but mosul is really the big net target. >> elise, stand by. i want to go to cnn's ivan watson. ivan is live in istanbul. i don't know if you have any information on what happened in fallujah, but what is the latest on the terror attack? >> well, what's remarkable is that within a matter of hours after three suicide bombers attacked istanbul's ataturk airport, the airport was back open for business again. you can see the traffic coming over my shoulder here, those are taxis, cars coming in and out of the airport, which is back up and running, people putting up littl
fallujah is just 40 miles from baghdad. what's the importance of that? >> well, it was one of the biggest cities outside of baghdad and mosul. fallujah is really a big strategic stronghold of isis, but now the big push is going to be towards mosul, and the u.s. and iraqis have been talking about how iraqi forces could advance on mosul. certainly the u.s. would like to see that sooner rather than later. we're hearing maybe sometime in the fall. fallujah obviously a big gain for the iraqi...
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the city, about 40 miles from the iraqi capital, baghdad, has been under isis control for more than two years. charlie d'agata was outside fallujah and has this report. >> reporter: we're just back from the southern outskirts of the city where we joined iraqi special forces, elite troops trained by the u.s. military and described by u.s. military officials here as the most competent fighting force in iraq. progress is slow but steady. maybe 500 yards a day. the closer they get to the city itself, they're facing stiff resistance in the way of mortars, snipers, an extensive network of roadside bombs and car bombs. now, iraqi commanders told us that air strikes by the u.s. and its allies are the single biggest game-changer, responsible for 75% of the success on the battlefield. and while we were there, we heard jets roaring overhead, followed by two or three huge explosions. we were told by iraqi commanders they hit their targets. a number of isis fighters, holed up in a building. but as iraqi forces close in on fallujah, it's gonna be more difficult to rely on air strikes for that close a
the city, about 40 miles from the iraqi capital, baghdad, has been under isis control for more than two years. charlie d'agata was outside fallujah and has this report. >> reporter: we're just back from the southern outskirts of the city where we joined iraqi special forces, elite troops trained by the u.s. military and described by u.s. military officials here as the most competent fighting force in iraq. progress is slow but steady. maybe 500 yards a day. the closer they get to the city...