also, i went last year with a group to irbil and i want to declare that as well, i guess. can i ask you, is there not some level absurdity in the position whereby we know that the heart of this organization is carrying out beheadings, they are trying to seize the areas which are currently under the control of the pyd, ypg, the syrian kurds? and yet, we have got this self-denying position that somehow britain is not going to be involved in syria. would you agree with me that this is illogical? >> i wouldn't for a number of reasons. if i could qualify why i think i disagree. firstly, there is -- i think you are following the same chapter john did. >> i don't think the same. >> different traps. >> i think we have different positions. >> very close to each other. just looking through the priz many dgs prism of britain. we should be in iraq and syria. that's a logical conclusion to draw. but you forget that we are part of a coalition. the americans, john allen, general allen, has not requested us to participate in there. they don't -- it's not that they are short of have too ma

they are moving closer to the capitol irbil.nd voting in mid term elections which will determine the fate of the remaining two years of barack obama's presidency. ♪ we begin this news hour in nigeria where a string of attacks in nigeria has fears over the government's ability to deal with security and on monday a suicide bomber killed at least 29 shia muslims preparing to mark the holy day and more than 100 others injured and in central state gunmen blew up a prison reported to be holding many suspected boko haram fighters and 140 inmates were freed there. and a violent boko haram take over, a movie forced 10,000 people to flee to the capitol and we report from there. >> reporter: they come seeking safety. a resident of the town arrived in the capitol less than a week after the town was over run by boko haram fighters. some on foot. some by car. hundreds made the 150 kilometer journey but hundreds are missing, lost in the cares of invasi invasion. >> this is by the mountain. >> reporter: and boko haram robbed the banks, burned d

but essentially the agreement was a lump sum of $500 million which was granted to irbil and this was to pay for a number of outstanding debts, legacy debts. in addition to that, there's also a licensing agreement of 150,000 barrels to be sold with essentially the blessing of baghdad and this was perhaps the difficulty that the last couple of months that we have seen in irbil having invested in pipelines, able to secure routes to export the oil, or not being able to do it with the legitimacy perhaps the rest of the world and indeed baghdad wanted to see. >> and on the -- i mean this is an interim agreement, there's a lot more to come, is there any role for the uk in helping to reach a final conclusion on this? >> well, we could be selfish and say we have a british interest in this, it's 50% of the oil production in iraq is actually thanks to the british country is actually involved in that, we want to see the country prosper, we want to see british countries do well in the region. there is a role, i stood up in foreign office questions, when i was asked this very same question, to say

much more broadly distributed around the country, not just in baghdad or irbill. and because of that they'll be closer to combat and closer to danger. iraqi forces in battle against isis. encouraged by recent iraqi successes against the terrorist group, including the retaking of a keyboarding crossing with syria, now the president is authorizing another 1500 troops, doubling the number of u.s. forces on the ground. and the orders will put them closer to the front lines, adding two operation centers in more volatile areas beyond baghdad and irbil. and in other sites to train iraqi and kurdish brigades. their role is not changing. advise, assist and train, but it is a major expansion of u.s. boots on the ground. >> there is no intent to put the trainers out in the field with these units once they are trained. >> to finance the expansion, the president is asking congress for nearly $6 billion to support the fight against isis. including $1.5 billion to train and equip iraqi and kurdish forces. the president was briefed on the pentagon's request ahead of his meeting t

. >> let's get more on the situation with jeffrey bates from unicef and she life from irbill in northernd thank you so much for being with us and this conflict has disrupted the education of thousands of children in iraq. what does this mean for future generations? >> thank you. glad to be here with you today. what this means for future generations is if children are deprived of their fundamental right for education and the progress in this area is interrupted, then there is a high chance, a high probability this will never be regained in iraq and other areas in the region will be facing an entire lost generation. it's imperative the united nations, the government and other humanitarian actors come together quickly to provide these educational opportunities before they are lost to prevent this type of spiral continuing on. >> now, jeffrey, we can appreciate that it's difficult to provide a normal life for these refugee children, much less a normal education, just explain to us the challenges of trying to educate children in refugee camps. >> well, it goes well beyond the refugee camps. w

they would be deployed as they are in baghdad and irbil to the command headquarters and not out on theront lines. jim sciuotto, cnn, washington. >>> ahead here, a break through for a u.s. marine who has spent months in a mexican prison. we'll tell you why he was there. also, we'll take a closer look at the deadly crash of the spaceship intended to one day cary civilians out of this world. the wrinkle cream graveyard. >>> also ahead, no longer just a figment of -- you're on to the next thing. clinically proven neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair. it targets fine lines and wrinkles with the fastest retinol formula available. you'll see younger looking skin in just one week. one week? this one's a keeper. rapid wrinkle repair. and for dark spots rapid tone repair. from neutrogena®. in the u.s. and around the world. you're watching cnn live news coverage. i'm natalie allen. our top stories, disaster for richard branson's virgin galactic spaceship two. it breaks up high above california's mohave desert. it had just separated from the plane carrying it. one pilot was killed, the other seriously

. ♪ the turkish prime minister is in irbil to meet people in northern iraq and they held talks with the minister al-abbadi and the turkish prime minister met with the kurdish president, what did they talk about? >> well the press conference afterwards was very positive, again a similar type of language to the language yesterday with al-abbadi and saying the relationship was renewed and moving forward but again it was only two things people were interested and really the only two things being discussed was security and energy. on the energy front turkey is a big customer of kurdish oil, that was discussed, saying the turks were going to receive the oil they were promised and this is important because turkey doesn't produce any of its own energy requirements and they have to import it and the prime minister said he was willing to act, turkey was acting as a broker between the kurds and baghdad that may arise in the future and actually have done it in the past and we are now hearing oil is now being pumped through the oil ministry into turkey so that is a positive move and also on the secu

. ♪ the turkish prime minister is in irbil to meet leaders of iraq and they held talks with iraqi primeister al-abaddi in baghdad and going to khan live in the capitol baghdad and he has just met with brazani and what were the main points of discussion? >> four points being discussed around to ideas and energy and security. energy front what he said was that the kurds were very important in supplying energy to the turkish region and kurdistan was a key partner and agreed a deal for oil to be supplied from kurdish region into turkey, a sticking point with the federal government, in baghdad accused the kurds of being unconstitutional when they were selling oil to the turks and that deal has been formalized, indeed also said look if there are any disputes between baghdad and the kurds but the turks were willing to step in, this is a big deal for turks and don't have their own energy supply and have to import everything and this is a key deal and kurdistan is important trade wise for turkey and vice versa and worth $8 billion a year and on the cards as well and the other big thing they calk

richard engel, nbc news, irbil iraq. >>> the va is getting ready to reprimand the workers ahead of the scandal. we'll have the latest. >>> a city wide tobacco ban. it's today's gut check. why one community is considering the nation's first ever ban on all tobacco sales within the city limits. here is a look what is happening today monday november 9th. the parents of michael brown leave today for geneva to speak against torture. >>> a state court order that kaci hickox's movements expires tonight in maine. her boyfriend says they plan to move out of the state this weekend. >>> and this afternoon first lady michelle obama will speak to military children and families and preview a special veteran's day episode of disney's "dock mcstuffens." ameriprise asked people a simple question: in retirement, will you outlive your money? uhhh. no, that can't happen. that's the thing, you don't know how long it has to last. everyone has retirement questions. so ameriprise created the exclusive.. confident retirement approach. now you and your ameripise advisor can get the real answers you need. well,

saying that they would send a volley of suicide bombers to irbil. >> wanted french government has confirmed that two of its it citizens appeared in the latest execution video post bid isil. the you knew security council is meeting now, and james, what would we know about the french citizens in the isil video, and how does it relate to what is being discussed at the security council? >> with the foreign fighters, meeting on that chair with president obama back in september. the ball ambassador, deena, is briefing the security council right now u. and we'll hear from all of the members of the security council. but as you say, back in the national capitals, there's a great deal of effort by the intelligence agencies to try to identify these 15,000 foreign fighters that the u.n. now are fighting in iraq and syria. the french say that from the most recent isil, they have identified of the nationals in the video. these are brutal videos, but also worth commenting on the fact that they're very high, technical television quality. and that helps the intelligence agencies as they pour over every sing

is planning to set up a training site near irbil, the capital of the semi-autonomous region.eries of bombings near baghdad today left at least five people dead and 20 more wounded. in a television interview broadcast today, the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, said iran cannot be trusted to help in the fight against isis. he apparently was reacting to published reports that president obama sent a letter recently to iran's supreme leader, exploring cooperation on that front. >> basically, the middle east is awash with militatnt islamists, the militant islamists led by al quaeda and isis on the sunni side. the militant iran and hezbollah on the shia side. we want both of them to lose. the last thing we want is either one of them to get weapons of mass destruction. look at what isis is doing now with assault rifles and pick up trucks. just imagine what iran would do if it had nuclear weapons. >> sreenivasan: the united states and other western powers have been negotiating with iran for many months now to strike a deal to curb iran's nuclear program in exchange for an

troops have been confined to baghdad and the city of irbil in the north. now 630 will be shipped out north and west of baghdad to act as advisors to iraqi units fighting isis including in anbar province where some of the bloodiest fighting of the iraq war took place. 830 of these new soldiers will be trainers stationed at iraqi military bases around the country to train a total of 12 iraqi and kurdish brigades, roughly 54,000 soldiers. the aim is to regenerate ground forces that with the help of those american airstrikes are supposed to retake the territory seized by isis earlier this year when the iraqi army broke and ran away. but the americans are expecting international help. the pentagon says other countries in the coalition against isis pledged to send in an additional 700 trainers. the white house insists none of the american troops will engage in combat and they say it will take two to three months for all of them to arrive in iraq and another six or seven months to train those iraqi troops. today the white house denied that it waited until after t

most of the military aid is being perceived or it's true being doing to irbil and not the puk. this is moving them to say thank goodness we have the iranians. they are fighting next to the forces. again. i don't know if this is significantly changed, but it it certainly has reenforced the dependency in returning to iran by some of these groups. >> the gentleman who asked about the u.s. invasion causing all these problems, i think it's a very simplistic way of looking at the situation. you had during the war with iran, 1 million human beings were killed. you had had the 1990 wholesale of kuwait. you had the 1991 uprise wrg up to 200,000 military-aged men were slaughtered. so a lot of people unfortunately think sectarianism started in 2003 because that's when it first rose to the surface in terms of politics. i think it's very unfair to pretend this started in 2003 or some argued in 1979. i mean in the first century you had civil wars over the very soul of islam and what it means. you had violence in baghdad. you had mass slaughters of shias and sunnis in iran, in iraq, in turkey

i talked to a friend in irbil and kurdisstan who said it is worse than we see in the news. >> isis ising success against the kurds. >> the kurds have not received ammunition and the things they got are old weapons and the ammunition doesn't fit and they don't have enough to do counter battery type operations and going to be offensive against isil and they are watching from the front lines while isis is digging trenches and bunkers and reenforces themselves with people and ammunition. i love to see what we can do in air power. but in the height of the iraq war we ran 800 strike and the latest number is like 25 strikes a day. we are a long way from engaging isis and changing the dynamics of the battlefield. >> the resolve is not living up to its name? >> i don't think it is it, jon. and i don't take anything away from the men and women who are participating. the military would like to be more engamed. it would be a 30 year war if we don't get ourselves and doing things. the iraqi army and kurds and training only 12 brigades. and we don't know where the free syrian army stands. the kurds

. >> we know they're going to fan out to bases outside the capital baghdad and irbil and northern iraqed some will be in anbar province. >> that is where isis seized town after town. the pentagon insists they won't be involved in combat and this is not mission creep. >> it's not mission creep at all. that's when the mission changes or morphs into something it didn't start out to be. this is very much in keeping with the missions that we've been performing in iraq since june. >> president obama also plans to ask congress for $5.5 billion to help fund the military campaign against isis. >> want to bring in correspondent from turkey. what are you hearing on the ground about the decision to send more troops iraq? >> reporter: well, the hope is that it is somehow going to alter the balance of power in the battlefield despite the recent efforts by the u.s. to try to bolster the iraqi security forces at this stage. they have not been able to make significant gains against isis. yes, they have managed to recapture a handful of key locations but not able to push isis out of key territory which

the citadel guarded irbill and is considered an ain't town. i.s.i.l. is destroying artefacts going back thousands of years. >> this legacy of human civilisation is being destroyed. we are appalled when we see the destruction of heritage, temples, religious sites, mosques, churches. and their illicit trafficking >>> the citadel of erbil is undergoing a massive renovation, and it cost $13 million >>> attacks from i.s.i.l. during a religious commemoration this week. hundreds of thousands of shias will travel to a shrine city, where a revered figure is buried and they'll remember his death. imran khan reports. >> reporter: iraqis hope this is not a sign of things to come. on sunday a parked minivan exploded on this street. tents have been set up to greet muslims that arrived from ashura. >> translation: two men got out of the min yi van and came into the tent. they drank tea,ate biscuits before leaving, saying they were going do shopping? a. the van exploded moments after. >> reporter: ashura commemorates the death of a pilgrim. visitors to kabula reached

. >> irbil and close to baghdad are the two ahs ensible starting points.lks one of my close friends, his son is actually there right now. they're moving troops around very quietly, but they are moving them in. we will be engaged in combat one way or another there, and this is where the president i think is losing the narrative both practically and politically. people know what's going to happen. we're going to be effective in depending the iraqis, helping them. we will be in harm's way. there's no way we're not going to be in harm's way the way they're doing this right now. >> hmm. >> do you think that congress should authorize military action? >> the debate has to be done. the 60 days of the war powers act is up. and no matter which side of the political spectrum you are on, congress has the obligation to do this. plus, pamela, they've asked for more money. they've asked for approximately $5.6 billion to go along with this effort, so to approve that, they have to approve first an authorized use of military force, which must be separate and distinct. the o

they are moving closer to the capitol irbil.

information american personnel were the target. >> are you beefing up security for american diplomats in irbil a high level of security at our facilities in iraq, basra, baghdad, we are always looking to do more, but it is very, very high. >> general allen was in turkey today. the u.s. had a pretty difficult time getting turkey and nato ally on board. based on reports you're receiving, did general allen make progress with turkish officials today? >> general allen had a very productive set of discussions today, this is an on-going conversation with the turks about what they can do. they already played a role if you look at the human side. we will keep having the conversation about what more they can do. obviously they make their own decisions but they're more effected by the crisis given their geography. we will keep having the conversation with them. >> they would like the u.s. and other coalition partners to use air bases in turkey. any progress convincing the turks to let the u.s. use the air bases to launch strikes against isis targets in syria? >> well, as i said, the conversation continue

general dempsey then also traveled on to irbil, the capital of the autonomous region of kurdistan, meetingthe prime minister there as well. part of this next phase of the u.s.-led mission and coalition is to focus on a training of security forces, 12 units, part of the initial effort. nine of them iraqi army, three of them peshmerga. general dempsey speaking with military commanders on the ground wanting to get an idea of what it is they need to be able to move this mission forward. general dempsey is very aware of the situation on the ground, having been the commander of the first armored division in the issue years of the war and then moving on to head up america's effort to train and equip the iraqi security forces. this assessment is vital because part of the reason why isis was able to take over such great territory in iraq is because of the u.s.'s, perhaps underestimation of their capabilities but also overestimation of the capacity and cohesiveness of the iraqi security forces that america left behind. and that is not a mistake that the u.s. or the region can afford to see happen on

orders will put them closer to the front lines adding two more operation centers beyond baghdad and irbil and in several more sites around the country to train iraqi and kurdish brigades. their role is not changing, advise, assist and train but it is a major expansion of u.s. boots on the ground. >> there's no intent to put the trainers out in the field with these units once they're trained. >> reporter: to finance the expansion the president is asking congress for nearly $6 billion to support the fight against isis including $1.5 billion to train and equip forces. the president was briefed on the pentagon's request ahead of his meeting with congressional lead sdmrers we have to make sure that our efforts against isil are properly funded so there will be an opportunity for secretary of defense hagel to brief us on the progress in our campaign against isil. >> reporter: to date the cost of the air campaign against isis is already total add more than $700 million. the price tag of more than 800 air strikes and more than 2,000 bombs and rockets. top republicans still not ready to sign a chec

including two new advise and assist centers at locations beyond baghdad and irbil as well as four newraining centers in northern, western and central iraq. i recommended this deployment to the president based on the request of the government of iraq, u.s. central command's assessment of iraqi units, general dempsey's recommendation, and the strength of the iraqi and coalitions campaign plan. these additional troops and facilities will help strengthen and reconstitute iraqi forces expanding geography of our mission but not the mission itself. u.s. military personnel will not be engaged in a ground combat mission. our phased plan to help strengthen iraq security forces has three major components, first our advise and assist mission partnering coalition advisors with iraq forces at the headquarters level and u.s. and coalition advisors are already helping plan current and future operations. and as noted we will expand this mission with two new advise and assist centers that we have announced. second, we will support the regeneration of iraqi forces so they are better equipped to launch o

i just came back from irbil and look at the situation in northern iraq as well as in turkey. we're concerned about the poorest nature of that border and how it elicits shipments are still being handled both through turkey and parts of syria. so will be interested in hearing the comments on that. i want to say thank you for the work you have done so far. i think it's been commendable in terms of the work you have done. >> the chair recognizes the gentleman from florida for one minute. >> thank you, mr. chairman and thank you for holding this hearing. i want to thank our panelists for their testimony today. as you pointed out, it costs the terrorists who murdered thousands of zi citizens on 9/11 $500,000 to plan and execute their attack. in a single day, isil is estimated to bring in more than double that amount through elicit business practices. we must dismantle and destroy this terrorist organization before more american lives are put at risk. from selling oilg to taxing and extorting businesses to kidnapping, isil is a criminal organization with numerous resources that have

. >> they keep saying that troops will be based out of -- at bases outside baghdad and irbil.strong and enforceful in taking over so many territory. how secure do you think the bases are? do you think some sort of combat with our troops on the ground is inevitable? >> it's a very strong possibility. i'm not sure how secure the bases are without somebody's combat troops protecting them. and we have not exactly seen a lot of activity by the iraqi military that would give us confidence that they are absolutely going to protect it. in addition, you have terrorism now increasing. the sectarian violence increasing in baghdad itself. and now we're having almost daily bombings with shia groups being attacked and sunni troops being attacked. this is something that, you know, this is what we saw ten years ago in baghdad. and now it's returning. >> right. yeah. it seems like a revival of the civil war. tom, thank you very much for joining us this morning. we undoubtedly will talk to you again. >> talk, tom. >> you're welcome. >> i don't know if you peeked out the window yet this morning

information but my understanding is each company is in a different situation in a sense of some operating a irbil, some of a few hiccups but i would characterize them as growing pains, but in general a lot of operations went forward. >> i do want to add for our ranking member that texas has its own grid if you come to texas, 85% of the state is covered by -- is want you to get the grid in africa, come see us. next question -- you are stuck on the possum eating yellowjackets? mr. postel, from your notebook -- from my notebook, note about you, you said you would develop a plan to first international securitization of futuristic bowls without a corporate guarantee. >> yes, sir. >> explained that. >> this was a financing for the government of jamaica in 1988. it was the first new funding they had obtained from the private sector in something like 13 years because there'd been rescheduling. and basically every year the receiving payments from at&t for telephone calls that the ds for was making to jamaica. and we felt that that was protect both enough to give them the money up front. so we raise money

additional military personnel, including two new advise and assist centers locations beyond baghdad and irbil, as well as four new training centers in northern, western, and central iraq. i recommended this deployment to the president based on request to government of iraq, u.s. central command's assessment of iraqi units, general dempsey's recommendation, and the strength of the iraqi and coalition campaign. these additional troops and facilities will help strengthen and reconstitute iraqi forces, expanding the geography of our mission, but not the mission itself. u.s. military personnel will not be engaged in a ground combat mission. our phased plan to help strengthen iraqi security forces has three major components. first, our advise and assist mission to provide the iraqi forces at the headquarters level. u.s. and coalitions advisors are already helping plan future operations. we'll expand this mission with two new assist and advice centers we have announced. second, we will support the rep regeneration of iraqi forces so they are better equipped to launch offensive operations over the co

assistancthis is a big art histe trained to do to translate from the visual to the irbil.pture in words and bring to life what a place look like or don't like or what it might have been like to walk through the grand basis at versailles, for example,. >> what was, what were some of the exciting things you found? >> well, there were dirty pictures. [laughter] spent the book will be for sale. >> that was one of the more surprising things spent where did you find those? >> on the internet where one finds all dirty pictures. [laughter] but in this case it was the internet, the archives online. to digitize in recent years. to digitize a large number of their manuscripts and their images. there is a fair amount of pornography from the air of the french revolution politically motivated pornography. marie antoinette is the focus of much of it and that i did not and that it can fairly well-written about. because marie antoinette was not a popular character. but i did not realize that lafayette was often cast as her paramore and some of these episodes. i don't think i can describe t

advisers outside of baghdad and irb irbil, but at several sites around the country which are not front lines but closer to combat and way combat is today in iraq, that could be a suicide truck bomber in the front gate of a brigade headquarters. again, when i talk to administration officials i feel like i'm being snowed on the definition. is there a legal definition. >> there's not a well-specified definition. there are various troops on the ground now. one way of getting at it might be to -- to focus on hostilities. you can borrow language there, although it's fraught from the war powers resolution. hostilities and practice has been defined of you are in hostilities if you are in a situation basically where the troops are in danger of being attacked or engaging in a military operation. so you might be able to get at this by a definition not of troops on the ground but rather what types of activities can they engage in. there's no subtle definition that i know of. >> if you fly a helicopter or plane, you can get hurt, shot at. >> you certainly can. it's -- to put it mildly, it's a flexi

military advisers had been confined to baghdad here and irbil in kurder controlled areas of the north establish two new operation centers, one in anbar province, west of baghdad and one north of baghdad. and a number of other locations around the country where u.s. advisers will be with iraqi and kurdish brigades. again, they will not be combat troops but will argue my be closer to combat and closer to danger. >> jim sciutto, thank you so much. >>> president obama met with congressional leaders shortly before the new troop deployment was revealed publicly. it was his first face-to-face with top republicans after their big midterm election sweep. let's bring in our white house correspondent michelle kosinski. was the war against ice ace major topic of conversation? >> reporter: it did come up. whenever the president needs congress' approval, we know that the details were discussed. this big meeting between president obama and congressional leadership. initially at least, we are hering some bipartisan support for it. we heard that from the number two democrat in the house. and house spe

training to be more effective, or effective enough in athens of pairing with mechanisms -- does a irbilquestions i'm just going to start over again and say, so 702, the program has certain legal requirements. in the private sector would you train to those legal requirements for which also have, for example, when an analyst is sitting there attempting to target or select are whatever the going to do, also have at each stage at the screen for the process or however they're doing it rules reflected in the computer system that there attempting to use of? >> we do both. to the extent you can use technology to enforce policy, that's always super effective, because you get past -- or to reduce the potential for human error. but that's not always possible. you can't completely prevent mistakes, oversight or intentional bad acts. so you need to do more than that. you have to build the awareness so that the inadvertent stuff is reduced. you have to build in the technology tools to prevent that from happening. they need some level of checks to make sure that everything went right. if it's somebody

and later general dempsey traveled to irbil joining the operations center as well as meeting with thehat we fought for was for freedom and a lot of the freedoms, free speech and free opinion, and i hope they don't think i did the wrong thing. i hope they said i'm doing it for the right reasons. and the reason, helping 9/11 families and also helping -- >> well, joining me now is jack jacobs and medal of honor recipient. and colonel, welcome to you. you heard the justification for o'neil coming forward. >> sounds a little disingenuous. and if you talk to other s.e.a.l.s and other people in special operations, they feel the same way. they think it's all about the team. they say it's all about the team. and anything that calls attention to individual action, whether it's true, or not, smacks of self-aggrandizement. >> explain to civilians what it means when you break this code of silence. what is the fallout? >> well, we're in it together. or, as franklin said, we'll all hang separately. and so it's really important that the focus be on the group and not on any individual, but particularl

like my colleague, i just came back from irbil and look at the situation in northern iraq as well asrkey and we're very concerned about the poorest natun -- porous nature of that border and how shipments are being handled through turkey and parts of syria. so i'll be interested in hearing the secretary's comments on that. i do want to -- i do want to say thank you for the work you've done so far. i think it's been commendable in terms of the anti-money laundering and anti-terrorist work that you've done. thank you. >> chair now recognizes the gentleman from florida, mr. ross, for one minute. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you for holding this hearing. i also want to thank or distinguished panelists for their testimony today. as you pointed out, mr. chairman, it costs the terrorists who targeted and murdered thousands of american citizens on 9/11 $500,000 to plan their attack. in a single day isil brings in that amount in illicit business practices. we must dismantle and destroy this terrorist organization before more american lives are put at risk. they tax and extofrt local busin

says the new troops would not be in a combat role and would operate from bases outside baghdad and irbile've been performing in iraq since june, which is security assistance for our people and our facilities, advising and assisting capability for iraqi security forces to help them get better in the battlefield and battle space. >> in september, the president announced a broad campaign against isis after two american journalists were beheaded. he says his objective is to destroy the extremist group. >>> veterans day is on tuesday. this morning, president obama used his weekly address to pay tribute to all the men and women who served in the armed forces, specifically those who came home injured. >> some of the most moving moments i've experienced as commander in chief have been with wounded warriors. some have to learn how to walk again, talk again, write their names again. but no matter how hard it is, they never give up. >> president obama praised service members who fought in world war ii, korea, vietnam, iraq and afghanistan. he says some of the best ways to honor their valor is to ma

i just came back from irbil and look at the situation in northern iraq as well as in turkey. we're concerned about the poorest nature of that border and how it elicits shipments are still being handled both through turkey and parts of syria. so will be interested in hearing the comments on that. i want to say thank you for the work you have done so far. i think it's been commendable in terms of the work you have done. >> the chair recognizes the gentleman from florida for one minute. >> thank you, mr. chairman and thank you for holding this hearing. i want to thank our panelists for their testimony today. as you pointed out, it costs the terrorists who murdered thousands of citizens on 9/11 $500,000 to plan and execute their attack. in a single day, isil is estimated to bring in more than double that amount through elicit business practices. we must dismantle and destroy this terrorist organization before more american lives are put at risk. from selling oil to taxing and extorting businesses to kidnapping, isil is a criminal organization with numerous resources that have per

additional military personnel including two new advice and assist centers locations beyond baghdad and irbil as well as four new training centers in northern, western, central iraq. i recommended this deployment to the president based on request to government of iraq, u.s. central command's assessment of iraqi units, general dempsey's recommendation and strength of the iraqi and coalition campaign. these additional troops and facilities will help strengthen and reconstitute iraqi forces expanding the geography of our mission but not the mission itself. u.s. military personnel will not be engaged in a ground combat mission. our plan to help strengthen iraqi security forces has three major components. our advise and assist mission to provide the iraqi forces at headquarters level. we are already helping plan future operations. we'll expand this mission with two new assist and advice centers we have announced. second, we will support the rep generation of iraqi forces so they are better equipped to launch offensive operations over the coming year. sitcom's new training sites in northern and cen