they see that the iraqi shiite powers that be in the military as ponds of neighboring shiite iran. they feel alienated. many of them have been fired from their government jobs, their factories were closed down by the bush administration because they were socialists. very high rates of unemployment. poor government services. the isil forces showed up. they've adopted the model of being fundamentalists but also trying to provide soup kitchens and services. so they have gotten some suppo support. >> as this army of isel and it's affiliates get closer to baghdad, are we diagnose to see finally what we haven't seen earlier which is push back from shiite-armed forces? >> i think we will. there is likely to be a real normalization on the part of the shiites. so far since maliki has come to power the country's shiites have taken it for granted that they would be ruling the country, and it was hung on a silver platter by the united states. so the shiites rebuilt the state around their own pow, and they have ignored the sunnies largely and discriminated against them. now with this new jihadl

this is shiite against sunni. saddam was a sunni who oppressed the shiite.s them saying, we own the turf now, and we're going to crush the sunnis, if we choose to intervene in the united states, it won't necessarily be perceived as intervention against extremists, it will be perceived as intervention in favor of a shiite dictator. >> in fact some people will say, well, you guys didn't intervene in syria in support of sunni insurgents fighting against assad, and here now is intervening against other sunnis again in iraq to kind of bolster the argument you made. i appreciate you being on, peter bergen as well. >>> isis is not only known as ruthless, it may be the richest terrorist group on the planet right now. where it gets it's money, digging deeper on that tonight. fascinating, when he charged to trace the money trail. about a 45 minute drive away. threatening to seize the city, a daunting question, what would it take to evacuate the enormous u.s. embassy here in baghdad. a virtual city within a city. i'll show you what we mean. obley my volunteering. that'

thousands of iraqi shiites have volunteered to serve the iraqi military at the front lines, vowing to against the insurgents. >> i come to defend and fight side by side with them to defend our homeland, and god willing, we will achieve victory. >> an air operation targeting isis hideouts, and the iraqi military has vowed to retake every mace. >> we are vowing to defeat them, and for all of those who stood by the iraqi people. we started to march toward them and there will be no place for them to hide. >> maliki has asked the united states for help in the fight, with drone strikes and airstrikes. the u.s. has ordered carriers to the gulf in case president obama decides to strike. but the president has called on maliki to bring all of the factions together to seek a military solution. he lost the trust of the factions a long time ago. when he when the insurgents took over mosul, he couldn't get enough. the question is can he bring his country together as the crisis deepens. >> maliki and the breakup of iraq, this time on the program, looking at the fracturing of the country that the uni

this time from a fellow shiite. hours after president obama warned iraq's leader the message, your mess to fix, in pressure is calling for a new and effective government. that and a warning for the american advisors headed to iraq. a vicious moment caught on camera as a robber attacks a pregnant clerk. >> okay, okay. >> he sucker punched her. ahead, what happened after the punch and what the woman says about how she is doing now. >>> and a velveeta re-call in a dozen states. could this criminal the college world series as my rebels march to fame. let's get too it. >> it's 3:00 on the east coast, noon on the west coast. i'm shepard smith in new york and this is "shepard smith reporting." the iraqi prime minister's support is crumbling as quick as as his countrile collapsing. the top shiite cleric in iraq, the man really in charge, is calling for a whole new government, one that can eeffectively lead all iraqis, shia, sunni, and kurd alike. the cleric i can co-ed what he heard from president obama that nouri al-maliki

last thing they want to do is pick a fight in shiite iraq. and they will continue to consolidate and capture the most important thing in iraq which are the refineries and oil fields. >> those are positioned in the northeastern part. >> near kuredish. and the kureds are fighting for the city of of kirkuk. and as we speak right now there is a fight going on between the kureds and isis. and so far kureds are 350,000 solders and dedicated and doing well against isis. but the point of contention. seize and hold the oil fields and consolidate the sunni air and turn it away from being captured cities and being a state. a terrorist state in the middle of the sunni triangle. >> iran is shiite and sunni here and a lot of the arab world is sunni and what does this mean for the united states strategically. >> it is a potential disaster. al-qaeda is minuscule compared to this. and one of their avowed missions once they create a ca lifate is to turn to foreign infedells and europe and perhaps the united states and they are so well trained and organized. th

yesterday, sunni, shiite, and side-by-sidestood in a televised show of unity. shiite, sunni, and kurdish officials lined up to call on iraqi citizens to put aside differences. even as political leaders emphasize unity, signs that the country is plunging into war are increasing by day. the atmosphere is tense in baghdad. >> the residents are afraid of the security situation. >> on tuesday, a car bomb in the shiite neighborhood of sadr city, leaving dozens dead or injured. this as sunni man found in different parts of the capital. in a prison near baquba, northeast of baghdad, sunnis were found dead. the military gave a different account, saying they were killed by insurgent mortar fire. dark yearsf iraq's following the u.s. invasion. when the sectarian death toll rein in the thousands. minority sunnis put the blame on the shiite government. >> what is happening in iraq is the revolutionary -- the oppression and repression of the sunnis under the leadership of different governments since 2005. , thousands of shiites are joining the fight against sunni insurgents.

the call to arms came from iraq's top shiite cleric, ayatollah sistani, who said protecting shiite shrines is a sacred duty. isis has already announced its intention to destroy those shrines as it continues its push toward baghdad. in mosul, iraq's second biggest city which fell on tuesday, militants showed off their newly acquired u.s. equipment, abandoned by the fleeing iraqi army. in a statement, they announced that they are implementing strict islamic sharia law. women must stay at home, cigarettes and alcohol are banned, and the hands of thieves will be cut off. today, the group was fighting in towns just 60 miles from the capital. iraq is descending into a sectarian civil war. >> pelley: so, clarissa, with the insurgents 60 miles or so from where you are in baghdad right now, how does the iraqi government intend to defend itself? >> reporter: well, that's just it, scott. the government doesn't appear to have any real strategy, other than remobilizing these shiite militias which, of course, only inflamed those sectarian tensions. and so far, we've seen no evidence that they've tried t

the majority shiites wrestled for control. and the restless sunni regions struggled to come to terms with an iraq once a minority, their leaders had once called the shots. it's a country after all where americans invested their lines, and the u.s. invested it's treasure for almost a decade. >>> you made it clear in your earlier remarks, that you hold prime minister maliki, responsible for the situation now, but how much did the troubles in syria contribute to what's going in iraq today? >> no doubt, our region is interrealed, and we're effected by what happens in iran and turkey and other neighboring countries, in syria, the syrian regime and iraq together, to make life through american iraq, and it's through them they smuggled militant groups to fight the americans, and they succeeded in making that difficult for the americans to the extent and thought it's better to leave iraq better than the way they left. the assad regime changes to be a near dictator, he is securing the majority and the americans watching him, not doing m

iraqi shiites rally against sunni militants moving toward baghdad, while the u.s. sends a carrier to the persian gulf just in case. ( gun shots ) clarissa ward, holly williams, and juan zarate have the latest on the crisis in iraq. pro-russian separatists take down a ukrainian government plane, killing all 49 aboard. charlie d'agata has the latest. who would want to put the "maid of the mist" out of business? vanita nair on the tour boat rivalry shaping up at niagara falls. >> we think it's a great company, and we like their brand. we like our brand a lot more. >> axelrod: and the ghost of the world cup. elaine quijano tells us how even after 64 years, brazil can't forget the win that got away. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." >> axelrod: good evening. i'm jim axelrod. this is out western edition of the broadcast. u.s. secretary of defense chuck hagels that ordered an arcraft carrier and two other warships to the persian gulf as militant in iraq have taken control of large sections of the northwestern part of the country. hagel says the s

this man's family is shiite, his job was to deliver food to soldiers.t week he was delivering breakfast when he came under attack and was killed. his brother says the people who killed him aren't muslims. >> translator: according to the profit mohammed, no muslim can kill another muslim. my brother was so generous, e exceptional and kind, he didn't deserve to die. >> reporter: a large number of people are registering their interest in defending their community. officially they are not giving out exact numbers but they hundreds of thousands want to be recruited. the vast number are shiites. it's not just the young. this is a grandfather. he answered the call and registered. his grandsons are too young to join, but say they want to fight. after giving his details to the army, he waits and says he is willing to do anything. >> translator: this is our duty. it's our jihad to fight. i will do anything they ask of me. my sons the same. if i lose them, it is a blessing, i onlying wish i had more sons to give. >> reporter: many are framing this as a sectarian w

-- al-maliki was a conspirator for many years with a shiite fundamentalist group aiming for a shiite government -- a muslim fundamentalist government in iraq, so when he became prime minister, he just continued to be a conspirator, and he does not trust the sunni arabs who are disproportionately powerful in the party that he was trying to overthrow. it does not meet with his sunni arab political partners when he had any. and his government does not provide much in the way of services to the sunni arab cities. share in the oil wealth. they do not have regular electricity. they do not have services. they were fired from their government jobs in favor of shiite cronyism, the ruling shiite parties, something called detoxification on the model of denazification in postwar .ermany high school teachers were fired, and so forth. you have unemployment, a lack of invest it, a lack of services, and the sunni arabs in parliament are given the message they are a minority in parliament and they will always be a minority in parliament and will always lose every vote in parliament from here on into

nouri al malaki has done the opposite >> and the alliance he led the shiites and also iran shiite dominated further complicating it from the u.s. privilege, did the u.s. go in there in 2003 and try to forge a democracy only to see iraq become such an important strategic partner with iran? >> indeed, not only here in the u.s. where people are asking that question, many iraqis you have to remember, iraq fought an eight year incredibly bloody war with iran and a lot of those sunnis fought in that war and veterans of that war. nothing annoys them more than the fashlct that malaki is reacg out to the former enemy, the country that has so much iraqi blood on its hands, metaphorically speaking, nothing upsets the iraqi sunnis than the idea iran is the closest ally of the government in baghdad. >> we know they supported the sunni regime. do you expect they will help nuri al maliki's leading in baghdad? >> it's not a simple matter of rolling tanks across the border, they're fighting against an negative army, not a conventi conventional war. for another, i think it would antagonize a lot of iraqis, n

they are angry of the government which is dominated by shiite muslims. just 25 miles from her, second biggest city which was seized tuesday we've seen internet videos of militant parading through the streets to welcome from local people. now hundreds of thousands have fled. most of them have come through this check point where i am now in iraqi kurdistan which is relatively peaceful since theist invasion in 2003. moss of the refugees have told us they're not running away from the extremists, in fact they like them and say they're doing a good job. instead they say that they are fleeing because they fear that iraq's government will bomb their towns and cities to force out militants. >> schieffer: holly, you be careful now, thank you so much. we're joined in washington now by senator lindsey graham, republican of south carolina. he's been to iraq many times. he's been a critic of administration policy. what happened here? this seems leek just came out of no where. was the administration asleep at the wheel. there was an intelligence failure? was this the f

you mentioned the shiite militias.sustani issued a call for all able-bodied men to fight the insurgents. >> rose: his group was already armed although he's still in as you pointed out in iran. >> well, but you know these militia, whether it's solder's militia or hezbollah is another one. they're big and they're basically controlled by the iranians so it gives the iranians a kind of huge lever here. but boy once this takes off, every household in iraq has an ak47 in it, an assault rifle. everybody does. when you tell every abled body iraq male to get out there and start fighting, that's rock and roll. >> rose: time for battle. >> yes, it could really get out of control. >> rose: what's the significance of the fact that they now control the bordersi]?f syria? >> well, i mean that cuts off baghdad certainly from those two countries. but also i think it's a measure of how quickly and effectively this sunni vanguard force is moved but i do think honestly it's also a measure that it's not just isis. isis is a bunch of sociop

of shiite religious figures. not the kind of thing that the u.s. had in mind when it trained the iraqi forces. as i was standing there watching them shouting up the names of shiite clerics and holding the guns in the air and dancing, i kept thinking all of those days i watched u.s. forces training and thinking this is not, not what they had in mind. >> not at all, indeed. what a contrast. also, earlier you showed the isis forces pulling over some trucks and questioning the drivers. tell us what happened in the video, video that they have released. not confirmed by nbc. >> yeah. it's very difficult to confirm these videos because, obviously, we weren't there with isis as they were executing prisoners but there are a lot of videos emerging like this and consistent about what we're hearing is happening in some of these remote areas. the militants stopped truckers, these are trucks driving between syria and iraq. they pulled people out of the trucks, drivers, and the militants who were wearing pakistani style dress s

they're going to be acting as the protectors of the shiites whether we or the iraqi shiites want it orot. and i forgot the depourtsdz country. host: on the topic of iran. president rue hani sent a tweet. they offer support. so that's what you described. guest: just because the united states and iran disagree when it comes to the nuclear shis and terror ysm and so forth doesn't mean we have to define our policy by whatever iran is against. that said i wouldn't be so trustworthy as to want to ally ourselves with iran in this regard. just because we're on the same side doesn't mean we have an interest in intervening together or that the price in which iran would want to extract from iraq in the future wouldn't be too great to bear for the united states or iraqis. >> some talked about putting a u.n. presence in there letting things work out there. nato also as well. do any of those forces have any possibility of changing the situation? guest: short answer is no. first nato is not going to come in. and even though turkey has called an emergency meeting of nato, because of the hostages which

between sunnis and shiite.nd this has to do with the choice that middle eastern people have today. especially, the arab are muslim people, if you're going to live under a dictatorship. >> and the training from the united states, given a lot of equipment was that it would be a nationalizing force for sunni and shiite, but it seems that the sunni have given up. the shiite even are taking off the uniforms and running away. >> yeah, i think we have to take a chill pill here. look, when i was at ci, we had catastrophes and attacks in yemen, saudi arabia, iraq, now in nigeria. we had attacks in madrid. in london. every time one of these happens we're so short-sighted in this country we fail to step back and say what is the context? this dog has not hunted yet. this story is not over. they took some territory. not all the locals support them. there are differences, especially among those in syria. before we write this off we better look at all the elements of this and assess this a little more completely before we go

it puts the shiites in a corner where the curds had seized territory, and the sunni areas that are now under the control, has become a threat to baghdad, and this is just an instinctive feeling among iraqis as they need to take support from whoever gives it to them. so iran's standing there, literally, consolidating it's influence. i think on the other hand, the u.s. approach to iraq so far has been -- they are not very plugged in, and they are approaching fit a distance. but the reality is, iran had has developed so much influence inside iraq. i think at the end of the day, current events are playing so much in it's favor. unfortunately the state of iraq is withering. >> is the united states being put in the position, of supporting a sunni insurgent army in syria, against an iranian ally? and supporting an iranian ally in iraq, a shiite led government. >> well, i think if you approach a complex region without the strategy, and if the strategy is to calibrate your positions on peace meal bases, you will end up doing contradicting things. and i think there is a power volume currently in

it's now 80 percent shiite. maliki doesn't care about the area. and the kurds are perfectly happy in their part of the country. maliki won the most seats in the election. he still stands a good chance of emerging on top and they don't have to love each other. they just have to quit actively killing each other. if they don't decide to do that, american military power is not going to be able to prevent their civil war. >> maliki has been in power already since 2006. he's had 12 years to form a unity government. it hasn't happened. pump more weapons into the hands of his dictator style government. the idea of a mortician that was thrown around by joe biden and leslie gelb a decade ago, may be a good idea then. at this point we would have to look at what that partition would mean. the other potential oil wealth area is in the north. what the sunnies control at this point is a stretch of disorder without massive oil potential, without any oil potential. how are you going to break that wealth up evenly in a partitioned state that only inflames the divis

so, it's sunnis versus shiites. or more or less with some politics thrown in. and here's a wild card as well -- the kurds in the north. they are mainly sunni, but rule and autonomous region kurdistan which is iraq's most stable area right now. many kurds have wanted their own nation for years. if there is a winner so far in all of this it is them. they've got turf, they've got oil and they've got muscle. so, who is isis? well, they used to be known as al qaeda. in iraq. in 2006 they rebranded as the islamic state in iraq and syria. the u.s. surge in iraq did set them back but after the u.s. withdrew, isis grew in strength. al qaeda distanced itself with isis because they are so extreme and wouldn't take orders. isis is infamous are for its brutality. and this is what iraq is up against. why not split up iraq? shiites in the south, kurds in the north, sunnis in the west and north, simply drawing lines on a map could lead to massive bloodshed. don't forget the oil fields around the country. who gets what? on top of that, isis dreams of creating a calaphat. but no

here in baghdad, there is also recruiting, as thousands of volunteers join shiite militias. rallies like these are now a daily occurrence. these fighters told us they consider it a sacred duty to defend their city. across town, markets were far quieter than usual today. most people in baghdad don't believe that isis will come marching in to the city, but what they fear is a surge in the number of bombings, and this sea already averages about eight a day. a spokesman for the interior ministry: >> our goal is it to liberate our cities. >> reporter: he denies iraq is in the midst of a sectarian civil war and that arming shiite volunteers is a dangerous idea. when you create these shiite militias, it reignites those old sectarian tensions. >> we don't have marcs. >> reporter: you do have militias. >> we have tribes. >> reporter: i have seen militias. >> no, it is -- >> reporter: badr brigade. >> now we are talking with the tribes. we must liberate iraq, and iraq for siewnfor sunni. >> reporter: we may be seeing a new wave of sectarian killings here in the capital. this morning t

and directed in the governing shiite majority there.d in nigerria 21 were killed in a shopping mall. and in beirut, a holtz was bombed and no word on casulties and again, a bloody day in middle east and central africa. three bombings at least. we'll hope there is no more to come. >>> the soccer star landing in hot water after accused of biting a defender in italy. look at the shocking video. the opposing player said he was bit. but the itilian trust his shoulder in him. it is the third by thing claim and talked about him being barred from the rest of the world cup tournament. >> and diana is a former prosecutor. and his denials are you know, complete. he said no. that was not a bite, but does the video tell the story. >> you don't need a weatherman to tell you which way the wind is blowing. it is clear he juchl jumps on the human and can bit down on his shoulder. that is totally inappropriate and that is not in the rules of soccer or human decency. and they should have serious consequences and legal rammics. >> they are talking about ki

sunni militants in iraq have been battling moloch e the shiite prime minister that civil war the true reference in your opening really has been under way for some months they've surged along the whole of the euphrates valley from the syria border down to the gates of baghdad i last talked to some of the sunni insurgents when i was in jordan and they said they were three kilometers that was a few weeks ago from the airport in baghdad now they've taken mosul a city that really is the center of the rocky learning and culture it's a key sunni capital and in the north they've spread beyond the euphrates valley and people need to understand that. a qaeda and its allies in the sunni world are now deeply rooted all the way from rock out which is a city in northeastern syria down to as i said the gates of baghdad raises the most difficult questions for the united states for all of its allies you and i were talking before the show began about how the american invasion of iraq in two thousand and three opened the gates of hell that was your phrase of i think it's basically correct. the. the. al

the shiites ripping off their uniforms need to stand up and fight. could we assist them in some way? i wouldn't rule that out. i would first wait to see if the shiites are going to fight for their country or not. >> let me play you something that one of your region colleagues said, senator marco rubio. he was talking about why this is important and he does believe that national security is at stake. >> the reason why we care is because we cannot allow a safe haven to develop there that can be used to carry out attacks that can kill americans including here in our homeland. >> so do you believe that the isis is a national security threat to the united states? >> do you know where the safe haven is? the safe haven's in syria. those who have -- let me finish. the thing is that they would not be empowered and in iraq if we were are not providing safe haven in syria by arming their allies. >> so should we go to syria? the thing is we kind of are where we are. >> no. we are where we are because we armed the syrian rebels. we have been fighting alongside al

you have a shiite state which is largely confined to the south which is one of the reasons the shiiteb soldiers in the north ran away, it's not their turf. then you have a sunni arab state that doesn't exist yet but is coming into existence. and then you have a kurdish state no the north. it's increasingly aligned with turkey, but is still independent. >> woodruff: ambassador khalilzad, why is that not an argument for the u.s. to be hands off? >> if it doesn't affect anything of great importance to us, that's a great argument. but given the name of particularly the i.s.i.l., which is a terrorist organization tied with al quaida with not only iraqi ambitions, syrian ambitions, regional ambitions and with some around europe and even americans involved, we have a concern that is legitimate and we need to be focused on that. >> and interests. so we could do counterterrorism operations, a lot fighting between one side or the other, but i want to make one point on diplomacy very quickly, that we need to engage the iranians. if they think maliki is trying to play them against each other, we

and iran is shiite you've got syria on the other northern border melting down in and you know what's also becoming increasingly a sectarian confrontation one of the possibilities of this could turn into a regional or that it already has become basically a regional firefight between sunnis and shia i think that regional firefight has been going on for some for some time certainly is seen that way by people in the region and i think it's very important that the united states and its allies not go down that sectarian road further. there's a tremendous concern about about the instability in iraq but the civil war they'll be pressure from saudi arabia to back saudi arabia and its and its friends. i think the last thing the u.s. should do now is is da policies that deepen the split somehow and i think this is something that the obama visit ministration does understand and believe deeply somehow united states and its allies need to be about creating some balance between iran saudi arabia between shiites and sunnies that this is going to take the region down if it continues. i flew into into

in shiite mosques all across the country today, the prayers include a political message, calling on shiites to stand together to fight. in a very real way, this is the army of the faithful. as the friday prayers end, new volunteers are given uniforms. they march out still chanting. the preacher blesses each new recruit, wishing them victory as they head to the front line. this is not the same army the u.s. left behind. as president obama told msnbc's mika brzezinski today, iraq has changed. >> some of the forces that always possibly pulled iraq apart are stronger now. those forces that could keep the country united are weaker. >> reporter: the military advisors the president is sending are going to find that the iraqi army is quickly becoming a shiite defense force. the advisers' mission is to help fight isis. as many as 300 u.s. special forces will establish command centers in baghdad and northern iraq to gather and distribute intelligence. green berets will embed directly with iraqi troops, offering tactical advice and advising under iraqi air strikes. but in what increasely seems like a

he commands large numbers of shiite people, also shiite militiamen. he's a guy who's got muscle. his followers did a lot of damage, killed a lot of americans when we occupied the country. he's not the only prominent shiite who is essentially saying that maliki can't form and lead a government that's going to stabilize the country. the long-term solution here, and the one that washington wants, is a new iraqi government that brings in the kurds and sunnis who felt they were pretty much disenfranchised, kicked out of the process, and shows them they have a stake in the future of a unified iraq and, therefore, the sunnis in particular end this rebellion, stop supporting isis. and that is the only long-term way to kind of bring stability back to the region. so, it does seem that other shiites are coming around to this idea, and that is what will cause maliki to go is if he loses support of shiites. we're not quite there yet. he's not showing a lot of signs of accommodation. so it will be some time before we see how it works out. >> there's one other way to possibly get to a long-term

under saddam hussein, the sunnis o pressed the shiites terribly. and then shiites took power and prime minister maliki has been o pressing the sunnis. maliki has aliened and in some cases arrested the most reasonable sunni leaders and embarrassed on mass arrests of young sunni men. in the process he has to a great extent driven the sunnis back into the arms of the extremists. those extremists bring us to the group you've been hearing about a lot lately, isis, you might remember them better if i use al qaeda in iraq. this is a group so vicious, al qaeda kicked them out of the al qaeda club because they were slaughtering so many civilians they were actually hurting the al qaeda brand. think about that for a second. they were so vicious that they turned al qaeda's stomach. but isis is crucially a sunni terror organization. and as maliki's oppression increased they rebranded themselves as protector of iraq's sunnis and taken over the second largest city in iraq and trying to take over much more. now, they are not that big. but when 800 isis soldiers fa

and another shiite leader saying the u.s.ilitary advise source won't be greeted as liberators but instead occupiers. >> frantic political talks going on here in -- bagdad as the prime minister tries to cobble together a more stable government. it's not only the fighting around the major refinery, and cities, and key cities near the syrian border, it is that essentially there isn't a functioning government here. that's up with of the things that u.s. officials are hammering home to prime minister maliki, if he is going to stay in power and get that help that he so desperately wants on the military front, they are telling him he has to come up with a more inclusive government. that includes sunnis and kurds. and out on the streets with what normally is a friday holiday, with people shopping and going to the book market, the streets are oddly empty. people here are worried. they are worried about the fighting reaching bagdad and the entire future of their country. >>> two attacks in western iraq claiming at least 36 lives. the f