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the situation room yesterday and he addressed that. the mission is not to go against isil. one, address the security forces, two, address the security forces on the ground. we need to get more intelligence. and number three we need to address the situation itself. how many they need. the mission of these folks right now is really to do some good assessment and advice. so as you heard there, assessment and advising, not combat, deb. and just so we re clear about this, they re sending 300 military advisers plus people to make sure they re safe, or just 300, period. deb what we know, 300 military advisers as yet they re coming from the u.s. embassy in baghdad. let s talk now about john kerry. he is over in europe in the middle east. he s trying to wave a diplomatic ....
Front to see if there is any diplomatic solution. what are you hearing. well, deb, secretary of state john kerry is head to get region. that s what we know so far. he s not yet left. essentially, they want to send a message to maliki that they want sunnis and kurds included in the government. that s the mission state, a more inclusive government before the u.s. will provide any additional help beyond what they re planning to do. interesting. it seems that u.s. is moving away from the prime minister to see whether there s somebody who can unify iraq in a much better, more effective way. erin mcpike, thank you, we appreciate it. and president obama said the u.s. military alone cannot fix iraq. president obama explained the situation in iraq sitting down with cnn s new day kate ....
Positions by land. they are effectively cut off from that area. there are checkpoints on the western side of baghdad. they cut baghdad off from ramadi. that is a new front line, deb. what s amazing, then, really the border now has become completely porous and that means there s no way to control who s going in, who s going out of there. nic robertson for us, thank you so much. we ll check back with you a little later on. arwa damon in erbil, that s in the largely kurdish northeast arwa, you met a man who told you how the group isis operates. tell us about that. reporter: that s right. he s from mosul which was the first city to fall when all of this began. and he took great risk to come out and speak to us on condition that he remain anonymous and that we disguise his voice. look at his clothes. he s not iraqi. he points out. it s not his real name speaking ....
Is. it s my city. he pauses. his voice starts to crack. the country is destroyed. it s lost, he says. disbelieving. after 1,000 years it won t come back. his eyes fill with tears as he adds, the city of mosul, once the city of prophets, in a day and night it turned into the city of ghosts and nightmares. and, deb, that nightmare certainly continues for the iraqi population. who has already seen so much violence and bloodshed for more than a decade. and, arwa, you ve been there and you have such a deep understanding of the situation in that region. is it that the greeting that isis received was because the existing government under the prime minister was seen more as occupiers as opposed to protectors in that area? reporter: yes, it was. it was also because of the heavy hand that the iraqi security ....
What was going on. that confusion, deb, that s lingering as we re starting to see more and learn more about this disturbed young man. deb? these people are definitely going have post-traumatic stress. kyung, at any point do you get a picture of the gunman? do you ever get a picture of him interacting, for example, of who he was taking aim at? reporter: not in anything we receive, not in anything we ve heard, and not in anything we ve spoken to. no one saw him exit the car, heard him say anything or heard from him. all they saw was either the bullet, they saw him ramming people with his car. that s all witnesses saw. what is interesting is that very, very few people here actually saw this man, you know, socializing with anyone. we did speak with a store owner who said, oh, he would come into the store and buy sodas. ....