SUROOSH: In Anbar Province, I met up with a Shia militia
responding to a call by Iraq's senior-most Shia cleric,
Ali al Sustani, to defend Iraq against Islamic State.
So two guys got very, very fucking lucky, I would say.
They both got grazed; one on his forehead,
one on the nose.
The sniper was going for their heads,
and so one inch over and they were both dead.
They're meant to fight another day.
Commander Hamid was a religious scholar
before he joined the war.
He's still getting used to the battlefield and the increasingly
international face of Islamic State.
Hamid took me closer to the frontline to show off a bunker
they'd recently taken from Islamic State.
(Chattering)
So we are very, very close to ISIS.
They are 150 meters that direction.
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(Gunshots)
Are they shooting at us right now?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
(Chattering)
(Truck honking)
Okay, we go. Remain down.
- It's safer here? - Yeah, yeah.
They're saying that we're safer here.
We have this big truck as our cover.
Tonight are you gonna fight the Islamic State guys
when they come?
(Gunshots)
Oh shit!
(Speaking Arabic)
Let's get out of here.
Should we go down there?
No, no, no, no.
Dan, I think get over here.
Come.
He's between the--
(Gunshot) Oh shit!
Between the trees.
(Gunshot) Oh, fuck, fuck!
He's between the trees.
Where? Which way?
This way or this way.
Yeah, we go down the car.
Just one second.
- One at a time? - Come now!
Go, go, go! (Yelling)
Go down!
So this is where we are.
IS is like way over there on the other side of the field.
And those bullet shots that we heard,
they were far away initially.
It took about 90 seconds before they were right next to us.
That was a little stressful.
And we're going to the grave of a British Foreign fighter
who was fighting for Islamic State.
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Right here?
Why is this guy, this foreign fighter,
coming over here to fight here?
What does he have invested in this country?
He came here and fought, and this is how he died.
Our inability to understand the true motivations
of fighters like this is also what makes it difficult to know
where they'll strike next, whether it's in Egypt...
Lebanon...
France...
Belgium...
or here in Iraq.
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This is the largest cemetery in the world,
and these bodies came in today.
The grave digger told us that he has to work really fast to make
room for all the bodies because they are coming in so fast now.
That's a sign of what's happening in Iraq.