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A family member dropped him off at the park to hike alone.

A family member dropped him off at the park to hike alone.

Equally important is the fight up to the north to retake mosul. i would expect the iraqi security forces and the government to start shifting their focus north to mosul and away from the west because mosul, the second largest city inside iraq is strategically important as well. >> how central is retaking ramadi in the long process of pushing isis out of iraq at some point? >> you look where ramadis position is. there isnt a lot between ramadi and border except for open desert. the first city com...

Syria, which is isiss stronghold, but the open desert. lets listen. >> in the first persian gulf war, we lunched roughly 1,100 air attacks a day. we carpet bombed them for 37 days, saturation bombing after which our troops went in and in a day and a half mopped up what was left of the iraqi army. right now obama is launching between 15 and 30 air attacks a day. it is photo-op foreign policy. we need to use overwhelming air power. we need to be arming the kurds. we need to be fighting and killing...

Captured. >> a line of motorcycles, probably about five motorcycles, might have been a couple guys on the back of a couple of the motorcycles. there was probably at least six or seven guys with their ak-47s. there i was, in the open, open desert, and im not about to outrun a bunch of motorcycles. >> yeah. >> you know, i couldnt do anything against, you know, six or seven guys with ak 47s and they just pulled up and that was it. >> they said you fought like crazy. >> no, i didnt. im not stupid en...

Away through open desert. and in order to get here, those rebels in unarmored punts and regular sedans have to drive across the desert. and as theyve been trying to do that, theyve been picked off by artillery and aircraft. so it doesnt look like theyre going to get here anytime soon unless they have air cover, which as we were just talking about wouldnt be a humanitarian shield, it would be air support. >> thank you, richard engle, over there in tripoli its. alex, it seems to me that the united...

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Curry. you are fresh for the region. great to see you as well. nancy pelosi called this outside the circle of civilized human behavior and we must respond. you are at this refugee camp in jordan. can you give us a sense of what it is like? >> its horrendous and people living in open desert. there is food and security and water and security. a large number of these rev joes. the majority are children. 75% of that one million figure are under the age of 11. you have a lot of kids who are frightene...

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