Iraq, Back to the Future...?

January 2008
Mosul in the crosshairs

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Thousands of Iraqi army soldiers reached the northern city of Mosul on Sunday in preparation for what the government said would be a major offensive there against Al-Qaeda in Iraq, along with other Sunni militants. The dispatch included Iraqi army Special Forces, mechanised troops, tanks and aircraft, in the biggest campaign so far mounted by the newly formed army.

May 2008
new phase of operations in Mosul

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Lieutenant-General Riyadh Jalal Tawfiq, the commander of Iraqi armed forces in Nineveh province, said the operation would particularly target al Qaeda fighters in the city of Mosul, regarded as the group's last urban stronghold in Iraq.

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