those in the embassy are very concerned about their safety but not being evacuated. the way it s been put, it s too politically sensitive to evacuate them. this could make benghazi look like chump change. ralph, they are talking about this group, this is the washington post reporting, death was everywhere, mass beheadings, extremely alarmed about the unfathomable mortality to the al qaeda brand. that s how bad it is. what should we be doing? the president is in palm springs. business as usual but we have thousands of american lives in baghdad right now. the president and the president s men and women need to face the reality of this earth, the most intoxicating drug is blood and these people have a taste for blood and they will keep on killing and they will come for us in good time and what could we do? we need to recognize what is in
those in the embassy are very concerned about their safety but not being evacuated. the way it s been put, it s too politically sensitive to evacuate them. this could make benghazi look like chump change. ralph, they are talking about this group, this is the washington post reporting, death was everywhere, mass beheadings, extremely alarmed about the unfathomable mortality to the al qaeda brand. that s how bad it is. what should we be doing? the president is in palm springs. business as usual but we have thousands of american lives in baghdad right now. the president and the president s men and women need to face the reality of this earth, the most intoxicating drug is blood and these people have a taste for blood and they will keep on killing and they will come for us in good time and what could we do?
ground to extremists there maybe more troops from iraq heading in there. terry moran has more from iraq. ferocious fighting in northern iraq. iraqi soldiers desperately trying to hold off the jihadist onslaught sweeping down toward baghdad but the iraqi troops are losing. these incredible scenes posted on you-tube by the militants show thousands of iraqi soldiers who surrendered and are now prisoners, the militants claimed. they have wracked up victory after victory. vast territory, major cities falling under this black flag an these fighters threaten baghdad, 11 years after u.s. troops toppled saddam hussein. all of that is now crumbling. the triumphant fighters from the islamic state of iraq and syria, as they are called, isis. a track record of brutality, executions, mass beheadings, massacres. even al qaeda disavowed them. their goal, a new nation straddling two countries and pure islam as they define it,
sell them into sexual slavery. then we have the harvesting of body organs. then firing squads. then burning people to death. and of course mass beheadings on top of the war they re fighting. it s almost now on a daily basis. why is it happening daily? why does there seem to be ratcheted up activity here? reporter: well, there s some speculation that isis is just a propaganda. that they want to continue to bolster, if you will you know, the mean inging of propaganda getting it out into the public. and add to that, they continue to post videos. there are numerous pictures including children that have been reportedly killed. in terms of christians sean that have now been targeted, being called, quote unquote, crusaders by isis, some according to witnesses on the ground, have actually been krous fied. you re right it s happening on a daily basis along with those