Protests spread across University Campuses in egypt against new laws restricting political disisnt. We begin this news hour in iraq. Islamic state in iraq and the levant closer to gaining control of anbar the u. S. Said up to 160,000 people have been displaced in fighting in and around the town of heat. They have been withdrawn in the last base. Overnight isil overran an army camp there as they named what it called a tactical withdrawal. Toplevel generals also retreated from the base. Anbar province where isil has gained significant gains, strategically important cities of ha haditha, ramadi and fallujah, is the iraqi army going to completely lose control of anbar . It is close to losing control of anbar. Undoubtedly this is another set back in the spring of military set backs suffered over recent weeks. Heet si city is an strategic cally important city of anbar and that raises the capability of iraqi forces. They have not been able to recapture territories but they cant even hold thei
the surge in iraq. he presents his book at barnes and noble booksellers in washington d.c. this is just over 30 minutes. .. what s the situation? i want to give you a little piece about the author, about myself. i m going to tell you guys about the city of ramadi, the capital of anbar province, iraq. and can the book is separated into two different books. there s going to be the first half and the second half, and once we get into it, you ll understand what i m talking about. i ll go over to the importance and lessons of rage company, and then i ll take your guys questions, and we ll do a book signing after that, all right? all right, so rage company. it s anbar province, 2006-2007. elements of the 15th marine expeditionary unit are sent into iraq and spread across three cities, haditha, ramadi and [inaudible] this was kind of necessitated by an intelligence assessment by a marine colonel that said that anbar province was not winnable. he saw the situation deteriorating