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Talking about fallujah. you saw the prime minister in ramadi saying mosul's next, they want to get isis out of iraq entirely by 2016. so some ambitious goals. talked to iraqi experts, they say it's ambitious but doable. come spring we could see a pesh towards mosul. but the iraqi forces are not completely ready yet. you heard the coalition spokesman say they're still training iraqi forces, forces have been depleted after this fighting, they need replenished a lot of work to do but they feel they have momentum in their favor. of course they want to turn around the narrative that isis now is on ...

Of the city. the city, as we've seen pictures, in ruins now. they've been evacuating citizens. iraqi forces are trying clear the area of explosives that isis left behind but the coalition does believe the iraqi forces will be able to hold the city. they're having a lot of help from iraq/sunni tribal leaders helping to hold the city. they think it will hold. >> it would be more significant if iraqi forces were able to go in and clear isis out of mosul. that would be huge. but yesterday, talking to a coalition spokesman, a u.s. colonel, he sort of said, look, there's other places in anbar that w...

Ability. i would greatly expand the air attacks on those safe havens on those centers, using whatever intelligence we could get, which is obviously critical. but if all else fails, then to prevent them from having these centers where they're organizing to attack us here in america, i would use american forces. it wouldn't be a trillion dollars. hundreds of thousands of troops. a ten-year war to nation build. it would be a quick strike destroy their operations and then move out and continue to support those other forces, those local forces fighting isis on the ground. >> let me ask you this. th...

In, kutz forces, it is contributing to the good. >> let's see if this works out. i think you're right that that's the plan and the iraqi government has made some good steps. they are going to retake mosul as we understand it. there are about 2,000 isil fighters there. the iraqis are going to put somewhere in the range of 20,000 troops up against them. kurdish peshmerga, and a small number of american advisers, but they will have american drones, american air support, and the idea is to launch a genuinely iraqi response. if that works, nothing succeeds like success in military. >> take a look a...

Some time to compare what isis was claiming about its performance over the last few years to what we have observed. there is enough of a correlation that i would suggest this is actually much more likely to be what they think they have actually done than a purely propaganda campaign. particularly in light of what we've been seeing happening in the ground in iraq lately, it is very clear this organization has presence throughout northern iraq and, as the report claims, that isis has been targeting the northern province of ninewah as a main effort over the majority of the last two years. and tha...