we all gather under iraq. today iraq is a diversified community reflect the coherence and reflect the cohesion between its parts. also there is a continued culture in iraq. whether in the parliament, in the media, that, that the national unity must always be preserved. we are not worried about the future of the national, of the national unity of iraq. kurds and others are all equal and all are part of the unity of iraq. the current government has assigned a national sense of 20 points. the first point that the iraqi government should be included representing everybody and that was achieved. and we signed this pact under a -- [inaudible]. >> we have a couple of questions from the audience on post-mosul, after mosul. we've already talked a bit about the reconciliation components of that, so two further questions on that. once mosul is recaptured what will the iraq kay government do with the popular motivation forces? disband them or convert them to a national guard? there is on the military side. there is a rela

iraq's invaders, the u.s. and britain, removed educator and dissolved his army -- removed educator and dissolved his army and statement made no real plan they hadd the country broken. they revised and made matters worse. -- improvised and made matters worse. weren't in iraq before the invasion, and shia and sunni sick cherry and civil war during the occupation could coexist -- sectarian civil war during the occupation could coexist. elite units in the iraq and we took the lead in falluja helped by american airstrikes. i.s.ulverized this compound. the bodies of more than a dozen jihadists lie rotting in the rubble. >> suicide vest, exactly. jeremy: the so-called islamic state grew out of al qaeda come which took root in iraq in the chaos that followed the invasion. before there were killed, i.s. had rigged a car for suicide attack. so this is from a grenade? >> yes. blow up all the vehicles with him. jeremy: this was intended for suicide mission? >> yes. jeremy:jeremy: this car bomb wasn't used. falluja, i has

it's been more than 13 years since the invasion of iraq began. ten years since the conservative party and others called for it and seven years since the pre- minister gordon brown commissioned it. the report sets out to try to answer the crucial questions that dominated the war in iraq and the events that preceded and followed it. did the united kingdom decided to go to war on a mistaken or false premise, were all the decisions leading up to the war properly taken and informed by proper consideration, with the operation properly executed and does the government of the day for c. and prepare adequately for the aftermath and wer worthy armed forces adequately defended and provided the proper protection and equipment. the contents of the reportable techniques rather than days. in 13 volumes and 6 million words the committee takes us in painstaking detail through the decision-making in the government from 20011 the possibility first arose in 2009 when they finally departed iraq. >> they sell the conclusions they've reached on some of the central issu

to remove saddam hussein from power and disarm iraq. speaking of an easy transition that turned to dust. basics theyut the needed were humiliated, the inquiry claims. [bells ringing] correspondent: tony blair, who made the decision, was full of sorrow and regret, but still thinks that he was right. >> the decision to go to war in iraq and remove saddam hussein coalition, in the where 40 countries led by the united states of america, was momentous,, most most agonizing decision that i took is -- i took in my 10-years as british prime minister. today, i accept full responsibility. without exception and without excuse. the intelligence assessment made at the time of going to war turned out to be wrong. the aftermath turned out to be more hostile and bloody then we imagined. set one fact plan and encountered another. the nation of people we wanted to set free and secure from the people of saddam he, instead, victims to sectarian terrorism. this, i express more sorrow, regret, and apology then you may ever know or could believe. deceit, orno

iraq, the inquiry to the iraq war has just been released. the chilcot report is 2.6 million words long, about three times the length of the bible. it blames former british prime minister tony blair of deliberately exaggerating the threat posed by saddam hussein in the lead up to the iraq war. this comes as the interior minister has announced his resignation following the suicide bombing in baghdad that killed as many as 250 people. it was the deadliest bombing in iraq since the 2003 us-led invasion. we'll have more on sunday's bombing and the chilcot report after headlines. in yemen, a suicide car bomber has killed 10 soldiers at a checkpoint near a military base in the southern city of aden. yemini officials say militants went on to raid the military base, leading to hours of fighting. meanwhile, at least six people have been killed by two u.s. drone strikes in southern yemen over the weekend. yemeni officials say the victims were suspected to be members of al qaeda. in south africa, a judge has sentenced olympic and paralympic runner oscar

the final iraq survey report which was conducted into saddam's wnd program and ambitions after the iraq war and whose findings are accepted in this report, found that saddam did, indeed intend to go back to developing the programs afterwards. so i ask people to put themselves in my shoes as prime minister. back then, barely more than a year from 9/11, in late 2002 and early 2003, you're seeing the intelligence mount up on wmd and you're doing so in a context of mass causalities caused by a new form of terrorism. you have to at least consider the possibility of a 911 here in britain and your primary responsibility as prime minister is to protect your country. these are my considerations at the time. there was no rush to war. it dismisses the theory and call for texas in april 2002. i did not and could not as they explicitly in their report conclude, i was absolutely clear publicly and privately however that we would be with the usa in dealing with this issue and i made that clear in the note to president bush on the 28th of july, 2002 but i also said we had to proceed in the right way an

iraq, the inquiry to the iraq war has just been released. the chilcot report is 2.6 million words long, about three times the length of the bible. it blames former british prime minister tony blair of deliberately exaggerating the threat posed by saddam hussein in the lead up to the iraq war. this comes as the interior minister has announced his resignation following the suicide bombing in baghdad that killed as many as 250 people. it was the deadliest bombing in iraq since the 2003 us-led invasion. we'll have more on sunday's bombing and the chilcot report after headlines. in yemen, a suicide car bomber has killed 10 soldiers at a checkpoint near a military base in the southern city of aden. yemini officials say militants went on to raid the military base, leading to hours of fighting. meanwhile, at least six people have been killed by two u.s. drone strikes in southern yemen over the weekend. yememeni officials say the victs were suspected to be members of al qaeda. in south africa, a judge has sentenced olympic and paralympic runner oscar

bush picked to run iraq, l. paul bremer, gave him one. >> and those who were on high before, in particular the baathists... >> narrator: he promised to purge the iraqi government. >> ...will be removed from office. >> narrator: he also issued an order that disbanded the entire iraqi military. >> you had something on the order of 250,000 iraqi men, military age, all trained in using weapons. suddenly, they were all out of a job. >> narrator: the powerful message: saddam and his sunni-controlled army were no longer in charge. >> army was the central instrument of saddam's repression of the kurds and the shia. i think the decision not to recall saddam's army, from a political point of view, is the single most important correct decision that we made in the 14 months we were there. >> narrator: but on the ground, the american military commanders could feel the effects. >> the effect, frankly, was devastating. i think that's where the seeds of what became the sunni insurgency were largely planted. >> we had, you know,

the final iraq survey report which was conducted into saddam's wnd program and ambitions after the iraq war and whose findings are accepted in this report, found that saddam did, indeed intend to go back to developing the programs afterwards. so i ask people to put themselves in my shoes as prime minister. back then, barely more than a year from 9/11, in late 2002 and early 2003, you're seeing the intelligence mount up on wmd and you're doing so in a context of mass causalities caused by a new form of terrorism. you have to at least consider the possibility of a 911 here in britain and your primary responsibility as prime minister is to protect your country. these are my considerations at the time. there was no rush to war. it dismisses the theory and call for texas in april 2002. i did not and could not as they explicitly in their report conclude, i was absolutely clear publicly and privately however that we would be with the usa in dealing with this issue and i made that clear in the note to president bush on the 28th of july, 2002 but i also said we had to proceed in the right way an

but the muslim community is out in iraq, now if you talk about the sunni community in iraq and syria, the sunni community and tribal leaders there could have said no, they could've said no to the genocide but they did not say that. so that that is one angle. i think also for you to ask the committee about the genocide to find solutions, how can a community that is basically lost everything they possess for three or four generations, every person left his home with his close on. that is if we are very lucky and very happy person you be able to just escape with your own close. so for international community to ask me for a solution is not fair. i think the international community should standups for its obligation. there must be clear the commission of the genocide within the parliament, with the public, the public should know that they are being subject to genocide. i think legal must be pursued against isis and there must be two legal systems to the tribunal court and also a parliament system in iraq. so all of our experience back in 2006 and 2007 when terrorist groups were able to co

comeorganizations try to to iraq and realize training for to helpeople in iraq others. it is a good thing but it is not efficient. so. yeah. >> very briefly. thank you. >> hello. new zealand. excuse me. i am a member of the iraqi parliament. committee.an rights the movement block. i have something to say about accountability and the way to trust.bout >> thank you. it looks like you have a prepared statement. could we make copies of that available because i think we want to make the focus on the question asked just now about assistance for mental health for those who've been displaced and the points that have been made of how the entire community of displaced people are are actually in need of assistance westmark would that be ok? i am sorry to interrupt. we have about 10 minutes left and i want to see if there are additional questions for the religious sent community leaders on the issue of the topic at hand. thank you. >> can you translate and just ask him? [speaking foreign language] >> i still have something to add to what you said. >> on the issue of mental health?

they have attacked the countries who were pro-iraq and countries nothing to do with iraq. where did belgium have anything to do with iraq? my point i understand, true if you stand up and take this action these terrorists will try to target you, but frankly they will target you anyway. that can't be a reason for not taking them on and fighting them. >> david hughes from the press association. given that chilcot has found there was no imminent threat from saddam under the process of the military buildup had been in place long before, how was it that the troops were so poorly equipped? how was it for the aftermath they didn't have the correct equipment? there were not enough helicopters, not enough ied-resistant vehicles in place? and do you accept the resources were far too stretched trying to fight in both iraq and afghanistan? >> i don't accept the latter point. by the way when we made that additional commitment to afghanistan i was very, very clear. i remember the meeting very well we must not do this unless we can do both missions. and i think you will find that the repo

and they still want to stay in iraq. so many family members have left so about that challenge that there is a few opportunities some are concerned if that means they are ending their community with those challenges. >> the thing is one thing that they try to do as an expression to keeping our ties to the homeland last year when we had our patriarch after this band of 83 years he came back to iraq and for us that was a significant you meant the design to try to give hope to our faithful and fellow christians and all minorities that are suffering to say even though the direction that going back there are struggles and a lot of things that people are facing but still for those people all over we have thousands of families of different denominations but the question is really how to convince them because at the end of the day it is a moral decision obviously the churches don't want the people to leave but how do we convince them to stay? it is in just a patriarch to save you have to there has to be infrastructure to provide

most of iraq. even the northern part of saudi arabia. zarqawi, he named it. so the modern day islamic state that we still will be dealing with years from now, he created. >> the terrorist group known as i si l must be degraded and ultimately destroyed. >> i think zarqawi absolutely laid the foundation for the islamic stale and he convinced people it was achievable. >> it's an ideology, it's a belief system until we change the behavior of this radical form of islam, we're never going to defeat this crowd. >>> as a former fbi agent and chairman of the house intelligence committee, i had oversight of all 16 of our nation's intelligence agencies. my name is mike rogers. i had access to classified information gathered by our operatives, people who risked everything for the united states and our families. you don't know their faces or their names. you don't know the real stories from the people who lived the fear and the pressure until now. >> every military force on the ground was looking for saddam hussein. >> i get orders that i'm going to go join this task

in the case of iraq, mr. blair appeared to be more concerned with supporting american president george bush than he was in pursuing british interests and the interests of the iraqi people. the most -- well, indeed infamous now quote, i will you will be whatever was not written to it the iraqi people suffering under their undeniably cruel regime of such a brutal dictator, nor was that letter written to the british public as a clear display of the priorities of our elected leader. instead, it was written to a neoconservative u.s. president, intent on proving american superior or the by waging war against an abstract noun. a president who was failing to make dramatic advances in afghanistan so instead settled his sights on iraq despite the fact that chilcot stressed on a number of occasions that the overall threat from iraq was viewed as less serious than those threats from other countries of concern -- iran, libya and north korea. mr. blair was clearly determined to follow the u.s. into war no matter the conseq

iraq today has a chance. so what history ends up deciding about iraq is going to depend a lot on what happens in the future, but i just ask people to think about this for a moment all over the middle east these regimes are gone. what you sometimes find in the west and the debate -- and again the report doesn't really deal with these things -- people say it would be better if you kept the dictators in hour because then the situation would be stable. there was no stability in iraq if you were shiia. and secondly, that's not going to hold. that's what the arab spring teaches you. we moved ahead of that. that's not the reason we did it, but that's why when history looks back on this, yes, you can go toward the mistakes in fore sight and planning and process and all the rest, but when you come back to the basic decision, i believe that history will take a different view. >> tom pec from the under penalty. today you stand by the decision to invade and you say that it was right to maintain the relationship with the

the planning and preparations for iraq after saddam hussein were wholly inadequate. reporter: while chilcot stopped short of saying the war was illegal, blair's decision to invade iraq has severely tarnished his legacy. he maintains he acted in good faith. it is claimed by some that by removing saddam we cost of the terrorism today in the middle east and it would have been better to have left him in power. i probably disagree. reporter cap i profoundly disagree. reporter: for the current british prime minister, the report is an opportunity to avoid mistakes like these in the future. i think of a supported thing we can do is learn the lessons for the future . how do we make sure that decisions are arrived at her, legal advice is considered better? all of those things are the best legacy we can see from this whole debate. reporter: iraq remains in chaos to the so-called islamic state controls long areas of the country. my aunt has spiraled in the power vacuum left -- violence has spiraled into power vacuum left by the toppling of saddam hussein. thomas: for more on the

but zarqawi created an army and he created an army that was not just in iraq. he created a credible insurgency with terrorist tactics, something bigger than a small terrorist organization. he created a movement. >> it reminds you of the haunting words that were told to you. the fog has been lift here in iraq. >> when i look at what we're facing now, i see zarqawi all over this battlefield. zarqawi is the father of the islamic state. that consists of lebanon, jordan, parts of israel, all of syria, most of iraq. each the northern part of saudi arabia. zarqawi, he named it. so the modern day islamic state that we still will be dealing with years from now, he created it. >> the terrorist group known as isil must be degraded and ultimately destroyed. >> i think zarqawi laid the foundation for the islamic state and convinced people it was achievable. >> it's an eye dealing, it's a belief system until we change the behavior of this radical form of islam, we're never going to defeat this crop. >>> as a former fbi agent and chairman of the house committee, i had oversig

the question in iraq is different. i am trying to get to syria relative to what kind of lighting force will be able to sustain a long-term effort. especially to hold the ground once it is liberated. mr. mcgurk: the fundamental premise of what we need our local people delivery and hold their own territory. what we have tried to do, i mentioned mobilizing the tribes of an bar province -- anbar province. we are looking for police leaders organizing the local people. that effort has been unsuccessful. the we very much agree that we to liberate and hold their own territory but oftentimes they need help. army and they defend it like an army. you cannot just take out a bunch of sunni tribesmen and put them in the fight to go and liberate a city like falluja. sunni also met with tribal leaders that are exiled from iraq and syria and claim to have tens of thousands of people ready to fight. names say -- give us the and we will help them get ready for fight. they often do not have the influence. it is a very difficult dynamic. a

zarqawi made it clear we could lose in iraq. ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> my fellow citizens, at this hour, american and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger. >> every politician wants us to go crush an army they give us their flag, and we can all go home and everybody is wonderful, like a world war ii victory. that ain't going to happen. ♪ >> in the battle of iraq, the united states and our allies have prevailed. >> the united states and allies invaded iraq in the spring of 2003 and there was a set of assumptions that proved to be wrong. one that we would be accepted as liberators, and, two, that there would be the ability to turn the keys over to a follow-on government after saddam hussein was thrown out of office. >> we got him. >> saddam being captured, all of a sudden you had all this like sense of relief. okay. maybe you have these top ten guys, the army is going to capitulate. they'll give you their banners and we can all go home. forget it. >> that strategy was a failed strategy and we didn'

the final iraq survey report which was conducted in sedans wmd program and ambitions after the iraq war was finding our acceptance of this report found that saddam did indeed intend to go back to developing the programs after the removal of the sanctions. so i asked people to put themselves in my shoes as prime minister, back then more than one year from 9/11 in late 2002 in early 2003 you'll see the intelligence mount up on wmd, and doing so it is that change context of mass casualties caused by a new form of terrorism. you you have to at least consider the possibility of a 9/11 here in britain. and your primary responsibility as prime minister is to protect your country. these were my considerations at the time. that's what led up to war. it dismisses the conspiracy theory that i pledge britain to action in 2002, i did not and cannot, as i said expertly in their report concluded, i was absolutely clear publicly and privately however that we would be with the usa in dealing with this issue. i made that clear in the notes to president bush in july, 2002 but i also think we had to procee

they attack the countries pro iraq and nothing to do with iraq. what did belgium do in iraq? so it's true if you stand up and take this action the terrorists will target you. that can't be a reason for not taking them on and fighting them. >> given that they found there was no imminent threat from saddam, and the process had been in place, how was it the troops were so poorly equipped? for the aftermath they didn't have enough equipment, helicopters, ied resistant vehicles in place? do you agree that they were stretched? >> i don't admit the latter point. i was very, very clear, i remember the cabinet meeting very well. i said we must not do this unless we can do both missions. and i think you will find that the report also said that there was no occasion where we were asked either for more money, more equipment, where we said no. both myself and gordon brown at the time made it absolutely clear that whatever was requested should be given. we were have to say, absolutely prepared for the campaign to remove saddam because it was brilliantly successful. and we should never forg

they were going to invade iraq. there was not the slightest doubt about it. a rather naive, idealistic approach, i think, which thankfully shocked me. they got the previous administration had not used american military power for all the benefits it could produce in the world. they were going to use military power for good. they thought they would be greeted as liberating heroes when they arrived in baghdad and this regime.prove wouldtually thought -- win the election that would be held thereafter. i met mr. shallowby once or twice. he was going to be in charge, but he would need supervision. ,here would be a u.s. general constant comparisons made with general mccarthy, general macarthur turning imperial japan into democracy after the war, the importance of denazification, following hit undergo gyou had to bahasa vacation -- debaathification after iraq. my thought all the time is that one of us is not on the same planet. a fairly hostile view to this. the point is, moving on, if i thatenough in 2001 to know the bush

, anti-iraq. this report doesn't tell us what we should do as decisionmakers. >> it's clear you stand by your decision. [inaudible] to the conflict. but this report is a devastating catalog of the failures of your government and paint a very clear picture of a prime minister who was determined to act with the united states almost come what may. do you understand the sentiment that some of the families whoible you ought not just to said sorry a long time ago, but that now you should face some kind of punishment? >> by the way, it's completely incorrect that i have not said sorry before. i have always apologized for mistakes and planning. and in the intelligence, even though i'm not actually responsible for the intelligence. it's see, i can't -- true. i took the decision after 9/11 we should be america's closest ally. again, you can disagree with that. i personally think, when you're fighting this terrorism in the world today, it would be better if britain today had a really strong tight relationshi

it sounds simple but there are moments where i write about iraq in 2005 and 2006 and the iraq surge and i see people who are part of vets for freedom. the line of freedom and tyranny is decided in those difficult moments when half the people want to take a route saying let's set a timeline for the war. it has been difficult, controversial, costly, let's pop smoke and leave this difficult battlefield and the other half says no, this is the exact moment when you need to be willing to double down and take the fight to the enemy. i have never been more proud as i write on january 10th, 2007 when bush announced the surge in iraq. he said the future of our security depends on the safety of the streets of baghdad. ask yourself if you are right. the surge worked and al-qaeda was largely defeated. by february of 2010, joe biden was declaring iraq a great achievement of the obama administration. such a great achievement that he just happened to visit again five days ago with political chaos unfolding. he took for granted the stability and gains made through greedy decisions in a dark moment and a

in iraq they are known as the -- in iraq, there are between 200,000 and 250,000. we cannot be completely sure of the numbers because there have been no proper statistics about the numbers of the community. and today i am here as an iraqi citizen who are talking about the communities in iraq. [speaking in foreign language] rajab: [speaking in foreign language] are kurdish and our religious techs are written language.dish we are a religious minority. isis belonged -- took over seven areas owned by us. the number of people displaced to 2178 families, equal 19,000 people. the villagers were occupied. isishad a premonition that was on its way, so fortunately they fled from the legions before they came. isis blew up five of our temples. they demolished many houses and they booby-trapped the rest of the houses. after this area was liberated by the peshmerga's, which are the curtis forces, and coalition can,s -- kurdish forces and coalition forces, people came back to liberated villages so they could look at their houses and because of the booby-traps, 19 people were mart

a capability in iraq he political decision-making. anything i would tell you about the timing of frankly any u.s. officer probably would tell you about the time and a speculation. it's a base on iraq iraqi capability, iraqi progress and guidance that they give the forces. i do know that the prime minister is interested in getting this done as quickly as possible for obvious reasons, not the least of which is to relieve the suffering of the iraqi people in muzzle. he's also aware that ied's, regard to civilian casualties and also putting all of the right forces together at the right time will all bear into the timeline for muzzle. >> i think right now the iraqi security forces are growing, the capabilities to do that, they have a plan and i identify the forces necessary to seize muzzle and those forces be brought together and they can see that each day. >> if i can just add to that, that is precisely what is going on right now the marshaling of those forces. the training, equipping, movement of those, the establishment of the physician

iraq. how so? american armored forces advanced farther and faster than any other armored force in the history of armed conflicts, penetrated into the heart of a great mid-east capitol, toppled the government, literally toppling the statue of saddam hussein in late 2003, with casualties on both sides that were far less than the worst case estimate, far less. for about six weeks, seven weeks, eight weeks, nine weeks, three months it looked like one of the most brilliant military campaigns in history but there was reality out there that a lot of people were missing. a lot of people including me were missing. at that point i was celebrating a great military success. i was not in the military at that time. i supported iraq war. i believed in the goals and objectives the iraq war. to this day i still support the decision to invade iraq. to this day i support most of the goals and objectives of the initial invision. and i believe that a great victory had been won but for lack of a better term, the

that is the assessment of the uk's role in the invasion of iraq in 2003. the chilcot report concludes the war was launched on flawed evidence from the field to achieve -- evidence, and has left the world in dire consequences to this day. former prime minister tony blair defended the decision to go to war as the hardest and most agonizing decision of his time in office. [chanting] >> war criminal. reporter: families of british soldiers killed in iraq and other protesters gathered for the conclusion of the report as it was red. several years in the making, following the decision of tony blair to go to iraq, has released a document with 2.6 million words. the head of the inquiry said that the u.k. chose to join the invasion before all the peaceful options have been exhausted. >> despite explicit warnings, the consequences of the invasion were underestimated. the planning and preparations for iraq after saddam hussein were in adequate. the government failed to achieve its objectives. [bombs] reporter: the invasion of iraq in 2003 was contetentious, one f the s

i was never would have gone to iraq. an alcoholic and i'm careful in the book because this is not an addiction, book about addiction and their excellent books about that subject that speaks far more eloquently than i do so i don't want it to be a distraction in terms of how i dealt with alcohol. and anyone recovering from trauma finds self-medicating ever made with alcohol. the heart condition continued to worsen and as cardiologists had told me it would i simply face my death bed. at this point i had started writing about iraq but there is no denying that i'm aware, i was aware that and i'm aware now that the clock was ticking for me even as a transplant recipient as healthy as i am now retirement was essentially ruled out. so yes there is an extra sense, maybe two hurry up and be as honest as i can about these things. >> host: you are pretty careful in your book to avoid politics in the larger policy debate. a very personal story about your experience in life, but you came to d.c. last year and worked with us to lobby

you have such unstable region, area rich in oil when you look at iraq and kurdish area of iraq and how turkey is sort of the -- is a transit point for energy. i mean, it is so incredibly important. we just all sit and watch sort of as voyeurs. meanwhile i should say that president president obama and secretary kerry have spoken and they said that we, meaning the world, should support an elected government. which would be to support erdogan who is conservative and islamist and he -- and the people have written up against him are in the military are the secular ones. so it's strange just watching, isn't it, benjamin? >> it's actually often sort of misleading. when you look at turkey from the western to recognize you see istanbul. you see a very westward leaning country. but, the vast majority of turkey is rural. and that's where erdogan gets his power. those are the islamists. those are the people that he has reached out to. so when we talk about istanbul, we talk about westward leaning countries on the border of asia and europe. that's what we see but actually the vast majority tens of

the difficulties encountered in iraq could not have been known in advance. he says we do not agree that hindsight is required. he's very clear on that point. but i would say in terms of planning is what i put in place as prime minister following would happen in iraq properly advised, properly constituted meeting and the national security secretariat, all those things including the proper listening to expert advice of the national security council. all those things are designed to avoid the problems that the government had been the case of iraq. the only point i would make is there is actually no set of arrangements and plans that can provide perfection in any of these cases. military intervention we can argue that there is ever justified. i believe it is. it's always difficult planing for the intervention. i don't think in this house we should be naÏve in anyway that there is a perfect set of plan or arrangement that can solve these problems in perpetuity. there aren't. >> would my right honorable friend join me in congratulating southend council, which is

he told me, dad, they're going to send me to iraq. so he came back and he told me, dad, i have to go back again. i said i thought you already done your tour of duty there? no, i have to go back. so he did. shortly after that, he went to pensacola. he was there for a little while and then he went to kuwait. after that he told me he wanted to pursue a career in the police department with the dallas police. that's always been his passion. but he was tour patrol with the navy. >> and when he got -- >> he was a police officer from the time he grew -- i'm sorry, the time he grew up, he always wanted to be a police officer. >> and once he got on the force, i know he had to go through the academy and it's not an easy thing to do. >> right, right. >> once he got on the force, was he kpiexcited about it? was it everything he wanted it to be? >> oh, yeah, yeah. i have pictures of him during his graduation and everything. i got to see mr. brown, chief of police then. it's been a while back, i didn't think i'd get to meet him again, except in thes

most of iraq. even the northern part of saudi arabia. zarqawi, he named it. so the modern day islamic state that we still will be dealing with years from now, he created. >> the terrorist group known as isil must be degraded and ultimately destroyed. >> i think zarqawi absolutely laid the foundation for the islamic state and he convinced people it was achievable. >> it's an ideology, it's a belief system until we change the behavior of this radical form of islam, we're never going to defeat this crowd. >>> back in 1981, i had the american dream, the beautiful house, the wife in the suburbs and a beautiful six-year-old son. one day i went to work and kissed my son good-bye and never saw him again. in two weeks i became the parent of a murdered child. i'll always be the parent of a murdered child. i still have the heartache, i still have the rage. i wait the years for justice. i know what it's like to be there waiting for some answers.

ground in iraq and syria. more now on this from charlie d'agata. >> reporter: even under attack, isis has gone on the offensive. officials in saudi arabia are investigating the bombings in three separate cities. in iraq, they're still counting and burying the dead from the worst single terror attack that country has seen since the u.s.-led invasion in 2003. yet, largely with the help of u.s. air strikes, the militant group so-called caliphate has taken a beating in recent months. u.s. defense department estimates isis has lost almost half territory controlled in iraq and more than a third of the area held in syria. despite the battlefield setbacks, during the holy month of ramadan, isis managed to accelerate its global brand of terror by either directly organizing attacks or by inspiring suicide bombers and gunmen to kill at least 800 people around the globe. cbs news senior national security analyst, juan zurate. >> this uptick in foreign attacks is less a demonstration of reaction to losing territory in iraq

bbc news, northern iraq. katty: the war in iraq seems a long way from cleveland. please join us for the national anthem. >> and the home of the brave. katty: you are watching "bbc world news america." republicanme, the national convention has been full of surprises. not alter the trump campaign's content. the islamic state militant group video showing the 17-year-old afghan asylum speaker attacking people on a train in germany. five were injured near the southern city of whitesburg -- of wurzburg. correspondent: terrific attack in a quiet corner of seven germany. they have dealt with the aftermath after a young man armed with a knife and an axe brought terror to a suburban train. one witness said the carriage was like a slaughterhouse. 30 passengers were onboard. people from the same chinese family were injured, 2 critically. others were treated for shock. when the train stopped, the attacker fled before he was shot by police. >> lucky. we had special police forces in the area. he was stopped. he attacked policemen. there was no other option but to shoot correspon

that is the assessment of the uk's role in the invasion of iraq in 2003. the chilcot report concludes the war was launched on flawed evidence from the field to achieve -- evidence, and has left the world in dire consequences to this day. former prime minister tony blair defended the decision to go to war as the hardest and most agonizing decision of his time in office. [chanting] >> war criminal. reporter: families of british soldiers killed in iraq and other protesters gathered for the conclusion of the report as it was red. several years in the making, following the decision of tony blair to go to iraq, has released a document with 2.6 million words. the head of the inquiry said that the u.k. chose to join the invasion before all the peaceful options have been exhausted. >> despite explicit warnings, the consequences of the invasion were underestimated. the planning and preparations for iraq after saddam hussein were in adequate. the government failed to achieve its objectives. [bombs] reporter: the invasion of iraq in 2003 was contentious, one of the se

if you do afghanistan is going to become iraq. very quickly. >> have rules of engagement that we can utilize the full use of american military power. >> senator mccain, on that afghanistan question, the situation there, by some reports, is quite dire. unity government is in, a very shaky state. for an american public that has seen 15 or more years in afghanistan. leaving the troops there may feel like, throwing good after bad. >> well then that means we have forgotten the lesson of 9/11. that is that -- of course, if we leave and these forces take over. then there will be further attacks on the united states of america. >> by the way, there is going to be further attacks on the united states of america as long as they have a base in syria. then they will have a base in afghanistan. p>> i want to ask about turkey. lot of analysts will say, turkey was turning a blind eye to isis. a lot of fighters want through. almost off all them were going through turkey. turkey was an enabler. one person put it where now do you think turkey is in

they did not plan to occupy iraq. general frank's plan for that on donald rumsfeld's instructions -- the military and the state department believed they were going in to remove saddam hussein, find weapons of mass destruction, and get out very quickly. jay garner, the general in charge of dealing with the iraqis, had a council, ready to take charge. and then on may 1 when bush spoke on the flight deck of the abraham lincoln with a banner that said "mission accomplished," bush changed the ground rules. he said we were going to occupy iraq and bring in democracy. they had not planned for that. they were taken by surprise on may 1 on the flight deck on the abraham lincoln when bush said we were going to bring democracy to iraq. the difference between being liberators and occupiers is profound. liberators make a country free. occupiers impose their will. the military had not planned for that. they had planned to go in and get out. brian: george bush at west point. june 1, 2002, before the war started in march. [video clip

among iraq security systems. cnn is the only american network currently in iraq and our senior international correspondent ben wedeman joins us live there now. i know there's a long delay between us so i'm just going to ask you if you could give us some contours with what has happened with the extraordinarily deadly attack and now the future of any sort of governance in iraq. >> reporter: well, certainly it's shaken the government, ashleigh. we've seen, of course, the interior minister resigning, the government is scrambling, really, to show that it can act although unfortunately the horse has already left the barn as far as the attack on saturday goes. the prime minister, who, of course, was chased from the scene by angry residents, has since ordered an investigation into baghdad security. he's ordered that these devices, these bomb-detecting devices that years ago would no longer be used. the government has also executed overnight five isis members bringing the number to 37, the number executed over the last mo

al qaeda wasn't even in iraq. so i would say with the removal of hussein, that is behind the terrorists we have today. >> let me go to the acknowledgements in the back. i'm gonna ask you by a fellow. you say john in 1954 classmate of mine at princeton read the manuscript for every chapter of every book i have written beginning with the defense of berlin in 1963. he has died since then. >> he died. i think he died in 2013, i think. >> that's what you say in the book. >> yeah. >> so why did he read every chapter of every book that you have ever written? >> well, we were roommates at princeton. we were good friends. and he just agreed to do it. >> "gang of 13." >> yes, the gang of 13. >> who are they? not by name. >> i do it chapter by chapter. whenever i finish a chapter i send it out to these 13 people. they read it. and they send me their comments on the chapter. i don't go back to them. they send the chapter to me and it's a one-shot deal. i read what their comments were. if i like it, i'll use it. if i don't, i

al qaeda was not in iraq. i would say it was the removal of saddam hussein that began a terrorist threats today. brian: technologies in the back. -- acknowledgments in the back. you say, it 1954 classmate of mine read the manuscript for every chapter of every book i have written beginning with the defense of berlin in 1963. he died in 2013, i think. brian: why did he read every chapter of every book? jean edward: we were roommates at princeton and we were good he just agreed to do it. brian: gang ofbrian: 13? who are they? jean edward: i do a chapter by chapter as i say. one of finish a chapter, i sent it to 13 people. they read it and they sent me their comments on the chapter and i don't go back to them. they sent a chapter to me and it is a one-shot deal. their comments were and i like it i use it if i don't, i don't. brian: who are these folks? jean edward: they are people i have met over the years. helen tillman, i meant after she wrote a book about frank on and zero different. d. lindsay rutherfor she is

himself who said people have come to iraq for more than 100 countries. attracted by the initial narrative that daesh was pushing through the social media. so even as it is losing ground in the middle east, we know already that they're going to try to transform themselves into global terrorists organization, network capable of orchestrating attacks as we have seen in various places. and that is also going to take time and is hard work. countering this network plan, this global networking was the subject of the afternoon's discussion today. the major focus among coalition members. and we talked about the importance of real time communication between countries, information sharing so that our police and our border guards and airport security officials know when they are coming into contact with suspected terrorists. so they know if in one country or another someone is visiting who had been to iraq, that depends on the flow of information and coordination between the coalition members. we talked about efforts that are already under way to counter daesh's mes

iraq is one of the most corrupt countries in world. we're going to stop buying these devices that don't work which are not saving anyone's lives, do you think the average iraqi is going to be gratified by this sentiment? isis knows this. isis operates in plain sight in baghdad. they're running car dealerships to make money. >> what? >> yeah. everything is for sale, particularly in the middle east. they worked with the assad regime in syria, work with iraqi officials in iraq. i would not be surprised in the at least that this truck bomb got into in area in central baghdad because some cash changed hands. >> michael weiss thanks so much. >>> still to come, donald trump breaking his silence after a campaign tweet that sparks charges of anti-semitism. let's feed him to the sharks! squuuuack, let's feed him to the sharks! yay! and take all of his gold! and take all of his gold! ya! and hide it from the crew! ya...? squuuuack, they're all morons anyway! i never said that. they all smell bad too. no! you all smell wonderful! i smell bad! if y

we simply decided we were over iraq. today we have, as roosevelt warned about in his speech, the first president of the united states who considers himself first a citizen of the world and roosevelt talked about that in 1910 warning against those who see themselves first as citizens of the world, whose international feeling for humanity swamps national feeling. he said citizens of the world are usually the worst citizens of their own country because they point out humanity and the amorphous things we can do without focusing on what makes in the republic asked case their country great and worth fighting for. i call these they coexist foreign-policy. another bumper sticker you have seen, makes you throw up in your mouth when you see it. that is an example of his mindset blues not the coexisting is bad. coexisting is good but coexisting is a means, not an end. like engagement is a means, not an end. for this administration when asked about his doctrine he said it is to engage. engaging is not a doctrine. it doesn't mean you