Thousands of residents with no choice but to flee. the pentagon called it a setback. the obama administration trying to down play the loss. i am absolutely confident in the days ahead that will be reversed. but isis did what the u.s. said it could not do. field a large-scale military attack. there are fierce battles taking place in neighborhoods in the city and popular mobilization units have been ordered to move in. just 48 hours earlier, a top u.s. military official suggested ramadi might be just an isis pr stunt. now isis roaming deserted streets. abandoned weapons, a sign of hasty restreet. no sign yet of iraqi government forces ready to counter attack. all of this as u.s. intelligence agencies scour computers, cell
To day operations. the u.s. has a $7 million reward for information on him. u.s. officials say they cannot corroborate reports from the iraqi military that he was killed in a coalition strike last week. another potential leader, a spokesman for isis who specifically called for supporters to launch lone wolf attacks in the west. america s bounty for him, $5 million. analysts say isis has positioned itself to not be dependent on a few people at the top. even killing the leader of isis and its predecessor organization, al qaeda in iraq incueding czar ka we has not been able to significantly impact the organization. analysts liken isis to a well organized mafia family. so well diversified that it
Doesn t hurt that much. they re lining their pockets from several sources. from kidnaping to extortion to brothels to selling precious artifacts. and analysts say isis is not just in syria and iraq anymore. it s taken its black market operations and diversified leadership structure to places like africa and south asia. another reason they say why decapitation strikes won t finish this group off. for more on the implications of losing ramadi, i want to bring in our ian lee. so this is obviously been a nightmarish week for the iraqi security forces. but i m pretty sure it s been just as bad for the prime minister. how do you think the loss of ramadi is going to affect the prime minister politically in the long run? well, this is definitely a
The interests of isis. a guy who was very close to al baghdadi. one of al baghdadi s senior advisors. barbara starr there. for more on the symbolic importance of ramadi, we turn to our senior international corporate ivan watson. there have been more than 2,300 air strikes in iraq. obviously it s not enough to weaken isis sufficiently. but how can iraq get its army, get its military up to par to a point when they don t flee the militants? well, i mean, at least in the case of ramadi, they did not flee initially. that was a city that the iraqi military fought for months to try to defend. but in the end, pulled back after a wave of suicide bombings despite coalition air strikes on the day that they pulled back.
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Gangs could be heading to the state to retaliate after nine bikers were killed. 170 bikers have been arrested and charged with voechlt in organized crime. in colombia, rescuers are searching for survivors after heavy rain cause add landslide. more than 50 people were killed and 37 injured when waves of mud crashed into homes and other buildings as well. the president has declared a state of emergency in this area. he says the government will provide new housing for those who have lost their homes. back now to the fight against isis. the fall of ramadi comes just after u.s. forces target add top isis leader over in syria. after a fire fight and hand to hand combat, the senior commander was killed. but that commander s death may not be that much of a significant blow to isis. take a listen. a prize kill for the u.s.-led coalition. sayyaf, who u.s. officials say
Between the shiite enforcements coming in. walk us through how the shiite militia compared to the iraqi security forces in terms of military power and military might. really, when you boil it all down, it s a matter of will. when you look at how isis fights, when you look how the militias fight and then the iraqi army, the iraqi army has the best weapons. they re supplied by the united states. they have air support. but still, they do not have the will to go up and fight against isis. and we ve seen isis has this drive, this religious drive that has pushed them forward in a lot of places. and these shiite militias have the same sort of religious drive. we saw from the ministry of defense that they ve called for jihad against isis. a lot of these religious undertones.
Political blow for him losing ramadi. for a long time, they were saying they weren t going to lose the city. and it does basically lose almost the entire anbar province for him. what we re hearing from the government in iraq is they re making calls that were considered controversial. calling up these shiite militias to go in there and help retake the city. this was controversial in the beginning. we did not see them really during the battle for ramadi before. now they re calling them up to go in there. in the past, as we ve seen in other places like tikrit, there have been rights abuses. so it is going to be a very difficult it was a very difficult choice for him. right now, they seem to be the only ones able to stop this isis advance. as well-known, the level of distrust between the sunni populated area like ramadi
Reinforcements right now to try and hold the isis advance from rama ramadi. now about 3,000 fighters from a predominantly shiite militia are gathering east of the city to battle the militants. the u.n. says 25,000 people have fled ramadi. they re handing out food in towns between ramadi and baghdad. this video apparently shows people in mosul celebrating the group s ramadi victory. supporters raise the isis flag and cheered that baghdad would be next. isis had threatened ramadi for months. the fall of the city came suddenly. the victory suggests that isis has more military know how than the u.s. originally thought. listen. isis faced with waves of fighters and suicide car bombs, iraqi forces in ramadi and
That s where we see the sectarian, the probability of sectarian violence and sectarian ramifications when they do enter these areas. there s no secret that when isis takes an area, anyone who s not of the same sunni religion is either enslaved or killed. for shiite militias, when they have entered sunni areas in the past, they have exacted revenge on the local sunni population. so that is one of the big fears. but it really is that will to go against that enemy. the shiite militia see isis as essentially the devil and they re going to go after them. okay. thank you so much. we appreciate it as always. zain, the u.s. state department says it does not plan to publicly release former secretary of state hillary clinton s e-mails until next january. clinton came under fire after it was revealed she use add private e-mail address to do official