there may be as many as 350,000 children in western mosul, and we have seen it time and time again. isis fighters will, in fact, take over homes with civilians in them and use them for sniper positions. i have spoken to people, families who fled mosul, the ae eastern side, who talked about how they had to go through sewers and tkpwulies and what not to get out of the city, and when they are seen by isil fighters, they started to shoot at the civilians. so it s a perilous situation, and the iraqi government is advising people to stay in their homes because they may be safer there than trying to escape. hard to imagine. thank you so much for the update. the man who planned the 1993 bombing at the world trade center has died in prison. a prison spokesman said he died