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Use them in clusters. they will rig entire houses to explode if you come near them. so the iraqis have the to deliberately probe this area and find a weak spot. >> 3500 to 500 isis fighters remain inside ramadis city center willing to fight to the death. the governor of the province told cnn they are most likely foreign fighters. civilians caught in the cross fire remain a huge concern. many were prevented from leaving only to be used as human shields. iraqi forces are asking families to raise w...

Civili civilian. the u.s. airborne division when they would go into the cities, fighters used to smuggle themselves out as part of the humanitarian kcorridors in the wave of refugees. all the while setting up shop elsewhere in iraq. so were in for the long haul here. i dont want to underestimate the difficulty of retaking a city like ramadi. this is one of the strategic hubs. its just the beginning. its really about when youre holding the city and what kind of retaliatory attacks will take place...

That a capture the isis document suggests that terrorists have told everybody to start waging attacks against the civilians and doing so in the uniform of iraqi security forces. that document looks like it was forged. so somebody is putting propaganda out there saying isis is trying to do false flag attacks. who is doing that? take a guess. >> its a perfect description of just how confusing and complex any alliance is in trying to retake all of this land. two to the point of civilians, an offici...

Terrorists. this is how the american colonel describes whats happening there right now. >> the iraqi security forces over the last month or so have slowly encircled the city of ramadi to isolate it from any possibility of being supported by isil fighters that are outside of the city. they cut off the supply routes in and out of the city. so this enemy is not able to reenforce himself with equipment, weapons or man power. and now they are beginning to squeeze that noose around the city slowly but...

Today. first, what do you make of the prediction we heard from iraqi officials that they predict that ramadi was going to be cleared by the end of the week. >> the iraqi government made predictions that never pan out for pretty much the bulk of this. ramadi was going to fall within days or hours for the last three months. it is true they have made a concerted push. my concern is two-fold. what isis has done to the city. the entire thing is a geographical coffin. >> this fresh video, you cant eve...

Ramadi fighting alongside with what would be poorly trained police officers trying to hold areas of the city. and on top 06 that the sectarian problem with the notion that were going into a city like ramadi with iranian backed shia malitia is a huge problem. that whole stew if you will is leading to very very poor performance on the battlefield. admiral, iraqs interior minister fired back saying there isnt enough u.s. support to defeat isis and that their military is ill-equipped. they need mo...

Weve got to get on the ground with them not with 100,000 or 150,000 troops. but what we have there now, 2 to 3,000 is not going to get it. we are going to need to add five six, 7,000 troops. with the iraqi troops are lacking is not so much will as it is courage. and kurjs comes with having leadership leadership on the battlefield. thats where yes can bet the most helpful. >> congressman what do you think of secretary carters comments. do you think he was trying to proed the iraqis into action? t...

Militias,. >> the details were hearing now about the way that they captured the city even though iraqi forces outnumbered them ten to one, remarkable and chilling. do you think theres a real chance of baghdad falling to isis? >> i do not. i think principally because of the shia malitias who are very ingrained in the baghdad area. secondly because despite what we saw the failures of ramadi and a couple of other engagements prior to that there are still probably 20 to 40,000 iraqi troops in and ar...

And about rather than pulling them up. >> we would instead try to get them to live out among the population and partner with iraqi forces they were patrolling. >> got a permanent presence in the neighborhood that used to be total lillaless or even worse under the thumb of al qaeda. you do that one neighborhood at a time in a city like ramadi or a city like baghdad or a city like bacuba. it works. >> the broader strategic goal of the surge of course was to create breathing space so that iraqi lea...