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Sat Jun 21, 2014, 06:42 AM Jun 2014

Inside Mosul: ISIS fears Popular Uprising; Baathists cry Foul

http://www.juancole.com/2014/06/popular-uprising-baathists.html

Inside Mosul: ISIS fears Popular Uprising; Baathists cry Foul
By contributors | Jun. 21, 2014
By a Special Correspondent via Niqash.org

NIQASH’s correspondent takes a walk around Mosul to see how the city has changed since extremists took it over last week. Despite masked men at checkpoints and burned out military facilities, things are strangely calm.

Two hundred meters from the eastern entrance to Mosul, the Iraqi Kurdish taxi driver stopped the car and told us to get out. He had brought us all the way from Erbil, capital of the semi-autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan to the outskirts of Mosul, the nearby city that was taken over by Sunni Muslim extremists last week.

“As I already told you, my mission ends here,” he said. “I won’t go one more centimetre.”

But my mission – and that of my fellow passengers – would not end here. My travelling companions were a doctor and a student, both of whom wanted to see their families in Mosul. My mission was one born out of curiosity – I am familiar with Mosul and I wanted to see what was going on there.
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