Iraq: 28 Hours of the Battle in Mosul
It’s not often we get front line report.
8:34 a.m.
Suicide car bombs are spotted coming. It’s gone mad outside
The mom of the family is crying. “We aren’t going to survive. We need to get out of here. Even if three or four of us die, the rest will survive.”
A machine-gun is going off. “Save the rounds, save the rounds,” someone says.
Umm Abdullah is praying under her breath……NoonThe soldiers on the roof are blowing through their ammunition. There are ISIS fighters two blocks over. It just doesn’t end. The air strikes are coming in. 12:30 p.m.These guys are all veterans of the battle to take the Baiji refinery. “This is nothing,” they say, starting to tell stories. “We had viewing holes in the wall and once a guy went to look through it and an ISIS eyeball was staring at him.”Relief is coming. The units are getting closer…..