iraqi and syran forces can take back tikrit and the target is mosul. 23 themosul if they can get thay back, with over 1 million people, they can get back to syria. >> mike, appreciate it. >>> many muslims around the globe say that this were voices of moderation have been drown out by groups like isil. and now a muslim youth group is reaching out, they have a plan to stop isil's call to violence. >> in the prayers, with the united nations, the youth association is confronting a different problem. muslim youth who become radicalized. >> we have a trend with isil, for example, lone wolves in the united states, time square, and my hometown, portland, oregon. >> it's a problem for the somali community in indianapolis. >> we have lost a lot of kids to al shab at and isis. they seem to be very effective. >> in new york, representatives of 30 nations, including the u.s., are exploring ideas for how they keep their unique safe. >> we wanted to work with the u.n. lead,, and those who we can share w how you replicate this around the world. >> about 100 merns have attempted to join isil. some, li

so you can go from there to get to tikrit. then there's that oil refinery.a huge loss nor islamic state. u.s. officials sale the group rakes in a million dollars a day selling oil on the market. helping make isis the richest terror group. now it's leader, abu bakr al baghdady, report ordered the group to start minting its own money. we have diagrams of the money. this copper coin would be worth seven cents. the sill career -- silver coins range from 45-cents to 4.50, and the highest value of any of these new isis coins, islamic state coins, 21-grams of gold worth about $700. the daily beast is reporting in a fascinating article!dw; todat u.s. officials are having a tough time tracking baghdadi and his followers because now they've been using encryption on their online communication, and using couriers to deliver messages. they're making it more different. secretary hagel said they would adapt, and they are. christopher hill is a former u.s. ambassador to iraq and the author of "outpost. life on the front line of american democracy." this is disturbing. they

valuable because it controls the supporting lifeline of isil, stretching all the way from the city up to tikritday we have managed to cut isil's supporting lifeline. >> reporter: but that confidence is in stark contrast to how deadly isil fighters can be. this is the reality of the fight for the city center. iraqi forces and isil fighters are not at stalemate but it is close. isil is using increasingly desperate tactics. now we have seen these type of tactics before. isil fighters rarely if ever surrender. for them it's a fight to the death. the city is strategically very important because it's a territory they are going to want to hold on to, and that means that this fight will be tough tougher than some other areas that isil fighters give up easy because it was on the border of places they controlled. the oil refinery is only 15 kilometers from here. the facility is partly controlled by isil and partly controlled by iraqi forces. taking them both back could be the iraqi security forces toughest fight yet. imran khan, al jazeera, bagdad. >>> the united nations envoy to syria has confirmed -- h

stretching all the way from beiji city up to tikrit city.ay we have managed cut isil's supporting lifeline. >> reporter: but that confidence is in stark contrast to how deadline isil fighters can be. this is now the reality of the fight for beiji city center. eye reich are rack i forces and isil fighters are not at a stalemate but it's close, isil are using increasingly desperate tactics including suicide bombers, car bombs and snipers. now, we have seen these type of tactics before. isil fighters rarely, if ever, surrender. for them it's a fight to the death. now beiji city is strategically very porn. it's a territory that they are going to want to hold onto. and that means that this fight will be much tougher than say others where the isil fighters gave up that territory easy because it was on the border of the places that they controlled. beiji is very central to them and they are going to want to hold onto it. beiji oil refinery is only 15-kilometers from here. the facility is partly controlled by isil and partly by iraqi forces, just li

the iraqis could hold baiji it may take back tikrit. siing can. >> it is significant and shoes early successes and it provides a predicate for further aggressive action against isis. it is the battle of who the strong horse and week horse is. isis has been on the offensive and slaughtering opponents. this would be a potential reversal. >> do you buy it when our president said we are ready and the iraqis are ready to go on the offensive? >> i don't think the iraqis are ready. we have invested billions and years of training the iraqis forces and they clearly failed to fight isis. and we have seen serious battlefield losses. >> it will take american boots on the grouped. these americans are going to have to provide the support before the president pulls u.s. troops out of that country. >> a lot of folks in the military are concerned about mission creep, do you so this happening in >> mission creep is the right term and right problem. the president talked about no american troops on the ground and he pulled them out of iraq against the best

daniel was con sen tikrited along the downtown broadway corridor. 35 people arrested. 170 arrest since monday. oakland mayor sets there will be more officers out ahead of tell plaid friday weekend annual event urging holiday shoppers to t including some steps from the biggest parade in new york. small crowd gavlt evidence at the public library. the crowd clashed with pooem police. 7 people arrested n.ferguson today finally day without confrontation. we are in ferguson with the latest. >>reporter: overnight more protest from los angeles where 145 were arrested. 217 in new york city. even london demonstrators outside the u.s. embassy and today were the 2 men arrested last week had plans to bomb the gate way arch in st. louis and attack police chief and prosecutors. authorities question whether men were capable of caring out their the plans. in ferguson after days of unset relative calm. police stakes once rallying pochbt for protestors ghost town this thanksgiving. from the able now i have. >> bakery shop opts lost lost her business did your to this in week after laerj loot or broke her

strategically valuable because it controls the support lifeline of isil stretches from beiji city up to tikrity. today we have managed to cut isil's supporting lifeline. >> reporter: that's in stark contrast to the brutality of isil fighters. isil are using increasingly desperate tactics including suicide bombers, car bombs and snipers. now we have seen these type of tactics before. isil fighters rarely if ever surrender. for them it's a fight to the death. now beiji city is strategically very important. it's a territory they want to hold on to, and that means this fight will be much tougher than in the previous battle because it was on the border of the area they controlled. beiji is very central to them. >> beiji oil refinery is 15 kilometers from here. taking them both back could be the iraqi security force's toughest fight yet. imran khan, al jazeera, bagdad. >>> in other worlds news a palestinian man has been shot dead by israeli security forces in the occupied west bank. soldiers used live ammunition to try to clear protesters. tensions are continuing to grow between the two. >> reporter

valuable because it controls a supporting lifeline of isil, stretching all the way from beiji city up to tikrit. today we have managed to cut isil's supporting lifeline. but that confidence is in stark contrast to how deadly isil fighters can be. this is the reality of the fight for baiji. isil fighters are not at a stalemate, but it's close. isil are using increasingly desperate tactics, including suicide bombers, car bombs and snipers. we have seen these tactics before. isil fighters rarelyisurrender. it's a fight for the death. beiji is a territory they want to hold onto, and that means that this fight will be much tougher. the isil fighters gave up the territory because it was on the border of the place they control. but baiji is very central to them, and they are going to want to hold onto it. baiji oil refinery is 15 kilometers from here. the facility is partly controlled by isil and partly by iraqi forces, and taking them both back could be the toughest fight yet. >> a palestinian man was shot and killed today by israel troops in west bank. the israeli army said in a protesters threw roc

the next day they would take tikrit. with president obama dismissing them then as "jay vee." now they control an area the size of the united kingdom, declaring the creation of a caliphate. president obama denounced the group but seemed unwilling to engage until the horror of mt. sinjar. in the beginning of august american tv screens were filled with pictures like these, of christians and yazidi innocents runnnning for their lives. trapped on mt. sinjar with no food, water or shelter, the u.s. intervened and helped thousands escape. officials say at least 300 died on that mountain. and then a new horror. here is "the kelly file" on august 19th. first, a horrifying message for america from the terrorists in iraq. islamic extremists releasing a new video claiming to show the beheading of an american journalist. and now threatening to kill another american in their custody. for nearly 24 hours the white house waited to react. under pressure to say something the president came to the microphones while on vacation in martha's vineyard and said this. >> jim was taken from us in an a

. >> reporter: the latest offensive took them 20 days to get from tikrit where isil fighters still have position into the town of beiji itself. beiji is the command and control center, and 15 kilometers away from the oil refinery, partly in control of isil fighters, and partly in control by the iraqi army. it has been monitored quite heavily because it shows new tactics being used by the iraqi army using weaponry they have received from the americans and an operation mounted by special forces and police. it has been successful. the iraqi army now control at least 80% of the surrounding area of beiji. they control the town itself. but there are fighters in the neighboring countryside. right now with all of the day's event, i'll bring you up to date. it might not look like much, but this small act of iraqi pride sends out a loud message. this is the town council building that isil captured and used as a base. in some ways this military operation has been a blueprint of future battles with enhanced cooperation between iraqi fighting units. >> translator: we are proud of the collective effo

strategically valuable because it controls the supporting lifeline of isil stretching from the city up to tikritwe have managed to cut isil's supporting lifeline today. >> reporter: that confidence is in stark contrast to how deadly isil fighters can be. this is the reality of the fight for the city stern. they are not at a stalemate but close. isil are using increasingly desperate tactics, including suicide bombers, car bombs, and snipers. we have seen these type of tactics before. isil fighters rarely if ever surrender. the city is very important. it's a territory they are going to want to hold on to, and that means this fight will be much fight than some others where isil fighters gave up easy ly. the oil refinery is only 15 kilometers from here. taking them both back could be the iraqi security forces toughest fight yet. imran khan, al jazeera, bagdad. >>> a palestinian man has been killed in a confrontation with the israeli army in the occupied west bank. it happened at a refugee camp. the israeli army says more than a hundred palestinian demonstrators were throwing rocks and explosives at

because it controls the supporting lifeline of isil, stretching all the way from beiji city up to tikrit city. we've managed to sit isil's supporting lifeline. [ gunfire ] >> reporter: but that confidence is in stark contrast to how deadly isil fighters can be. this is now the reality for the fight of beiji city center. they're not at a stalemate but it's close. isil are using increasingly desperate tactics. including car bombs and snipers. we've seen these type of tactics before. isil fighters rarely if ever surrender. for them it's the fight to the death. now beiji city is important and it's a territory they'll want to hold on to. that means that this fight will be up tougher than where the isil fighters gave up because it's on the border of the places that they controlled. beiji is very central to them, and they're going to want to hold onto it. >> beiji oil refinery is only 15 kilometers here. it's partly controlled by isil and partly controlled by iraqi forces. just like the city itself. taking them both back could be the iraqi forces toughest fight yet. >> israeli security forces s

war planners say iraqi forces can use the city as a base to attack neighboring tikrit which isis took over over the summer. they seem to be putting up a fight and some are reigniting the very tensions that led so so much of this violence. shiite militiamen have recorded crew some videos showing the slaughter of isis members. in one video, a fighter stands next to the bodies with their heads cut off. another fighter nearly shils while smiles while he mutilate a corpse. the sunnis have long accused the iraqi government of oppression. a claim that led to so much of the violence. the leader of qatar is calling for a stronger campaign against terrorism in iraq and syria. he is warning that the u.s. led air strikes will not be enough. that from a nation accused of supporting the groups. they deny that they support the extremists. it has joined the u.s. coalition fighting isis. let's bring in our national security analyst, former intelligence officer for the defense department. >> it couldn't matter what qatar wants to deny or admit. the question is, how big of a deal is it, what the iraqi s

every one of those cities that we watched being conquered, ramala, fallujah, tikrit, sinjar mountains, mosul, in a a short period of time have now been taken over by isis. you talk about isis a little bit in the book. >> yeah. >> as you watch that and think about those 4,000 americans, what does that mean to you? >> it means that -- it means we better achieve the goal of degrade and defeat isis, which is the president's stated goal. >> can you do that with 1,500 troops? >> well, that's what we're about to find out. it's going to be -- the key thing is that we achieve the goal and adjust the strategy to meet the goal. >> mean the surge? >> yeah. >> so if the surge worked in those cities and conquered and the war was won and then those cities end up in the hands of isis. if i'm one of the parents of the 4,000 that lost their son, what am i thinking of those cities they fought for? >> first of all think of how particularly proud they are on veterans day. i hope when they read my books realize that the decisions i made was aimed to keep america safe in a post-9/11 environment. i hope they

> iraqis say their counterattack against isil which clouds taking control the beiji now targeting tikritt the recapture of these cities is is not as significant as it may sound, hundreds of thousands of iraqis have already fled and in the cities and suburbs the fighting has taken a heavy toll on basic needs and infrastructure. imran kahn has this exclusive report from a town south of kirkuk. >> reporter: she has nowhere to go and, nowhere to stay. when isil took control of the town they she would indiscriminately and shelling her house. the men in her family tried to fight back but they were over run. >> translator: isil attacked us in the early on hours of the morning and swept the houses in the village and looked for those resisting him. when my husband and two sons ran out of ammunition they stormed the house and executed them. but i manage today escape in an under crowns hole. after two days i got out with migrants children. only to see that hour house was burned down and isil had taken our car and electricity generator. >> reporter: she becomes too upset to talk. but her cousin tell

what we've seen in the province where tikrit and beigy are cities.wouldn't fight for these guys with no knowledge of professional activity. what we're seeing now with a new sunni defense minister replacing some of these generals, getting some new leadership onboard, we're seeing some very positive signs. again, this is going to take a while. you don't rebuild the army at a flip of a switch. it's going to take weeks, months, to get new leaders place and regain trust with soldiers but also as importantly with the citizens in these areas. >> weeks, months, maybe more. we'll be watching. general, as always, thanks for being with us. >> thank you. >> we'll be right back. >>> top of the hour. i'm brianna keilar. brooke baldwin is away. it's wondrous. you are looking at an image from 300 million miles away. while it may be old school black and white, what it proves is as futuristic as it comes. man landed apa

my son-in-law was in tikrit in the fourth infantry division. he came home well. he has no problems.is wife, my daughter, had problems, especially with postpartum depression. in the army war college, i had to take her there from missouri. that was at the beginning of the war. i have a strong passion for mental wellness. there is an international program that is called metal health first aid. have you heard of it? i left you some papers here because i am so excited about it. i was one of the first hundred trained in the country, and that was in 2008. i could not get my daughter help. she had a brand-new baby, a war hero, and nobody gave her help. she was probably one of the first that used telemedicine with the war college psychiatrist. my question is, you do not know about mental health first aid, but i hear you saying listening is very important. support when you get home is very important. mental health first aid is international, and there is now mental military members, and their families, modules, and the whole aspect of mental health first aid -- do you feel if people here at h

it's a widely held sentiment and why are our sons being slaughtered and massacred in places like tikrit? on that note, they watch out for i think it's a matter of time before we see a showdown between them. we did see signs of this isis is going to sustain supremacy at least in iraq. >> they are doctors who serve in key military and intelligence areas. the question i ask is are we to believe that these hard core secular and arab islamists are the die-hard jihadi idea logs? the headline news. they are approaching baghdad. at the same time isis views dozens of cities and towns for the items. the news is buried somewhere. isis couldn't manage to capture the refineries. that's the largest extremely hard to defend and only a few hadn't until now have stood up against isis. that's in the out for over three months. defended only by a few hadn't iraqi militias. and to isis. they are using hundreds in kobani in syria. we are seeing a strange alliance. you have u.s. air force bombings and check points and vehicles. you have iranian revolutionary guard on the ground, directing iranian militias bei

i think it was in tikrit. she and bo would go to the hospital every day in the hospital provides service for anyone who needs it so it doesn't matter if they are servicemen or women or an insurgent, if they become wanted the people in the hospital take care of them. there was this one little girl whose parents were insurgents involved in a shootout and she had gotten shot in her abdomen. it was pretty terrible what happened to her. she was in recovery for many months and so captain o'hara was cautious of the dog when she would bring her by her bed because she knew dogs were not looked upon as they are in united states or she was was afraid the dog would scare her. she would stay from her but the nurses said you should bring her by, please bring her into the room. she said no i do want to do that. she has been making dogs out of plato when we play with her. she's been making dogs and i think she would really like it. over period of time she would pass the dog and captain o'hara would do tricks with her and it w

also, it's 15 kilometers away from the oil refinery this has been inch by inch along the road from tikrit to beiji, the iraqis have faced stiff resistance from isil fighters all the way down the road. now by going in through the south and western center of the town, let's take a look at how that fight is now going. >> just a day ago, isil was said to be firmly in control. today, the graffiti tells the story. the flog used by the group has been covered in iraqi security force slogan as the army takes large parts of beiji town from isil fighters. the taking of beiji in the nearby oil refinery was an early victory for isil in june. this victory is seen as a triumph for the iraqi army and rapid deployment squad fighting alongside them. >> let all the young men join the armed forces, whether the army or popular mobilization forces. let them come here and join arms with their procedures to protect their country and dispet isil. we have to give big support to the youth to join the fight against isil, especially in this province as it is considered the breaking point for isil's advance toward bag

government control of baji could be a turning point, cutting off isis supply lines to its stronghold in tikrit. to capture all of the territory lost to isis, the president's top military adviser said iraq will need 80,000 troops. and the joint chiefs chairman said additionally, u.s. advisers will be needed for complex missions expected in mosul and to secure the syrian border. >> i'm not predicting at this point that i would recommend that those forces in mosul and along the border would need to be accompanied by u.s. forces, but we're certainly considering it. >> reporter: for just the third time, the u.s. went after the al qaeda-linked khorasan group, believed to be the biggest threat to the u.s., hitting them near aleppo. and today, the u.s. released its first report on isis crimes, presenting a horrifying picture of life in isis-controlled areas, including beheadings, torture and rape, concluding, isis is deliberately committing war crimes against civilians in their controlled areas. >> it is incredible, so much evidence of that. thank you, elise labott in washington. i want to turn to cnn

beiji could be the launching point for future efforts to retake tikrit nearby. jamal joins us from the border. how significant are these advances by the iraqi army? >> they are very significant for two main reasons, one obviously because of the oil refineries there and if we take into consideration reports that come out, isil has been using these refineries to try to finance themselves and buy more weapons. if that is the case, then losing that will essentially mean they are losing finances. what's important here is to know whether the iraqi army will be able to consolidate these gains or lose the territory again. in this on going battle for control acknowledge on going conflict with isil, one side takes over a place only to lose it a few days or weeks later, so a lot of emphasis will be put on to insure that got iraqi army is able to maintain its control of the area. >> we're also hearing the kurds have made some advances. what can you tell us about that? that's in a battle for kobane in syria, because it's where we are here. what we understand is that the east

why are our sons being slaughtered and massacred in places like tikrit? it isn't our problem and we shouldn't be wasting resources or we shouldn't be dying to save sunni towns. and on that note the key battle i think to watch out for is the coming sunni war over who controls the territory that now isis dominates. i do think it's only a matter of time before we see a showdown between the baathists and the islamists, and we did see signs of this after the initial mosul advance. it was quickly settled swiftly by isis which essentially killed anyone who stood in their way and assassinated key baathist commanders. but given now it seems the whole world has turned against isis with the exception of perhaps turkey, i don't think isis is going to sustain its supremacy in sunni areas at least in iraq. as popular as they are now, i think the other insurgent groups will be able to sway local loyalties and isis is already losing ground in iraq. also, isis way implode from within. it's no secret that many of the senior key military commanders are ex-baathists who serv