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Fight. let's get the latest from nick paton walsh in baghdad right now. nick, what's the latest we're hearing on this vast operation? >> reporter: at this stage we're trying to separate the rhetoric we heard from the shia militia who seem to be the tip of the spear in this operation and the iraqi government. they announced a wide ranging operation but of course isis will have a say in this fight as well. we have to see how quickly they make progress. what was announced this morning is an operation focused on pushing isis out of anbar, the capital of which is ramadi. they say the first thing th...
Both sides are denying reports by gadhafi or deadlines by rebels, any sort of negotiating end of the bloodiest of all the middle east uprisings we've seen. this is the refinery town of ras lanuf where outgunned opposition forces are trying to hold off army troops and hold on to assets and momentum gained in the last three weeks, momentum that now seems to be on the army sides. we haven't heard of any military victories in the last little while. two other cities, benghazi, over there on the east, and tripoli on the west, ben graze, which is where the opposition leadership is headquartered, let ...