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But how significant is this raid in the overall fight against them especially when we consider that isis forces in iraq have just taken control of government buildings in ramadi? >> well, globally, i don't think it will be a game changing kind of event. you have as you said isis taking new ground in the city of ramadi, isis forces right on the foot steps of the ancient and very beautiful historic site in syria. so isis still able to conduct defensive operations. but this is a very aggressive operation from the u.s. military. launched by u.s. special operations forces authorized by the presiden...

Commanders watched as islamic state savages surrounded the city of ramadi in iraq and they saw iraqi troops dropping their weapons and running. now we're hearing even though the pentagon knew what was coming the military did not order any air strikes and left the fighting to the iraqi soldiers. those claims are coming from intelligence and military sources to bloomberg reporter eli lake who has been a guest on this program. according to his sources, the impending siege of ramadi was an open secret inside our military. the institute for the study of war think tank released policy papers warning...

Jack keen appeared the chairman of the group i mentioned, the think tank. general, always good to have you and especially considering what the u.s. central command has just told fox news. it is denying the report that your colleagues from the institute were quoted in what is your response? >> listen ramadi has been important to isis from the very beginning. the first city to fall in january, twepgt -- 2014 was fallujah. isis began to take over ramadi shortly after that and has been enter mitt eptintermittently attacking ramadi all the way up until it fell. the iraqi security forces deserve som...

There's a lot of concerns harris about whether baghdad is more vulnerable and whether there have been security lapses outside some of these popular places like the two hotels that are, by the way, heavily guarded. particularly concerns about security lapses since isis took control of ramadi just about two weeks ago. now, as far as these two attacks that happened iraqi police say that they were coordinated. that the first bomb was detonated in the parking lot outside the babylon hotel and a couple of minutes later a second car bomb exploded outside the crystal hotel. today police also found a c...

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