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Fat and protein than cows milk its an important nutrient source the camel hump rich in fat is a delicacy for several nomadic tribes around the world. camel lulus used to make coats and warm jackets while camel hide can be fashioned into sandals and veils to carry water. the bedouins of africa have been known to use camel urine as a hair wash to protect it from nets and to keep it a reddish hue some even drink beer and as medicine for certain diseases. dry odorless camel dung is used both as fuel...

And what it means for those allies. >> im glad the president is considering first and foremost how to get our men and women home and safety. if the president would ask the president let us make him i would ask them to consider moving 2000 soldiers over to iraq and we can still support the kurds very easily from iraq. what we can do now with drones, with satellite technologies incredible twice in the last for months or troops in syria almost got overran in the middle of sandstorms. i dont want to...

Gives you better taste and better nutrition in so many varieties. classic. cage free. and organic. only egglands best. surrender or die, thats the message from iraqs prime minister to the remaining isis terrorists holed up in the city of mosul. iraqi forces are right now battling the elements. wave after wave of sand storms here plus the threat of roof top snipers, remotely detonated car bombs and a roadblocked by boulders. isis fighters trying a slew of tactics to stop iraqi troops from enter...

Guest. joining us is the former dean of the army war college, retired colonel, jeffrey mccauseland. good to see you, sir. thank you for being with us. i was watching your face when we were going through the competing points from these two candidates about what to do and the summation of donald trump, that whats going on in mosul is a total disaster. you winced. why? >> well, first of all, because i watched arwa damon, that sand storm, and having sat through sand storms in iraq, it is just virtua...

Texas. you can see a minivan at the end of the street. officers do not waste time taking off gear and jump in. they were able to pull a man and his grandson safely out of the car. the man was trying to navigate through a flooded overpass, and the water was simply too high. thank goodness for them and that timing. saudi officials say sand storms caused a crane to crash into the mosque in mecca. at least 107 were killed. more than 200 were hurt. this comes two weeks before the annual pilgrimage....

Ramadi. it is around those two key population centers that the shia fighting groups are maneuvering at this stage. also the iraqi security forces claiming yesterday they got to the outskirts of ramadi. not something the u.s. can verify. they say that iraq security forces are near the university of anbar which is southwest of that main population center. it is an extraordinarily mixed picture and slow going. we have seen how sand storms have slowed down. yesterday, to the north of the anbar provi...

>> wolf today the white house cautiously endorsed the secretarys assessment. i have to tell you, we have now learned that carter got a number of intelligence briefs during the week bringing him up to date with great specifics about what was going on the ground in ramadi as the city fell to isis. so now looking ahead, iraqi forces on the move but a lot of caution what they may be able to do. as sandstorms rolled in iraq said its launched a major military operation to take back ramadi. >> we were ...

U.s. coalition air strikes around the city. lets get some analysis from retired major general james spider marks our cnn military analyst, former officer for the coalition land forces in iraq what do you make of that i guess pretty smart move if there was a heavy sandstorm, air cover, air power was really not that usable, it seems to have been a pretty capable strategy the isis forces have. >> strategy and a combination of taking advantage of the conditions on the ground absolutely in fact when ...

But, really, talking about these sandstorms, you said youve been in one. what do you do? how do you take cover? >> you wake up and you look out the window and its like being on mars. its always this red -- essentially, you just stay inside and turn on the air filters on if youre lucky enough to have them. most people dont. >> do the masks help? >> no. its awful. nothing helps. in 2013, there was a similar sandstorm to this one and the sand ended up in california. there you go. derrick, thank you...

People -- well, ill let you hear. people on the ground, you can hear the wind whipping around in the background. there it is. not a nice scene. people on the ground comparing this to the end of the world. thats what they were saying in beijing. now, they saw this coming several kilometers upstream. its amazing how far these sand storms can actually travel. we have to look upstream to see why we experience this sand and dust in the atmosphere across beijing and points westward of chinas capital. ...