lieutenant colonel oliver north? good to see you lieutenant colonel? what is new today? do you think this offensive is going to be different and more productive than the ones we have seen before? well, look, we are now in the third month of this fight for the city of mosul. the second largest city in all mess b.we were there last md finish up the special air the after the new year. only the kurds have successfully beaten isis. isis will eventually and i want to emphasize that word eventually will be defeated in mosul. isis isn t going to go away any time soon. the problem is that the obama administration s propaganda. in fact, no offense to you, because i have seen the press release, the propaganda about a u.s. led coalition is fiction. i mean, if it s actually being led it s being done by remote control and we were there. you cannot find a u.s. special operator operating forward with the iraqi special operations forces.
lieutenant colonel oliver north? good to see you lieutenant colonel? what is new today? do you think this offensive is going to be different and more productive than the ones we have seen before? well, look, we are now in the third month of this fight for the city of mosul. the second largest city in all mess b.we were there last md finish up the special air the after the new year. only the kurds have successfully beaten isis. isis will eventually and i want to emphasize that word eventually will be defeated in mosul. isis isn t going to go away any time soon. the problem is that the obama administration s propaganda. in fact, no offense to you, because i have seen the press release, the propaganda about a u.s. led coalition is fiction. i mean, if it s actually being led it s being done by remote control and we were there. you cannot find a u.s. special operator operating forward with the iraqi
so the pentagon not openly acknowledging it, saying nothing about exactly where they are and how much are there. this effort in syria unfolding as across the border in iraq, the battle for ramadi continues. a short time ago, u.s. official told me today it is very slow going, very methodical work for the iraqi forces in ramadi. they are moving towards the city center, they are encountering road blocks, barricades, ieds, bombs, booby trap, all of it. there are whole houses in ramadi that are wired to blow. so it s very slow going for the iraqi forces. the golden division iraqi special operations forces trained by the u.s. are in the fight, the hope is after months, seven months after ramadi fell to isis, the seven months of u.s. training, u.s. effort to get the iraqis ready hopefully the pentagon believes it will
and author of books on terrorism and the executive director of terror projects. is the current strategy such as it is working and if so to what degree? it can be said it s working in the fact that we re carrying out air strikes but the result of the air strikes don t seem to be reflecting any successes on the ground. we took this loss in ramadi recently not because the iraqis weren t fighting even though secretary of defense said there was a lack of a will to fight. they had one of their premier forces there. the iraqi special operations forces and they fight. but what they don t have is they don t have the aerial support that s coordinated with their actions. isis just flows around them like water on a rock. if we re not coordinating deeply with the iraqis it will not be successful. should u.s. forces be fighting on the ground? we re not talking necessarily large-scale ground troops but it s been suggested on this
million ransom apparently dipped into that cia fund. cnn intelligence analyst and former cia operative bob bair explains how this could happen. has not surprised me. this is the problem with covert action. it s neither covert nor action. the money gets misspent. just how it works in the afghan world. while the cash payments have slowed since a new president was elected, this err continuing. the cia declined to comment on that report. to iraq now. isis suicide bombers carried out a deadly attack in ramadi. two member of the iraqi special operations forces are dead and five wounded. as cnn reports, this is the latest in a series of recent attacks on the city. reporter: according to senior officials in anbar province, at