Village 19 months of a devastating flash flood here along with the damage serious doubts remain about the official government story about what happened here. Iraqi government is now confident victory in tikrit is days away iraqi army backed by shia malitia and tribesmen on the front and recaptured some of the western neighborhoods and it focuses on the president ial complex and city center and we are live here in the studio and covered iraq for many years, is this battle in tikrit going as quickly as officials tell us . Its certainly going quickly whether its as quickly as the officials are saying earlier in the week they said they would be in charge of the city of tikrit and would have taken it by about wednesday and it has not happened and they are rolling back on that slightly but going quickly for a few reasons, the fact they have a unified Iraqi Security force which is shia malitia and sunni tribes can go in for places under i. S. I. L. Control and the palace and governor building
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