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
mosul. and then you see that darkened gray sky with the tanks on on the other side of town. we were all told this could be weeks, this could be months. how is it looking, does anyone know? it s certainly not imminent, that s for certain. from the early rapid progress that we ve seen over the last three weeks or so, that was when we saw the operation move in and sishlg mosul, take back the towns and villages that surround it. we are now in a much harder phase of the battle. so while that operation is still under way to circle the town and take back those settlements that isis has occupied surrounding the city on the eastern side of mosul in the outer suburbs and areas, that s where iraqi forces have moved in and have been now engaged for some days now in a daily street battle. it s urban warfare and a particularly brutal example. they talk about endless waves of suicide car bombings well entrenched sniper positions, fighters using the narrow streets they know so well as
been an advance in operation not to retake mosul but the territory around it. fairly rapid progress is being made. as iraqi forces enter to the east and build up the outskirts of the city the fight has become so much more difficult. on top of that you have a network of tunnels, boobey traps, sniper positions. they re trying to move into the city themselves. it is a slow, difficult, brutal example of urban warfare. that s what we re being told. on top of it you have the added
and now it s confirmed. the assumption is this wasn t gratui gr gratuitous, this was a real gun fight? yes, such a scope, so many rounds of bullets were fired and so many people were involved also in breaking that siege and taking it this apartment. and you have to bear in mind that these people, like i said, when you go to syria, i was in syria ten days ago. the government forces had taken over al nusra camp in the northern part of homs. what i saw was al nusra fighters had dug trenches with sniper positions, all kind of mini bunkers. one every ten meters. these people have combat experience. they re not it s not guerilla
themselves and this is about the policing of the protest. all of those arrests, the teargas, reporters being detained and arrested. this is the doj report on that and found essentially was that the police likely overstepped their constitutional bounds. okay. so we are learning st. louis post dispatch saying the full report expected to contain 45 findings with recommendations. most importantly, for improvement on each point. in addition to that what other findings do you expect based on your reporting? of course. and i can actually confirm that post dispatch report. i was reading through the 45 on my phone right now. so that is the number of recommendations and specific findings of fault. whey d expect is a focus on the things you have highlighted. use of people in sniper positions and large weapons pointed especially in daylight. the under utilization of social media and the lack of understanding.