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Egypts president blamed a 22-year-old detained in 2014, accused of belonging to the muslim brotherhood at the time. >> they have been trying to break us for the last three years, hitting our economy and with a wave of terrorist attacks, but they know nothing will break us. >> reporter: hours earlier in turkey, a car bomb and a suicide bomber killed 44 people. 36 of them anti-riot police outside an istanbul stadium where a high-profile soccer match was being played. the turkish government blamed ...

Correspondent arwa damon is in istanbul for us right now. so far, we understand there has not been a claim of responsibility for todays bombing? >> no, there hasnt. but that is not necessarily uncommon. where the bombing took place in turkeys kurdish heartland just 24 hours after the kurd stan workers party, the pkk that turkish jets were targeting in northern iraq just a short while ago effectively declared the 2013 cease-fire dead. all indications are at this stage that they were responsible f...

Hes very serious. and hes clearly thought out all the positions. he has an entire book that hes basically a position paper on everything he stands for. it was interesting to hear him talk about how the difference in how he would fight isis. i mean he basically said he would create a kurd stan. >> is it a machine he comes with? oftentimes politicians roll with a machine. did you feel a sense of that? >> he has handlers but wasnt a huge juggernaut. it was interesting. just interesting to get his t...

With limited success. that has given our side momentum but theres a long way to go in a very revealing admission centcom said right now we are where they thought we reside be at this point in the fight against isis. >> seriously? they thought wed be -- >> look at the mac. >> lets go back to irbil. this is -- i cant stress enough how different this is from the rest of the country in kurd stan, very safe area and then this explosion today. what do we know about the people behind that? >> the detai...

Analysts and former cia operative bob baer join me now to talk about this. with your perspective and your history in the agency bob, what do you make of what we just heard? >> well a couple of things poppy. i wouldnt be so confident about the u.s. government. theres a thing called the neutrality act which americans arent supposed to take up arms in another country privately. and you also have the question of permits. the state department actually issues whats called an itar permit for people who...

Is kirkuk and mosul on the border. their troops, the pesmerga have been effective, thousands of soldiers and refugees are heading to the green area to escape the problems happening down here. keep in mind the kurd are a much freer people compared to the sunnies in iraq. women can serve in the kurdish military. tensions between iraqi kurds and the central government in baghdad, that tension stretches back for decades, and longer than anybody watching this program has been alive in 1988 saddam hus...

Jalala. >> is that clash still ongoing and what is the status of the refinery? >> the refinerys to the west and the city is on the main route from mosul to baghdad so securing the city of jalala. the last few days there has been heavy fighting and it was street-to-street. we were called back yesterday, so they could clear it. there are 20,000 civilians who were in there and they have been removed to from the city and the kurd are saying we are going to shell it. its the only way to defeat them i...

Political sort of discussion and compromise seems so unlikely right now. >> conor powell, thank you very much. so, isis and all the other fighters who joined in now make their push toward baghdad, of thats what they say, and kurdish soldiers to the north are ready to protect their oil-rich territory from falling into the hands of the terrorists. kurd stans forces are the only ones who put up a fight against isis and its followers. lets look at the region. isis fighters have captured areas of i...

Problem. your actions created it. on effective iraqi leadership can save the collapsing country. the leadership has thus far been the antis this of effective. president obama announced the united states will help iraq with up to 300 military advisers, but he had some strong words for iraqs prime minister nouri al-maliki, warning him in no uncertain terms the united states will not waste anymore blood and treasure in iraq. president obama noted prime minister maliki is to blame for fanning the fl...

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