On Friday, Iraqi security forces arrested four men in Mosul in connection with anti-Christian attacks.
And there's no doubt in my mind that they'll do the same thing here in Mosul.
In 2003 and early 2004, Petraeus was fairly successful in tamping down violence in Mosul using unconventional methods.
Al-Maliki is in Mosul overseeing a military offensive called Mother of Two Springs against al Qaeda in Iraq.
Born in 1961 in Mosul, Iraq, the militant joined al Qaeda late in the last decade, according to the intelligence official.
Still, U.S. military commanders say that is not the way the fight in Mosul is going to play out.
The operations took place in Mosul, Tarmiya, Bi'aj, Baiji and the Balad area.
From November 10-17, 29 people have been killed and 82 wounded in Mosul, said an Iraqi Ministry of Health official.
In Mosul, two U.S. soldiers were killed Saturday in a helicopter hard landing, the U.S. military said in a statement.
The commanders noted that during the first Falluja offensive in April this year there was an upsurge of violence in Mosul.
It also said its decision had nothing to do with the arrest of the group's secretary-general by U.S. forces December 31 in Mosul.
U.S. Army engineers in Mosul have recently completed a 64-kilometer dirt berm around that city to stem the flow of insurgents and weapons.
At the top of his to-do list: resuscitating a power station in the capital, a bridge in Mosul and water supplies in Basra.
Also in Mosul, the bodies of a middle school headmaster and teacher kidnapped earlier on Monday were found, an Interior Ministry official said.
Iraqi officials Thursday announced the arrest of some imams, or prayer leaders, from mosques in Mosul, a new tactic targeting an influential sector of society.
We'll still have forces up north in Mosul and we'll still have forces down south in the Basra area, but they really are (unintelligible) force.
Both were from Joint Base Lewis-McChord near Seattle and served in Mosul, Iraq, then saw fighting in Najaf and Karbala as well as action in Baghdad.
Qusay and Uday were killed in a gun battle Tuesday in Mosul after a local resident tipped off U.S. troops to their presence, U.S. commanders said.
That is also why Mr Botsali is based in Mosul, a dangerous city in Arab Iraq, rather than in Erbil, in the safety of Iraqi Kurdistan.
Casmoussa was outside a private residence on a main road in al-Muhendisin, in Mosul, when he was abducted Monday, said Kahsro Goran, deputy governor of Nineveh province.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Insurgents fired a mortar round Thursday into the office of Nineveh's provincial governor as American and Iraqi forces attempted to restore order in Mosul, the U.S. military said.
Munsuf Abdallah al-Khaldi, 35, was shot by unidentified gunmen in his car as he was on his way with three passengers to interview poets in Mosul for his educational and cultural programme.
In these areas, the insurgency has recently been oscillating in ferocity: falling, for example, in Mosul and western Nineva in recent weeks, where American and Kurdish protection has been increased, only to peak elsewhere.
Up in the north, it appears the Iraqi forces are withdrawing in the Mosul area.
The commander of the Iraqi army's 5th Corps and the governor-general are expected to surrender to U.S. special operations troops in the Mosul area, U.S. military sources told CNN on Thursday.
And another defendant, the former governor of the province of Mosul in the north, was actually released because of lack of evidence.
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