food and supplies to the residents at the sunni village south of tikrit. we ve been holed up for ten months, he says. his village is home to around 30 families and since last summer was caught in the middle between isis to the north and iraqi forces to the south. isis never came here, he says but they fired rockets over our heads. it s the sort of place many drive by but rarely stop at. a peaceful little oasis by the normally busy road linking tikrit with baghdad. for now it seems hearts and minds here have been won. they re good, says the village leader of the shia fighters if someone is sick, they ll take them to the doctor even at 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning. if it weren t for them, isis would have slaughtered us. further north in a hospital at
the edge of tikrit, doctors attend to 31-year-old sadig, shot in the leg in bad in the center of the city in battle in the center of the city. the fighting is intense, he says. from a distance, however, it s difficult to gauge. we re on the roof of one of saddam hussein s old palaces south of tikrit. in the distance in the haze the last part of the city in the hands of isis is under steady bombardment by iraqi forces. the palace overlooks the tigris river. yesterday bodies floated down the river from the hospital, says this eight-year iraqi army veteran. there were people from tikrit executed by isis. when tikrit eventually falls, the struggle for hearts and minds will move from the suburbs to the city. ben wedeman, cnn, tikrit, iraq. ahead here on cnn newsroom, we re getting new
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