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You ha one side. you have the united states, sue any oig and kurdish groups that we support. and yestday looks like the iranians and the americans are beginningo bump up against each other, iranians trying to extend a land corridor from iraq into syria and then lebanon. so as the admiral said, we ve done a good job, the obama and trump administrations, in deacon flektsing with russia. we have to deconflict with iran, as well. because the iranian forces are directly supporting forces that are fighting our forces. our special forces but also the groups that we support is a big challenge. we don t have a way to talk to the iranians. and secretary kerry had established a diplomatic channel into the iranian foreign ministry, the trump administration hasn t used that and one thing they might want to consider doing is establishing a channel. there is no live loss here, but we don t want to see our forces ....
Where the cars are moving at speed, but there is no traffic separation scheme. everybody can kind of go anywhere they want to. this is open ocean. a lot of ships pass through, 600 a day, and they are moving pretty quick be. and if anybody acts erratically or zips in the wrong direction, you could end up with a collision. actually it s surprising to me this kind of thing doesn t happen more often. we have an incident like this about once a decade. it s very rare. and now let s move to a different topic here but also many developments out of syria this morning. yesterday u.s. backed coalition forces shot down a pro syrian regime fighter jet, forces loyal to ass apparently attacked syrian democratic forces who are composed mainly of kurds and backed by the u.s. two hours later, a syrian jet made a bombing run and was shot done by an american warplane. now moscow is warning the u.s. ....
Families are already returning home and the fighting is likely to continue for some time. we ve seen with those heights civilian casualties that the city is still far from safe. it s also interesting to note the iraqi government said that the airstrikes killed over a hundred militants who are trying to cross from iraq into syria and amongst those s claims there was a senior isis commander who was killed. those claims yet to be verified. julie: thank you. kelly: there is a new security threat to our nation s airports. laptop bombs. they are now banning electronic devices on flights from ten airports in eight muslim majority nations. u.s. intelligence source said isis and other groups can actually slip laptop bombs past skinners. that commercial aviation continues to be a target for terrorist groups. julie: stargazers gearing up ....
Shura. you have around mosul you have forces that have eyes on mosul, others are 20, 30, kilometers away. we had american officials on friday saying the iraqis would pause on some fronts to allow the other units to catch up to consolidate around mosul. you had iraqi commanders saying, that s not true. the u.s. comments were, quote unquote, inaccurate. meanwhile, tough popular mobilization units, shiite para militaries announcing they are entering the fight, launching operations west of mosul, putting thousands more fighters into this battle. in one area which is important. it s an area that isis has controlled and has been able to cross back and forth from iraq into syria and vice versa. syria, of course, where they have their de facto capitol. michael, we had seen some video earlier, i don t know if ....
Accomplished with the support of other nations and, if so which countries? clearly iraq. the operation was based out of northern iraq. which is the closest point that you d have to stage. so the iraqi government clearly was cognizant and provided not only approval i would guarantee that they provided layers of support, as well that would allow the special operators to stage. the special operators have to come into country. if they are in country, they re totally covert as barbara described. they would be in very very briefly and have to stage and go through some immediate final rehearsals rehearsals. all that would have to be done with the support and the understanding and the support of the host nation. the iraqi government got behind this and supported it completely. we did nothing to try to clear the air space or try to clear anything with the government of syria. we took full advantage created a corridor went from iraq into syria and hit the target and came back out as quickly as ....