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. to syria where isis mill tants have taken control of parts of a pal mirap. the fear isis forces will destroy the treasures in pal mira as they have done in other areas. in iraq some isis forces have moved east from ramadi as they try to capture other areas protected by iraqi troops. also more fallout from the loss of ramadi by those iraqi troops. the obama administration says weapons stored in the city are now most likely in the hands of isis forces. the fall of ramadi in iraq is being called a, quote setback by u.s. officials by the loss of the capital of anbar province could have a major affect on the fight against isis. bring back phil mudd our counter terrorism analyst and retired colonel general james reese. phil the u.s. and the iraqi governments, they both claim ....
Isis taking on ramadi or isis moving to the anbar province. in fact cbs reported today that the fbi went to a new jersey high school and sat down with them because they are worried about an isis terror cell starting 15 miles west of here. because of global warming? no not because of global warming. it s not a threat. it s not a real threat. it s not a credible threat. it s not an imminent threat. these are the people in charge okay? they have no intention of focusing on things that are important or of imminent concern, like moving ground in the middle east. the fact that isis is accelerating. that s what is happening right now in realtime. but they are so confused and so obsessed with their political ideology juan your crew that they are on the losing side of what is important. imagine that they can see a little bit above the horizon instead of this short-sided ....
And also to be spotters for air attacks. the u.s., as you know, spent a decade arming an training and financing the iraqi military. they is built up a huge force, several hundred thousand iraqi military personnel. the u.s. then pulls out, president obama said the u.s. should pull out, president obama implemented that withdraw. the u.s. basically left iraq but as soon as the u.s. did, the iraqi military for all practical purposes collapsed in mosul, now collapsed in ramadi collapsing elsewhere. if the u.s. were to spend another decade training them why do you thinks the outcome would be any different the next time the u.s. pulled out? yeah. several answers to that. one, even though president bush did have that timeline it was clear that he expected and wanted troops to stay there longer. that was something that had to be done as a political reality for maliki at the time. president obama should have fought harder with the iraqis to have a permanent ground force of between 10 and 2 ....
Concerned about, though, is when you ve got ramadi, it also breaks up your lines of communication and your supply lines back out to the west where you have other iraqi forces and haditha and the u.s. forces that are training sunnis out there at al anbar. it s a give and take right now. you know washington phil. here s a press release that office of the press secretary of the white house put out. read out of president obama s meeting with the national security council on isil or isis and the situation in iraq. they give a statement of how the president convened his top national security advisers. 25 25 top national security advisers from the intelligence community, the director of national intelligence the cia, you used to work at the cia, from the pentagon john kerry, secretary of state, the vice president, jeh johnson, the secretary of homeland security all of the top national security advisors to the president, including the head of the u.s. military central command, they bring him ....
Want to win back the cities they have to embark on similar difficult urban campaigns. poppy. ivan what happens if isis is ability to hang on to ramadi and able to topple iraqi controlled bases to the west? you have one near al bagdadi and one near the dam. i wonder if the capability is focused on ramadi or if they have enough resources to do that. reporter: what is incredible poppy, they have been fighting on many fronts across the border in syria and in many locations in iraq simultaneously. they popped up on the scene a year ago when they captured mosul. that was june of 2014. that s what triggered international alarm. that s what helped prompt the u.s. a couple months later start air strikes to defend kurdish fighters that control iraqi ....