From ABC News, 11/12/04:
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=248490
Police Lose Control of Mosul Amid Uprising
BAGHDAD, Iraq --
The Iraqi government rushed reinforcements Friday to the country's
third-largest city, Mosul, seeking to quell a deadly militant uprising
that U.S. officials suspected may be in support of the resistance in
Fallujah now said to be under 80 percent U.S. control.
Police in Mosul largely disappeared from the streets, residents
reported, and gangs of armed men brandishing automatic weapons and
rocket-propelled grenade launchers roamed the city, 225 miles north of
Baghdad.
Responding to the crisis, Iraqi authorities dismissed Mosul's police
chief after local officials reported that officers were abandoning
their stations to militants without firing a shot.
Elsewhere, insurgents shot down a U.S. Army UH-60 Black Hawk
helicopter near Taji, 12 miles north of Baghdad, wounding three crew
members, the military said.
It was the third downed helicopter this week after two Marine Super
Cobras succumbed to ground fire in the Fallujah operation.
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Things seem to be deteriorating rapidly. Time for our Great Leader
Commander-In-Chief George W. Bush to step in and take charge. Georgie
to the rescue.
Harry
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