clothes. nbc news has not been able to independently verify the videos. the videos are horrific. the group claims that they have killed 1,700 men in iraq. calls them dirty shias. while something undoubtedly terrible is going on in those videos, the iraqi government denies a massacre took place on that scale. whether or not the group did commit an atrocity that is as terrible as what they say they did, the reason that you go and post tweets about it and upload social media-ready videos about it rather than just do it is because you want an action like that to have more than just its direct military utility, right? you want to terrorize, you want to instill fear against anybody who might be thinking against fighting against you. you want populations to flee ahead of your advance. but you also want to provoke the world, right? you want to provoke a fight that is larger than the fight you are already having. this group that s taken over these big swaths of iraq, it is an offshoot of al qae
the group claims that they have killed 1,700 men in iraq. calls them dirty shias. while something undoubtedly terrible is going on in those videos, the iraqi government denies a massacre took place on that scale. whether or not the group did commit an atrocity that is as terrible as what they say they did, the reason that you go and post tweets about it and upload social media-ready videos about it rather than just do it is because you want an action like that to have more than just its direct military utility, right? you want to terrorize, you want to instill fear against anybody who might be thinking against fighting against you. you want populations to flee ahead of your advance. but you also want to provoke the world, right? you want to provoke a fight that is larger than the fight you are already having. this group that s taken over these big swaths of iraq, it is an offshoot of al qaeda, and they very clearly want the western world back in the middle east waging war with themselv
postings on social media claiming that they massacred iraqi soldiers wearing plain clothes. nbc news has not been able to independently verify the videos. the videos are horrific. the group claims that they have killed 1,700 men in iraq. calls them dirty shias. while something undoubtedly terrible is going on in those videos, the iraqi government denies a massacre took place on that scale. whether or not the group did commit an atrocity that is as terrible as what they say they did, the reason that you go and post tweets about it and upload social media-ready videos about it rather than just do it is because you want an action like that to have more than just its direct military utility, right? you want to terrorize, you want to instill fear against anybody who might be thinking against fighting against you. you want populations to flee ahead of your advance. but you also want to provoke the world, right? you want to provoke a fight that
they are targeting command and control, communications, if you will, of compounds and targets in tripoli, but these are targets that have multiple areas in them, and have been known to be areas where gadhafi and his family frequent and gadhafi and his family know that these areas are targeted for their military utility. i think it still remains to be seen, number one, is this man dead, and the three grandchildren, and did the nato war planes hit precisely the target they were aiming at, on that compound? they say, of course, again, they do not target individuals, that they were only targeting a military compound, if you will. t.j.? barbara, like you mentioned the u.s. tries to stress every chance the u.s. gets that yes, this is a nato operation but many people see this as u.s. led or the u.s. being a prominent member, so back to, are they