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tikrit. nigeria s terrorist group pledges allegiance to the islamic state. isis continuing the push into iraq. this morning, the top general for the u.s. military heading to side of tikrit iraq. good morning, ben. reporter: good morning. we re just one mile to the east of tikrit. and what we ve seen this morning is a steady advance by iraqi forces. it s a combination of these paramilitary forces plus special forces as well as iraqi police. first, they fired rockets into the distance in the direction of tikrit. just an hour ago they moved toward the city. what you see behind me is oil fires that have been set by isis fighters. it s an attempt to cloud the
20,000 iraqi forces. two-thirds of those are either shia militia or folks from baghdad. only about a third are actually fighters from the iraqi army. it s important because the force is there giving advice and assistance. and you only have about a thousand and 2,000 isis fighters in the town of tikrit. so there is overwhelming odds. they have attempted to take this city before. they have had differenty doing that. now, taking tikrit and turning it over is critically important to the overall campaign of the iraqi government. what does it mean to have our top general dempsey on the ground there. i know him well. he s trying to persuade the iraqi government that it is important to regain territory against isis but what s more
city built 3,000 years ago. they are destroying lives but also destroying the very fabric of civilization. what is their goal, thank you very much. let s bring in general mark hurtley. and mr. michael weiss, the co-arthur of isis inside the army of terror. this is we re told a very critical point in this campaign to take back tikrit. what has it taken to get to this point? well, good morning, first of all, chris. you have about 20,000 iraqi soldiers outside the city of tikrit. they fought up from a shia holy city to their south. they re heading toward mosul on the supply lines. tikrit is critical. again, i say there s been about
but back centuries ago, the romans destroyed parts of this city. and part of war, it was common to raise entire cities back in roman times. and hatra suffered that fate. these ruins did survive. they have no value to these people. this is not just isis doing this. iraq has a history of this. in 2003, the museum of mosul, which they re now threatening to destroy, it was looted by people of shia as well as sunni persuasion. the great museum and library was destroyed by a shiite militia. this is a mosque being destroyed by isis. to my point. it doesn t matter whether it s a muslim structure or a pre-islamic structure. as long as they decide that this is a form of idolatry. we should point out, this supposedly contained the grave
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