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A family member dropped him off at the park to hike alone.

A family member dropped him off at the park to hike alone.

Equally important is the fight up to the north to retake mosul. i would expect the iraqi security forces and the government to start shifting their focus north to mosul and away from the west because mosul, the second largest city inside iraq is strategically important as well. >> how central is retaking ramadi in the long process of pushing isis out of iraq at some point? >> you look where ramadi's position is. there isn't a lot between ramadi and border except for open desert. the first city coming in from syria, have you a pretty good sgrip grip on the country. you can't define victory simp...

Syria, which is isis's stronghold, but the open desert. let's listen. >> in the first persian gulf war, we lunched roughly 1,100 air attacks a day. we carpet bombed them for 37 days, saturation bombing after which our troops went in and in a day and a half mopped up what was left of the iraqi army. right now obama is launching between 15 and 30 air attacks a day. it is photo-op foreign policy. we need to use overwhelming air power. we need to be arming the kurds. we need to be fighting and killing isis where they are. >> so general, your thoughts? >> well, first of all, i think we're making --...

Captured. >> a line of motorcycles, probably about five motorcycles, might have been a couple guys on the back of a couple of the motorcycles. there was probably at least six or seven guys with their ak-47s. there i was, in the open, open desert, and i'm not about to outrun a bunch of motorcycles. >> yeah. >> you know, i couldn't do anything against, you know, six or seven guys with ak 47s and they just pulled up and that was it. >> they said you fought like crazy. >> no, i didn't. i'm not stupid enough to try to fight off -- all's i had was a knife. not stupid enough to try a knife against a ...