jail, peter greste calls for the release of his al jazeera colleagues. music prodigy in the u.s. hello. more on all those stories but first, breaking news out of cairo. blast which exploded in a busy square. two bombs were discovered by police that s according to the reuters news s.a.t. agency. key iraqi province of dyalla. the group held a victory rally on monday and they are ready to move into i.s.i.l. strong holds. jane arraf joins me from baghdad. what was the significance of this celebration? well, that really was part of it that that wasn t the iraqi government. it shows how powerful these shia groups have become. they don t want to be called be publishmilitias. the badr organization is one of the biggest perhaps the biggest group, it could be argued as more 77 than the iraqi government forces, and pretty well have pushed i.s.i.l. back from one of their strong holds. but there has been a cost to that investigation into massacres but really it was all about celebra
government. this even dominate the interior ministry. so these groups have been around for a while. lebanese hezbollah, they ve also been around since the early 80s. but that doesn t mean they are not growing at rates we ve never seen before. because there s a new crisis we have new organizations. the other main thing is iran s reach in this is totally overstated. i can t say how much annoyance that actually causes me because they re so open about this about how they control these organizations. again, all you need to do stoimz is go sometimes is go on facebook or follow iranian media. here s the weird thing, and dr. knights brought up this. even if they re not directly controlling the group they ll claim to do that and beyond that they ll try to influence them with cash and weapons and support, and then guess what happens. they become another micro hezbollah. i would actually say in this you can never ignore this top-down strategy. just because these people are recruiting f
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