this was all controlled al qaeda and iraq and sunni insurgents. >> absolutely. >> here in baghdad you are talking about most of the city. >> most of the city was definitely controlled the al qaeda, sunni insurgents and the city was just hell. >> take us to the map on the right. >> the surge began in january and february of 2007 and quite remarkably by the end of 2007 we began to achieve some tangible success. by 2008 we had driven al qaeda out of all of the regions you see on the map to the left because they are now gone from baghdad of any consequence from fallujah, from ramadi. (gun fire) >> in the latter part of 2008 we were able to drive them out of the last major city and that was mosul. al qaeda in 2008 and 2009 in their own communications to each