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Military base for iraqi security forces and iran nan backed shiite militants. thousands of civilians have fled isis advance in ramadi but many are trapped at a key bridge unable to make the trek towards baghdad. our senior correspondent arwa damon is live in baghdad right now. why are those refugees unable to get to baghdad? well simply put, because today the government decided for reasons that have not been fully disclosed to us even though we have been asking about it to close the bridge. this bridge was open yesterday for refugees but only those who have a sponsor in baghdad province. this is a bridge that connects baghdad province to anbar province. the hundreds we saw there earlier today, really trying to get by in what can be described as unbearable conditions. not just because of the violence that they witnessed that forced them to flee but because of this sandstorm that was taking ....
Go after what he would call the far enemy. in the past years, you see this in the letters, the groups that have grown up particularly isis are saying we don t believe the bin laden message. our goals is to stage a revolution at home and most of the fighting you see now isn t attacks against new york it s attacks against mosul and ramadi. more colonel reese, how much he hated the united states and hated the west. i ll put up another excerpt. iens would be exaggerating he writes if i declare what i m about to write is maybe the most important thing i have written in my life. these pig eating invaders and loyal dogs are too scared to death to fight us face to face. you have a chance to stop the savageness and arrogance of america and its allies. yes, you. what do you make of that? well wolf you know it s we ve been tracking that. people have been studying bin laden an the al qaeda piece. that is his rhetoric from day one. ....
That this can be restored they can arm some of the sunni groups if you will in anbar and eventually retake ramadi. your analysis if? i think they can. let s look at isis first. there s a setback for themselves as they take more territory and that is at some point in time this year next year they re going to have to govern this territory. they keep taking territory without the ability to maintain control over the population provide schools, for example so the military is lost in the short term. will isis be able to govern in the long term? i think not. on the flip side, though i think the government has a huge vulnerability here. they re talking about working with sunni tribes. what s the story we have out of ramadi? the government military doesn t have the ability to fight so they bring in shia mill shah. if you re a sunni tribesman in ra plaidedy watching a shia militia coming in what are you saying? you re saying the government is still not a solution for a unified iraq. that s a p ....
Satellite capability the ambassador in iraq i see a document like this and i say to myself these guys are in trouble that the president has to convene an emergency meeting like this in his white house situation room to discuss what s going on with isil and iraq after the fall of ramadi? i tell you, as having been on the inside here s the problem as i see it. we re talking about whether the white house strategy works. people on different sides of the aisle have different perspectives. if you step back and take a 30,000 foot view we have decided we are not going to put major forces back on the ground to fight on the front lines. beyond that step everythings else is on the fringes. want to change strategies provide more weapons, forward deploy spotters for the iraqi military provide weapons to the cureds the problem if you re in the decision making position is simple the egg is broken. there is one group that can put the egg back together. that s the iraqi government. counterinsurgency ....
Colonel reese, that these isis forces that took ra plaidedy also wound upp capturing lots of u.s. equipment, some sophisticated and lethal and know how to use it because a lot of isis forces are former baathist iraqi military officers who worked for saddam hussein. how big of a problem is this? wolf it is a problem, but i do not see it like some others we re talking with see it that way. i m spending a lot of time on the ground. it is a setback. yes, the weapons they they re able to grab can be used back against them. here s what s not being told. when that assault on the city on ramadi took out, isis also went after seven other targets around that area. six of those seven targets were defended by the iraqi security forces. they did a real good job of doing that. but we concentrate on the one piece here. the other piece i m very ....