the iraq he military used it to target the fallujah hospital. the fallujah teaching hospital. that hospital that the united states helped build in fallujah. this is the same hospital that witnessed the increasing numbers of birth defects that is attributed to the use of different kinds of weapons, chemical and all different kinds of weapons that allegedly was used by the united states. these weapons are now falling into the hands of isis. weaponsmages of these been transported across the border to syria. the united states has always worried that sending weapons to the syrian more liberal opposition might fall into the hands of islamists, well, now, they are. our lack of understanding for these movements of terrorist organizations, how they're convincing all of these recruits are helping them continuing their presence. they are not outsmarting the people. they're not that hard to defeat, it's just it looks like there's not enough will to spend some time and say, there must be something wrong of our understanding, that there keep doing what they're doing. i also want to emphasiz

you knew, you felt in your gut that mosul - that fallujah wouldn't hold on forever if the u.s. left. we knew that there would be - if the u.s. walked away. we knew there would be a civil war. it's a matter of time. the vibe between the sunni and shi items is too deep. they were there trying to fight. we knew once they left that it would get ugly and it was a matter of time. >> the biggest shock came when mosul fell to the insurgents. it must be hard to know you risked your life and others died. does it feel like the sacrifice was in vain? >> it was a big shot. i was there 2003 to 2004 and meting fellow soldiers and talking about how this would probably happen if we pulled out. i remember going on missions with the iraqi army, the impression was we would do the fighting and they'd be in support. why would they put their lives at risk and shed their blood when the americans were there to do that for them. now that we are not there, it will have to be up to the iraqis to take care of that. >> you are saying the same thing that joe is saying. both knew that this would happen, most

and joe diamond who served in iraq and fallujah in 2009 and 2006. and the general manager of an army, named af a soldier and friend killed in fallujah. joe, i know you have been watching developments closely. you were in fallujah. the deadliest battle fought was in the city. it was taken by i.s.i.l. a few months ago in joint enterprise. the first city that i.s.i.l. took. you have been talking to vets and your families. what is your reaction, and what are you hearing from them? >> yes, it's heart-breaking. we put so much effort into gaping that city, maintaining it -- gaining that city, maintaining it, building it and having it fall that quickly is horrible. we knew that it would happen, but we were watching it happen. it's a kick in the gut. >> you knew, you felt - you knew in your gut that mosul - that fallujah would not hold on forever if the u.s. left. >> we knew that if the u.s. walked away. we knew there'd bed a civil war. it was a matter of time. the vibe between the sunnis and shiites are too deep. they were there fighting while we were next

marine who saw combat in fallujah, iraq. crucial to this whole story. and major general james williams, a retired u.s. marine commander who also has some valuable insight when we discuss when's going on there. thanks to you all for being with us. major general williams, let's talk a little bit about what you did back there, we laze to have that turnaround with a major shift in how the insurgency went on. do you think they're in the mood to be turned around again? >> well, i think that's really a good question, michael. of course, at the time i was out there, nic robertson was there, in fact, a couple meetings with me and good to see nic again. you know, the challenge i think we have right now is really to find what the issues are and you've talked to the former prime minister. we have had discussions with ambassador crocker today. and when you look at the challenges, this sectarian battle in my mind has always been about the economics of it. and so, essentially, the iraqi government has essentially disenfranchised the sunnis and their only way to deal w

you were in fallujah. the deadliest battle american forces fought was in the city. it was taken by i.s.i.l. a few months ago in january, the first city i.s.i.l. took before the latest offensive. you have been talking to other vets and their families, what is your rehabilitation and what are you hearing from them? >> yes, it's heart-breaking. we put so much effort into gaining that city, maintaining it, and building a secure city where people were moving in and starting to build lives, and to have it fall that quickly - it's horrible. i mean, i think we knew it would happen if we pulled out. watching it happen is a kick in the gut. >> you knew, you felt - knew in your gut that mosul wouldn't - that fallujah wouldn't hold on forever if the u.s. left? >> we knew there would be - if the u.s. walked away, we knew there would be a civil war. it was a matter of time. the - the vibe between the sunnis and shiites was too deep. they were trying to fight while we were next to them. we knew once we left that it would get ugly, it was a matter of time. >>> the biggest shock cam

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fallujah has been out of the government control since the end of the we're.result, i think it comes down to the fact that, you know, by its name, the islamic state, it wants to control territory, and that's its goal. unlike other militant groups that have perhaps different aim. the islamic state of iraq wants more and more territory in these two countries. >> you now have this sunni muslim force versus a shia government in iraq. it's a country verging on collapsing? >> it's very early to go that far. certainly this is troubling that a sovereign state can lose this much territory this quickly, but, you know, the iraqi army, the big army, of course, the past two days have raised fresh questions about their capabilities, but it is the security forces are a million strong. they have hell fire missiles and one tank. they're getting f-16s. they do have sort of growing military capacity, and the kurdish region to the north has some as well. it's not -- it's maybe too early to talk about that. we should be talking perhaps a little bit more about the response that cou

since the capture of fallujah, and the fact that the group made steady gapes. the images of the iraqi security forces shedding the uniforms and weapons, abandoning the post, and the footage of cars backing up. they are iconic images, and i'm not sure how maliki will restore the strong-man imaging following it. >> for the moment. thanks for joining us from the london studio. >>> forces loyal to a retired libyan general launched air strikes in benghazi. his men shelled residential areas outside the city where armed groups are based. the operation was led by khalifa haftar, who said he's taking on some of the powerful hard-line militias because the government won't. >> south korean police raided a church looking for the owner of the see wall passenger ferry that sank in april. more than 6,000 police entered the complex. they were blocked by protesters. it follows the start of a trial of the captain and crew members. more than 300 were killed in the accident. now, harry fawcett joins me from the south korean capital seoul. the raid has started or certainly been ex-

these same islamist fighters took the city of fallujah six months ago. the iraqi army has not been able to dislodge them, and we spoke earlier in the year to a young recruit there. he said the islamists are moving suicide bombers very freely across the whole territory and right into the heart of baghdad. >> pelley: a fast-developing story that we'll keep watching. elizabeth palmer reporting tonight from beirut, lebanon. thank ynw, liz. well, along america's southern border, there is a surge of unaccompanied children pouring america, 47,000 in the america, 47,000 in the past year. today, a senate panel voted to give the obama administration an extra $2 billion to handle them all. the pentagon is opening shelters on its bases and more than 700 of these children are now being held in an old warehouse in nogales, arizona. vicente arenas is there. vicente. >> reporter: scott, the border patrol station here is so overwhelmed, they've had to hire an outside company to help take care of all the children here. the department of homeland security has denied our re

earlier this year a combination of sunni tribal fighters and the isil took over nin fallujah.en the site of heavy fighters and air strikes from the iraqi military uses weapons previously supplied by the u.s. the latest decent in to regional violence further undermines the prime minister eroding reputation after years of crumbs and mismanagement of the country's security forces. many iraqis criticize the shia prime minister over his handling of the current crisis and his heavy handed approach to sunni opposition and protesters. there is concern that emergency powers would give him too much control and that could be difficult to reverse. a state of emergency can only be declared by parliament, a meeting is scheduled thursday. ♪ ♪ >>> after the deaths of 10s of thousands of iraqis, thousands of americans, after american tax payers borrowed and spent thrill trillions of dollars in iraq, is the country starting to unravel? earlier this afternoon i spoke with al jazerra's imran kahn in baghdad. imran, welcome to the program. thank you for joining us. for people who are just trying t

and al qaeda controls fallujah.omes in on the side of the iraq dictator, president, or whatever you want to call him and pushes him out which iran could do. but then iran controls iraq, not al qaeda. but, the fundamental thing is the obama administration has lost control of foreign policy. see that in afghanistan crazy deal they made for bergdahl. now we see iraq going down the drain you just heard the border, that's a foreign policy issue. you just heard that they can't stop millions of people coming from the border and everybody knows it so it's out of control. >> bill, the root evil here is that after we won in iraq, defeated al qaeda, won and stabilized iraq for purely political reasons, president obama, withdrew all our forces, did not leave a small residual force. >> that's not quite fair. you know that maliki would not indemnify the u.s. troops. that what he wonted to keep them there you can't try that-ma'am that can cannot try to get a deal. >> are you sure he did not try to get a deal. >> i'm 100% sure that

gained ground in other parts of the country including the all rich good province and the city of fallujah a quarter of two million population are already fled their homes soldiers have abandoned their posts in fear of the radicals believed to be the al qaeda splinter group known as the islamic state of iraq eleventh's militants of also reportedly overrun police stations and captured the city's international airport they've also freed more than a thousand prisoners from jail we spoke to the u.s. congress antiterrorism advisor who says that the takeover of mosul is a game changer. this battle is an important one before that the bios or the islamic street into washington levant would be engaged in getting a warship attacking convoys without bombing and now if it can control the city and the government within the next days and weeks cannot take it back this is a very serious matter and not only this organization will seize the resources of the city but will recruit more and will conduct attacks from the city into other areas of iraq so the moment is very dramatic in iraq the one time and the

it follows a similar attack on the city of fallujah last year. mosul is a strategic prize it's an export route for iraq's hole. the prime minister wants to did he larry state of medical. in a moment live reaction. first imran kahn has the report from baghdad. >> reporter: in the early hours of tuesday, fighters from the islamic state of iraq mounted one of the boldest attacks on mosul in the country's north. some 1300 fighters we seened the city within a few hours took over at least 75% of it. according to local sources. iraq army and police forces also abandoned their position, within a few hours a prison break freed 2,000 for you hundre2400 prison. the government building taken over followed by two tv stations and some banks. a few hours later the prime minister addressed the nation, calling for an emergency session of parliament. >> translator: we call upon the parliament to declare a state of emergency in the country. >> reporter: he also put the arm on maximum alert, called for tribal militias to protect citizens and take the fight to isil.

as you see the enemy in charge of fallujah today. >> i feel disgust really. not so much that they have control. i mean, that's absolute terrible. but what bothers me most is something that we fought so hard for, inch by inch, door by door, house by house, so much blood to take, kind of collapse and given back to them so easily without any kind of real resistance. i mean, i didn't think it would become mainstream america in this disney worldesque place. i didn't think iraq or isis or whatever organization is ask your -- currently going to take things over unopposed. >> disgust. you echo many people had a spent so much time serving. we thank you for your time serve thing country. thank you so much for coming on. appreciate it. >> absolutely. thank you for having me. >>> coming up -- the main suspect in the benghazi attacks. on a ship back to the u.s. still he is being questioned. officials don't expect to have it easy. challenges they face here in this interrogation. >>> also ahead, donald sterling's wife, have you heard? she asked a judge to protect witnesses

a 2004 desertion from the fallujah area. that's in-country, in theater.nt from disappearing from camp lejeune which is civilian side. the penalties can be far more severe when you desert, if you're deemed to have deserted, during war, what about the desertion domestically? >> it would be dishonorable discharge and all that. i think all these charges are going to be related to the original desertion. he disappeared before that. so they could try him for the first desertion. >> i don't want to be the officers who have to go to fallujah to collect the evidence because that place right now is isis basically controlled and that's really hard to gather that kind of evidence you need for that kind of conviction. >> they have the evidence they need for the initial desertion. it's the second part that they -- i think they've got a good case against him already. they've made some sort of a deal. i don't know what that is, but i think we'll be finding out. >> i know barbara's spidey senses are tingling. you'll have to work your sources and let us know what kind of d

fallujah on top of it, baghdad not there yet, tikrit, hometown of saddam hussein, that's gone.irkuk, they're close but not there. mosul, mosul is a city we're going to talk about in a minute because mosul is very important. it is at this moment at the center of all of it. i'll explain why and what happened in mosul because it is very important. right now they're on the move south toward baghdad. so aleppo, you see, close to that. this is a whole sort of califate that they're trying to create. these borders matter to everybody but them. they are sunni or shia. you see, the government here in iraq is a shia government. shia are the -- they are the majority in iraq. sunni are the minorities. what they've said, the sunnis are like, you've been repressing us, you're not giving us a voice in government, you're not giving us a say in our own nation. you made it to do this or we're going to rebel against you, and now they have. the thing is, sunnis are the majority in the rest of this area, right? they've come from syria to help and back and forth. they've mounted this insurgence. we'l

today, fallujah, too, has fallen to the jihadists. and then, there is baghdad. the city that, for so many years, the u.s. military feared would fall. a decade ago, general peter chiarelli was determined to make life better for the people here. better electricity. a riverside park. >> three weeks ago, this was all rubble, garbage. and it's going to be beautiful when it's done. >> reporter: this is that park today. it is beautiful. a tiny oasis of hope for families amid so much that has been shattered. of course, there is no guarantee that baghdad will not fall. the people here are determined to hold the city, no matter what the cost. after this terrible week in iraq, we end with welcome news from afghanistan. no deaths of u.s. service members reported this week. that's all for us today. thanks for sharing part of your sunday with us. check out "world news" with david muir tonight. so long from baghdad. ♪ ♪ >>> good morning, from

i spoke to an army captain from the fallujah. isis took fallujah in january. me the first thing isis did when they took the town was to go door by door and threaten the families of anyone in fallujah who was a member of the armed services or the police force. and then captain had taken his family out of the city. but he was hiding here in baghdad. and he thought that isis knew where he was even here. he told me that he thought they had databases of everybody in the security forces and the armed forces in the country. that they knew their movements it, knew their ranks and sears and knew their families. i ran that by some analysts and some politicians here. they said that's their understanding of isis capability, as well. when that's going on and these people really have fear in their hearts, they know it's not just going to be a battle on the battlefield. their families are in danger, as well. i think they're terrified. >> mike giglio from buzz feed. be careful over there. it's a rather dangerous situation as we all know. thanks for joining us. >> let's get mo

among the cities, the black flags of al qaeda fly over the city of fallujah today. 96 brave soldiers and marines were killed, 600 wounded. what do we tell their families? what do we tell their families? what do we tell their mothers? so it's not too late. america is still the most powerful nation on earth. we still have the finest and strongest military ever. we have the finest young men and women who are serving in it ever. it is not too late. but we've got to have a dramatic reversal of course before the situation gets to the point where, as the director of national intelligence has stated, that this will be an area where attacks on the united states of america will be orchestrated. mr. president, i yield the flo floor. mr. mccain: mr. president, before i yield the floor, i ask that certain articles be inserted as part of the record. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mccain: and, mr. president, i note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: mr. graham: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from georgia. sout

then we saw them cross the border and go into fallujah. nothing happened. that was six or eight months ago. so some notion that we wouldn't have seen this coming means that you weren't paying attention to the intelligence that was afforded us. now, you know, could they have come up and said, hey, this is -- we're going to give you the fallujah update? maybe, maybe not. nothing happened when they crossed the border, nothing happened when they took fallujah, nothing happened when they took mosul, nothing happened when they took tikrit. then they said, oh, we've got a problem. that's an unfair assessment of what we knew and how we watched it develop. they clearly stated their intentions. we knew what their intentions were. they clearly were arming and training. we saw that. so you know, maybe they didn't say they were crossing on this day but you would be hard pressed if you paid attention to the intelligence, that something bad is going to happen here. >> so your complaint isn't about the intelligence, it's how the administration responded. >> not responding

regions you see on the map to the left because they are now gone from baghdad of any consequence from fallujah, from ramadi. (gun fire) >> in the latter part of 2008 we were able to drive them out of the last major city and that was mosul. al qaeda in 2008 and 2009 in their own communications to each other admitted that we had been defeated in iraq. this is where we are today. >> what we are looking at is affiliates of al qaeda. this map represents in the last four years according to a rand study 58 percent increase in radical islamist organizations and the amount of territory they control and double increase in the amount of terrorists operating out there. >> i have heard president obama personally dismiss this and say, look, if a jv team dresses up like the lakers that doesn't mean you are facing kobe bryant. is this jv teams for the real lakers? >> here'a problem with diminishing a threat and referring to it as a jv team. major lesson out of 9-11 we committed unrepeatedly theal fied sanctuary to joe are grow in afghanistan. >> what this map is depicting is what isis has been able to achieve

then we saw them cross the border and go into fallujah. nothing happened. that was six, eight months ago. so some notion that we wouldn't have seen this coming means that you weren't paying attention to the intelligence that was afforded us. you know. could they have come and up said, hey, we're going to give you the fallujah update? maybe, maybe not. but nothing happened when they crossed the border. nothing happened when they took fallujah. nothing happened when they took most mosul. nothing happened when they took tikrit. then they said, oop, we've got a problem. i don't know, i think that is really an unfair assessment of what we knew and how we watched it develop. they clearly stated their intentions. we knew what their intentions were. they clearly were arming and training. we saw that. so maybe they didn't say they're crossing the berm on this day, but boy, it would be hard-press tuesday you didn't pay attention to this intelligence to come to the conclusion something bad is happening here. >> so your complaint isn't intelligence, it's how the admini

the group is in control of vast areas of the country including mosul, tikrit and fallujah. the northern city of tal afar has also been taken. the borders of iraq and syria, the civil war has allowed the isis movement to gain momentum. as the group spreads across iraq it's causing concerns in neighboring iran with the latest talks of teheran and washington. >> in a country not short on atrocities, this is probable the worst since hussein fell in 2003. this shows iraqi soldiers being taken off to execution. the iraqi army thinks the pictures are genuine. they haven't been verified independently. the fighting doesn't stop n. central baghdad, a man wearing a suicide vest quite possibly with isis walked through the city and blew himself up. eight died and many were injured. when we got there it was eerie silent. >> until a few hours ago this was a baghdad sides street full of stores selling things. now you can see there's just the remains of dead bodies still down by my feet here and the gutters are still red with blood. but this sort of thing happens almost everyday somewhere i

already in control of a number in the country including mosul in the north and fallujah further south, isis extremists are reported fighting less than an hour from the capital baghdad. we're talking around the city of baquba there. with the group spread across the country, president obama has announced the u.s. will deploy almost 300 troops to defend the american embassy in baghdad. american officials are discussing the crisis with iraq's neighbor iran. richard reports. >> reporter: november 2011, the iranian protestors attack the british embassy in teheran. offices and private quarters were ransacked. there was a small fire. the embassy was closed as was the iranian one in london. now they say the time is right to put the the footing on a new situation. there are a range of practical issues we need to resolve first says william hague. it is our intention to reopen the embassy in teheran with a small presence as soon as practical arrangements have been made. president obama also considers ways to work with iranians on stabilizes iraq. his team says there will be no military operation

they bring up the sample with fallujah. the red cross reported that there's shortages of food, water and health care. they are having trouble governing - they have expanded their territory. i don't under about the reaction for i.s.i.l. people talk about it as though it's a brave new idea in terrorism. it's an old idea. osama bin laden's idea is you don't have to take a lot of territory. you hide in the mount answers and attack who you feel like attacking, when and where. for i.s.i.l. to go out and take territory with 5,000 to 10,000 guys, and hold it. it's crazy. what you do is you end up governing fallujah. the people are not good. >> it's crazy if they hold the territory and alienate sunnis and bathurst. destruct. >> they are in the process. if you look at the map, you add up the number of entities. you have the syrians bombing them, the shiites marshalling their forces and iran moving and the united states plotting with the ke cognisance, and the kurds fighting them in the north. i am sure the turks will be in soon. it's

ramadi, fallujah, every -- every iraq veteran will remember ramadi and fallujah. every iraq veteran will remember the second battle of fallujah, where we lost 96 brave soldiers and marines and over 600 wounded. now the black flags of al qaeda fly over ramadi and fallujah. the border to syria no longer exists, my friends. if you look at syria here all the way to aleppo, all wait aroun -- all the wayaround heree middle east that's larger than the state of indiana is now overtaken by the richest and most powerful terrorist organization in history and that's isis. and we cannot address iraq. if we do without addressing syria as well, as the movement of men and equipment move back and forth -- and by the way, the sunni don't like these people. these are the most radical form of islam. they don't like them but they prefer them to the government, the shiite-run government by malaki, which has been systematically discriminating against them. so what do we need to do? as the senator from south carolina said, what we want malaki to be in a transition government that transit

were found not guilty -- this was the case with seal team ten who captured the al-qaeda leader at fallujah who was responsible for that infamous atrocity that was seen around the world, five years later seal team ten captured the guy behind it. it was a flawless operation. they turned him in without firing a shot. it reads like a thriller, the chapter on how they caught him. but the guy behind it was woken up about four hours after the capture and said you're in big trouble, and he said, why? the prisoner has a bloody lip. seals were later exonerated. many of them then decided after they'd been subjected to this degree of legal scrutiny, they just didn't want to sign up for another tour, and the taxpayers lost millions of dollars in training and investment in each of these men. this is something we really need to think about. yes, we need to protect the rights of human rights of prisoners. we also have to realize that al-qaeda in manuals that we have captured in the somali plains of afghanistan, other places, trains people to make false reports in order to tie up our military in red tape a

we do know they took fallujah and have had it under control, sunni militants, since january. that is the situation there. we will stay on the story and now cavuto. >>> it is getting worse at best. waiting for action in iraq, where the situation is unraveling by the minute. and here at home where veterans wait time for care are being clocked by the month. >>> today, a look at whether it's time for a surge on both front. montel williams is back with us with the plan to get the scare. and the look at getting people out of baghdad even faster. welcome, everybody, i'm neil cavuto. to connor powell in jerusalem on the fast changing developments. connor? >> well, neil, despite claims business iraq's government that the militants are slowing and that the military will hold baghdad these insurgent fighters from isis appear to be on the move, not stopping anywhere. already, the islamic fighters control the towns of mosul and sflug gentlem fallujah and tikrit. and they seem to be consolidating their game before moving on to the capital. the goal is a unified sunni islamic state in syria

isil failed to retake the town of fallujah, which is largely controlled by isil fighters as well as otherribal fighters. when you see the spread of isil fighters they seem to be operating at will, and they have the powers. i think the forces under estimated the power of isil fighters along with armed groups fighting. i think tomorrow is a big day for this country. >> they lack the funds to support themselves. many gave their accounts of what they witnessed. >> they destroyed the application. i'll do my best to save my family and protect my children. >> first of all i would like to thank the government and i thank god that these two girls are still alive. but unfortunately their father was killed. they didn't have any place to go or anything to eat or drink. now i'm taking care of these two children. >> 500,000 have fled of violence. >> we're here at the main checkpoint before entering the kurdish region. now there is a cue of motorists, for curb dish authorities this is a logistical and security challenge. every car is thoroughly checked by the kurdish forces. at the moment there is autho

>> baghdad is actually the same distance east of fallujah azra m -- as ramadi is to the west.t buildings, we rebuilt any infrastructure we destroyed during the takeover. it's unfortunate, but they are going to take that back. i don't think there's a way to defend it. >> we have been talking about isis. there was a report over the weekend, a mass slaughter took place. we have new video leading up to that slaughter. we're going to see it. all of these people that were lined up literally, then all gunned down in brutal fashion. we keep hearing, and it seems to be a talking point that somehow isis is more brutal than, you know, al qaeda. why am i having a hard time believing that, considering they're both brutal terrorist groups that have no respect for human life? >> when we pulled out of iraq, there was nothing left but a power void and the biggest gun is going to reign supreme. >> this is prior to the assassinations of these guys. they're just assassinated one by one. >> this is what happens when you pull out prematurity. the president dropped the ball on this. should we have s

god willing we will enter-fallujah and liberate it for the sake of iraqis. >> fallujah fell to i.s.i.l and with fighting on so many fronts iraqi is unlikely to take the city back now. >> well, a consultant fellow at the royal united services institute for defense and security studies joins us live from london. good to have you with us on al jazeera. >> let's talk about the u.s. special force, the military advisors in baghdad. how do you think they will be used? >> i think right now they'll it cry to answer that question. they'll be looking at what the insurgents are up to, where there were forced distributions are, tactics are, future objectives are likely to be, and what the iraqi army is up to, getting situational awareness on that. where it's deployed, what tactics it's using, what equipment, and how it's performing. using those two bits of information, they'll be in a position to advise the american government back in washington as to how best to help the iraqis defeat the insurgency. >> and how do you think the iraqi army is doing? how great a challenge is this going to be for thi

world. >> just on a personal level, when you think of all the blood and treasure that we spent in fallujah, in mosul, in ramadi, to see it all go back to al qaeda, how does it make you feel? >> well, it's a tragedy. it didn't have to happen this way, if in fact the situation that we left in '07 and '08 after the surge with iraq in relatively good order and a stay-behind force there to keep it that way, it would be a lot easier for the parents and the families of those who gave their lives there to accept it. >> final question, why are you speaking out? it seems clear that you are on a kind of offensive to speak out about this. and you must realize, given how polarizing a figure that you are, that for some americans, your criticism will only make president obama more popular. >> well, he's going to need a lot more help than that to improve his current standing in the polls. but i'm convinced that the fate of the republic is heavily involved in these issues. and if i don't speak out, i don't know who else will. and i feel that i can speak with some credibility because i've been there, i've b

to go out and take a bump of territory and hold it, what you end up doing, is you govern fallujah. these people are not god at commmping and they are responsible for the city. >> it's crazy if they are trying to hold the territory and alienate other sunnis. do you think i.s.i.l. will begin to sex destruct. >> i think they are in the process. if you look at the map. where the fighting is, if you start to add up the number of entities fighting i.s.i.l. you have the syrians bombing them, the shi'ites marshalling their forces and iran is moving in, and the united states plotting with the reconnaissance. you have the kurds fighting them in the north. i am sure the turks will be in soon. it's too big a list of enemies forriun organization to take on. >> the pieces are thought provoking. pleasure to have you with us. >> thank you. >> the plight of three al jazeera journalists sentenced to prison in egypt prompted worldwide protests and prompted us to look at threats to reporters and journalism throughout the world. journalism is not only under assault in other countries, but at home. we a

. >> my son died in fallujah, he believed what he feels doing, i want to count tore something, what i am seeing today makes me sick. i don't want to have to question that. >> reporter: three warships and aircraft carrier have been deployed to the persian gulf. the aircraft carrier is one option president obama is weighing. >>> last night world cup protesters battled with police outside the stadium where argentina played bosnia. officers did fire tear gas in order to disburse the crowds. residents are anger over the government spending all the money on the prep for the world cup saying it should have been spent on the people and hospitals. >> a house fire killed 6 people including a teen on a father's day visit. >> a hiking trip turns into a rescue mission when adults and children become stranded. >> reporter: we had a beautiful weekend, and now we're heating things up, details in the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast coming up. [cell phone chime] yeah! [giggling excitedly] [splashing water] c'mon! (announcer) ready for a little fun? you could scratch your way to instant winning

at the beginning of the offensive in iraq, which started , theyhey took fallujah used arms that theyonfiscated from the syrian army. and today after that advance in most of the weapons that they took from the iraqi army, they crossed into syria and they started using them in aleppo, which is very far from the iraqi frontier. we should not forget also that is ann -- masra outshoot of iraq. this would be the head of musra are in this of isis same way. some of them in syria and iraq go back to their origins, if we may say so. and the victory of isis would push them very much to go back to isis. >> thank you for that latest on the local pledge of allegiance between the two groups. to cairo where a bomb has courthousetside a and at three metro stations. they were time to go off between -- during morning rush hour. it is the latest attack during -- againsty forces the security forces. libyans are voting today to elect a new 200 seat parliament. earlier today, the current prime -- cast his vote rather in that election. they will be choosing members of the new parliament that will be replaci

they're in fallujah, and other places like that, knocking on the door. they're in a place that's a 45-minute drive. >> 9 million people versus what, some couple thousand militants. but the eye is on the prize, being baghdad. if you were isis, if you were this militant group, what would your targets be, typically in cases like this, it's the airport. >> yeah, absolute. and you hear isis often being described as a ragtag group of terrorists. >> do you agree with that? >> i don't think they're ragtag. i think they're very well-organized. i think they know what they're doing. they're operating in an operational way. they're operating as an army, rather than a bunch of people going around and setting roadside bombs. they seem to have a plan. yes, the airport would be -- baghdad international airport would be a prime target, because that would disrupt everything and stop people being able to get out. >> but you think they're already there? >> well, look, you've got -- isis is already in fallujah and ramadi, parts of ramadi. again, only an hour or so from baghd