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And iraq and sunni insurgents. >> absolutely. >> here in baghdad you are talking about most of the city. >> most of the city was definitely controlled the al qaeda, sunni insurgents and the city was just hell. >> take us to the map on the right. >> the surge began in january and february of 2007 and quite remarkably by the end of 2007 we began to achieve some tangible success. by 2008 we had driven al qaeda out of all of the regions you see on the map to the left because they are now gone from baghdad of any consequence from fallujah, from ramadi. (gun fire) >> in the latter part of 2008 we we...

They have been shaping mosul for two years by conducting terrorist attacks. this is vehicle born ied, suicide bombers, blowing up government facilities, police stations, undermining people's confidence in the military and in the police. last summer in 2013 they began an assassination campaign of key individuals. they waited until that target they believed lost its resolve and will and then they launched this conventional military operation to cease mosul. >> is isis in syria and iraq a threat, is it a safe haven to terror attacks against us? >> as of right now isis is not a direct threat of u....

Fighters on the iraq front and 6,000 fighters on the syrian front. >> about 10,000. >> the trouble, take lirly on the iraq front they are not the only once on the offensive right now. >> when isis takes over a city, mosul, what do they establish there? what is life like under isis? >> what isis initially did was establish a set of rules for social behavior that included some very severe restrictions particularly upon women and upon praying five times a day, very strict sharia law that one would assume would be very vigorously enforced. >> they talk about killing, cutting off hands? crucifixion...

Clip. >> you redirected navy ships to go to the korean peninsula what are we doing right now in terms of north korea? >> you never know, do you? i don't talk about the military, i'm not like obama with a talk about it in four months, we're going to hit mosul in the meantime they get ready and you never say it -- you're still fighting most of commit was supposed to last for a week and now they've been fighting it for many months. i don't want to talk about it. we are sending an armada, very powerful. we have submarines very powerful. our more powerful than the aircraft carrier that i can tell y...

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