(explosions) >> we went into fallujah at about 10:00 pm, and the fighting started immediately.it's pitch black outside, and we all started piling out of the troop carriers. we went in on foot, and you could see the rpgs sailing out of the city towards us. and i thought, "my god, man, what have we gotten into here?" >> narrator: the battle raged for ten days. >> fallujah 2, first of all, is an extraordinary, difficult and violent battle. (gunfire and explosions) i think the most intense combat u.s. forces had seen, certainly, since the vietnam war. >> much of the city was simply flattened by the attack. >> fallujah is, at that point, a victory for the united states. >> the city was basically destroyed after that. >> narrator: there was jubilation among many of the commanders. they believed the insurgency had been irreparably harmed. >> with the liberation of fallujah, they no longer have any safe havens anywhere in iraq. and it was driven home to them that they cannot defeat the coalition forces. >> i think there's a resurgence of optimism and that the worst is behind us. >> in

activists are cuferg the government of dropping barrel bottoms on the city of fallujah. a death of a senior general on the outskirts of baghdad. and preliminary results in afghanistan's elections put the former general ashraf ghani ahead by several hundred votes. abdalla abdalla does not accept the results. >>> barricading themselves night the eastern city of donetske. slovyansk also in the east of the country. the strategic part of the country has been under control of pro-russian separatists. turning point in the three month conflict. >>> al jazeera's scott heidler joins us live. now that the ukrainian forces have won slovyansk what exactly are they doing there? >> reporter: we just returned from slovyansk just in the last hour or two. what they're doing up there now is, actually there were officials from the interior ministry, convincing people they will get back to normal but it will take some time. we came through a couple of checkpoints that clearly saw very hard fought battles but one thing that was very interesting, on that road that comes south from where we are

we have advised the iraqis since january not to go into fallujah. they have not gone into fallujah. there is a military conversation which is a little bit outside of my expertise and that's why general austin is on the ground talking to their new military commanders, and just a point on our influence, we -- i had a number of conversations with the prime minister on down, since january, and said your generals, mr. prime minister, are not telling you the truth about the situation. that clearly was true. particularly in mosul. those commanders are now gone. and they have appointed a series of new commanders who we happen to work very closely with and we hope that type of relationship can continue. >> i think that kind of involvement that we had and we lost, you know, where we were able to have the shuttle diplomacy and have the kind of activity that is now taking place has helped create the situation on the ground. no doubt, on the other hand, prime minister maliki has not been the kind of prime minister to create any kind of sense that a central government can resolve the ethnic and c

as well as in fallujah and other cities soldiers storming the square's another ramadi became the final straw sunni it's turned into a movement generating mechanism ready to fight against the government i believe it was your stories who pushed some news to the edge so they started looking to cooperate with whatever group there was beat isis troops or others ok but now your prime minister saying that saudi arabia funding. is saying is true and what's in it for riyadh saudi arabia need a taliban style extremist state on its northern border do you think it's true that saudis are financing the isis. i do not think the saudi government finances ice's or any other terrorist organizations. certain individuals organizations based in saudi arabia or in the other gulf countries may be involved in. saudi arabia just like other countries in the region has suffered from terrorism which prompted its government regulations to criminalize any connections to such organizations it is true that saudi arabia and iran are in a religious confrontation rather a fight for leadership but i believe that there is

bodies of four contractors being burned beaten and hung on a bridge over the euphrates river in fallujah with a rocky civilians cheering below these are the images that outraged americans and pave the way for the first battle of fallujah however what was an unquestionable tragedy for the security firm turned into a scandal when the house oversight committee released a congressional report in two thousand and seven the clarinet blackwater had intentionally impeded an investigation into those deaths the congressional report claims that the company trying to hide documents by declaring them classified in february two thousand and six blackwater sniper opened fire from the roof of an iraqi justice ministry building and killed three guards working for the state funded iraq it media network witnesses say the guards never opened fire and an iraqi police report describes the shootings as quote an act of terrorism the state department how it was fired on. a blackwater contractor named andrew moon it was accused of opening fire on one of the iraqi vice president's guards after a heavy night of dri

he actually was deployed twice to fallujah. if you remember, fallujah was the closest thing that we had to door-to-door combat that was like we had in world war ii. and we lost a lot of lives. when i called him up, he had not heard yet that we lost fallujah after they took it over. and he actually physically cried. he said the blood, the sweat, the tears of all his friends, and yet we had that secured and we have now lost it. and we're doing everything we can now, and i am glad that the obama administration now is doing what we asked them to do two years ago. while we'll lose lives in the meantime, hopefully we can keep the terrorists from having a safe haven in that area. so i'm very much concerned about what has happened in iraq. and while the president continues his assessments which leads me to believe that what are the people doing over there that have been there all the time in our embassy, we're empowering russia and iran to lead and become key influencers in the region. iran reportedly has two battalions, the iranian re

they are now gone from baghdad of any consequence from fallujah to ramadi. >> in the latter part of 20008re 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 we had been defeated in iraq. >> this is where we are today. >> what we are looking at is radical islamic movements in the east to africa. this map represents in the last four years a 50 percent increase in the territory they control and double the amount of terrorists operating out there. >> i heard president obama personally dismissed this. look if a jv team suits up like the lakers doesn't mean you are facing kobe bryant. are these jv teams or the real lakers? >> here's the problem with diminishing the threat and referring it to a jv team. major lesson after 9-11 we permitted theal yied sanctuary to grow in afghanistan. you cannot let these safe havens grow into varsity. >> what does this map show? >> it shows what isis has been able to achieve. in black is what they actually control physically on the ground. in dark red is what they are a

some marines who never left them who were referred to as fab-its, and this story is set in camp fallujah someone wrote a song set to the tune of hotel california, and the course was, welcome to the hoe tell camp fallujah. you're in a come bad zone go get your ice cream cone. gives you the feel for them. but this unit is an artillery unit so they're engaged. all right. this morning our gun dropped 270 pounds of icm on a smuggler's checkpoint ten clicks south of us elm took out a group of insurgents and then went to the chow hall. i got fish and lima beans. at the table all of us are smiling and laughing, still jittery with nervous excitement and i keep wringing my hands and twisting my wedding'cç band. got a big plate of ravioli and pop tarts, and before digging in, -- the persian gulf do they have pop tarts everywhere? >> a lot of pop tarts around there. >> what the? >> nutter butters, too. >> it was weird. before digging in, he looks up and down the table and says, i can't believe we finally had an rd mission. sanchez says, it's about time we killed someone. sergeant deets laughs. even

we have advised the iraqis since january not to go into fallujah. they have not gone into fallujah. there is a military conversation which is a little bit outside of my expertise and that's why general austin is on the ground talking to their new military commanders, and just a point on our influence, we -- i had a number of conversations with the prime minister on down, since january, and said your generals, mr. prime minister, are not telling you the truth about the situation. that clearly was true. particularly in mosul. those commanders are now gone. and they have appointed a series of new commanders who we happen to work very closely with and we hope that type of relationship can continue. >> i think that kind of involvement that we had and we lost, you know, where we were able to have the shuttle diplomacy and have the kind of activity that is now taking place has helped create the situation on the ground. no doubt, on the other hand, prime minister maliki has not been the kind of prime minister to create any kind of sense that a central government can resolve the ethnic and c

it happened when the terrorists used mortar rounds to shell the area from the west side and from fallujah. the heroic martyr was seriously injured. he died and joined the care van of the grai great iraqi martyrs. >> since then there have been frequent skirmishes and the iraqi air force launched moring. >> at that session they were supposed to elect a speaker of the house. had they done that it would have triggered a 45-day constitutional process which would have then elected the prime minister. that didn't happen. instead sunni and kurdish politician he walked out. it was then rescheduled for this wednesday but now it's been postponed until early august. few people in iraq are confident that the politicians will be able to agree on what comments next. internationally, the u.s. and the u.k. say they cannot offer any more help until new government is in place. slorntion the iraqi -- as long as the iraqis delay. >> a senioring american diplomat has been asked to leave bahrain immediately. assistant secretary of state tom mallinowsky was asked to leave after meeting a shia group. state depart

the state of fallujah and anbar has been shelled.government forces dropped barrel bombs filled with explosives from helicopters on targets in the city. amateur video shows the aftermath of air strikes. >>> the t.s.a. announced new security measures. passengers travelling from overseas may be asked to power on devices to show they are not a delete. officials did not say which airports of target. it's time for "the week ahead." secretary of state john kerry heads to china for annual bilateral talks. he'll be travelling and treasury secretaries. strategic and economic dialogue. the u.s. in china depend on each other economically. they are rivals when it comes to military and political affairs. china has more u.s. debt than any other county and a market for chinese goods. they tie the nations together. relations have been marred by cyber spying. beijing relevant charges and accuses washington of him okay rahsy, saying it had been hacked in the past by the u.s. xi jinping met president obama for a meeting in southern california, and discu

regions you see on the map to the left because they are now gone from baghdad of any consequence from fallujah from ramadi. in the latter part of 2008, we were actually 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 have been defeated in iraq. this is where we are today. what we're looking at on the map is radical islamic movements that are spreading in the middle east and into africa. they're related to al qaeda. they're affiliates. this map represents in the last four years according to a rand study, 58% increase in radical islamist organizations and the amount of territory that they control. and a double increase in the amount of terrorists that are operating out there. >> i heard president obama personally dismiss this and say, hey, look, if a jv team dresses up, suits up like the lakers, that doesn't mean you're facing kobe bryant. are these jv teams? is there the real lakers? >> here is the problem with the diminishing the threat and referring to it as a jv team. major lesson out of 9/

we have advised the iraqis since january not to go into fallujah. they have not gone into fallujah. there is a military conversation which is a little bit outside of my expertise and that's why general austin is on the ground talking to their new military commanders, and just a point on our influence, we -- i had a number of conversations with the prime minister on down, since january, and said your generals, mr. prime minister, are not telling you the truth about the situation. that clearly was true. particularly in mosul. those commanders are now gone. and they have appointed a series of new commanders who we happen to work very closely with and we hope that type of relationship can continue. >> i think that kind of involvement that we had and we lost, you know, where we were able to have the shuttle diplomacy and have the kind of activity that is now taking place has helped create the situation on the ground. no doubt, on the other hand, prime minister maliki has not been the kind of prime minister to create any kind of sense that a central government can resolve the ethnic and c

government forces in iraq have dropped a barrel bottom on the city of fallujah. >>> police fire tear

january, 2014, that is sis took control of fallujah. this is what the president said. the analogy we use around here sometimes is that if a jv team put on laker uniforms that doesn't make them kobe bryant they captured fallujah. and he was saying in january, half a year later, it's jv. this is a huge story. what it does is that it puts responsibility for what's happening in iraq squarely on the president's shoulders. he had a chance to stop this. iraqi government gave us a green light to carry out, the biggest obstacles is will the government allow us to do this? the iraqis were begging us to do this. we're doing drone strikes in pakistan, yemen, and east africa. why not in iraq? i think the answer is that because it would have been admission of failure meaning his withdrawal led to resurgence of terrorists and he didn't want to admit that. >> he bragged in another interview, quote, i'm pretty good at killing people but decline to do so when this terror group, that is beheading iraqis by the hundreds was on the rise. mark, thank you for being here. >> thank you, megyn.

fallujah was in control of isil. fallujah is still in control of isil. our advice was not to move into fallujah but set a cordon and that remains in place, though it is fairly loose. second, we wanted them to hold the proevengs capital of ramadi. so far, they are. what happens changed significantly in anbar is a very sophisticated attack that happened late last month on the strategic border crossing in anbar, which prove that is isil is an army, militarily capable force. multiple-day assault. >> your written testimony, isil also generates $12 million a month through elicit business in mosul. that's a lot of money for terrorists. quite an economic engine. >> they're a self-sustaining organization. what we have seen in mosul for some time was a modus operandi, the assault in mosul last month did catch everybody off guard. we saw some indications of it coming. we had sources on the ground who told us three days before they were seeing indications of it coming. we did not envision the assault nor the collapse of security forces up there. i will say i've had

remember that isis overtook fallujah and ramadi in january.fact, i sat down with secretary kerry in iraq a month ago and i asked him look, you saw fallujah fall, you saw ramadi fall. that was in january. what did you do to prevent mosul from falling in june it doesn't look like very much. the secretary said he can provide a detailed warning that the obama administration provided in that time frame. he did not provide it. look, the question is, why is the administration not taking shots at isis or firing any shots at isis as you just mentioned in the previous segment? the answer is for a number of reasons. overriding amongst which is the commander and chief who harbor as real revulsion toward the military power as we discussed previously here on the factor. even if that were not the case, mr. obama came to office pledging to end the iraq war and having kept that pledge he is loathe to take any action that would appear to be renegativing on it especially in a midterm year. >> looking foolish and everybody is now saying look, we have got another

fallujah was in control of isil. fallujah is still in control of isil. our advice was not to move into fallujah but set a cordon and that remains in place, though it is fairly loose. second, we wanted them to hold the proevengs capital of ramadi. so far, they are. what happens changed significantly in anbar is a very sophisticated attack that happened late last month on the strategic border crossing in anbar, which prove that is isil is an army, militarily capable force. multiple-day assault. >> your written testimony, isil also generates $12 million a month through elicit business in mosul. that's a lot of money for terrorists. quite an economic engine. >> they're a self-sustaining organization. what we have seen in mosul for some time was a modus operandi, the assault in mosul last month did catch everybody off guard. we saw some indications of it coming. we had sources on the ground who told us three days before they were seeing indications of it coming. we did not envision the assault nor the collapse of security forces up there. i will say i've had

flag over fallujah where we sacrificed a lot of american blood and treasure. the president gave an interview to "the new yorker" saying that group was jayvee and just because a jayvee team puts on a kobe bryant jersey doesn't make them kobe bryant. >> look, i don't think anybody with my kind of background -- as you know, i'm at aspen talking to an awful lot of folks with my kind of background. we view this to be and to have been a very serious and growing problem. but you ask me about the drone strikes. i can understand our reluctance to get involved quickly when the iraqis do an aboutface and say where did you americans go, we kind of need you here now. drone strikes require absolutely exquisite intelligence. you can't -- you just can't turn them on and off. i suspect the iraqis were requesting it more or less like the shiny object that was going to solve their problems. so i can see why we were reluctant to jump in right away. >> fair enough. let me ask you about iraq though because you have talked about our policy there and talked about how the fact that yo

al jazeera obtained pictures of the aftermath of shelling in fallujah. barrel bombs, crude devices with shnel were used. >>> this image is said to show a similar seen in mosul. 40 have been killed, 40 more by shelling and air strikes. government forces have built a wall around dhuluiya. barricades have been set up in an area 100km north of baghdad. it's thought sunni fighters could attack the area, having seized large parts of northern and western iraq. german german chancellor angela merkel has arrived in beijing for a 3-day visit, meeting the premier and prime minister for trade talks. she has brought a delegate of top executives from german companies. adrian brown sent us the latest from beijing. >> the german chancellor angela merkel has been to beijing seven sometimes signs 2006, indicating the importance of this developing relationship. the value of trade is put at 200 billion an astonishing vigor. the visit began in a chinese city. she visited a volkswagen factory. they are feeding into an obsession with a car. there are many vehicles on chinese r

. >> the iraqi army carried out a series of air raids in fallujah. they dropped barrel bombs targetting neighbourhoods controlled by weapons. these are oil drums filled with metal and high explosion quilling indisgrim naughtily. >> nine were wounded, including three children. >>> riot police fired tear gas and stun grenades at hundreds of protesters in kuwait. the demonstrators were rallying against the detention of a former politician. he's facing trial for insulting the judiciary. human right groups are reporting around 30 people have been arrested. >>> three al jazeera journalists peter greste, mohamed fadel fahmy and baher mohamed have spent 191 days in an egyptian prison n australia peter greste's -- in australia peter greste's family have launched a new appeal to secure his freedom. they have hired new lawyers and set up a website where supporters can donate money. we have more from brisbane. >> reporter: andrew greste had a heavy burden, he come back from visiting his brother peter greste. he is tasking with securing his release. one of the of

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. >>> now, the iraqi army carried out a series of air raids in fallujah. it's reported the air force dropped barrel bombs, targetting certain neighbourhoods controlled by rebels, filled with scrap metal and explosives that kill indiscriminately. it was said nine were injured, including three children. crowds are gathering in the kenyan capital ahead of rallies, calling for a dialogue, but the president says he will not talk unless he's in parliament. we go to nairobi. the first question is why is the opposition insisting on taking the discussion outside of parliament? >> well, the opposition says it has no choice. it will talk to the government on issues like security and they haven't opened up a dialogue. let me tell you what is going on. it's a carnival-like attitude. there seems to be more police at the moment, a huge security provision, 15,000 police. because of insecurity in the country at the moment and people feel the fever, they feel insecure, because of what is happening on the coast and kenya has a history of tribal violence. the name of the rall

. >> reporter: it's the brainchild of isaac madden and charles fallujah who needed this option after late nights in the city. >> on uber unless you have a group of four to five kids us pretty expensive. >> reporter: so these computer science classmates built this app saying it's a cheap are more convenient way to get station -- cheaper more convenient way to get station to station. >> you can get back at a time of night it wasn't possible to get back at that price point and it's basically an ex continuation of a service they're already used -- extension of a service they're already used to experiencing. >> reporter: prices have been broken down from $6 to 18. the startups hope the rides will connect users. >> you can meet other stanford students, meet other entrepreneurs, all types of people that are taking the fleet. >> reporter: the service is in its data testing phase. the company doesn't have state issued operating permits and now its 15 drivers are using their personal auto insurance. the department of insurance says these kinds of drivers are most likely not covered on the job.

i mean, this guy could have shot his way out of fallujah. the only thing eric garner was brandishing was his black. >> jon: to be fake it is dangerous for the comped the in the west village, three officers shot chasing down a pedophile. the nypd has made huge strides in diversity. >> jon, black cops can beat black people, too. i'm not saying you should, just that you do. this isn't a white cop issue. this is a cop issue. >> jon: is it something about the uniform? >> i once dressed as a cop for halloween. by the end of the night, i was choking brothers. it's difficult. >> jon: maybe change the costume to captain america. this year marvel announced captain america is now going to be black. that's an advance. >> very nice. [applause] >> jon: that seems somewhat sarcastic. >> i know. so they really think a black superhero is going to change things? you know he's going to spend all his time answering questions, why you always seem to show up at crime scenes? not to mention the outfit is red and blue. so you're with the bloods and the crips. >> jo

they lost because the isil networks, particularly in fallujah, with snipers, with ieds, with military sophisticati sophistication, is able to overmatch any tribal force that comes to confront it. that's the situation right now. it was also the situation in northern ninawa because we have tribal contacts up there with the main tribe up there. and over time, given the infiltration was syria, given the amount of force that isil can bring to bear, it was very difficult for locals to stand up to them. >> you say cooperation with the iraqi government was slow in coming. where -- where does the fault lie with that? was it slow -- were we slow to recognize the threat of isis, or was the iraqi government simply slow to heed the warnings that we were given, or the -- the cooperation that we offered? >> i think we started moving fairly aggressively in the summer. the iraqis wanted to do things on their own. they didn't want our -- they didn't really formally request direct u.s. military assistance until may. although there was a conversation about the possibility of such assistance earlier than

the iraqi army has carried out a series of air raids on the city of fallujah and reported they droppedmbs from helicopters in neighborhoods controlled by rebels and they are drums filled with metal and explosives which kill indiscriminantly and the hospital says nine were injured including three children. and towns in the north of iraq are also getting shelled by government fores trying to drive out arm sunni rebels and a million people have been displaced so far and we report where a local charity has been struggling to provide for the growing number of refugees. >> reporter: on this waste land in the town of northern iraq hundreds of families have sought refuge and fleeing from the latest round of fighting that has thrown the country in turmoil and are a drop of the ocean of hundreds of thousands of people displaced and men, women and children and mainly sunni z who homes and livelihoods destroyed and this 60-year-old man is one of them and he has three little girls. he is now unable to provide for them. >> translator: there was shelling, continuous and indiscriminate shelling from a

all the needed was advise and they asked for it i managed to prevent my town suffering the fate of fallujah to prevent the same things from happening there you know i told them in two thousand and nine not to use any heavy weapons or air force in their missions where i said i would resign. and they listen to me and never use those kinds of weapons everyone knows what i did for tal afar only the iraqi government unfortunately doesn't want to knowledge it just them. they know very well what i did. even the prime minister said it he commended my work in tal afar but unfortunately there are many inside the government who want to build a revenge state in iraq with a policy of revenge and violence. well one cannot build a nation state with such a policy this explains the failure where women seem today. ok so because there are so. so much sectarian divide like you said that do you feel like iraq could be one country ever again or is it going to end up being divided into curt's sunni and shia states. the iraqi people have any separatist sentiments they have been forced onto us by the government and

to be disintegrating as the terrorist organization isis now controls the second largest city and fallujahd others all those is difficult vietnam bird isis managed to over whelm entire divisions of the iraqi army many removed their uniforms and ran an isis has claimed credit for recent string of bombings in baghdad and responsible for system hypersecretion of christians and being forced to flee their homes under penalty of death. the reports that last month was the deadliest since 2008 with the iraqis killed two-thirds were civilians. for those of us that were here during the debate of the surge it is hardly the outcome that could have been imagined back then and the intelligence picture in iraq is inadequate this situation does not surprise us for two reasons. the crisis is connected to the disaster in syria which our country is largely ignored. isis militants have long enjoyed freedom across the of border across the embar province and was in control of fallujah four months prior to said takeover a in mosul. since 2009 maliki has systematically politicized the entire structure of their ir

bigots are accusing the iraqi government of indiscriminately bombing a number of areas near fallujah meanwhile the u.s. government is planning on a very big defense deal the pentagon is considering sending the biggest shipment of hellfire missiles to the region ever artie's on a stasia charkha has more on the story. a record sized shipment of hellfire missiles to the iraqi government from the us is in the works the u.s. state department is reported to have approved and the pentagon is in the process of preparing to send over five thousand a.g.m. one fourteen type and our missiles and related parts to iraq the cost of this deal is estimated at a whopping seven hundred million dollars american aerospace giant lockheed martin is the prime contractor for the production and supply of these hellfire missiles this comes as the iraqi government continues the fight against isis the islamic militants al qaeda affiliated groups who have been raging in the west and north of the country the iraq military is reported to have used up about three hundred to help fire missiles this june and a previou

at the time fallujah was in control of isil. fallujah is till? control of isil. i made clear our advice was not to move in, to set a corden that corden remains in place, those it is fairly loose. so far they are holding the provincial capital of irbati. what has changed is a significant attack that took plaps on the strategic border crossing. which proves that isil is a military force. it was a multiple-day assault. >> i think to your written testimony isil also generates $12 million a month through illicit business in mosul. that's a lot of -- quik an economic engine. >> they're self-sustaining. what we had sees is a bit of a mod us avendi, is they were in control at night, but not openly control. that's why the assault into mosul did catch everybody off-guard. we saw some indications. but we did not envision the assault nor the collapse of the security forces up there. i will say i've had a number of conversations. >> i'm out of time. i apologize. you threw a lot of questions so you could give me some written p responses. i apologize. i'm out of time. >>> we'll