effort. that's why you have to have the arab league with you. >> conor powell is following the story from our mideast newsroom. hello, conor. >> hello, shannon. well, in baghdad and in basra young shiite iraqi men lining up to join makeshift forces trying to slow down this advance of these sunni militants who've swept across the country, but make no mistake about it, the country is splitting up before our very eyes. militants of the islamic state of iraq and syria now control three of the major cities in iraq -- mosel and fallujah and also tikrit. they want to create a wider sunni islamic state that basically goes across the entire middle east. now, in recent months the government in baghdad, which is led by prime minister nouri al maliki, who are primarily shiite, they have ties to iran, they really tried to consolidate their power among the shiite population. this has alienated a lot of the
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