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November 18, 2004
Feeling of siege in Mosul
Topics: Middle East News and PerspectivesMiddle-East-Online reports on Mosul:
People talk about worsening living conditions since outbreak of violence, extension of curfew as insurgents lay low.
Families peered through the half-open gates of crumbling old homes as mammoth US armoured vehicles dotted a rain-drenched sloping backstreet in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Wednesday.
US infantry soldiers armed to the hilt were here along with units from the Iraqi national guard to secure a police station abandoned after insurgents attacked at least 10 such stations one week ago, killing seven policemen and torching buildings and vehicles.
US and Iraqi forces launched an operation Tuesday to retake police stations and government buildings in this city of two million, with razor wire blocking some alleyways in this poor working class neighbourhood known as New Mosul.
The station, nestled behind concrete barricades, had been found largely intact.
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As was expected by the military, things will most likely become worse, before they get better. Our troops are facing very difficult circumstances, and so are the civilians who probably don't have much of a 'world-wide war on terrorism' perspective of what's going on in their neighborhoods. Again, worse before better, and hopefully soon much better. If and when we can actually get to reconstructing what has been destroyed in battle, perhaps the Iraqi street will what will be for them a much better life than they had before we had to go into their communities and sweep the streets clean of terrorists.
Posted by Hyscience at November 18, 2004 10:30 AM
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