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Yet of the american training of iraqi soldiers. Now, the offensive will happen in april or may. Up to 25,000 iraqi soldiers will converge on mosul, iraq and try to reclaim iraqs second largest city. The iraqi troops will out number the isis fighters by about 12 to 1. Right now there are about 3,000 u. S. Troops in iraq. Cnns Barbara Starr is at the pentagon with more on this. So i guess the most surprising thing about this is the early word. Why warn isis that youre coming . Reporter well carol, the pentagon will tell you this is not going to be a surprise to isis. They know the shape of the battlefield on the ground. They know that backed by the United States the iraqis consider it vital to take back mosul, the second largest city in iraq. The key prize that isis took last year the iraqis want it back but all of this, as you say, is really going to depend on those iraqi forces 20 to 25,000 of them. Will they be ready . Will they finally months later after going on the run from isis wi

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