a really transparent investigation to let the public know what happened, what went wrong at camp spiker, according to one iraqi general, speaking of parliament yesterday, half the answers lie in the city of tikrit that is under complete control of isis right now, the military has been trying to push him to tikrit and has failed over the past couple months. >> thank you very much. an absolutely shocking -- they found three more execution sites. the numbers we started at 100 and it's up to 770 people killed by isis. >> the assessment we're hearing from the united states, isis still isn't at the same level of strength at least globally as al qaeda, despite their rapid rise. >> just ahead here on cnn, what is it like to have ebola. those who survived the terrifying disease speak out after the break. when healthcare gets simpler. when frustration and paperwork decrease. when grandparents get to live at home instead of in a home. so let's do it. let's simplify healthcare. let's close the gap between people and care. at od, whatever business you're in, that's the business we're in. with premiu

don't know what happened to their relatives three months ago when the islamic state group overran spikerase near the city of tikrit. they have been demonstrating for three months but this is the biggest and most disstricttive demonstration we have seen. >> so it is just the fact that the islamic state group is such a difficult enemy and getting information surrounding them is hard? >> reporter: part of the problem is it's just tragic whatever way you look at it, because a lot of these families discovered that there had been executions at spiker camp not through anyone notifying them the way they would in other countries. they discovered it on the internet through videos posted by the islamic state group. really gruesome videos. so now they want to know how did that happen? how was it that there was no secure? and they really want to know how they can get the bodies back. families in the street held up photographs of their relatives. they have taken those photographs everywhere. they are just trying to find the bodies to bury and they haven't been able to do that even. >> terrible. jane,

spiker, of course is the base that was home to army cadets and air force cadets killed perhaps more than thousand of they will, byes islamic state group. it has caused a huge uproar, vehicles into how that happens. of course, it's very close to tikrit, the main focus of iraqi government forces coming from here joined by shia militias into a called drop of tech tarian tension. we've teen tactics that the group specialize in. >> recap you aring tikrit, it's a very densely populated area and airstrikes are not necessarily going to help recapture the city. >> tikrit actually is a ghost town these days. we are told families evacuated quite a long time ago. it is the hometown of sadaam hussein. the place near kirkuk is his burial place. this is strategically important. a lot of the civilians have gone. they were expecting this, but what remains is a city that we are expecting very fierce fighting to continue for sometime. >> ok, thank you very much. live for us in baghdad. let's stay with the islamic state group and the u.s. vice president has joined president obama in condemning the group for

he was stationed at camp spiker, a former u.s. military base near tikrit and two hours north of baghdad. just 12 days later he was lying on a field surrounded by corpses awaiting a bullet to the head. "the new york times" verified ali's story using witness accounts, a human rights watch report, and videos of the massacre published online isis. >> incredible story. joining me now to talk about this story of survival a "new york times" senior video journalist adam elic, he's part of the team that wrote and told the story of the harrowing escape. adam, this is an incredible story. and one has to wonder if he worries about his own life even now after sharing his story. >> thanks for having me on. it's quite an improbable story that he shared with us. you know, it's hard to tell, i mean, everyone in this region worries about their safety to come degree, but right now ali lives in a large city. it's mostly shiite, he's a shiite, and isis does not have a pen presence in this region. he expressed to us that he's feeling comfortable and sa

car bomb, i referenced, it sends a truck filled with ex-blowsives, exploded at the gates of camp spikerthat is north of decrete, just the latest example of a very bloody war going on here. >> delegation from the international federation, and the federation of arab journalists have met egyptian prime minister with three journalists detained in egypt for 250 days. the legal process must be allowed to conclude before looking at new avenues. their convictions are being appealed. the case has been raised by the u. n. secretary general, in a conversation with the egyptian president. was also held by egyptian authorities he was released in june, ten months after being detained without charge, he was on hunger strike for since months in prison. they have also called for the release of the three colleagues. it's been over three weeks for them now in jail, they have to be let go. egypt, the world is watching. journalist is not a crime. >> still to come in this half hour, opposition leader as a peace deal allows them to come out of hiding, plus. >> on the floor, of the grand canyon, where the aqua

car bomb i referenced, it sounds like a truck filled with explosives exploded at the gate of camp spiker, north of tikrit, just the latest example of -- of a very bloody war going on here. >> meanwhile fighters from the islamic state group in northern iraq have kidnapped at least 50 men. those abductions happened in a city village southwest of kurkurk. the i.s. fighters fought with armed tribesmen in the same village on tuesday. >> al-qaeda leader has announced plans to expand the group's network in the india sub continent. here is more from new delhi. >> reporter: he says he represents a community that wants to live peacefully in a modern multi-cultural india. he tells me that the vision of groups like al-qaeda is not representative of the beliefs of more than 200 million muslims across the country. >> translator: these groups want to make us very conservative. but they won't be successful in doing this, because indian muslims are a totally different muslim. >> reporter: it's the misrepresentation of previous trouble between hindus and muslims that some community leaders want to stop. >

with loud spikers at this point it's awkard to suggest you would take a permit away after the thing is over with, but again that's the protocol we need to bang out going forward given the size of the venue and the open air nature of the venue, and whether or not there should be things in place like db restrictions or other things and not just punish who they're booking and what kind of sound systems come in because we had many concerts that nobody complained about so obviously there are differences between those and that's the work that we have to do. >> just to add to that. i am glad you said we issued the permit to the giants and not live nation because that's what we did but to understand a little better these big concerts travel with their own gear so it's not like the giants or live nation had any say about what their gear would look like so they hung the gear and i guess they didn't do much of a sound check and we had an inversion layer in the city and an inversion layer it holds the air down and sound that usually goes up in the air on a clear night and you can see in the pentho

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it is also the location for spiker air base,s this is where the islamic state reportedly according to their own reports killed 1700 shiite iraqi army. that's earlier this year. mass graves have been found there, the u.n. sending a team to investigation what's happened there, as that battle continues this is seemed to be a precursor of the larger battle to come. in the north of the country, these would be the last two or the largest two remaining strong holds. meanwhile the politicals in baghdad, continue to be a struggle between the shiite parties, with the curds playing the middle group, those politics are playing out on the ground, here in iraq as we see in the fighting today. >> between the conflicts in iraq and ukraine, and other concerns in the middle east, leaders have a long on their plate. tony article five, says it's members should consider an armed attack upon one to be an attack upon them all, initially the likely opponent was the soviet union, and the republic russia. nato is now concerned. >> the fall of the berlin wall, the symbolic end of the cold war, marked the beginn

spiker tillis continuously have the wrong priorities. >> speaker tillis. >> you know, a 7% pay raise, one of the largest pay raises in a generation. that's a reality and that's math. that's something kay needs to accept. 10 years, these tax cuts are the kay's ads s kay's -- have gotten so negative she's attacking herself. it was kay who raised taxes on the poor by imposing ail sales tax promising to make it temporary and then making it permanent. another broken promise. >> the next question goes to speaker tillis. in the wake of the unrest in ferguson, missouri following the shooting death of an unarmed african american teacher by an north carolina has received thousands of pieces of military equipment, armored vehicles, assault rifles and others. in your view, do you you see this so-called militarization of the police as a problem should the program continue? >> well, first, i think we all need to recognize the tragedy in ferguson was a tragedy, regardless of the circumstances. it's a tragedy for all the families involved and for the community. my heart goes out to them. we need to t

he was stationed at camp spiker near tikrit and two hours north of baghdad. just 12 days later, he was lying on a field surrounded by corpses, awaiting a bullet to the head. the "new york times" verified ali's story using witness accounts, a human rights watch report and videos of the massacre published online by isis. [ speaking in foreign language ] [ speaking in foreign language ] >>> that was just part of the story. you have to go to the "new york times" website to just watch this whole thing. nic robertson, let me bring you in, one of our senior national correspondents, covered war zones, conflict zones for years and years. when we hear that story, this just stunning -- almost in disbelief, wondering how he managed to survive. first, just the brutal, you know, shootings and killings and then across the river when -- i can't help but think of all of the people, right, nic, who did not escape, the thousands of people who did not escape the slaughter. and in all your years reporting, have you ever seen anything like this? >> reporter: you know, brooke, it r

. >> these are young army recruits who has been to be at spiker base. it was a name given to the base near tikrit, sadaam hussein's hometown. when the islamic state group swept through that area, they went into striker, found recruits trying to escape and executed hundred was them. we know this, because there is video on line of it, and it was -- and they claimed responsibility. a lot of the relatives who have seen their sons, their brothers, their husbands executed, want to know where the bodies are. they've got no answers and it's been three months now. that is where this protest started. >> they stormed the parliament building, but is there any indication inside the country that anyone there is being drawn into this conflict, this anger over the islamic state group as opposed to taking out their frustrations on parliament? >> well, that's a great question. now it's extremely complicated here, because it's been over a decade of history, a decade of bad government, if you will, a decade of tensions. really, things haven't gone terribly well. the point